They could do so under the town's "nuisance property" ordinance, a law intended to protect neighborhoods from seriously disruptive households.
According to Ken Placko, the tree warden in Fairfield, "There have been rumblings of a private property ordinance a while back, but when it got to the representative town meeting, it got shot down".
Grazing lands in Cameroon are legally state property (Ordinance No. 74 1 of 1974).
Yet, in the same month the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), sued Chicago over its vacant property ordinance, which mandates servicers to register and be responsible for the board-up and security of vacant homes caught in the limbo of the foreclosure process, saying that properties under the control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be exempt from regulation or penalty.
But for homeowners who have protected oaks creating shade and shelter on their property, the ordinances are a blessing and a burden.
As long as newcomers obey the borough's strict height and property-coverage ordinances, few residents are complaining.
Under city ordinances, property owners are responsible for adjacent sidewalks, and the department estimated that 25 concrete squares plus curbing needed replacing — at a cost of about $2,500.
"In limiting the number of roosters on any one property," the draft ordinance states, "the city wishes to balance the desires of individuals to keep roosters with the rights of their neighbors to live in peace and tranquillity".
According to the La Cañada Flintridge ordinance, property owners cannot have more than 28.5 grams of cannabis growing.
He pointed out that many municipalities have ordinances requiring property owners to shovel their walks, sometimes within 24 hours.
