Hive Roundup #8 | Will Outdoor Watering Fines be Increased?

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More cottony clouds over Mary Cummings Park. Photo by author.

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• Increased Outdoor Watering Fines?

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Increased Outdoor Watering Fines?

I promised you a slow re-entry, and I think that played out this week. No meetings were added to the town calendar, and the ones that did happen were pretty standard.

There was one exception, though, which I didn’t share with the whole network yet: The General Bylaw Committee on Wednesday had a lively conversation about whether or not to support an increase in fines for outdoor watering during a water ban.

The fines—written warning → $50 fine → $100 per day thereafter—have been static for a long time, and often the argument is thrown around that it is cheaper to pay the fines for watering during a water ban than it is to install a new lawn.