I know that the mowers are out today but I got a note from someone that said they had knee high grass in their courtyard. To be honest I didn't believe it until I went to "said courtyard" and saw it for myself. That is crazy. If that were my courtyard I would harass the office every day until it was taken care of. That's why we have a Grounds Committee right?
Speaking of Grounds...they are having a town hall meeting. It's going to be on
Tuesday, June 16th, 7:00pm , in the Village Meeting Room, adjacent to the Management Office. The Grounds Committee and Kate Davidson, the Arlington Village Landscape Architect, will be presenting pending Grounds landscaping projects slated to take place this upcoming Fall planting season. Please attend to learn what is in store for Arlington Village and share your valued input.
Perhaps someone should suggest in their valued input to mow the grass that we have and plant more where it is bare?
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It has been raining alot. No doubt messes up the Lancaster folks. Can't really pin that on them.
Mowing is usually done on Fridays. If the lawn is very wet, the commercial mowers do more damage than good to the turf. The staff and grounds committee decide if mowing is a go or not. Harassing the office will do no good.
She has to have something to complain about. We haven't even begun the Crier crying yet.
It would have to be an environmental decision to mow the grass or not, I'm guessing. Clearly, you see that the grounds committee and the staff know nothing about mowing grass; otherwise it wouldn't be a foot high.
I can just see them having a meeting to make a decision, though.
But who's the "she" to whom you're referring?
Why can't the staff do something? That makes no sense.
Why would Carmen be crying about the Crier?
Where was the grass a foot tall? Maybe Lancaster forgot to mow there.
The grass is a foot high in areas where they planted grass and it's been marked off with tape so it wouldn't be mowed.
It would have been obvious to a blind man that that was the case.
Crier-baby!!
I also saw grass that high and it was not marked off. Even if it was marked off why would staff let new grass get that high. I thought we were supposed to have standards in AV?
As the second poster indicated, if you mow when the ground is saturated, it does more damage than good. The heavy mowers create ruts in the lawn and tear up turf in the process. The non-stop rain is the reason the Village went so long without mowing.
I agree with last post.
I agree, we should all smoke some grass.
Why is it that most complaints and 'ideas' from people have no forward thinking. First of all, it's the contractor that may have made the error, not Arlington Village. Second, the post about the rain already have a possible explanation. Lastly, and most important, why can't you just call the AV Office and report the problem? I'm sure they would tell you that they will make sure to ask the contractor to get it done.
No one seems to think things through..."Let's turn the meeting room to a gym" - think ahead, who is going to clean and maintain it? "Let's come up with a parking sticker system" - think ahead, who is going to enforce it at Midnight on a Saturday? The office can't even respond to phone calls or e-mails within 24 hours (or many times not at all), how is the office going to admin parking?
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