A CBC story says there is a chance you will be fined if you install artificial turf where you previously had grass. Former Councillor Karen Stintz has done her front lawn. “I call it year-round grass,” she told the CBC, showing off her a front yard carpet of green. “It doesn’t need to be watered. It doesn’t need to be maintained. There’s no mowing. There’s no care and feeding.” As for the threat of being fined, a “vague” bylaw is to blame, said Stintz, who ran as a mayoral candidate last year before dropping out of the race last August. “I can’t explain why it is that inspectors feel it’s a good use of their time to go and ticket people for having an artificial lawn. But they are.”
