The Design Review Committee of El Dorado Hills, California, is forcing people with yellow houses to repaint them to bring them in line with anti-primary-color deed restrictions. Latest to be flagged as a Yellow Menace are Melinda and Joe Bula, who bought their yellow house six years ago and recently repainted it in the same shade. Just because the previous owner wasn't caught, says the committee, doesn't mean the Bulas can just flagrantly ignore the community's rules that allow beiges and tans only. And while they were at it, the committee noticed that the Bulas also have a white picket fence that's made of--my God--plastic! That, too, is a violation. Get rid of it. This is California. Don't you know there's a war on?
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In other California Nazi News, Carolyn Scharg was fined $10,000 by the Tree Board of Calabasas, California, for cutting branches off an oak tree without a permit. The branches were starting to push against the roof of her home, but that was no excuse, said the tree-hugging officials, and furthermore, if the tree dies, the fine will go up to $40,000. Scharg is appealing the fine to the State Board of Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Feelings.
December 21, 2002 5:01 AM
