Comments on: Unbanning Clotheslines

By: ginger mcknight

ginger mcknight — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:33:00 +0000

I don’t mind clothes lines but people should have consideration for their neighbors. My next door neighbor lives to wash and hang clothes. She even hangs clothes on her portable line on Sundays and holidays. So when I am in my front yard full of gorgeous flowers and flowering bushes you see her clothes in the background. It makes me so angry. They have the money to create an area where they can hang clothes but not have them seen. I feel that I live in the projects next to washer woman.

By: bridgette

bridgette — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:02:30 +0000

I am amazed that this coversation is even necessary! Have the words Climate Change and Global warming or GFC and low income completely missed the administrators of whole states in The US?
In Australia we have an icon that represents the Australian Way of Life…it’s called the Hills Hoist..a solar powered clothes drying intallation, AKA the backyard clothes-line! Dryers are for rainy days!
Good luck with the campaign. Best wishes from Sunny Australia

By: Les Stuff

Les Stuff — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:40:29 +0000

Thanks, I will fight as a privilaged outsider then (hehe) {[;}>!!! Cheers “Skivey Flaunters”!

By: Alan Durning

Alan Durning — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:32:06 +0000

Unless you’re in a home-owner association, apartment or condo with rules explicitly against clotheslines, your right to dry is uncontested, Les!

By: Les Stuff

Les Stuff — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:44:08 +0000

I live in Seattle but do not live in a “private” community or low income housing etc. So am I able to hang my clothes out legally (seems I am)? Was lookin’ forward to fighting this one on the front lines! I still may make T’s to get the word out for those who’re oppressed under this senseless grid enslavement! Cheers Conservationists!

By: Les Stuff

Les Stuff — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:33:36 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s illegal in Seattle or not, but I’m doing it anyway. Thomas Jefferson said it is our duty to disobey unjust laws; this is just one in many that is completely absurd and encroaching upon freedom. This is civil disobedience for beginners, if the fuzz come to my house for a clothesline infraction they may be surprised to find that I will not cooperate under any circumstances. I was even thinking about making “Legalize Solar” T’s w/ a pic of a clothesline.

We are “legally” killing our very own Salish Sea (Puget Sound) w/ poisonous runoff from residential unnecessaries such as fertilizers and pesticides, bleach and cleaners, etc. in addition to permitted industrial dumping like wastewater treatment (no it isn’t clean what most of them dump into “The Sound”), caustic cement biproducts, supposed biomass (plywood and garbage) burners and on and on, but it is illegal to air dry laundry (?); these barriers between conservation sanity and consumption perpetuant beaurocracy must be leveled!
So very many institutions to level and so little precious time to do it; no more settling for mediocrity! It is time to resist! Cheers!

By: Ray Easby

Ray Easby — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:36:54 +0000

Hello Jeanne,
In Australia we have councils and government departments who require a clothesline to be installed in every new housing or unit development before completion certificates are issued and approval to move in.Why should people be made to pay for electric clothesdryers when solar drying is available. As you can see from my web page i manufacture the largest range of fold down clotheslinesin the world, i have been involved with clotheslines since 1976,during that time i have made all my own tooling, jigs and dies to manufacture rotary,retractable,folding frame,foldaline rotaries,portable and custom built clotheslines. My commitment to my industry is to supply a product that offers exceplional value and will provide the household with years of operational free clothes drying.Wake up America solar power is free.
Cheers Ray Easby No. 1 in the world for solar drying

By: Jon Howland

Jon Howland — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:26:58 +0000

Hi, Jeanne,

Thanks for your comment and for line drying!

Is there an address or intersection I can use to put Lazy Creek 2 on our Google map?

And do you know the text of the HOA ban?

Thanks,
Jon

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:04:47 +0000

As an ardent outdoors clothes dryer in WA State, I became a HOA lawbreaker in Tucson (Lazy Creek 2, 85716). Since we have a very private yard with a high fence, I have remained “fine free”. We have a retractable line that is not noticeable when it is put away. Recently my husband called the Property Manager to ask about the possibility of installing solar panels. The PM reluctantly told him that the City of Tucson has a regulation that states that HOAs cannot ban anything that has to do with using solar energy. I now feel free to hang clothes with abandon. Clothes that dry almost instantly in the desert. I am looking forward to a challenge from the HOA so that I can explain the merits of hanging clothes outside.

By: Bill Waring

Bill Waring — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:06:58 +0000

I was going to add my building in Honolulu, but I see someone else already identified it. I have been threatened with fines by security for trying to air dry laundry on my lanai and the building management will not budge on the HOA rules. We’ll have to try to change it through the BOD.