• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    On the one hand, this place probably used to have kids playing things like stick baseball in the street back in the 70s, with nobody batting an eyelid about it, before some poor kid got run over by a car going over the speed limit and/or the kid chasing a ball into the street while the driver wasn’t paying attention.

    Maybe it happened more than once. It is more than plausible to imagine this happening several times over the course of a couple of decades. Then one evening- all it takes is just one evening HOA meeting - the residents had a motion carried and voted on, probably right after one of these accidents.

    On the other hand, Irvine is kind of like the land of ordinances that require one to put up a sign that says - WARNING: THIS SIGN HAS SHARP EDGES.