Athmar Park

Take Time to Enjoy the Flowers - Just Don't Touch, Please!

Jul 09, 2005

by Debi Drewes

Many Athmar Park neighbors work many hours and spend many dollars as part of our efforts to keep our yards and homes looking nice.

We plant flowers for everyone to enjoy.

The person who enters a yard and steals or destroys a flower or plant is not just injuring the homeowner and possibly the plant. That person is also making a statement to all that they have no respect for the law or the property owner or anyone else who might have enjoyed the flower or plant, and that person is also breaking the law and can be ticketed, fined and possibly even jailed for these acts.

Pursuant to Denver Municipal Code, Section 38-71, it is UNLAWFUL to damage, deface, destroy, or injure the real or personal property of one or more persons where the damage is valued at less than four hundred dollars. Denver Municipal Code, Section 38-72, says it shall be UNLAWFUL to trespass upon any garden. Accordingly, any person entering a yard without express permission from the property owner who then picks, breaks, uproots, or otherwise damages, defaces or destroys flowers or plants is violating BOTH of these sections of the Denver Municipal Code and is performing criminal acts.

Let us all show our neighbors the same respect we would like for ourselves. Tell your children (as a wise friend of mine does) to look with their eyes and without touching, so that every person who goes by can share in the beauty.