This is my annual complaint against open burning. What a lovely spring day – except for the acrid smell and pollution burning my eyes.
Brookfield’s supposed to be sooo sophisticated. We’re sooo much cooler than those other communities. Yet we allow open burning of waste. That stinks.
Don’t expect same and samer* to offer much of an opinion on this subject prior to the mayoral election. They’re wimps and won’t touch it.
*Thanks to that fabulous reader BrkfldDad for the candidate identifiers!
I totally agree and have never understood why it still goes on in Brookfield. I grew up in a very rural area and people did it all the time; but, in a suburb like Brookfield it seems so out of place.
I wish burn laws existed statewide. Hey, if you want to do cap and trade for carbon laws, may as well sell “burn permits” and limit the number of permits one can buy (and make the price steep to discourage it).
It is hard to believe that a nice city like Brookfield allows burning. Even in rural Oklahoma City we have restrictions on burning and permits are hard to obtain. Sounds like a good project.
Last referendum 58% said YES to burning.
Get over it.
Last referendum was several years ago.
I love it when anonymous comments are so brave and hateful.
I kind of like that smell of burning on a nice spring or fall day. It’s too much in the summer though.
Not sure how I feel about this, but it is one of those more “country” than “city” things. Hard to police, though.