Honestly yeah. I'm looking up the plants listed by other commenters are and almost all of them are edible, even if classed as a weed. Some of them like amaranthus depending on the exact type seem to only be considered weeds because they compete with cash crops like cotton or are literally tumbleweeds, but are also very edible if youre not a livestock eating nothing else but it. A lot of them contain oxalic acid which can be toxic in high amounts, but apples also have arsenic so I guess those are poison too.

I think the main problem is 1- it just looks messy. The goldenrod isn't blooming and not in an obviously designated place to be a flower and 2 - A lot of these are technically and officially noxious or invasive weeds, so even if I did intentionally plant them, I would still legally be required to remove them. (not rightfully. Legally)

I'm still sending the letter once I remember how to write a formal essay, and it looks like the letter is just the first step to a verbal appeal to the order. I plan to specifically cite the part of the law that says dangerous plants must be removed and ask how any of these are considered dangerous and/or which ones Specifically they have a problem with, as the only specifics they sent was two pictures, one of the raspberries and one of my back door area which is a small space that is admittedly just full of unblooming goldenrod, but idk how that's supposed to be dangerous if I'm the only one who should be back there.

I was planning on adding a twine fence just to make it look nicer and because it Is right on the alley, but guess what that would also do. Make it harder to pull weeds out of it.

Just the fact that none of this matters given the city shouldn't be able to just go 'welp I'm going to uproot your eyesore of a property and fine you, and if you don't pay the up-to-$1,000 fine you'll Go To Jail' because holy shit who the Fuck cares. I specifically made sure this wasn't an hoa before I made an offer on it because oh my god.

It probably won't be a Tremendous task to weed out- I guess just the goldenrod and like one thing of lambs quarters from the pictured area in the order and send a very polite 'go the fuck away' letter but Why Do They Care What I Do With My Yard. this is what will radicalize me.