These days more and more people are looking for greener, and more economic, ways to do household chores. Kitchen gardens and keeping small domestic food animals like chickens are in vogue again, as is air drying laundry. But one Philadelphia area mother is having to fight for her right to air dry. Patty Pozeynot of Skippack Township, Pennsylvania was fined $100 for hanging her laundry to dry on her back porch.
The Hunter Ridge development where Pozeynot lives does have an ordinance against hanging laundry outside, even in the back yard, but Pozeynot says that the rule was put in place a year after she moved in and she feels it’s not fair. She told NBC Philadelphia, “I wanna hang out my laundry because I think it’s better for our environment, it’s the green thing to do.” Some of her neighbors, however, don’t want to see the rules bent.
“You change one rule, what’s going to be next,” resident Karen Kelly asks. ” I think if everybody did it, I don’t think it would look appealing.”
Pozeynot has considered moving, but she doesn’t want to uproot her kids so she has decided to stay and fight. To legally hang her clothes, she needs more than half of her 55 neighbors to sign a petition allowing her to continue. A neighbor in a nearby home has gotten the necessary signatures, but Pozeynot only has 19 of the 38 she needs.
