The department wishes to keep indoor furniture off of porches and lawns. Sporting couches as porch furniture is now a violation of the health code. Health inspectors plan to start enforcing this law this fall just in time for the annual Allyn Fest celebration. Officially created to eliminate breeding grounds for rodents and insects, this ordinance affects the lifestyles of off-campus students and the other people who use indoor furniture outdoors. It has become almost ingrained in society that those without the means to buy outdoor furniture can pick up a new love seat or recliner off the street and decorate their porch for the neighbors to see.
People like to sit on their porches.
In many ways, this is an attack on the utopian sharing of furniture that goes on in the college community. Instead of recycling and reusing furniture, we are forced to buy into rampant consumerism by purchasing and bringing new, posh furniture into the community. This law has been passed in other cities around the nation in attempts to beautify neighborhoods, but this is irrelevant to The University community. The University of Akron is in a low-income community with many transient residents. Residents are losing their rights to a law that would only be useful in a community of homeowners.