A Den­ver woman said her homeowner’s asso­ci­a­tion is fin­ing her $200 for hav­ing brown spots on her yard amid drought con­di­tions. Lori Worth­man said she has been try­ing to get her grass to grow, but her attempts have been unsuc­cess­ful and the city has declared a Stage 1 drought and imposed water­ing restric­tions. “I’m glad to try to reseed again when it cools off, but we’re in the mid­dle of a heat wave,” Worth­man said. How­ever, the Green Val­ley Ranch Homeowner’s Asso­ci­a­tion wants her to pay a $200 fine for fail­ing to make her grass grow. “We would much rather have her fix the prob­lem than col­lect the fine,” asso­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent James Tan­ner said. Tan­ner said Worth­man was warned about her brown grass last year and given a 9-month exten­sion to deal with the problem.

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