Huntington bid to regulate bamboo fails
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | David Spellman bends a bamboo plant in his Melville yard. Spellman has been battling a neighbor and the Town of Huntington to regulate bamboo growth in their town. (June 20, 2012)
Bamboo roots up problems with LI residents
Huntington photos
Heckscher Park
Bamboo tore through his driveway, shot up through a shed and caused his fence to fall over several times.
David Spellman, of Melville, said his neighbor had planted the bamboo and it has encroached onto his property. On Tuesday, Spellman thought he was going to get help from Huntington Town to stop the plant's spread.
But that didn't happen.
The town board voted down a measure...
