Go for it!
… wouldn’t do much to keep joggers and bicyclists from spitting the seeds into the street though. I think, if users of public places were upset about fallen and rotting fruit, they’d be livid about tourists spitting on the sidewalk and discarding half-eaten cores.
Fine! Do you mean to imply that, in order to keep codling moth out of my apple trees, I have to adopt the flowering crab apples the city plants but doesn’t take care of? … or that, to have the privilege of planting fruit trees on my lot, I am assessed a tax to maintain similar trees on the public right-of-way? … just sayin’… .