Re: Threatened Gardens, Buffalo NY

**"Lenny Librizzi" p*@rcn.com**

Kirk,
We tried in NYC to pass legislation in 2000 and 2001. Bills were  
introduced, committee hearings were held but it was never brought up for a  
vote before the full city council. We even employed a lobbyist to no  
avail. The speaker of the city council controls which bills are brought up  
for a vote and even thogh we had enough sponsors to pass the lgislation,  
He never allowed a vote. Development interests probably played a role in  
stopping this introduction. So you have to understand how your city  
council operates.
I am attaching the introduced bill.
Good Luck.
Lenny Librizzi

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:12:52 -0400, Kirk _ <kirkl81@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>         My name is Kirk Laubenstein and I am a community gardener in  
> Buffalo, NY.  Our city has many gardens and some are under threat of  
> development, even though there are literally 1000's of other places to  
> build.  We need help on drafting a resolution to bring before the city  
> council to stop the destruction of these gardens.  Does anyone have  
> concrete langauge that we can use to take before the council, or ideas  
> on how to get legislation passed to protect our community gardens?
> Thanks for your help,
> Kirk Laubenstein
> Nickel City Housing Cooperative
> Buffalo, NY
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
> The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of  
> ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and  
> to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org
>
>
> To post an e-mail to the list:  community_garden@mallorn.com
>
> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription:   
> https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
>

-- 
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/msword which had a name of Community%20Garden%20Legislation12-01.doc]

______________________________________________________
The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org

To post an e-mail to the list:  community_garden@mallorn.com

To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription:  https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden