ordinance that defines and recognizes community gardens as partof land use

L* B*

Adam, Jill, & everyone,
Unfortunately Toronto does not have any formal cg policy embedded into our
official plan. We are trying to get that to happen and our present City
Council is certainly friendly towards the idea, even going as far as passing
(last year) a Community Garden Action Plan that the Toronto Parks Dept.
devised (with a bit of help). Unfortunately, Council did not allocate any
additional money to implement this plan.

 We're in the process of hammering out recommendations which will make up
the second phase of the Food & Hunger Action Committee's report. Phase one
(basically an inventory of food  resources) is available at
<http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/ourcity/food_hunger_report.htm>
Presumably the recommendations will also be online as soon as Council
(hopefully) approves them.

 I do believe that Montreal is more forward-looking and does have an offical
plan item about community gardens. In any case, the best place to look for
this kind of info is at CityFarmer <http://www.cityfarmer.org>
Laura

> 
> From: JillWUGS@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:28:58 EST
> To: Adam.Honigman@bowne.com, community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: [cg] Sigh: It's Housing for Seniors & Artists  versus Community
> Garden s ...
> 
> Adam & others- do you have an example of an ordinance that defines and
> recognizes community gardens as part of land use? Any suggestion from others
> out across the country? You are right- we do need to heed NYC's experience
> and warning....thanks- jill jones, Cedar Rapids, Iowa> From:
> community_garden-admin@mallorn.com
> Reply-To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:13 -0600
> To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #571 - 12 msgs
> 
> 
> From: "Honigman, Adam" <Adam.Honigman@Bowne.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:58:59 -0500
> To: "'JillWUGS@aol.com'" <JillWUGS@aol.com>, community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: [cg] Sigh: It's Housing for Seniors & Artists  versus Communi ty
> Garden s ...
> 
> Jill:
> 
> We've been trying to get a community garden bill through the NYC council for
> over a year now ( it's still in conference.)
> 
> I suggest you go into the links page of the American Community Gardening
> Association web site and contact our Canadian neighbors. Both Toronto and
> Montreal have highly enlightened community gardening policies ( based in
> large part on the European allotment garden system.)
> 
> http://www.communitygarden.org/
> 
> This listserve's archives has interesting links to European organizations of
> allotment gardens. It's worth a search:
> https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
> 
> Happy gardening,
> Adam Honigman

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