RE: ordinance that defines and recognizes community gardens as part of land use

H* A*

 Laura,

Gee, and I thought you guys were so much more civilized than bulldozer happy
NYC...;)

	Seriously, having a City Council that is even " friendly towards the
idea of community gardens, even going as far as passing (last year) a
Community Garden Action Plan,"  is several steps up the evolutionary chain
above what we've been able to get done here in NYC and in much of the
continental US ( Lenny Librizzi forwarded two heartening examples to the
contrary yesterday.)

	Just more work to do...

	Happy gardening,
	Adam Honigman

	 

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> From:	Laura Berman [SMTP:laura@foodshare.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:58 PM
> To:	community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:	[cg] ordinance that defines and  recognizes community
> gardens as part of land use
> 
> 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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