[Community_garden] Sacramento - Front Yard Veggie Gardens

[Don Lambert]

Wow!  This is a great story to tell far and wide.  I can't wait to 
forward this to some of the folks in our city hall.  Congratulations to 
Bill and your team.

Don Lambert





sacgc at ulink.net wrote:
> someone please post this to the ACGA list serve for me.. as i cant access 
> it thru this server
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> Sacramento's - Front yard ordinance NOW includes vegetables !
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> last night the city council approved 8-1 our grass roots effort to revise 
> the front yard landscape code from 1941 that only allowed turf and low
> growing ground cover
> it now allows vegetables in the front yard (without any restrictions -
> they orig. wanted to limit veggies to 30% of the front yard)
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> this final approval was a 3 year effort to get this passed !
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> in the hours before the vote....
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> a local talk-radio show hosted a 1 hour segment on the code 2 hours
> before the hearing,
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> green arm bands were worn by 75 supporters that packed the meeting room, 
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> our group made an 8 minute powerpoint presentation to the council and had 
> supplied a large packet of information last week to the council
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> a number of residents spoke on the item and
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> 2 kids came in a tomato and a carrot costume (from our local food co-op)
> and addressed the council...
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> the carrot testified that the council needed to eat more of him to
> improve their vision :) on the code...
> and the tomato joked about how the city was nicknamed after a "Sac-of-tomatoes"
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> it was a great night.. one we deserved after such a long fight !  WE DID IT !
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> "Be the Change!"
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> bill maynard
> sacgc at ulink.net
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