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Charles on December 30, 2005 - 6:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Can you give me some information on how the community garden is going for you and what you still need to do?  There's vacant land in my suburb that I believe is city-owned.  I can't even figure this out for certain, because the county insists on me giving them an address to tell me who owns it, but there is no exact address for the oversized lot.  I grew up in a rural area with plat maps of the county, but no such thing where I live now.  If I can confirm that the city owns it, then what do I need to present to the city council?  The word Byzantine comes to mind whenever I start trying to navigate these local bureaucracies' BS.
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davidsmi on December 30, 2005 - 11:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hey Charles,

All I have done so far is to contact my district council person. My guess is that this will be a long process. Our council is more likely to jump if a developer wants to destroy some more wetland by putting in another subdivision then they are to do anything proactive. What I've asked her to do is bring it up with the council and to provide possible areas where a garden might be located. She didn't seem to shut down the idea, so I'm hoping to sell it to her and the council as an upscale "in" thing to do. My particular district is the poorest part of an otherwise upscale suburb.

Does your county have a tax-appraisal web site? You might be able to find parcel info there.

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