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[Rev Dele <wearenaturesfriends@gmail.com>]

Thanks so much for the opportunity to support urban permaculture!

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Jocelyn Campbell 
<jocecampbell@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the link, Anne - also sending to the big permaculture list.
> Besides writing the mayor, this is also a petition at
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/oak-park-hates-veggies/ which says it
> will
> go to Oak Park’s Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski. 8,900+
> signatures so far with a goal of 10,000.
>
> Jocelyn
> (in WA, but I like to know what Portland, OR permies are up to!)
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:44 PM, A. Trudeau <annet934@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I thought this story form Oak Park, just outside Detroit, Michigan was
> > notable. The mayor of Oak Park should look at all the beautiful gardens
> in
> > Detroit as something to aspire to. If you want to take action my friend
> > suggests this:
> > Please phone, write, or e-mail the Oak Park Mayor, Gerald Naftaly,
> > gnaftaly@att.net, 248-691-7410, 13600 Oak Park Bvd., Oak Park, MI
> > 48237-2090. Anne
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/oakland_county/oak-park-battles-city-over-vegetable-garden-in-their-front-yard
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> >
> > Oak Park battles city over vegetable garden in their front yard
> >
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> > Posted: 06/30/2011
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> >    - [image: By: Glenda Lewis] By: Glenda Lewis<
> http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/about_us/staff/glenda-lewis>
> >
> > OAK PARK, Mich. (WXYZ) - Their front yard was torn up after replacing a
> > sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park
> woman
> > put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
> >
> > The list goes on: fresh basil, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cumbers and
> more
> > all filling five large planter boxes that fill the Bass family’s front
> yard.
> >
> > Julie Bass says, “We thought we’re minding our own business, doing
> > something not ostentatious and certainly not obnoxious or nothing that is
> a
> > blight on the neighborhood, so we didn't think people would care very
> much.”
> >
> > But some cared very much and called the city. The city then sent out code
> > enforcement.
> >
> > “They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the
> front,
> > that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn't move them
> > because we didn't think we were doing anything wrong, even according to
> city
> > code we didn’t think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us
> and
> > charged me with a misdemeanor,” Bass said.
> >
> > Julie even has an upcoming jury trial.
> >
> > City code says that all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted
> with
> > grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material.
> > Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are what Basses see as suitable.
> >
> > However, Oak Park’s Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski says
> > the city disagrees. He says, “If you look at the dictionary, suitable
> means
> > common. You can look all throughout the city and you'll never find
> another
> > vegetable garden that consumes the entire front yard.”
> >
> > Rulkowski spoke to Julie Bass in April when she first called to see if it
> > would be okay and since then it has been a growing concern.
> >
> > He says, “I told her don't do it, and she went ahead and did it anyway.“
> >
> > Jason Bass says, “The city is so strapped for cash right now that they
> have
> > gone from a five-day work week to a four-day work week. They’ve canceled
> the
> > fireworks to save money. City resources are really strapped and now we
> want
> > to go on a jury trial for our vegetables in our front yard.”
> >
> > Rulkowski says, “She is the one who has asked for a jury trial. So, I
> don't
> > know what to say about that, but we'll let the legal system work its way
> > through the process and hopefully we'll get a good result.”
> >
> > Julie has even created a web site called
> oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.comwhere she is blogging about all of all of
> this.
> > Her pretrial hearing is July 26.
> >
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