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: Re: [permaculture] [PPG list] Oak Park City goes after woman for front yard garden
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: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:23:49 -0400
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:
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Thanks for the link, Anne - also sending to the big permaculture list.
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Besides writing the mayor, this is also a petition at
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/oak-park-hates-veggies/
which says it
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will
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go to Oak Park’s Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski. 8,900+
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signatures so far with a goal of 10,000.
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Jocelyn
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(in WA, but I like to know what Portland, OR permies are up to!)
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On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:44 PM, A. Trudeau <annet934@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I thought this story form Oak Park, just outside Detroit, Michigan was
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> notable. The mayor of Oak Park should look at all the beautiful gardens
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> Detroit as something to aspire to. If you want to take action my friend
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> Please phone, write, or e-mail the Oak Park Mayor, Gerald Naftaly,
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> gnaftaly@att.net, 248-691-7410, 13600 Oak Park Bvd., Oak Park, MI
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> 48237-2090. Anne
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> OAK PARK, Mich. (WXYZ) - Their front yard was torn up after replacing a
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> sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park
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woman
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> put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
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> The list goes on: fresh basil, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cumbers and
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> all filling five large planter boxes that fill the Bass family’s front
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yard.
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> Julie Bass says, “We thought we’re minding our own business, doing
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> something not ostentatious and certainly not obnoxious or nothing that is
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a
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> blight on the neighborhood, so we didn't think people would care very
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much.”
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> But some cared very much and called the city. The city then sent out code
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> enforcement.
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> “They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the
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front,
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> that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn't move them
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> because we didn't think we were doing anything wrong, even according to
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city
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> code we didn’t think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us
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and
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> charged me with a misdemeanor,” Bass said.
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> Julie even has an upcoming jury trial.
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> City code says that all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted
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with
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> grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material.
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> Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are what Basses see as suitable.
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> However, Oak Park’s Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski says
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> the city disagrees. He says, “If you look at the dictionary, suitable
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means
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> common. You can look all throughout the city and you'll never find
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another
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> vegetable garden that consumes the entire front yard.”
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> Rulkowski spoke to Julie Bass in April when she first called to see if it
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> would be okay and since then it has been a growing concern.
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> He says, “I told her don't do it, and she went ahead and did it anyway.“
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> Jason Bass says, “The city is so strapped for cash right now that they
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have
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> gone from a five-day work week to a four-day work week. They’ve canceled
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the
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> fireworks to save money. City resources are really strapped and now we
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want
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> to go on a jury trial for our vegetables in our front yard.”
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> Rulkowski says, “She is the one who has asked for a jury trial. So, I
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don't
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> know what to say about that, but we'll let the legal system work its way
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> through the process and hopefully we'll get a good result.”
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> Julie has even created a web site called
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oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.comwhere she is blogging about all of all of
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this.
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> Her pretrial hearing is July 26.
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Re: [permaculture] [PPG list] Oak Park City goes after woman for front yard garden
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Jocelyn Campbell, 07/09/2011
Re: [permaculture] [PPG list] Oak Park City goes after woman for front yard garden
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Rev Dele, 07/10/2011
Re: [permaculture] [PPG list] Oak Park City goes after woman for front yard garden
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Jocelyn Campbell, 07/10/2011
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