CATCHING UP WITH THIS 1-10 COALTION

I in 10 will have a garden....

I have not had time to participate in some of the positive shifts
in San DIego.

I am looking forward to grounding further today my housemate situation,
so I can participate more.

Some good moves today.

She say later...

January 2, 2011
2:32 pm

GOOD EXPLANATION OF SAN DIEGO URBAN AG

http://www.grist.org/urban-agriculture/2011-10-29-san-diego-residents-push-fo...



On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Richard Winkler wrote:

1 in 10 you are 1 in a MILLION.
or at least several hundred thousand,

thanks for all the progress
keep up the great work.



On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Carol Morse wrote:
Thank you 1 and 10, and all who have supported all these magnificent urban ag changes. We at the TLC Community Giving Garden are especially grateful for the weekly onsite sales day.

Happy New Year and God Bless

Carol Morse

On Dec 21, 2011 6:57 PM, "P Troutman" wrote:
Hello all,

I think the 1 in 10 Coalition is winding down for the year. I don’t think that there are anymore meetings, and City Hall is closed next week.

We are, however, ending on a high note. We now have a sense of the changes staff is looking at changing in response to the planning commission hearing last week. These look like they’ll be staff recommendations:

Commercial uses:

All farmers markets affected by the ordinance will require that 50 percent of the vendors must sell produce. (The purpose of this is to avoid having overlap with a ‘swap meet’, which requires an expensive conditional use permit.) Weekly Farmers Markets on private property will also have no limitation on parking spaces or restriction on cooking or value-added foods.

Retail Farms will be able to use pesticides consistent with the National Organic Pesticide standards, which I believe is part (and only part) of the following page: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5068682


Animal Husbandry:

Miniature goats: no change.

Chickens: no change.

Bees: the setback requirements will be reduced to a 15-foot setback from property line.

Community Gardens will be allowed to have sales in residential zones once per week.

These are all good. Now it’s a matter of supporting them through the mayor’s signature.


Next year, we have to look forward to (at least):

La Jolla Planning Group should take urban agriculture again.

Torrey Hills Planning Group will likely examine the issue.

City Council will, with luck, take the issue up on January 24th or January 31st (both days are Tuesdays). Nothing has been confirmed yet. In technical terms, this is what is known as THE BIG DAY. This is the last important day to have turn out.


In closing, I’ll say it’s amazing to compare where we’re at now versus a year ago. At the end of 2010, we were wondering when — or even if — we’d ever get anywhere on the community garden issue. Now, the community garden victory is a feather in our cap, gardens are going forward, and we’re going strong on much of the rest of our platform. A good year, one made possible by so many people’s contributions.

Take care — Parke



 

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