Save Our West Hollywood Gardens 2009
March 5, 2010 by admin
Filed under Organic Food
Residents to Save West Hollywood’s Last Community Garden! Growing organic food, preserving urban greenspace, getting back to nature: the gardeners tell us some of the reasons they’re trying to keep the Community Garden Program, and their plants, alive.
Why not keep a garden here and compensate the land owners, now that virtually NO BUILDING is going on re: new projects. Condos sit empty on almost every block of Weho.
The city can take some of the mega millions in parking/towing fees and apply it to the lot.
Yes, that is the purpose of the video, to lobby the city to buy it with our funds and/or to find donors to help buy the space. We’re all for buying other garden spaces, but since this one has been a natural garden for 25 years, it’s a rare, precious example of organic soil, and worth the extra effort of trying to save. We’re not even gardeners ourselves, we just saw another sad story happening in our community and wanted to try to help stop it. (We also love Tara; how can we help?)
All members of a community have the right to comment on development in their city that may have impact. That’s why all cities have planning commissions and building codes and city planning with full public imput. This is my last attempt to comment on your responses, as it is obvious all you are doing is feeding your ego by putting down any other ideas or viewpoint than your own. Good Luck and god bless in your future endeavors.
But it’s not your property. It’s someone else’s property. If they allow you to garden on it, that’s fine, but one day, and maybe very soon, they may want to develope their property. You have no right to even comment on their developing their property, unless they are breaking any building codes, which they haven’t yet done. Shame on you people. If you want greenspace, go buy it, or lobby your city council to buy it. It’s that simple.
You don’t seem to be reading these responses or watching the video. This space has been unused for 25YEARS. Without the gardeners it would have been an empty eyesore. There has been movement to get the city or community to buy the land. How can you say these folks were’nt involved in TARA or any other issue? That’s not what the video was about. It is about people who want to beautify their community and are hoping there may be some way that a 25year space can be preserved. Is that evil?
If you want to use the property for gardening, then you or the City should BUY the property. There is lots of space to build a big house there with a big private garden. Or maybe the adjacent house might want to buy it as their private garden. I still want to know why none of these people interviewed were involved in saving other green space in Weho, like Tara, and other areas. A bunch of nimbys, as usual that want something without paying for it.
Also, all the folks interviewed are long time WH residents. They acknowledge property rights, but they are hoping that a city as progressive as WH will allow Green space to flourish and enrich the city. Listen to this video. The folks here are not radicals, but people who love this city which has very little green space or parks relative to its density. We should get beyond namecalling and think about how we want our cities to develop a proper mix of green versus concrete space.
It seems by your reckoning, there should be no green space or parks and we should all live in cities consisting of concrete and giant monolithic condo’s. Even a dense city such as NY has the magnificent Central Park and many, many smaller parks and public gardens. People need that kind of green space. The garden in this video is a small triangular shaped property that cannot be effective built on. That is why the property hasn’t been built on in 25 years. No one is taking anything from anybody.
When city activists were trying to save greenspace on Laura for the Tara property, WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE? Nowhere, cause they are NIMBYS, probably most not even WH residents. Massive million dollar condos should be built on that lot, to add revenue to the city, so they can fix potholes, add library hours and provide more police/sheriffs for security. These selfish people have no sense of private property rights. Let’s build a public garden on THEIR property and see how fast they complain.
It’s someone else’s private property. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to develope it? If you want to garden, do it in your backyard. If you don’t have a backyard, move to the country. You are selfish people who no respect for other’s private property rights.