Shorewood and parkway planting:

[Sarah Moore]

    Please come and/or spread the word about this meeting to shorewood friends you have.  just this issue will be discussed, tonight,  Monday Feb 1 at 7 PM in the Shorewood Village hall, conference room and then at 7:30 the item is on the agenda for the entire board to discuss.  they need a good audience so that the board hears, that we need to not get rules that are so tight they preclude the possibility of growing food on the parkway.   

Sarah

On 1/29/10 4:01 PM, Naomi Cobb wrote:

Dear Gardening Friends,

The proposed Shorewood ordinance for the parkway has taken a very bad turn.  Currently, the committee is looking at an annual fee of $50, 24 inch height AND THE BED MUST BE REMOVED EVERY OCTOBER.  There are 4 yards of soil in our raised bed! Where does that go? How about  the fact that the bed absorbed all of the leaves from the yard this fall so we had no village service to remove them? Crazy things like we have to insure the box, it is not our property!  When I spoke to the ordinance office in St. Paul, MN,  he laughed and said that was ridiculous, that St. Paul encourages plantings and their only concern was visibility.  If the city of St. Paul damages your box with plowing or utility work, you repair it yourself. No money, just diggers hotline first.  I sent Margaret the ordinance and the recommendations from an arborist.  I am going to recommend that we show in force.  This is a very disappointing turn for the village that wants to be called Sustainable.  We all know the many advantages of urban gardening, what is with our leadership? Gardening on village land makes it fruitful rather than turf that need watering.  Can you and all of your neighbors, friends, goat and chickens - maybe not, come? Please pass this on to anyone you can think of in Shorewood.

Please RSVP.  I have another idea for the meeting I would like to share with those that can make it.  My garden catalogues sit in a quiet place for now.  So sad.

Naomi

Begin forwarded message:

From: Naomi Cobb <Naomi...@aol.com>

Date: January 29, 2010 3:30:23 PM CST

To: Trustee Hickey <truste...@villageofshorewood.org>

Subject: February 1st meeting

Dear Margaret,
I am hoping we can talk on the phone this weekend, I am startled and disappointed by the direction the ordinance for the parkway has turned.  I am sending you the ordinance from St. Paul Minnesota since they are in the same climate zone and deal with snow removal and ice. I also have some information on tree root damage and city trees from the NC State University Consumer Horticulture Web site.

Talk to you soon!
Naomi


http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/text/tree_damage.html

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