Make San Diego Community Garden Friendly

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The City of San Diego Needs Community Gardens!
Community gardens are a vital component of vibrant, sustainable communities. They have the proven potential to improve individual and community health, most notably obesity, by offering local sources of nutritious, fresh, affordable food, nutrition education, and exercise. Community gardens also provide a cost effective way to increase open space, enhance community pride and ownership, decrease storm water runoff, and increase property values.
The Citys current permitting process requires extensive review and is costly. Permit applicants must submit professionally drawn plans, and pay a minimum deposit of $5,000 toward an unknown amount of City staff time, billed at $82 to $144 per hour.
We ask that the City:
Streamline the community garden permitting process for gardens by reducing paperwork to an application, site map/plan and the garden's member user agreement;
Establish an affordable, set fee for a community garden permit (replacing current variable staff-time costs and deposit); and
Institute a citizen taskforce to develop a citywide program to identify appropriate sites for gardens, to assist community groups wishing to start gardens, and to review and make recommendations regarding City community garden policies.
We, the undersigned, ask the City of San Diego to implement its 2008 General Plan policies to encourage community gardens.
(For more information, write to sandiegofood@live.com)

1360 Signatures

  • Judith Jacoby
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
    • Organization
    • San Diego Master Gardener Association
    • Comments
    • В
  • Robert Greenamyer
    • Zip Code
    • 92131
    • Organization
    • Victory Gardens San Diego
  • Christiana DeBenedict
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
    • Comments
    • With the recent passage of the Obama Administration's Healthy Food Financing Initiative and First Lady Michelle Obama's support for gardening and healthy food through the Let's Move campaign, there is growing support at the national level for community gardens. Now is the time for San Diego to align itself with this national effort. We need a permitting process that not only enables but encourages the establishment of community gardens in San Diego.
  • Deb Comrie
    • Zip Code
    • 92131
  • Jill Comrie
    • Zip Code
    • 92131
    • Organization
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Julie Boorman
    • Zip Code
    • 92131
    • Organization
    • none
  • Cheryl Wallace
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
    • Comments
    • Wannabe community gardener
  • Patricia Murrin
    • Zip Code
    • 92123
    • Organization
    • VGSD
    • Comments
    • В
  • Parke Troutman
    • Zip Code
    • 92103
    • Organization
    • 1 in 10 Coalition
  • Eleanora Robbins
    • Zip Code
    • 91941
    • Comments
    • Time to turn green in San Diego
  • Scott Davis
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
  • dominick fiume
    • Zip Code
    • 92103
    • Organization
    • Slow Food
  • Michael Wolf
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
    • Organization
    • VICTORY GARDENS
    • Comments
    • DO IT!
  • Joe Boldt
    • Zip Code
    • 92117
  • Dorothea Sotiros
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
  • Evan Ross
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
  • Kathleen Ferrier
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
    • Organization
    • WalkSanDiego
  • Thomas Darlington
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
  • Marisa Aurora Quiroz
    • Zip Code
    • 92105
    • Comments
    • Thank you for making our community healthier!
  • Dylan Mann
    • Zip Code
    • 92110
    • Organization
    • The San Diego Foundation
    • Comments
    • The IRC spent $46K to permit a community garden in City Heights. Excessive bureaucratic requirements used up too many resources there, which could be better used to serve its constituents.
  • Paige Simpson
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
  • Carolyn Smyth
    • Zip Code
    • 92105
    • Organization
    • IRC
  • Christina Eagle
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
  • Nicola Hedge
    • Zip Code
    • 92101
  • Julie Bergman
    • Zip Code
    • 92106
    • Organization
    • San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Movement and Victory Gardens San Diego
    • Comments
    • Thank you, this is a great opportunity to promote our local economy, health and wellbeing of San Diego
  • Karen Begin
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
  • Amy Carstensen
    • Zip Code
    • 92104
    • Organization
    • International Community Foundation
    • Comments
    • Community Gardens improve food security, protect the environment, and reduce crime and increase community involvement.
  • Vincent J Brown
    • Zip Code
    • 92101
  • Robyn Sharp Chatten
    • Zip Code
    • 92107
  • Nick Antoniades
    • Zip Code
    • 92103
  • Lori Mahoney
    • Zip Code
    • 92009
  • Stephanie
    • Zip Code
    • 92113
  • Katherine Placey
    • Zip Code
    • 91910
  • Leslie Wade
    • Zip Code
    • 92101
  • Sandra L. Simmons
    • Zip Code
    • 92101
  • jeff motch
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
    • Organization
    • blind lady ale house
  • Vanessa Ibaсez
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
  • Aldo negrete
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
  • Susan Swisher
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
    • Comments
    • Please eliminate the barriers so that communites can enjoy the multiple benefits of community gardens. This is a part of our American history and is practiced everywhere in Europe.
  • Ann-Marie Piskule
    • Zip Code
    • 92101
  • Jack Quinlan
    • Zip Code
    • 92592
    • Organization
    • Mueller Charter School
  • Kathleen Greenwood
    • Zip Code
    • 92117
    • Comments
    • It's about time...let common sense prevail!
  • Allen Pluth
    • Zip Code
    • 91977
  • Bryan Jersky
    • Zip Code
    • 92109
    • Organization
    • 1in10
  • Christianne knoop
    • Zip Code
    • 92102
  • Anita Boen
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
    • Organization
    • Slow Food Urban San Diego, Victory Gardens San Diego, San Diego Food Not Lawns
    • Comments
    • Community gardens literally GROW COMMUNITIES by promoting relationships between people of diverse backgrounds.
  • Mariah Gayler
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
    • Organization
    • SDFNL, VGSD
    • Comments
    • & a parent & concerned citizen!
  • zach aaronson
    • Zip Code
    • 92024
    • Comments
    • always lookin to better SD!
  • Sherri M Starr
    • Zip Code
    • 92116
  • Stephanie Weaver
    • Zip Code
    • 92104