[Summit] Garden - proposed lot size

[Emlyn Addison]

True, 4800 square feet is not a city block; maybe I'm not properly
estimating the footprint of the Sessions street gardens...which looks to be
much smaller than any house lot I've seen.

I think it's their mention of 10' x 10' plots that strikes me as
exorbitant--are we all planting corn? Anyway I'll be interested to see the
details of a formal proposal.

Emlyn


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>wrote:

>  Just for comparison sake, 4800 square feet is about the size of ONE
> houselot in Summit, less than 1/8th of an acre.  Greg gerritt
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> on 8/25/10 2:22 PM, Emlyn Addison at noisyblocks at gmail.com wrote:
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> The Sessions street example looks to be barely 100 x 40 feet; hardly
> spelling out a displacement of "large members" of the Jewish Community
> Center or of Brown University baseball. And that it resides just next to a
> playground is an added benefit for parents.
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> While I agree with you in principle--that parks should remain parks
> (although, where exactly is this so narrowly defined?)--I think these Summit
> emails too often suffer from hyperbole. We're not talking about mass
> displacements of the population, stealing land, or setting the foundation
> for social stratification via institutionalized horticulture. It's just a
> garden, and hopefully a more modest one than the 4800 square-foot goliath
> that is being proposed.
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> And what has (again) been left out of this conversation is that the fees
> collected for the allotments will help to pay for things. Not a bad trade in
> this economy.
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