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Thursday, July 10, 2008
In Praise of Small Cities I
Sometimes smaller is better.
Those of you who check in with The Drudge Report may have seen this article a couple of days ago about Guerrilla Gardeners. You may have wondered if the flower bed on Abriendo Avenue at the intersection with Tyler and Gale a block south of Lincoln was a guerrilla gardening effort.
I am proud to announce that that garden plot is fully sanctioned by the City of Pueblo. All the group, Flower Fad Garden Club, needed was insurance and a willingness to put out cones and wear City provided orange vests while working. Our (becoming) fair(er) City did not have a problem granting the group permission to garden there. Unlike bigger cities cited in the article (Los Angeles and London), it was possible to find out who to go to for permission. Flower Fad, therefore, is not flying under the radar, and not having to do its work in the middle of the night, risking intervention from the police. While the police have stopped by, it was to verify that a broken elbow joint in the water system was not the result of vandalism.
So, kudos to the City for giving the group permission, and kudos to Flower Fad for doing the work, which the City could no longer afford to do under the constraints of TABOR.