Falcon Heights temporarily bans front yard vegetable gardens

Bring me the News ^ | 05/18/20 | Adam Uren

[Slainte]

It comes after a resident launched an effort to open a community garden.

The City of Falcon Heights has imposed a temporary ban on front yard vegetable planting after efforts by a local resident to create a community vegetable garden for the summer.

Quentin Nguyen was shocked last week when a letter arrived advising him that the city council had passed a temporary ordinance prohibiting vegetable gardens from being placed in front yards of residential homes.

Nguyen had launched his effort to create a community vegetable garden on the front yard of his family home in April, creating a GoFundMe page in which he said the idea was to have "neighbors/gardeners pinch in some work together to grow vegetables for some healthy food during our Minnesota summer."

It comes amid a renewed interest in planting and growing vegetables, given gardening has been one of the few outdoor activities permitted during the COVID-19 shutdown.

But shortly after he announced his effort, Falcon Heights City Council proposed an interim ordinance banning the cultivation of gardens on front lawns, with this first appearing in a public agenda on May 1, with the ordinance passed at a virtual meeting on Wednesday, May 13.

The move clarified a previous ordinance passed by the council that loosened the city's front lawn restrictions so that native plants and pollinators could be planted in front yards, which didn't mention vegetable gardens.

The interim ordinance only allows for "gardens as an auxiliary space in a rear or side yard for a property owner's personal use," and not for use as a community garden.

[Slainte]

You just can't make this stuff up.

[redgolum]

Do it anyway. Film the jack booted thugs tearing up the garden.

Resist.

[Fai Mao]

So starve to maintain property values.
So Karen

[An Appeal to Heaven]

God forbid we become self-reliant.

[petitfour]

Racists

[Steve_Seattle]

The problem in my area is not people planting community gardens in their front yards, but using their front yards as parking lots for junky old cars and RVs. Because the cost of housing is so high here, more and more people are using single-family homes basically as apartments.

Four or five unrelated people share a house, and they all have cars, and parking them all creates an eyesore. I'm at risk of my middle-class neighborhood turning into a slum.

[Bonemaker]

Vietnamese...he’d be able to grow his garden back there.

[SoCalCynic]

Had to look it up, Minnesota

[Lizavetta]

More like the City of Karen Heights.

[rolling_stone]

years ago I had a vietnamese neighbor who planted rice and other things in his small backyard..

[alternatives?]

He can plant it on either side or back yard. That seems plenty. Why the need to virtue signal?

[Hot Tabasco]

With all the reported abuses of our civil rights, I'm still waiting for the first shot of CW-II..........Think it will happen in our lifetime?

Not likely......

[daniel1212]

The prohibition pretty much is consistent with wealthy Democrat overreaction and intolerance.

Falcon Heights is a suburb of Saint Paul and a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,321 at the 2010 census.[6] It became a village in 1949 and a city in 1973...The racial makeup of the city was 73.3% White, 8.0% African American, 0.5% Native American, 15.0% Asian, 0.7% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.0% of the population...About 8.8% of families and 9.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.4% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heights,_Minnesota

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[CIB-173RDABN]

I live in a small city in the Central Valley. In my morning walks I pass by several homes that have gardens in their front yard. My only thought is why I can grow vegetables as good looking as there’s. (Hint they spend more time at it then I do).

[metmom]

God forbid we become self-reliant.

That's what the power hungry left is trying to prevent.

[daniel1212]

You just can't make this stuff up.

If you think that is an overreach, how about the sky above you?

Colorado – The only state that it is completely illegal to harvest rainwater. Other than that each house is allowed up to 110 gallons of rain barrel storage. Utah – 2,500 gallons max for rainwater harvesting systems. A permit is required. Ohio – Rainwater harvesting is legal, but there are codes and regulations that must be followed... New Mexico – Some rainwater harvesting systems need a permit, but this state offers payable incentives for green building such as rainwater harvesting... (https://4perfectwater.com/blog/rainwater-harvesting-laws/)

[Eagles6]

Rush tells the story, every Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims experiment in “community gardening”.

[Fiddlstix]

Click The Pic

[rolling_stone]

guess they never heard of VICTORY GARDENS

[Pajamajan]

bttt