Community gardens on track for late spring, early summer opening

CAPITAL PROJECTS

GRF Board approves rules governing garden plots

by Ruth Osborn

Communications Director

The community gardens are on track for a late-spring, early-summer opening, with construction nearly completed. Crews have installed garden delineators and are just finishing the irrigation systems. There will be 248 plots, 25 of them will be handicap accessible with raised beds and mobility pads for access.

The GRF Recreation Department is in the process of finalizing how the plots will be distributed. As part of that process, staff has culled waiting lists to remove 1.8-ACRE

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people who no longer want a garden plot. The exact distribution procedure should be ready in time for residents to plant late-spring, early-summer gardens.

The lease fee will be $150 a year, with a one-time $15 lease application fee. Leases run May 1 through April 30 .

The fees were calculated to recover gardens’ operating expenses, including maintenance, utilities, water, and anticipated reserve expenses for repair and replacement of water pipes, irrigation devices, planters and roadway paving.

The GRF Board adopted rules governing garden use at its March 25 meeting. Pending a 28 day notification period The board approved the appropriation of $480,865 on Nov. 28 in capital funding to construct a new community garden area at the 1.8-acre site.