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� v North Como Community Garden izB Thu 5/13/2010 7:41 AM � 29 From: Dorothy Ashley � so To: [submitted to Councilmember Roe via website form] �3� We are very concerned about North Como Presbyterian Church's plan to have a community � s2 garden on their property. Jim and I have visited several community gardens in this area and they � 33 are not visually pleasing. We feel this will not be an enhancement to our older neighborhood. 134 Thanks for listening. i s5 Re: North Como Community Garden �3s Thu 5/13/2010 8:11 AM 137 From: Dan Roe � 3B To: Dorothy Ashley 139 Dear Mr. & Mrs. Ashley, � 4o Thank you for your feedback on the proposed community garden at North Como church. 141 To help me understand your concerns, could you take a moment to elaborate a bit on the �a2 things you liked or did not like about the other gardens you visited, and whether including 143 the things you liked or excluding the things you didn't like would help the case for the North 144 Como project, in your opinion? 145 Thanks, 146 Dan Roe �a� Re: North Como Community Garden 148 Thu 5/13/2010 2:48 AM 149 From: Dan Roe � 5o To: Dorothy Ashley 151 Mr Roe, � 5z Thanks for your prompt reply. 153 We visited the two gardens that were mentioned at NCPC's neighborhood meeting that � 5a was held on Saturday, May 1. My husband and I visited the Falcon Heights Community 155 Garden which is at the corner of Roselawn and Cleveland. One of the good things about � 56 this garden is that is located entirely in a park. The residential neighborhoods cannot see 157 the garden. One of the bad things that we saw was refuse left on the ground outside of a 158 compost container. Community gardens need to be tidy even though it's not the growing 159 season. Falcon Heights put a wire fence around the garden to help keep out animals-- � 6o that's a good thing. (North Como said they do not have the money for a fence. How can 161 they grow anything without a fence? My husband and I have given up growing a variety 162 of vegetables because of the critters.) 163 The second garden that was visited was one that is operated by an Evangelical Free 164 Church in Maplewood. It is located at the corner of County Road C and Hazelwood. A � s5 Twin Cities Bible Church serves as a visual bamer between the gardens and the 166 neighborhood to the south. The City of Maplewood has some ballfields and a trail that �s� serve as a barrier to the west and the southwest. To the northeast, the City of Maplewood 168 has a fire department building. There are a few houses to the north and to the east that � 69 have no visual barrier to the gardens. I talked to a neighbor who said the land was .. --•