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Community Garden Policy
Overview
City of Chula Vista
Redevelopment and Housing
October 2009
-provide a affordable
source of healthy food
-activate parks and
open space
-provide outdoor
exercise
-increase food security
by providing local
food sources
Why: Community Inte
Gardens
Where:
• Policy mainly
addresses how to
establish gardens
on City property
Who: Nonprofit
Responsibilities
Nonprofit groups would play a
lead role in organizing and
managing the gardens by:
-organizing the community
-becoming the responsible party in
a user agreement with the City
-collect fees from garden users to
cover garden cost
-would allocate costs and supervise
garden maintenance
Who: City Responsibilities
• Helping plan site
• Ensuring site is not
contaminated
• Facilitating creation
of user agreement/
lease
• Preparing soil
Garden Stewardship
Encourage stewardship of
garden area by:
– Prohibiting pesticides
and chemical fertilizers
– Requiring composting
– Requiring the garden be
open to all comers
Next Steps…
• Prepare an ordinance
• Review zoning code to allow on non-city
owned property