Help A Garden Grow! (28. January 2008, 11:52 by Derek Young) ~ Be A Carrot's Best Friend
Do you remember the community garden at South 10th and M that we featured last year in one of our first videos? Do you have a little bit of extra change underneath the mattresses? Here’s your chance to help grow the garden!
The property to the south of the garden – a narrow strip of land that is being marketed with duplex potential – is now on the market. For a mere $99k, you could give the garden a little bit of room to breathe. Or you could build a duplex… but that wouldn’t be as much fun now.
Listed with Windermere
p.s. Just to remind you, here’s our video from May:
Previously on Exit133 – the video
Thank you, Jake
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If enough people pooled their tax rebate checks, would buying this count as stimulating the economy?
1 | Posted by jamie from thriceallamerican | Jan 28, 01:07 PM
City of Tacoma or Metro Parks where are you!? You need this!
3 | Posted by morgan | Jan 28, 10:12 PM
Wow, when you look at the aerial photo, I think you can make out the circle part of the former “circle garden”. (Back when several plots were part of the garden …) I could be imagining things, and I wasn’t around back in its original hey day … but it’s rather eerie to see the growth pattern in the greenery. I never noticed it from the ground.
4 | Posted by tacomachickadee | Jan 29, 11:15 AM
It’s pretty much a worthless piece of land. The minimum side setbacks are 7.5 feet, meaning you’d only have about an 8 foot wide building footprint. Of course you could try for a variance as well, but there are no guarantees there.
This is another fine example of how Tacoma’s suburban style development regulations conspire to prevent any meaningful urban intensity development in neighborhoods like Hilltop.
Has anyone approached the City of Tacoma or Metro Parks? What a wonderful opportunity! It would be a shame to let it slide by. How about a note to the News Tribune to get some interest going?
6 | Posted by Veronica Dykas | Jan 30, 08:07 AM
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