Council Kills Community Garden

On Monday night January 25th, Arvada City Council voted to include the plot reserved for the "Arvada Community Garden" in an Urban Renewal District. The garden will be moved if council has it's way

The Community Garden has been in Arvada from World War 2 era, over 40 years old. Extra vegetables and food grown at the garden is donated to the Arvada Food Bank. It is an integral part of Arvada. Yet, on Monday our newly aimed sustainable city government voted 4-3 in favor of including the community garden in the Urban Renewal plan for the Triangle Redevelopment Project. See technically the City owns the land that the garden is on, yet for 40 years, most of which Lorraine Anderson was in council, the gardens have remained untouched. But no longer, watch out Community garden, Caterpillar may be coming and I don't mean the little yellow kind I mean the big yellow ones. 

Hopefully, the gardeners will have time to organize and fight this decision, but many a Arvadan have lost their homes to Arvada Urban Renewal Authority, heck they even went after Shrine of St. Anne. I'm sure a garden will be easy.