The Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department has four locations where people can rent small patches of land to plant a garden. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has recently been reviewing a proposal to place term limits on those rentals.
“How long can you be a steward of a garden plot?” asked Hosea Mitchell, the chair of the Charlottesville Planning Commission and member of the advisory board. “Because we think that maybe other people want to to get involved because once you get a garden plot right now you pretty much got it until you say I don’t want anymore.”
Mitchell said people showed up at meetings to protest the idea and so the idea is on hold for now. He said there many reasons given for why the idea needs more thought…