Friends, The hands-down, un-contested world champion in the negotiation of conservation, historical , public space AND community gardens via purchase, conservation easements, restrictive covenants and other legal slights of hands is The Trust for Public Land. Please search through the TPL website http://www.tpl.org/ ,look at your region and call up the local office. Doubtless, TPL has plenty of beautifully drafted documents which ( if you made sure you gave them lots of credit and sweet thank you letters for them to show to their high-end donors) properly doctored by a local land use attorney, would serve very well.
Again - the Trust for Public Land knows how to legally preserve Civil War battlefields, and came up with the idea to "sell" square inches of the Clinton Community Garden in the NY Times as a way to jump-start the frantic fundraising that saved the garden in the mid 1980's. I'd also reach out to other heavyweights like the Audubon Society ( gardens are wonderful bird watching venues) and the Nature Conservancy. There are many "invented wheels," there - lots of really competent people, many of them are attorneys working pro-bono. Best wishes, Adam Honigman > Subj: [cg] conservation easements on community gardens > Date: 11/8/05 11:14:05 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent from the Internet > > > > Hello fellow gardeners! My organization is in the beginning stages of > planning a community garden in Fayetteville, NC. We have identified the > city > lots (3 acres) and am in the midst of negotiating their future use for our > gardens. After reading the sad stories about loss of gardens back to the > city > after years of tender care, I want to make sure that that doesn't happen to > our gardens. Our plan is to have the city retain ownership of the land but > have a conservation easement placed on the land which would be held by the > Sandhills Area Land Trust. This easement would ensure that the land remain > open space in perpetuity even if the garden was abandoned down the road. I > am > inquiring from you, the garden community, as to whether any of your gardens > are protected by easements or restricted covenants? I am in need of model > easement to present to my Board and the City of such an agreement and am in > hopes that there may be a model in use that I could use as an illustration. > Any feedback and information would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you! > Candace Williams > _______________________________ > > Candace Williams > Sandhills Area Land Trust > Program Coordinator/Land Protection > Cumberland County Field Office > 104 Gillespie Street - P. O. Box 42 > Fayetteville, NC 28302 > (910) 483-9028 > www.sandhillslandtrust.org ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
