hey y'all! i looked and couldn't seem to find someone who has already talked about this, but i apologize if someone has.
i live in a pretty mixed use/apartment building heavy area, with lots of very public/shared boulevards. i've been looking into boulevard garden creation, and from my understanding, anyone can plant anything* on any boulevard*, since they're considered to be public use.
(* i know there are restrictions by height, proximity to certain infrastructure, some limits on what can be planted, and also permits required for parkways)
my questions are:
does anyone have more knowledge about this/am i misunderstanding the city website info?
has anyone actually done this themselves? as in, not just creating a boulevard garden outside of their house, but creating one on what we all think of as more public boulevard areas? one of the most logical parts of creating a boulevard garden outside of a residential home is that you live there all the time and can tend to it... but in my grand, solarpunk, ecotopia vision, a lot more could be created on random public streets (pretty much everywhere except from right across from people's homes, because that seems rude), which is obviously much harder to take care of.
what organizations or groups do people know of that do stuff like this? i've heard of Metro Blooms and Minneapolis Edible Boulevards already, but would love more info/people to contact
thank you in advance to any thoughts anyone has! in a time where it feels like the fate of the environment rests solely in the hands of greedy, power hungry lunatics, i'm trying to find little ways to still make change. 🫶🏽