Well on May 20, the lot became ours! Sooooo exciting to be part of something of great potential on many levels. First thing we moved forward with was the clean up! A house once stood where the lot is and turned into dirt, weeds and garbage. People feel that they can dump their mattresses, tv's and garbage here. The city of Newark, helped tremendously with the clean up and trash removal. They did a wonderful job, big shout out to them!! Guess what? A few hours later and an empty speaker was sitting in the lot!! We removed it and the lot has been staying pretty clean this past few days.
A fence needs to go up and then we can get to work! In the meantime, we talked about putting up those orange construction type fences and putting a "Coming Soon" sign. That should deter people from throwing / dumping garbage and also letting the neighbors that a garden is in the works.
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