THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

So I am really excited to tell of the recent news:

There seems to be a more concrete fabrication of the garden which is extremely amazing!

After we met with Alderman Joe Moreno about two weeks ago and asked him for his letter of support, there was a bit of a wait in regards the letter's legality.
So today I finally received a call from his office asking what the garden will be called what community groups the garden would be under.

Sally then got a call from Michele Rhymes from the Zoning and Land Use Planning Dept of the City of Chicago regarding the same questions, the name and the groups of support.
And she also got this message from Julie Samuels at Openlands:

"Would your group be able to start the garden project this season...soon? We have access to some resources - possibly - I am working on a wish list of donations..."

The garden is MATERIALIZING BEFORE OUR EYES!

There are a few more steps of course, some of them can get a bit messy, but the garden is surely being born!

We are having another community garden committee meeting this Thursday!

REVISED:

So the fact that the landowner of the vacant lot besides Goethe has evidently planned to develop the land, we will not be pursuing it until further notice.
However, there are two other vacant lot that are on the 2000 block of N Stave which are city owned and much easier to acquire for the use of an allotment community garden.
It is also in very close proximity to Chase Elementary, and not very far from Goethe elementary.
I will post the revised letter to the new Alderman of the 1st ward soon.
Thanks!