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Zoning, Planning and Use

Nov. 15, 2005

Garden Made From Vacant Lot Faces Razing for Warehouses

LOS ANGELES - In the industrial corridor along Alameda at 41st Street in South Los Angeles is a 14-acre community garden filled with banana trees, nopales cactus and Mexican herbs. This almost mythically beautiful swath of green likely will be bulldozed soon to make way for warehouses, despite a decadelong legal battle and civil disobedience by the 350 gardeners who use the land.

        
        
        
        
        
Anne Marie Ruff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

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