City parks and recreation put garden plot term limits on hold

City parks and recreation put garden plot term limits on hold

The Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department has four locations where people can rent small patches of land to plant a garden. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has recently been reviewing a proposal to place term limits on those rentals. “How long can you be a steward of a garden plot?” asked Hosea Mitchell, the chair of the Charlottesville Planning Commission and member of the advisory board. “Because we think that maybe other peo…