Galesburg City Council approved the Lipanda Foundation for an Urban Agriculture Grant on Monday night.
The Lipanda Foundation will lease three vacant lots at the corner of Avenue B and West First Street on the city’s southwest side of town for $ 1 a year.
The final vote was 6-1 with Ward 3 Alderman Evan Miller being the lone dissenting vote.
Miller said he wanted more guidelines for these kinds of community gardens to safeguard them from becoming a “weed patch.”
On Feb. 5 the Council rejected The Lipanda Foundation’s proposal to start a community garden farm on a vacant plot east of the Galesburg Tourism and Visitors Bureau and near the I-74 and East Main Street interchange.
4 Council members who rejected that proposal approved it Monday night, citing concerns with the previous location but not with the overall concept.
