Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
Title
Amending Section 8.15(1)(a) of the Madison General Ordinances to permit landscape gardening on public land with a valid permit.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This amendment provides an exception to the prohibition on certain edible landscaping activities to those holding a valid permit under the City's new Edible Landscaping ordinance.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Subdivision (a) entitled "Public Nuisance" of Subsection (1) entitled "Greenways and Park Lands" of Section 8.15 entitled "Regulation of Private Use of Greenways, Park Lands, and the Southwest Bike Path" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"(a) Public Nuisance. Private use of City-owned or leased greenways and park lands including, but not limited to, fences, retaining walls, outbuilding sites, dog runs, play equipment and gardens, storage of piers, boat hoists, or other private personal property, planting or pruning of trees and shrubs, mowing of grass on park lands, chemical treatment of grass on park lands or greenways, or mowing of grass on greenways when posted for no mowing is a public nuisance and is prohibited unless approval to use City-owned or leased greenways is obtained pursuant to Subdivision (b) or the private use is pursuant to a valid permit issued under Sec. 8.33, MGO."