An city farm in Covington will have properties despite neighbor pushback

A approach to conserve all of an urban farm won’t be presented to Covington metropolis officers.

That farm, called Orchard Park by neighbors, is at the corner of Orchard Road and Locust Avenue in Covington’s Westside. In March, gardeners figured out the metropolis preferred to acquire the vacant city-owned great deal, which neighbors transformed into fields of greens and a household for chickens seven several years ago.

The back garden house is aspect of a wider exertion to establish 17 Westside properties to convey much more housing to the neighborhood. The metropolis prepared to acquire 50 % of the back garden into single-family housing and the other half into a community park as a compromise to retain some of the inexperienced space.  

But neighbors wished to hold sowing every inch of the 50 percent-acre room. A single of them even helped build a advancement strategy to do just that and bring housing to the block.