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# The plot thickens
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/the-plot-thickens/
- Published: 2005-03-29T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:27:54.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Main St, #archive-import

Kim Calvert/Special to the Daily Press Santa Monica gardeners with leased plots at the community garden on Main Street could lose their slice of nature if City Hall decides to relocate a three-room “shotgun” house from the 1880s to the location. The gardeners, many of whom have waited for as long as seven years to secure a plot, are protesting the house relocation plan, as well as other reforms put forth by City Hall that would alter the size of plots and how long they can be leased.

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(Photo: Kim Calvert/Special)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 29, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032905.pdf?ref=smdp.com)