Now you have to organize permissions for the stuff you want to do and money to realize it. In the end it's not so hard to get permissions but it takes some time. As you see on the pics below we have greened for example a parking lot. More difficult than getting the actual permission was finding out who is responsible for that. Mailing is not the best way of finding that out, your mails will be send further and further, then they'll come back to the person you've send them at the beginning and at the end they'll get lost. The best results you get when go to the „Bürger Service“ (so they are called in Vienna). It's a kind of office where inhabitants can go and ask for some stuff. These guys don't seem to be overwhelmed by the amount of work they have, so they'll be glad to help you. They will look up for you, what „Magistrat“ is responsible for your permission and in Vienna there are plenty of institutions for everything. In my case they called the person responsible and got me the email-adress of this person... Then after minimum 3 weeks you get a date for a meeting with 3 or 4 people, from police, politics and the guys responsible for street and parking stuff. You tell them that want to grow salad for one and a half months on a parking lot and that you want to have grass on it and eat and cook there with people. If you don't harm any law with that what you do there, they won't be really interested in the sense of your doing, so they'll give you the permission, this procedure costs in Vienna 60€. Then you have to put signs in front of your parking lot, that it's not allowed anymore to park there (it doesn't matter that there is a table, grass and salad growing there, the sign has to be), you have to organize or buy a non-parking sign on your own. It is good to have an official permission for stuff like that, because even when most of the people like the idea and don't care what you are doing, there always some people that think, what you are doing is stupid and they'll call the police. Then the police asks for a permission, in general the police-man we've met were quite positive about our project.
We have also greened a small area, that was more a dog-toilet than a flowerbed. When we asked on our own nothing happened, so the „Grätzelrat“ helped us, they are also something like the Bürger-Service, but they are NGOs. Actually it doesn't matter, the essence what I am trying to say is, you have to go to institutions and people that are working for the city, talk to them, talk often to them, don't hesitate, go there again, and talk again to them, and at the end either they want to help you, or you are going so much on their nerves, that they will also help you. So at the end we got a flowerbed, where we put grass, salad, a bench, a „no dogs“ sign...
to be continued...
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