Fight Escalates Between Sam Bridge Nursery And Greenwich: Report

GREENWICH, CT — Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, the 87-year-old nursery on North Street in Greenwich, has launched a petition drive to fight the town's recent cease & desist notice against the company's landscaping and other businesses, reports the Greenwich Free Press.

Over the years, Sam Bridge has introduced other types of commercial enterprises, primarily landscaping services. Town regs allow for commercial agriculture growing and sales at the site, but Birch Lane resident Mike McLaughlin, whose property abuts the nursery, told the publication that Sam Bridge's uses extend far beyond that.

The nursery, which says it is just trying to survive, is fighting back by launching an online GoPetition campaign to gather support to overturn the cease & desist letter.

"As part of running a nursery, we offer landscape design, installation, and garden maintenance services," wrote company officials on GoPetition. "These services are and have been an important aspect of selling the plants that we grow. These services also include many community outreach and special projects, several that we do free of charge for the town of Greenwich. Some of which are: planting and maintaining traffic islands, planting trees along public roads, growing and hanging the town baskets on Greenwich Avenue and the Post Road. We also work extensively with local community gardens, school groups, and non-profits. We do not cut grass, blow leaves, snow plow, perform masonry, and install lighting and irrigation or other services you would expect from a typical landscape company. We would like to ask for your support to help us overturn the zoning enforcement officer's decision and/or to amend the special exception for Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses to include landscaping."

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Photo via Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses' Facebook page