Looks like the City of Bryan (CoB) is interested. I met with Martin Zimmerman and we discussed the hurdles that may be involved. This definitely fits in with the CoB's sustainability initiative. Zoning and land acquisition are going to be the largest hurdles.
Zoning-
We're going to need to rezone the property from multi-family residential to either some sort of agricultural use or something under the parks system.
Agricultural use is not our best option as it opens it up for cattle, sheep, etc. even though we are not looking to do that, it still doesn't look good on the books so going the park route would be the best.
Land Acquisition-
This is going to be tough if the city doesn't have the funds to acquire the two plots I'm looking at. They are priced (by the city) at 15k each. I'd like to have both of them, but one would do. Another method of obtaining them may be through grants. If we wrote to the federal/state government and got the money that way, we could purchase the land and hand it over to the city as a park then use neighborhood funds to pay for the construction of the garden.
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Excellent!!! There is a a bit of a primer on developing a community garden here http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/starting-a-community-garden.php
It suggests trying to seek a lease of at least three years. I wonder if this might be a simpler option than trying to raise all of that money. Perhaps one of these land owners would be willing to provide a lease to cover the cost of property taxes.
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