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Urban Agriculture in Southeastern San Diego: Vacant Lot Survey. OBJECTIVE : Evaluate the suitability of Southeast San Diego’s 591 vacant/undeveloped lots for possible use as community gardens. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Urban Agriculture in Southeastern San Diego:
Vacant Lot SurveyOBJECTIVE: Evaluate the suitability of Southeast San Diego’s 591 vacant/undeveloped lots for possible use as community gardens.
FINDINGS: 76 of the 329 vacant lots (those deemed worth classifying) are “good” candidates for use as community gardens.
ACTION: Initial steps are underway to transform one of the privately held “good” vacant lots into a community garden. The landowner is an eager participant. Creating a community garden on this privately owned lot is a significant test case (model). It will shed light on opportunities and constraints re using private property as community commons.
THE BIG PICTURE• Opportunities and Benefits• Agenda for Action Research
Catalyst of The Good Bioregion Movement
ConsultantsBob Leiter, Land Use/Regional PlannerJanice Pezzoli, Community GardensIlya Zaslavsky, Information Technology
Community Commons
Study Area:•Sherman Heights •Logan Heights •Grant Hill •Memorial •Stockton •Mount Hope •Mountain View •Southcrest •Shelltown •Chollas View •Lincoln Park •Valencia Park •Emerald Hills •Encanto •Alta Vista •Broadway Heights •Jamacha Lomita •Skyline, Bay •Bay Terraces •Paradise Hills
Southeastern San DiegoEncanto NeighborhoodsSkyline-Paradise Hills h
591 Vacant Lots
Planning & Decision Support System
Bioregional Workbench,
Google Earth,
CommunityVizCommun
ity Commons
Survey Questions Lot size Topography Sunlight Water Soil condition Electrical Power Visibility Maintenance Fencing Vehicle Access Parking Property
Ownership Community
interest
SOURCE: Victory Gardens, San Diego Roots Sustainable Food ProjectJames A. LaGro. 2008. Site analysis : a contextual approach to sustainable land planning and site design. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.
Survey MethodGoogle DocSocial media used to organize students
The Workers• 91 UCSD
Students • 58 SDSU
Students• In 33 Teams
The Product329 Lots Surveyed20 Field Reports
27 Good Vacant Lots, West of I-805 49 Good Vacant Lots, East of I-805
N = 329
Project New Village
Red bounded property is a vacant lot slated to become to become a community garden
4540 Ocean View BlvdNeighborhood is 77% Latino, 13% African-American
SESD: the right place at the right time to spur alternative development
Problems arising from climate change, peak oil, peak fresh water, mounting economic and ecological stresses, unhealthy food systems and living conditions are combining in troublesome ways.
These problems are (1) stressing institutional, fiscal and management functions to the breaking point, and (2) creating conditions ripe for “rooted” agropolitan development based on localization (sustainable place-making using local social, economic and bioregional assets)
SESD has a favorable geographic location, and advantageous mix of diverse cultures, creative leaders, entrepreneurial nonprofit orgs, centers of education, and ecosystems.
SESD’s neighborhoods are well positioned to advance urban agriculture; the time is right to rally around a vision of "agropolitan development” (progressive bioregionalism). PNV and others are leading the way.
Next Steps State-Market-Civil Society Relations
Recalibrate our measures of wealth, well-being and the importance of community commons
Integrate efforts to create new livelihoods and rooted communities with efforts to establish the basis for a new progressive ecological democracy
Tie the food systems movement into related sustainability challenges (e.g., food-water-energy nexus)
Community-University Relations Build information and communications systems that make it
easier for community-based organizations, scientists, scholars and students to join forces linking knowledge-to-action for the common good.
Empower grassroots social innovation with scientific innovation, and vice versa.
Research Institutions
Civil Society & Planning
Bioregion & Ecological Democracy
BioRegional Vision