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Urban Agriculture in Southeastern San Diego: Vacant Lot Survey

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.

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Urban Agriculture in Southeastern San Diego: Vacant Lot Survey

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  1. 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. • 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

  2. Community Commons Catalyst of The Good Bioregion Movement Consultants Bob Leiter, Land Use/Regional Planner Janice Pezzoli, Community Gardens IlyaZaslavsky, Information Technology

  3. Southeastern San Diego Encanto Neighborhoods Skyline-Paradise Hills h 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

  4. 591 Vacant Lots Planning & Decision Support System Bioregional Workbench, Google Earth, CommunityVizCommunity Commons

  5. 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 Project James A. LaGro. 2008. Site analysis : a contextual approach to sustainable land planning and site design. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.

  6. Survey Method • Google Doc • Social media used to organize students • The Workers • 91 UCSD Students • 58 SDSU Students • In 33 Teams • The Product • 329 Lots Surveyed • 20 Field Reports

  7. 27 Good Vacant Lots, West of I-805 49Good Vacant Lots, East of I-805 N = 329

  8. Project New Village

  9. 4540 Ocean View Blvd Neighborhood is 77% Latino, 13% African-American Red bounded property is a vacant lot slated to become to become a community garden

  10. 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 "agropolitandevelopment” (progressive bioregionalism). PNV and others are leading the way.

  11. 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.

  12. Research Institutions Bioregion & Ecological Democracy Civil Society & Planning

  13. BioRegional Vision

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