Save Yanonali Community Garden!

City government is designed to support its people by providing infrastructure, protection (fire, police, ambulance) services, utilities (sewer, water, power, communications), and transportation (roads, freeways, busses, bike lanes, cross walks, etc.). These two existing plots should be expanded not diminished for such an action stands against the voting populace and the moral responsibility that city government is designed to direct and act out for its people.

Santa Barbara resident (93110) and avid gardener. Growing local helps reduce our food miles and dependence on oil!

Family of gardener. We need more spaces like this, not less.

Please enlarge the number of garden plots. This is a good use of green space.

Please keep the Yanonali Communit Garden as is. Don't take away any of the plots!

Save the garden!!!

please protect community gardens on the East side!

Please stop the plan to ruin the Yanonali Community Grden. It is very important as is.

This garden area is an important community asset and has been in place for a long time. It needs to be preserved in its present state, or better yet, enlarged.

Mental Health is SO important today and healthy foods - organic foods - provide that. I have tried the produce from my friends gardens there. So delicious! Council, please keep the garden the way is now. For our community’s good health! Go Green. Go Garden.

My children garden here with my parents. This space is irreplaceable. Please listen to the community members who care for and utilize this garden. Demolishing plots or changing plot sizes will ruin the long-established plots and destroy what has been built and tended to by community members for many years.

Community gardens are so valuable to the basic survival of all especially those who don't have the resources to good organic produce for their families. Please see the value in saving these special gardens.

Community gardens are a strong element in the making of a community to be just that: A Community. We need more "community," not less. The proposed changes would make this garden essentially nonfunctional; a symbol of failure.

This park needs no changes other than a refresh of existing facilities. This park is well used and well loved by people from a wide range of ages, genders and backgrounds. Upgraded accessible playground equipment? Yes please! Adult exercise equipment, tiny planter boxes as garden plots, and a walking path - why?! When I was 17, the garden was a lifeline. A peaceful place away from a broken home, a place for exercise, learning and sun. I'm now in my mid 30s, work in the sciences, and have my own space for a garden. But every time I go by the community garden, it puts a big smile on my face. And besides, what's better than fresh, garden grown tomatoes?!

So important to keep the garden for all the well being of the participants!

Lifelong Santa Barbara resident.

What a terrible idea to take out so much of the community garden on the SB Eastside. In these days of co-vid and loss of work, people need to get outdoors and with hands in the dirt more than ever before. SB Parks and Rev…be thinking of MORE places for community gardens, not less. As an avid gardener in a community garden, my garden means so much to me and my family. As the Yanonali gardens mean to their gardeners.

Santa Barbara resident

If we are to save the earth from climate change, we must involve children and their families in earth-centered learning. They must first learn to love the earth and gardening is the "gate way" to love. Please support rather than destroy this community resource.

Please save the gardens! We need more healthy spaces for our families and community, not less!!