Save Yanonali Community Garden!

City Council should not discourage the public from doing the right thing.

Please put an end to this immediately. This is the worst time to disrupt a community garden. Covid has been difficult to say the least and that includes putting healthy food on our tables, not to mention the mental health benefits. There is no reason to disrupt the community garden while gentrifying the park. There is room for all. Why was the community not considered in this?

As a City of SB resident, I support this petition wholeheartedly. There is no better use for this land than in support of food security.

This is a terrible thing that the city of Santa Barbara is trying to do. Before Covid a group of Eastside seniors shared two plots. We enjoyed the planting and the sharing. What a shame that the city is not thinking about the healthy activity that this garden has.

Community gardens increase the resilience of our community in terms of food sovereignty, good health emotionally and physically, skills our species has used to survive for thousands of years, creating habitat for pollinators and climate resilience. Please do not decimate this resource now or ever.

Growing organic food locally and ecologically and affordably is very important. This kind of effort should be affordable and available to all. It helps create a sense of community, and community is an antidote to crime.

We need to expand community gardens, not shrink them!

This threat to the garden has been lurking in the background for months. Policy people: listen to the grassroots people!

As prices rise more families are growing their own. Leave it alone

We need more gardens not less. And it's not fair to the gardeners. Shrinking the garden and the plot sizes is a horrible idea.

Come on this is ridiculous please let the neighborhood have a community garden it offers a sense of community a sense of pride education for youngsters some well needed open space to say nothing of the benefits of growing your own veggies

Protect green spaces!! Community autonomy and self determination with the land will empower us all

Please change this ill conceived plan. to alter (ultimately destroy) the community garden Our community needs more opportunities of this sort rather than fewer. As a long time resident it grieves me to see these kinds of changes to our beautiful city.

Expand the garden; don't shrink it.

This is an important space for so many neighborhood gardeners, adults and children. Please don;'t reduce the size of this space.

the city should be encouraging residents to create and maintain community gardens! Wrong direction city council!!!

People and community should be a priority! Where is the Parks gov conscious ?

The value of the garden plots outweighs development value. Absolutely

This garden is a labor of love and sustenance for this local community. Please leave it be. It is a valuable asset on many levels.

This the most right thing I have read in a long time.