Silly silly idea in this crazy time! Realign the fence around the garden….
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Jesse K
4 years ago
Santa Barbara resident
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Sabrina Papa
4 years ago
Full-time Riviera resident/owner. Studies have shown children make more healthful choices when involved in growing and harvesting their own produce. Considering the health issues our country faces, isn't this one of the best ways to educate children and improve health for future generations? Instead of decreasing size to build a straight fence, why not encourage members to work together to keep the area well-groomed? It seems like more of a win-win resolution with no funds required from the City. Thank you for your consideration.
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Anonymous
4 years ago
People need a place to grow food. It helps families provide nutritional food to their families. The nutritional food helps to reduce medical costs be it disease, pandemics, etc. Community Gardens build communities and reduce crime. The City should increase the number of plots and reduce any plans for non gardening aspects. A healthy community is a happy community. Organic Community gardens help to build respect for each other and the environment. The City must build more community gardens.
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Donna Moore
4 years ago
Community gardens support healthy communities. They should be a first priority to protect and support!
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Carol Colao
4 years ago
What is more important than the healthy habit of growing our own food and teaching our children the care and maintenance of nurturing a garden? It’s great that we have the land to have wonderful community gardens not just for the harvest but to create community togetherness and respect for each other — working together — and eating well. All for making it easier to mow the lawn? Or whatever other reasons. Ridiculous! Please save our community gardens, our healthy habits, and the continued building of the power of community. Do not reduce the space of these gardens!
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RODERICK ROBLES
4 years ago
Please let the Yanonali Community Garden stay the way it is now. NO changes. And please leave the community gardeners alone. NO CHANGES.
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Lainie Takeda
4 years ago
Let the gardeners and community garden users decide how to fix up the garden in a way that works for those who use and grow veggies and fruits there. Those are the stake holders.
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W Wittl
4 years ago
We need more 'gardening' plots for those without yards, not less.
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Susan Shields
4 years ago
Given that there is a waiting list for gardening plots, the city should be expanding community gardens, not reducing or eliminating them.
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susan garrett
4 years ago
save this garden as it is. it is very important to our society to have access to growing vegetables and flowers. As housing gets more dense there is less land to do this.
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Dan Figlo
4 years ago
The gardens have been a part of the fabric of a variety of Santa Barbara neighborhoods for 50 years. Hundreds of local families and children have benefited from and enjoyed these special spaces. There are many fewer today than there once were and to whittle down one of the few remaining seems ironically shortsighted. Public spaces shouldn't only be valued for their superficial look and uses, consider also what they give the heart and soul of our community.
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Lynne Sherman
4 years ago
The city needs to increase the number of community gardens! The renovation plan should be composted and a new plan should be planted with the inout of the gardeners.
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Suzanne Martin
4 years ago
Keep the gardens!
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Joan Ariel
4 years ago
Community gardens are critical to food security and building community! They should be expanded not cut back!!
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Christa Crane
4 years ago
As a past manager of the community gardens (during CEC management years - prior to the City taking over), I can attest to the vibrant, food producing, educational garden culture that exists at the Yanonali garden. Reducing the area is counter productive. The garden is a much needed resource in our community, not only for the gardeners, but for others (children) to learn where their food comes from, and how to nurture soil for food. Listen to the gardeners! They have relationships with their plots and understand what is required to be a successful, and productive community program. Please do not reduce the size of the garden, or the plots.
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Rachel Altman
4 years ago
I live in the area and see more people gardening than hanging out in the park. Gardening i.e. growing food is a priority.
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Laurence Hauben
4 years ago
I would like to see city stuff meet with the current users of the park and the community garden to come to a mutually workable plan. Limiting each household to one plot makes sense since there is a waiting list. Offering some smaller plots perhaps 10 x 10‘ for those with small families, but reducing the acreage of gardens overall in order to realign a fence when there is significant unmet demand for garden space seems wrongheaded to me.
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Jeremy Rosenberg
4 years ago
I live near this park and have had a garden plot there. Please don't reduce either the number of garden plots or the size of existing plots. These gardens are an extremely valuable community resource.
Santa Barbara resident
Silly silly idea in this crazy time! Realign the fence around the garden….
Santa Barbara resident
Full-time Riviera resident/owner. Studies have shown children make more healthful choices when involved in growing and harvesting their own produce. Considering the health issues our country faces, isn't this one of the best ways to educate children and improve health for future generations? Instead of decreasing size to build a straight fence, why not encourage members to work together to keep the area well-groomed? It seems like more of a win-win resolution with no funds required from the City. Thank you for your consideration.
People need a place to grow food. It helps families provide nutritional food to their families. The nutritional food helps to reduce medical costs be it disease, pandemics, etc. Community Gardens build communities and reduce crime. The City should increase the number of plots and reduce any plans for non gardening aspects. A healthy community is a happy community. Organic Community gardens help to build respect for each other and the environment. The City must build more community gardens.
Community gardens support healthy communities. They should be a first priority to protect and support!
What is more important than the healthy habit of growing our own food and teaching our children the care and maintenance of nurturing a garden? It’s great that we have the land to have wonderful community gardens not just for the harvest but to create community togetherness and respect for each other — working together — and eating well. All for making it easier to mow the lawn? Or whatever other reasons. Ridiculous! Please save our community gardens, our healthy habits, and the continued building of the power of community. Do not reduce the space of these gardens!
Please let the Yanonali Community Garden stay the way it is now. NO changes. And please leave the community gardeners alone. NO CHANGES.
Let the gardeners and community garden users decide how to fix up the garden in a way that works for those who use and grow veggies and fruits there. Those are the stake holders.
We need more 'gardening' plots for those without yards, not less.
Given that there is a waiting list for gardening plots, the city should be expanding community gardens, not reducing or eliminating them.
save this garden as it is. it is very important to our society to have access to growing vegetables and flowers. As housing gets more dense there is less land to do this.
The gardens have been a part of the fabric of a variety of Santa Barbara neighborhoods for 50 years. Hundreds of local families and children have benefited from and enjoyed these special spaces. There are many fewer today than there once were and to whittle down one of the few remaining seems ironically shortsighted. Public spaces shouldn't only be valued for their superficial look and uses, consider also what they give the heart and soul of our community.
The city needs to increase the number of community gardens! The renovation plan should be composted and a new plan should be planted with the inout of the gardeners.
Keep the gardens!
Community gardens are critical to food security and building community! They should be expanded not cut back!!
As a past manager of the community gardens (during CEC management years - prior to the City taking over), I can attest to the vibrant, food producing, educational garden culture that exists at the Yanonali garden. Reducing the area is counter productive. The garden is a much needed resource in our community, not only for the gardeners, but for others (children) to learn where their food comes from, and how to nurture soil for food. Listen to the gardeners! They have relationships with their plots and understand what is required to be a successful, and productive community program. Please do not reduce the size of the garden, or the plots.
I live in the area and see more people gardening than hanging out in the park. Gardening i.e. growing food is a priority.
I would like to see city stuff meet with the current users of the park and the community garden to come to a mutually workable plan. Limiting each household to one plot makes sense since there is a waiting list. Offering some smaller plots perhaps 10 x 10‘ for those with small families, but reducing the acreage of gardens overall in order to realign a fence when there is significant unmet demand for garden space seems wrongheaded to me.
I live near this park and have had a garden plot there. Please don't reduce either the number of garden plots or the size of existing plots. These gardens are an extremely valuable community resource.