Plan Presented at Second Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden

I like that. It makes the area look nicer.
To what extent does Seaside company own the whole beach flats area? They really could do a better job in making some of the common areas by the levee look good.

Probably, I'm not the only person who has had the experience of visiting friends in other cities, and having them respond "Santa Cruz? I've been there - it's a slummy beach town!".
So where do people commonly get this impression, given that it's clearly not true, and most of the city is really expensive and upscale?
It is because there are two pathways through the city that visitors are directed through due to the street grid. One would be the Mission street part of highway 1 where you see some stores behind large parking lots. And most people coming to visit the beach for the day are directed down Ocean street following signs to the boardway. Ocean street is where all the badly built cheap housing and hotels are located. Once you get over the bridge into the boardwalk parking lot area, it is very difficult to accidentally stray into the westside unless you have a map and directions because only one street by Las Palmas will let you get there. The unsophisticated visitor will never even find Pacific (where the city spends so much time supposedly appealing to tourists by driving away homeless sitters) because the one way streets make it difficult to find the way to get to Front or Pacific. Instead, most cars are funneled into the road by the levee with the parking lots where various equipment is stored, and it's not gardened very well. Then all traffic has to cross the river into River Flats neighborhood (again, the most affordable housing isn't really very affordable here, so people need to double up, so there is little street parking left), and they go home. Having some gardens or nice things to look at could only help seaside company get return visitors.

That's a pretty sweet photograph of that dude in the tree.

La lucha de tierra es la lucha del mundo.

Por todos!

Ninioas, plantes, insectos, animales. Mas y mas...
La viva minutos y minutos microscopico... universal!

Gracias

Su amigos de paz

Meeting today at 5pm at the garden.

Concerns were expressed on Saturday at the garden about whether Reyna had presented the plan given to her verbatim, or whether she made changes and additions when she typed it up. Gardeners and supporters should ask for a copy of what Reyna presented, and then compare it to what was presented to Reyna.