Our Mission
We wish to make together a public pedestrian pathway surrounded by trees, pollinator habitat, and edible landscaping for the benefit of neighbors and San Franciscans and that honors the Ohlone peoples on whose unceded land we live. – Un camino peatonal público rodeado de árboles, hábitat de polinizadores y "jardines comestibles" en beneficio de l@s vecin@s y habitantes de San Francisco que, además, rinde homenaje al pueblo Ohlone en cuya tierra no cedida vivimos ahora mismo. – 條公共行人道，周圍環繞著植物、傳粉者棲息地和果樹，造福於街坊及整個城市，並向我們居住在其未割讓土地上的 Ohlone 人民致敬。
Who are we?
Friends of the Mission Greenway is working with the Mission community to transform Parcel 36, a historic railroad throughway in the heart of the Mission, into a collaborative, visionary hub for pollinator gardens, small scale food production, education, connection, and environmental stewardship.
It is up to us all to reshape one of the few remaining pieces of open land in San Francisco into a green space for the young and old alike and the greater ecosystems in which we reside—let us seize this opportunity!
The Opportunity
The Mission Greenway will be:
A permanent community asset for all residents of the Mission and the city at large.
A shared community space that connects people across cultures and generations and offers space for growing plants that benefit people and the environment.
A rare, undeveloped green throughway and park in a dense urban neighborhood.
The Context
The current owners of the property are unknown. For more details on what we’ve learned about the ownership situation, see our blog.
Since its inception, this parcel has been a publicly accessible property and used as such by pedestrians. The public started getting pushed out in recent decades: by fences and locked gates and by parcel-users bullying pedestrians by falsely claiming it was their private property. Currently, the parcel is being defaulted into private parking, by virtue of gate-key access for a lucky few, in addition to storage of heavy equipment and shipping containers. Friends of the Mission Greenway believes that this open space in the Mission should be available to ALL residents and visitors and the pedestrian pathway should be given back to the public.
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