Healthy Land Use Engagement

We want to hear your voice! Please take 5-10 minutes to answer a few questions help us gauge interest of residents and stakeholders on land use issues.

Please take our Healthy Land Use Engagement Project Survey
South Sacramento residents – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/25MYLV7
Residents living outside of South Sacramento – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PBWMKKW

Thank you in advance for your participation and support. Read on for more information about the project.

Ubuntu Green has embarked on a project to engage neighborhoods in Sacramento in healthy land use decision-making, leadership development and advocacy. The project will use asset, power and GIS mapping to enhance citizen training, visioning and advocacy.

The process will engage residents of Sacramento on land use issues, with a focus on transportation equity, environmental health and justice and food access issues. The types of changes these leaders identify could include (but are not limited to) improved bike and pedestrian access and safety, better public transit, increased access to healthy food, safer routes to school, or the eradication of environmentally contaminated sites. Over two years, our team will work directly with residents to help them develop neighborhood project and policy priorities, and nurture youth leadership. These efforts will be supported by asset and power mapping, community visioning processes, leadership institute training, GIS mapping and ongoing research.

Our goal is to promote policy and systems change in the area that redefines how local, regional and state governments, elected officials, and agencies do business through a resident-driven process. Residents will be the leads on defining which projects and regulatory and policy changes need to be made in their neighborhoods by leveraging systems knowledge and planning, policy and advocacy tools. In addition, youth will be equal partners with adults in setting priorities, which will mark a systemic departure on how we address community engagement and land use decision making.

The following neighborhoods will be targeted individually for the first two years of the project: North Oak Park, Central Oak Park, South Oak Park, Tahoe Park, Fruitridge Manor, Avondale-Glenn Elder, the Avenues and North and South Farms.

Ubuntu Green will partner with California Capital, WALKSacramento, the Coalition on Regional Equity, U.C. Davis Center for Regional Change, Asian Resources Inc. and Youth Development Network.

This project is supported in part by the California Endowment.

For more information please contact us at (916) 669-0671 or via email at info@ubuntugreen.org.