When you think of flora and fauna, the Tenderloin isn’t exactly the first area to come to mind. Prepare to be surprised, though. Friday, Jan. 13 was the ‘Loin’s lucky day as the Community Housing Partnership converted about 300 square feet of the 600 block of Eddy Street into a permeable sidewalk garden.
Financed with a grant from San Francisco Beautiful and in conjunction with Plant SF, the project brought green to a gritty sidewalk. It’s this kind of community action that helps improve a neighborhood bit by bit.
So what’s the purpose of the greening project? As articulated by CHP, it’s the reduction of the amount of concrete covering the city, letting rainwater return to the earth, avoiding clogging city sewers and participating in the creation of a more sustainable, beautiful city. It’s a grand vision, but these visions come together step by step, don’t they?
All of the residents who did the planting graduated from CHP’s Recycling & Environmental Awareness Program, which teaches participants the whys and wherefores of recycling and ways to put green back in all our everyday lives.
The CHP has a history on Eddy Street. In 2009 it built the Arnett Watson Apartments between Polk and Larkin. The 83-unit building accommodates 36 individuals and 47 families and is named for one of CHP’s original tenants and a former board member who passed away earlier in the decade.
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