COMMUNITY GARDEN

230 NADEN AVE S KENT, WA WINTER & SPRING 2022

World Relief Seattle (WRS) are looking to expand their operations onto a new site, to offer sustainable urban farming, address local food deserts, and serve as a social and entrepreneurial hub for immigrants, refugees, and asylees. This project is intended to get the class up to speed to be able to apply King County Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP) goals in south King County to produce a spatial strategic framework to address Climate & Equity goals with the WRS project.

Purpose

The main goal for this project is to align the King County 2020 Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP) with World Relief Seattle (WRS) Immigrant & Refugee community garden network to offer sustainable urban farming, address local food deserts, and serve as a social and entrepreneurial hub for immigrants, refugees, and asylees.

Through finding potentials for the site of development, the second goal for this project is to introduce future development plans for the City of Kent to not only decrease the impacts from flooding, but also to create a new leisure community hub to accommodate alternative mobility within the community to reduce greenhouse gas emission & Increase job oppotunities which align with one of the main objective of the Strategic Climate Action Plan 2021. The strategies of the proposal will introduce green spaces & expanding pedestrian walkability. The green connection from downtown, community garden, and green spaces along the Interurban Trail will feature Kent urban district and its natural system. The new community garden will feature groundwater infiltration & flood prevention to protect the ecosystem while increasing local food resources and career opportunity.

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