#NoShade: Save The North Richmond Farm

#NoShade: Save The North Richmond Farm

Within 1 month of purchasing the North Richmond Farm Urban Tilth found out that our dreams of growing a healthy, community driven vision for positive development in North Richmond was being threatened by a new massive Panattoni Inc. project planned for the parcels on the eastern boundary of our farm and that is planned development would severely impact farm as well as the youth in the nearby elementary school.

The structures proposed would dramatically increase local emissions, reduce the sunlight to the farm up to 4 hours a day impacting our capacity to grow the healthy foods that feed hundreds of local families each week. (View the preliminary architectural solar study)

The development will also threaten community health by bringing yet another large scale warehouse/ fulfillment center that will bring in over 150 additional trucks and other vehicles to the site each day, increasing air pollution and street traffic to a community that already disproportionately suffers from asthma and other emissions related chronic illnesses.    

This Panattoni Inc development at the site of the historic Nabeta Family Farm is one of many developments engulfing Richmond and North Richmond in hundreds of thousands of sq ft of warehouse and fulfillment center spaces and thousands of new truck and other vehicle traffic.

The #NoShade campaign aims to disrupt business as usual that disregards community health and uplifts development despite the negative community impacts. Instead we have an alternative to destructive development, a collective vision that will continue to transform the land around the North Richmond Farm and the greater North Richmond landscape that honors all our relatives who came before us, actually employs local residents and puts community health first. 

Join our North Richmond community, local organizations, community stakeholders, relatives and supporters as we fight to protect land, air, our rich history and our collective health, while preserving our beautiful local food source and community hub, The North Richmond Farm.  

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