Keeping Public Lands In Public Hands For Public Benefit
SGSC’s Mission
The SGSC focuses on the health of our urban landscape — parcel by parcel. The City of Seattle owns more than 200 acres of non-park lands — forest, wetland green spaces — that it considers “excess” or “surplus” to its needs, and ripe for sale to developers. These properties powerfully benefit our neighborhoods and our city, and SGSC says let’s keep them in public hands for public benefit
They can be transformed into pocket parks, P-Patches, play fields, habitats, tree banks, and more. It’s cheaper than selling them now, and having to buy back new property to expand our green spaces in the future. So SGSC invites neighbors and communities to gather and choose how they want to re-purpose these public lands, and help keep Seattle one of America’s most livable cities.
These lands help Seattle meet its goals for carbon footprint reduction, tree canopy and urban forest expansion, and its Equity & Environment Agenda. Keeping them can help Seattle continue as a sustainable, resilient, equitable and livable city for our generation, and for generations to come..
SGSC also urges the city to treat our water and green space areas as assets on the city’s books. Our “natural capital” — the water and green spaces within Seattle‘s 142.5 square mile area — provides more than $3 billion worth of value to our city every year.
SGSC is a 501(c)3 organization. Please consider making a tax deductible contribution to help us continue our work.
