City Planning Programs

Adopt-A-Lot Program

This temporary land access program empowers residents to transform City-owned vacant lots into vibrant, community-serving spaces through temporary activation agreements. Vacant lot projects can provide greater access to fresh food, manage stormwater, and beautify communities.

Help-A-Lot Program

Through Help-A-Lot, residents are able to request one-day access to City-owned vacant lots for community stewardship and maintenance activities including: mowing, weeding, mulching, removing invasive species, illegal dump site clean-up, and litter clean-up.

Greenways Stewardship Program

Greenways are permanently conserved, primarily passive open spaces. Approved stewardship activities include: trail building, urban agriculture, tree planting/orchards, invasive species removal, litter/dump site clean-up, and more.

Our Greenways

Greenways are permanently conserved, primarily passive open spaces that provide recreation opportunities, minimize landslide hazard and flooding risk, preserve tree canopy, and reduce the effects of extreme heat.

Registered Community Organization Program

A RCO is a non-profit community organization or collaboration of community organizations that are registered with City Planning as stakeholders of a specific geographic area

City Farms Garden Program

City Farms facilitates land access to underutilized open space in City parks and greenways for community gardens, farms, and food forestry/orchards. This program also provides direct technical assistance and material support to urban agriculture sites within in the program.

last updated: 04/07/2026