2025 UPDATE: Ninth Root has been holding community engagement events such as site visits, open houses, shoreline cleanups, and native plant propagation workshops to inform the conceptual design for the Sacred Spaces project.
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2024 UPDATE: This project was augmented with $100,000.
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The Sacred Spaces Planning Project, consists of collecting planning data, holding community engagement workshops, and creating plans for habitat and public access enhancements along the Damon Marsh Trail, including a series of climate-resilient and culturally relevant wellness zones at Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline. The project will include: conducting a site assessment; conducting community engagement; creating plans for erosion control, invasive species removal, native planting, interpretive art, and site monitoring; and creating conceptual designs for habitat and public access enhancements along the Damon Marsh Trail. This planning project will result in 30% designs and plans for habitat enhancement and a series of five climate-resilient and culturally relevant wellness zones along the Damon Marsh Trail at Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline in East Oakland.
