The Mission Greenbelt is a proposed urban earth artwork that aims to inspire and enable San Franciscans to build a corridor of native plant gardens in place of cement sidewalks along a selected route in the Mission District. The Greenbelt will be made up of native plantings in existing gardens, new sidewalk gardens, potted planters and windowsill gardens. Each garden of appropriate size will be marked with a small ceramic Mission Greenbelt marker with the year the garden was completed.

Building Mission Greenbelt gardens will serve both human and natural communities. The project will require neighborhoods, organizations, businesses and schools to cooperate in establishing large and small segments of the Greenbelt. This cooperation, combined with learning about native plants and urban wildlife will improve the city's ecology. By planting a diverse selection of native plants, we will attract urban wildlife. Also, newly exposed garden soil will collect and filter rainwater; presently during heavy rains, storm drains collect rainwater into the city's combined water treatment system, and sewage overflows into the bay.

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