what we do
This Garden Was a Parking Lot
Check out the latest video about Depave’s work highlighting recent projects and meaningful community partners involved. Created by Alex McCutcheon.
Since 2008, Depave has worked intentionally with communities to remove underutilized pavement, replacing it with living, permeable design.
Our Mission
Depave empowers disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening. Depave transforms over-paved places, creates resilient community greenspaces, promotes workforce development and education, and advocates for policy change to undo manifestations of systemic racism.
Our Vision
Depave envisions an empowered society living within sustainable cities, built on a foundation of justice, equity, diversity, practicing inclusion and actively undoing systemic discrimination, social and environmental injustice of every kind. Depave imagines a sustainable city as a place where people and wildlife coexist and prosper amidst clean air, clean water, robust urban forests, thriving local agriculture, and healthy communities.
We have a new 5 year Strategic Plan!
Depave is excited to share our new Strategic Plan, adopted this past June 2023! Our plan represents many hours of work put in from our Board and staff and was grounded in input from our community partners. Depave worked with Capacity Building Partnerships, LLC, who facilitated the process that included a community survey, Board-staff retreat, and bi-weekly meetings of a Strategic Planning Committee. The end result is a plan grounded in newly articulated values, goals, and strategies that will move us closer to our vision. Click button to learn more:
The removal of impervious pavements will reduce stormwater pollution and increase the amount of land available for habitat restoration, urban farming, trees, native vegetation, and beauty, thus providing us with greater connections to the natural world.
