Want to hear a local (to me) story about public space, urban planning, and neighborhood activism? A story that starts with a convent and ends with a link to an online petition to try to make things right? Of course you do! So…

Once upon a time there was a convent. However, with the nuns only getting older and fewer folks interested in taking up the calling it was closed down. The church, in their infinite wisdom, sold the building and small garden to a real estate development agency, who planned to build a parking lot. Neighbors stepped in, joined up, and pressured the city into buying the land. Since 2012 it's been run, entirely on a volunteer basis by a neighborhood non-profit as «El Jardí del Silenci», The Garden of Silence. It's quite lovely. And now, it's being threatened … but not by whom you might think.

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