COMMUNITY PROFILE NOVEMBER 2017
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chapter one INTRODUCTION
ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 1 The Alisal Vibrancy Plan
Plan Overview City was drafting its Downtown Vibrancy Plan What We Want to and Economic Development Element in 2013. The Alisal community and the City of Salinas are Through relationship building and partnerships Achieve undertaking an exciting planning process. Since with residents, other community groups, City 2013, residents and community organizers have staff, and elected officials, City Council allocated • Create a road map to a healthy and advocated for a community-driven plan to ensure the initial funding for a plan for the Alisal. environmentally sustainable Salinas for all residents a bright future for East Salinas. Through the Plan, the Alisal community will generate their vision for a thriving, safe, and • Confirm the community’s vision for the The Alisal is an eastern neighborhood in the future City of Salinas, generally bounded by Highway sustainable future, and strategies for getting 101 to the southwest, Madeira Avenue and St there. • Commit additional resources in areas of historic disinvestment that are in alignment Augustine Drive to the northwest, E Alisal Street Community participation and empowerment to the southeast, and Freedom Parkway to the with the community’s goals to ensure social are critical to ensure the Plan is responsive to equity northeast. the Alisal’s current and future needs. The City • Empower residents by building their capacity The purpose of the Plan is to communicate the is committed to a public engagement process that builds the capacity of residents, businesses, to fully collaborate in the development of the collective vision of those who live and work in Alisal Vibrancy Plan the Alisal and to implement community- and organizations to fully participate in the created solutions for strengthening its development of the Plan. • Strengthen neighborhoods and create neighborhoods. ladders of opportunity for residents • Support the implementation of Economic The Alisal Vibrancy Plan is an opportunity to Development Element actions at the improve the quality of life for East Salinas families neighborhood level by creating a more vibrant, equitable, and healthy community in a way that builds upon the social • Lay the foundation for collective action to and cultural wealth of the Alisal. transform the Alisal • Continue to build the relationship between The Plan will be an action-oriented local government and the community by and comprehensive strategy for East Salinas, following the principles of Governing for led by the community in close collaboration Racial Equity with the City. This plan is a first of its kind undertaking between the City of Salinas and the residents of East Salinas, who, with assistance from the Building Health Communities coalition, advocated for a plan of their own when the 2 CITY OF SALINAS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
About this Report
Alisal Neighborhood Report Structure parcels is just outside the project boundary, its redevelopment will be integrated with the Alisal Revitalization This Community Profile presents a picture of the planning process. The Alisal Marketplace is Strategy Area Alisal. It includes a snapshot of demographics, a redevelopment project spearheaded by the the urban landscape, and key issues in the City. More than 50 acres of land will be redeveloped into a mixed-use environment for: Since 1993, the federal government’s Department community. This Profile is organized into short of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sections with complementary maps and graphics. • Residential recognized the Alisal as a Neighborhood • Introduction • Retail Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA). This special • The People of the Alisal NRSA designation allows the City of Salinas to • Services utilize funding for revitalization activities related • Land Use and Housing • Commercial to economic development, housing, and public • Community Character service. • Quality of Life • Office space The Alisal Vibrancy Plan and this community • Community Health • Municipal use profile report use the Alisal NRSA boundaries as • Economic Development / Workforce the focus area. While the Alisal Marketplace is technically • Mobility and Infrastructure outside of the Alisal plan area, it will be We used local knowledge and past community considered and integrated into Vibrancy input to select priority topics covered in this planning conversations. report. When possible, we mapped data and presented The maps on the following two pages show the summary data in tables and/or graphs an aerial photograph of the City of Salinas and with the City, Monterey County, and/or the surrounding environment. The City and the California as comparisons. Alisal are both highlighted on the map. You can Additionally, the Alisal Vibrancy Plan see from this Alisal Contact Map that the City Steering Committee and Working Groups of Salinas is almost completely surrounded by discussed existing conditions data at a agricultural lands. workshop on September 28, 2017. When The second map zooms into the Alisal appropriate, we included quotes from Strategy Area. Both maps also highlight the workshop participants to provide their Alisal Marketplace. While this grouping of interpretation of the data and Alisal’s community conditions.
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ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 5 Alisal. By 1940, the Alisal also included a branch separation of the Alisal from Salinas was not only Alisal History of the Monterey County Free Libraries. The City of a geographic barrier, but a political hurdle for Salinas was incorporated in 1874, while the Alisal change. remained unincorporated until 1963. Even after In the early 20th century, Salinas was incorporation, improvements seldom arrived to In the Alisal, political representation did not characterized by its transformation from a town the new east side of town. increase and neither did economic opportunity. into a small city. The railroad and agriculture Public Works Director Petersen, who came into played a formative role in the city’s landscape and The war effort in the 1940s took many young his position in 2005, describes: “When the East its growth. By the 1930s, the physical landscape men in uniform away from the City. At that time Side became incorporated in the 1960s, it hadn’t of the City dramatically transformed with the many fieldhands came to the Alisal from Mexico really been planned. The City has never really arrival of diverse waves of immigrants, changes through the Bracero program. Following the war, had the resources to make all the necessary in agricultural production, and new economic a wave of state and federal funding went toward changes.” Its oversight fell on Monterey County, opportunities. Highway 101, a public works plan, and a parks whose codes generally weren’t as strict as the and recreation plan. City codes. Massive overcrowding occurred, Immigration shaped the expansion of Salinas to the streets were not laid out properly, lighting the east. The Alisal (Spanish for grove of Alder Many of the investments focused on downtown, was poor, and maintenance was neglected. The trees) became home to many migrants that lived transforming the look and feel using modern differences between Salinas and Alisal became in camps and trailers and worked in the local design. Phillip Tabera, longtime Alisal resident, strikingly obvious. agricultural industry. While migrants were not professor, and Salinas Union High School District always welcome, the Alisal included a diverse board member, remembers the highly racialized Over the last few years, the City has invested in community of agricultural laborers. Migrants in separation between the land allotments: “In the Alisal infrastructure upgrades and programs. the Salinas Valley included Dust Bowl refugees, 30’s or 40’s, there was a city ordinance that said This Plan will continue to pave the way Filipino field laborers, Japanese flower growers, if you were colored, that you couldn’t cross the towards improved physical, social, and Chinese and Korean merchants, Italian and 101 bridge on Sundays. And if you were caught, economic community conditions. Portuguese fisherman, and East Coast refugees. you were brought back to the east side.” The For many, the West held a dream of new opportunity. The diversity of Salinas made it a unique place to live, work, and organize.
Tensions between farm laborers and management led to strikes over work conditions and pay, but also the beginnings of California’s first farm labor unions. At the neighborhood scale, the development of an East Salinas Improvement Club in 1938 led to a beautification movement that included building sidewalks, planting trees, and improving both housing and sewage in the
6 CITY OF SALINAS CHAPTER 2: THE PEOPLE OF ALISAL
chapter two THE PEOPLE OF ALISAL
ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 7 Population
Salinas is home to 150,835 people. Approximately 45,225 (30%) of Salinas’ residents live in the 30% Alisal. While the population in Salinas increased by 5.4% in the period between 2000-2010, the Alisal population declined by 8.8% in the same period. 70% 30% of Salinas’ total population lives in the Alisal.
Source: American Community Survey, 2011-2015
Note: The 2000 Census block groups for the Alisal NRSA do not correspond exactly to the updated “Population census data is wrong. People are NRSA boundary. The 2000 block groups include a small residential area that is not included in the 2010 scared to admit how many people live in their block groups. The reduction in population is reflected across the entire area and are not due to the changed homes especially if some family members are boundary. undocumented immigrants.” Source: Bureau of the Census, 2000 and 2010. -Alisal resident
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Race/Ethnicity
The racial composition of residents in the Alisal is predominantly Hispanic/Latino (95%), followed by Non-Hispanic White (3%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (1%). The Latino share of the population is much higher than in the City overall, where 75% of all residents identify as Hispanic/Latino, 16% identify as Non-Hispanic White, 6% identify as Asian/Pacific Islander, and 2% identify as Black or African American.
Source: American Community Survey (ACS), 2009-2013
Language
Close to 90% of Alisal residents over the age of five speak Spanish at home compared with 64% of residents citywide. Among Spanish speakers in the Alisal area, 62% speak English “less than very well.” Linguistic isolation can hamper access to employment, transportation, medical and social services, public participation, and schooling.
Source: ACS, 2009-2013.
ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 9 Income and Poverty
Almost half of Alisal households (47%) have total annual incomes BELOW $35,000. Household Income Distribution Only 15% of Alisal households have an annual 25% 20% income of $75,000 or higher, compared to 30% of 19% 19% 20% 18% 18% households across Salinas. 16% In the Alisal NRSA, a third of residents (33%) live 13% 13% 15% 12% 11% in poverty. In contrast, 21% of Salinas residents 10% 10% live in poverty. In two areas of the NRSA, more 10% 7% than 40% of residents live in poverty. The 6% 6% highest concentration of Alisal NRSA residents 5% 2% in poverty live east of Garner Avenue and along Alisal Avenue, between North Madera Avenue 0% and North Sanborn Road.
1/3 of all residents in the Alisal live in City of Salinas Alisal NSRA poverty. Source: American Community Survey, 2009-2013.
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ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 11 Age Distribution
The age distribution of Alisal residents is similar to the rest of the City of Salinas. Half of Alisal residents are under 25 years old. Almost one- third of Alisal residents are between 25 and 44 years old. Only 10% of Alisal residents are 55 or older, compared to 15% of Salinas residents.
Household Type
Most households in Alisal (70%) are families with children. This is significantly higher than Salinas overall, where families with children represent 46% of households.
Single-parent households often require special consideration and assistance as a result of their Source: Bureau of the Census, 2010 greater need for affordable housing, as well as accessible day care, health care, and other “It’s true that a majority of the population is supportive services. In the Alisal NRSA, 23% of families with children were headed by single young, but there aren’t spaces for them to play parents. and enjoy.” Although Alisal has a lower proportion of - Alisal resident senior residents compared to Salinas, 17% of households in Alisal have at least one household Household Type City of Salinas Alisal NRSA member who is 65 or older. Families 78% 89% Families with Children 46% 70% 70% of Alisal Married Families With Children 32% 47% households have Male Headed Families with Children 5% 9% Female Headed Families with Children 10% 14% children. Non Family Households 22% 11%
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Household Size Household Size by Tenure (Salinas vs. Alisal)
The majority of households in the Alisal NRSA Salinas Renter-Occupied HHs 35% 32% 33% (52%) include five or more members. Households with five or more members are considered large Salinas Owner-Occupied HHs 41% 32% 28% households. These households are usually families with two or more children or families with extended family members such as in-laws Alisal Renter-Occupied HHs 14% 32% 55% or grandparents. It can also include multiple families living in one housing unit in order to save Alisal Owner-Occupied HHs 27% 26% 47% on housing costs.
Less than 20% of Alisal households are made 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% up of one or two people, compared to 38% of 1 - 2 Person HHs 3 - 4 Person HHs 5+ Person HHs households in Salinas. Larger households in Alisal tend to be renter-occupied.
More than half of Alisal NRSA City of Salinas Household (HH) Size Owner- Renter- Owner- Renter- the households in Occupied Occupied All HHs Occupied Occupied All HHs the Alisal have five HHs HHs HHs HHs 1 - 2 Person HHs 26.7% 13.6% 17.8% 40.7% 35.0% 37.6% or more people, 3 - 4 Person HHs 26.1% 31.7% 29.9% 31.5% 32.4% 32.0% compared to less 5+ Person HHs 47.2% 54.7% 52.3% 27.8% 32.6% 30.4% Source: Bureau of the Census, 2010. than a third of the households citywide.
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14 CITY OF SALINAS CHAPTER 3: LAND USE & HOUSING
chapter three LAND USE & HOUSING
ALISAL VIBRANCY PLAN: COMMUNITY PROFILE 15 Existing Land Use Age of Buildings
Land use involves the management and Existing land use: The oldest structures in the Alisal were built modification of the natural and built environment. pre-1940 and they are primarily located in the City planners maintain maps that document Alisal Strategy Area southwest portion of the area. The majority of existing land use by parcel to track how existing homes in the Alisal were built in the 1940s and Percent of uses align with the city’s desired uses. Existing Land Use Acres 1950s. There are two distinct clusters of homes Total built in the 1960s and 1970s in the northeast tip of The Alisal NRSA is approximately 1,688 acres or Residential (Single-Family) 629.0 48.3% the Alisal and surrounding Laurel Park. Very few 2.64 square miles in size. The following tables Residential (Multi-Family) 284.4 21.8% structures in the Alisal were built after 2000. and maps show the Alisal Strategy Area and Institutional 208.7 16.0% Alisal Marketplace’s existing land use. The total acreage in the tables excludes streets and right- Commercial 99.6 7.7 % of-ways. The predominate uses in the area are Miscellaneous 49.0 3.8% residential and institutional, further described Unidentified Use 11.9 0.9% below: Agricultural 7.7 0.6% Industrial 5.9 0.5% • Almost half the Plan area is composed of single-family residential neighborhoods Rural 5.8 0.4% • Multifamily housing makes up another 22% of the land area • 16% of the area is institutional (schools and Existing land use: other public facilities) • Commercial areas make up less than 8% Alisal Marketplace of the area and are concentrated along E Percent of Existing Land Use Acres Alisal Street, E Market Street, and parts of N Total Sanborn and Williams Road Industrial 23.0 40.5% The Alisal Marketplace is approximately 60 acres Commercial 18.8 33.1% in size. The majority of the land area is industrial Institutional 12.4 21.8% (41%), with the remaining parcels split between Miscellaneous 2.6 4.6% commercial (33%) and institutional (22%) uses. Unidentified Use 0.004 0.0%
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