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San Diego marks park, tree and affordable-housing openings as urban forestry grant funds expansion
Summary
City officials and community members celebrated renovated parks, a federal urban-forestry grant and the opening of affordable housing phases that officials said will add hundreds of homes and plant thousands of trees across San Diego.
An agency official announced the reopening of Jerebeck Park and credited a state legislative allocation for helping fund the work, saying the renovated site includes two children’s play areas and updated fitness equipment as part of an "nearly $8,000,000" project.
The same speaker tied the event to broader city efforts: "A $10,000,000 federal grant from our partners in the U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed us to plant 2,249 trees in fiscal year 2025, and we have 2,700 trees planned in fiscal year 2026," the official said,…
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