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Why Cooksville?
Cooksville is a neighborhood located in the City of Mississauga, and it is one of the most diverse areas in terms of population and housing options. According to Cooksville’s 2016 census profile, it is home to approximately 120,205 people where 59% of which are first-generation immigrants and 62.9% earn below $39,999 in annual income.
In effort of addressing Vision Cooksville’s vision principles and community recommendations, this community garden project will generate avenues that facilitate more a vibrant public realm (see Principle 1, Vision Cooksville Report, 2016), a better connected and engaging public open space (see Principle 2, Vision Cooksville Report, 2016), as well as advance local and unique businesses (see Principle 5, Vision Cooksville Report, 2016).
Stormwater Runoff Benefits
For our first site, we recommend using 50 raised planters with specifications of 1 x 2 x 1m giving a total volume of 6m3. Soil depth would be 75cm with a 25cm gravel bed. Using these specifications in the National Stormwater Calculator, it is estimated that 100% of run-off could be prevented on 300m² area of planter coverage, shown in Figure 1. The environmental benefits of on-site capture will remain regardless of whether the garden is moved to another impermeable site.
Figure 1: Baseline scenario of 300m² of impermeable surface using and current scenario with 50 planters installed over that same area