Montavilla Atlas

Agricultural & Food Assets

Food-system assets across Montavilla — the farmers market, community gardens, and the vacant land that could support new urban agriculture.

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Key findings

Zero agricultural parcels (land use AGR) remain inside Montavilla — all have converted to residential or commercial use.
190 vacant parcels are potential urban-agriculture sites.
The Montavilla Farmers Market operates at ~7600 SE Stark St (Sundays, June–October).
Vestal Community Garden is the only formal community garden identified in the area.

Data & method

Dataset	Source	Date	License
Parcels & land use	Metro RLIS LANDUSE	2026-06-03	Open data
Community gardens	Metro RLIS ORCA / PP&R CommunityGardens	2026-06-03	Open data
Farmers market	montavillafarmersmarket.org / local knowledge	2026	Public info

Method:

Filtered RLIS land-use classifications for agricultural and vacant parcels, then overlaid ORCA community gardens and the geocoded farmers-market location.

Projection (CRS): EPSG:4326 (WGS84)

Tools: Python / geopandas / matplotlib

Confidence

MEDIUM. RLIS land use is authoritative for parcel classification but does not capture informal agriculture (backyard or guerrilla gardens). The market location is from local knowledge rather than a geocoded address.