The original item was published from May 30, 2018 3:50 PM to May 31, 2018 2:50 PM
Depave is a regional movement that
challenges us all to rethink our urban
spaces and ask the question, “Does this
space need to be paved?”. These spaces
can be paved over planting spaces,
oversized parking lots, paved over play
areas for children, or any paved area
that does not need to be paved and has
the potential to become much more.
Last year we started our largest Depave
project to date – a 15,000SF pavement
removal project at Holy Rosary
Church and School in Tacoma – and
this summer we will be completing
this massive undertaking.
We are looking for hearty volunteers to help us on June 23rd to Depave this site. If we get 100 volunteers each person will just need to remove a 10ft x 10ft section of the site – a simple task! RSVP Today!

Contractors will be preparing the
site for us to Depave the remaining
10,000SF on
June 23 starting at 9a.m. Activities for the Depave include
moving the chunks of pavement from
the site into recycling containers, to be
recycled by the City of Tacoma. After
our Depave,
Snohomish ConservationDistrict’s Veterans Crew will help us
recycle the compacted soil that was beneath the pavement, spread donated
Tagro soil, and prepare a grass field
for the school children to play on.
We get asked often, “Why don’t you
have the contractor do the pavement
removal?”. The answer is that it is much
more expensive to pay a contractor
to separate the pavement from the
soil and recycle both products. If we
use people power to separate the two
products the entire projects is sustainable
as everything is repurposed.