"The CAN! “Bayview Ecological Corridors” program is an innovative community-led green infrastructure and economic empowerment program located in SF’s Bayview neighborhood. Capturing local participants along SF’s historic Third Street and at two SFUSD schools in Bayview, the program will significantly impact SF’s most polluted neighborhood by planting 10 trees along SF's Third Street and in two SFUSD campuses. Tree plantings will take place along the Third Street sidewalks and will include properties within two blocks of Third Street. Plantings will take place the “Earth Day Community Greening” events, coordinated by CAN! staff and partners, Economic Development on Third and SFUSD Facilities Department. CAN! has worked in the neighborhood since 2010, cultivating funds from the Municipal and State government in parntership with CalReLeaf, PG+E and others. Thanks to CAN!’s deep relationship with the community, adjacent public school properties will also be supported with tree plantings slated for the two Third-Street-adjacent Bayview Schools; including Charles Drew Elementary School and Leola Havard Early Childhood Education Center. Additionally, CAN! will hire two “Irrigation Interns” from 94124 to support the program, providing stipends for local residents to support tree establishment. Bayview is a community not only with low canopy, but the single-most polluted neighborhood in San Francisco. According to CalEnviroscreen 4.0, all of the census tracts where plantings will take place are in the 79%-92% burden ratio. The project's environmental justice issues are significant, and historic. From power plants (2 historic, now closed) to SF's oldest thoroughfare (Third Street) to CalTrain to the SFPUC SouthEast Water Treatment plant and the Shipayrd, the neighborhood has over a dozen point-source pollution zones. With community empowerment at the heart of all CAN! programming, “Third Street Ecological Corridors” will bring together neighbors, students and local businesses to improve the Third Street Business District. Partnering with Bayview residents to cultivate green infrastructure improvements (like street trees and sidewalk landscaping) not only enhances the Third Street business corridor for neighbors, but increases economic activity and opportunities along the busy thoroughfare - increasing the livability and enjoyment of life on Third Street. "