ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author details the role of the grassroots in articulating and responding to this threat. It guides two questions. How do community-based approaches address the needs and hopes of lower-income Latina/o urban areas undergoing Transit-Oriented Development and New Urbanism? What are the challenges, contradictions, and limitations in practicing community-based participation? Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development (SACReD) attempted to halt the Station District (SD) because it was an outgrowth of the Renaissance Specific Plan (RP). SACReD argued that both projects are one in the same, one member noting "he calls it Renaissance Two". The group feared that the SD would pave the way for more redevelopment similar to new lofts intruding on the Lacy and Logan barrio borders and businesses downtown, both designed for regional middle-class entrants. The group had an issue with the vision; these, it argued, were a mismatch for the dominant demographic and realities in the two neighborhoods.
