Celebrate People's History - Chicano Park - "We Will Not Allow Them to Build Their Parking Lot, We Will Be Build Our Park" - For Decades, Residents of the Logan Heights Community Proposed For San Diego Officials to Build a Community Park in Their Neighborhood. Instead, on April 22, 1970, the Construction of a Police Parking Lot Began at the Heart of This Chicana/o Community. Citizens of the Barrio Responded on April 23 by Forming the Chicano Park Steering Committee and Demanded a Park on the Property. [...]