Time to meet the neighbors?

Community gardens can transform groups of people from strangers into neighbors. Food or flowers can be grown allowing those of us city dwellers to return to our roots. Unfortunately for me, the community where I live is in the process of discontinuing their garden program and will not issue plots to new gardeners; rather, the village is seeding over those plots not used. They have no timetable for a new location although that sounds like the result the village would eventually like. For now, I’m stuck on how to proceed next. Park district elections are soon, letters to the editor are a possibility, but how does one organize in a city where you don't know anyone? Any thoughts?