San Francisco Citizen

Dude wants to put a Skystream 3.7 windmill turbine in his front yard on windblown Teresita Boulevard*, but area NIMBYs are having none of that. They’re saying Not In Your Front Yard. The whole concept “irks” them, you dig? It’s stiring up debate is what it’s doing.

Comes now the San Francisco Coalition of NIMBYhoods to rain on one Nathan Miller’s parade. They’re basically calling him stupid here:

“Whereas existing turbine windmills were not designed for residential City use, and exceed in height and width the appropriate scale for a San Francisco residential neighborhood and delivering only a fraction of the promised power because sufficient vertical and horizontal clearance is impossible in nearly all residential neighborhoods in San Francisco;”

Why would anyone want to live in an area with such emotional no-nothings in charge of things?

Anywho, here’s what backyard windmills look like these days:

Oh well. A complete list of the windmill-haters making up one of the hundreds of coalitions about town, after the jump.

The fact is, this friction
Will only be worn by persistence
Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

*Fell is just a “street” with four lanes in one direction, but single-lane Teresita, which winds it’s way through the bucolic suburbs of the 415, is a “boulevard.” Go figure.

There is no enemy !
Switch of the mind and let the heart decide
We’re a continent
A continent a continent a continent a -

Shatter the lens and grind it into sand
One measured exposure
Scatter the seed and furrow in our land
The future is roses! Roses!
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide
There is no enemy!
Lift up the hearts of this your only tribe
We’re a continent
A continent a continent a continent a

 

CSFN Member Organizations

Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association Delegates: Fred Allardyce, Carol Parlette Bayview Hunters Point Coordinating Council Delegates: Espanola Jackson, Francisco DaCosta Buena Vista Neighborhood Association Delegates: Richard Magary, Robert Incerti Cathedral Hill Neighbors Association Delegates: Melinda LaValle, Bertie Campbell-Ward Cayuga Improvement Association Delegate: Sharon Eberhardt, Chris Dillon, Barbara Fugate Cole Valley Improvement Association Delegate: Karen Crommie, David Crommie, Carol Glosenger Cow Hollow Association Delegates: Lori Brooke, Mark Sherman Diamond Heights Community Association Delegates: Lee Ann Prifti, Betty Peskin Dolores Heights Improvement Club Delegates: Don Stroh East Mission Improvement Association Delegates: Judith Berkowitz, Babette Drefke Eureka Valley Promotion Association Delegate: Demian Quesnel Ewing Terrace Neighborhood Association Delegate: John Munz, Patrick Devlin , Ruth Levy, Doris Kobuchi Excelsior District Improvement Association Delegate: Angelique Mahan, Patty DeVlieg, Jackie Wipf Fair Oaks Community Coalition Delegates: Veronica Gaynor, Andy Segal Forest Knolls Neighborhood Organization Delegates: Walter Caplan, Kristine Zaback Francisco Heights Improvement Association Delegates: Barbara Austin Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association Delegates: Lenney Herrmann, Frank Noto Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association Delegates: Rae Doyle, Avrum Shepard Haight Ashbury Improvement Association Delegates: Lorraine Lucas Inner Sunset Action Committee Delegates: John Bardis, Allen Chalmers Jordan Park Neighborhood Association Delegates: Richard Worner Laurel Heights Improvement Association Delegates: Kathy Devincenzi, Jerome Stroumza Lincoln Park Homeowners Association Delegates: Lisa Byrne, Celeste Lesage Ghish, Bryan Eckert Marina Civic Improvement & Property Owners Assn Deletates: Joan Girardot, Gloria Fontanello > Miraloma Park Improvement Club Delegates: Gary Noguera, Dan Liberthson and Jim O’Donnell Mission Creek Harbor Association Delegates: Corinne Woods New Mission Terrace Improvement Assn. Delegates: Peter Tenenbaum, David Hooper North Beach Neighbors Delegates: Jim Lew, Sue Cauthen, Wndy Hampton North Park Neighbors Delegates: Sandra Treacy Oceanview, Merced Heights, Ingleside – Neighbors In Action Delegates: Mary Harris, Dan Weaver, Al Harris Outer Mission Residents Association Delegates: Steve Currier, Alex Murillo, Catherine Pacheco Pacific Heights Residents Association Delegates: JP Harbour, Carola Sullam Shepard Panhandle Residents Organization-Stanyan-Fulton Delegates: Mary Helen Briscoe, Christian Holmer Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association Delegates: Ellen Kernaghan, Dick Millet Richmond Community Association Delegates: Hiroshi Fukuda, Kathy Howard Rincon Point Neighbors Association Delegates: David Osgood Russian Hill Improvement Association Deletates: Edward Van Egri, Tom Branch Russian Hill Neighbors Delegates: Bob D’Arcy, Penelope Clark Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People / SHARP Delegates:John Barry, Dennis Minnick, Chooi Eng Grooso, Charles Head Sunset-Parkside Education & Action Committee / SPEAK Delegates: Evelyn Wilson, Adeh Burke, Nancy Wuerfel Telegraph Hill Dwellers Delegate: Gerry Crowley Twin Peaks Council & Open Space Delegates: Ramona Albright Twin Peaks Improvement Association Delegate: Doris Linnenbach, Dona Crowder, Denise LaPointe West Presidio Neighborhood Association Delegate: Mary McAfee, Kimball Livingston, Deborah MacLeod

Tags: 2010, 3.7, 400 teresita, bay area, california, coalition, electricity, miller, Miraloma Park, nathan, neighborhoods, NIMBYhoods, power, San Francisco, San Francisco Coalition of NIMBYhoods, skystream, turbine, twin peaks, wind

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