Posts Tagged ‘neighborhoods’
Monday, March 7th, 2011
“A MAYOR for our NEIGHBORHOODS.” Really? Boy, that has a NIMBYish tone, non?
Anyway, appears as if Candidate for Mayor Joanna Rees has placed her HQ in the Avenues out in the West Bay – let’s call it the Inner Richmond on Geary, IIRC.
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Oh, here she is. Not a bad website. S’pose they’re still in “Who Is Joanna” mode…
(Now, when oh when are two second-tier candidates going to take advantage of the new RCV system by Going Gemini, by pairing up? I know that political consultants wouldn’t benefit from this kind of approach, but the candidates themselves might. I’m talking:
A: “I urge you to cast a vote for B.”
B: “I, similarly, urge you to cast a vote for A.”
Anyway.)
Bon Courage, Joanna Rees!
Tags:2011, bay area, california, candidate, election, Joanna Rees, Mayor, MAYOR for our NEIGHBORHOODS, neighborhoods, nimby, NIMBYish, rcv, San Francisco
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Say what you will about the Civil Sidewalks people, but, no matter, you can’t say that they are afraid to enter the Fortress of Reaction, the Belly of the Beast. ‘Cause they’re going to Bring It to the Upper Haight this Saturday morning.
You know, everybody will be there, starting with Mayor Gavin Newsom and SFPD Chief George Gascon, starting at 10:00 AM
Get all the deets from the BOMA, below.
Haight Street on any given Saturday:
Ashbury Street on free Ben & Jerry’s day:
The deets:
UPDATE: Civil Sidewalks | Campaign Kick-Off Rally on October 9, 2010
UPDATE – As of October 4, 2010
BOMA San Francisco Members:
Join Mayor Gavin Newsom and Chief of Police George Gascon at a Civil Sidewalks campaign kick-off rally on Haight Street this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The Mayor will be there to meet you and thank you for your support and commitment to restoring civility to our sidewalks. Please join us and be sure to bring your family and friends!
Civil Sidewalks Campaign Kick-Off Rally with
Mayor Gavin Newsom
Chief of Police George Gascón
October 9th @ 10:00 am
FTC, 1632 Haight Street
This is a family-friendly event – there will be fun activities planned for all attending children!
This rally will send a strong message that San Franciscans are serious about creating safe, civil sidewalks for residents and businesses across the City.
Please take a moment to watch the video above ( click here to view the video on YouTube if you can’t see it) of community leaders in support of the Yes on Proposition L, for Civil Sidewalks, and No on Proposition M effort.
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The time has come to rally around the most important issue facing San Francisco’s neighborhoods and commercial corridors; Yes on Proposition L, for Civil Sidewalks, and No on Proposition M, the “poison pill.” ‘
Who wants Civil Sidewalks?
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
Mayor Gavin Newsom
Chief of Police George Gascon
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd
Supervisor Carmen Chu
900 + small businesses
1,000 + SF residents
& over 25 merchant and neighborhood associations
Proposition L will ensure public sidewalks are accessible for everyone, and that all San Franciscans can enjoy the public right-of-way without fear of harassment. This is a commonsense law that is being used with success in 60 other U.S. cities including Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and Seattle.
Proposition M is a political ploy by the Board of Supervisors intended to kill Measure L with a “poison pill.” Prop M neither changes deployment of foot patrols nor resources; this Measure puts politics ahead of your public safety.
If Yes on Prop L/No on Prop M is not successful in November, it is highly unlikely that we will have the opportunity to address this problem for decades. This is why we need YOUR help. Do you have two hours to give between now and Election Day?
PLEASE, take a moment and imagine how tremendously our city would benefit from passage of this law, and if two hours of your time is worth seeing that change through.
Tags:2010, 24th, ashbury, bay area, beauty, brownies hardware, california, Captain, carmen chu, chickens, chief, chief of administration, citizen's arrest, civil sidewalks, civility, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, council, department, dept., district 4, district merchants, erick arguello, foot patrols, freedom, ftc, gavin newsom, George Gascón, giant robot, haight, haight ashbury improvement association, herb cohn, judy berkowitz, karen growney, kent uyehara, kickoff, luke martinez, Manager, Mayor, megan schnider, mercahnts, Michela Alioto Pier, mom, mother, neighborhoods, no, owner, paul henderson, poison pill, police, prop, Proposition, pure, pure beauty, resident, safety crime, San Francisco, SFPD, sit lie, stephen, store, street, Supervisor, ted lowenberg, Teri Barrett, upper, yes on l
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Well, here’s a punchy three minutes from the “Yes on L, No on M“ people (aka the “sit-lie” people and the “Civil Sidewalks” people.)
Note the chickens mentioned at 0:24 – you can’t miss it, and oh, Jay Barman has the transcript. (Also note the confirmed NIMBYs, a far greater danger than poultry, throughout.)
Anyway, enjoy.
Tags:2010, 24th, ashbury, bay area, beauty, brownies hardware, california, Captain, carmen chu, chickens, chief, chief of administration, citizen's arrest, civil sidewalks, civility, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, council, department, dept., district 4, district merchants, erick arguello, foot patrols, freedom, ftc, George Gascón, giant robot, haight, haight ashbury improvement association, herb cohn, judy berkowitz, karen growney, kent uyehara, luke martinez, Manager, megan schnider, mercahnts, Michela Alioto Pier, mom, mother, neighborhoods, no, owner, paul henderson, poison pill, police, prop, Proposition, pure, pure beauty, resident, safety crime, San Francisco, SFPD, sit lie, stephen, store, street, Supervisor, ted lowenberg, Teri Barrett, upper, yes on l
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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.
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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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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
From San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Jose Herrera comes news of the Bayview Merchants Association‘s Third Street Corridor Project – how would you like to earn $6000 just for creating 6-10 iconic images illustrating the Lower Third?
Get all the deets below. And after you get paid, be sure to forward ten percent to me, your new agent. (Affirm our agreement by reading this sentence – welcome aboard.) But get cracking, as your first deadline is March 22nd, 2010.
You can’t win if you don’t play!
Introduction to the Project
The 3rd Street Corridor project is searching for local artists to create a series of 6-10 iconic images to represent the Bayview Hunters Point District of San Francisco. These images will be stylized illustrations of local landmarks that capture the spirit of this part of the city and will be used on a series of street banners and other collateral such as T-shirts. An example of a similar campaign is artist Michael Schwab’s series of prints for the Golden Gate National Parks.
Final selections for scenery will be communicated to the artist at the time of the commission. These scenes may include:
- Bayview Opera House
- T-Line
- Quesada Gardens
- View of Downtown from 3rd
- Shipyards
- Candlestick Park
- Local Art and Murals
- MLK Municipal Pool
- Bayview Library
- Industrial Buildings
Candidate Selection
The ideal candidate for this commission will be a local artist who lives and/or works in the Bayview Hunters Point District of San Francisco and can bring his or her personal style into the project and offer an authentic view of these neighborhoods. The artist must also be able to work within the established color palette of the 3rd Street logo (red, yellow, green and black- see samples for reference). To be considered for this project please submit three (3) JPEG images of your past work that best communicates your style. If you are selected as a finalist you may be commissioned to create one sample illustration before the final contract for the rest of the series.
Compensation
The selected artist will receive a $6,000 stipend for the final series of images. Artwork and reproduction rights will become property of the Third Street Corridor Project. In the event that finalists are asked to create a sample illustration as part of the selection process then they will be compensated $500 for their time.
Application Deadline
To be considered for this project, please email three JPEG samples of your work, a brief description of your background and a written statement of why you think you would be an ideal candidate for this project to bayviewmerchantsassociation@gmail.com no later than
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 12:00pm.
Project Schedule
March 22: Artists application deadline.
March 24: Artist finalists selected.
Mid April: Final selection of artist. Work on final illustrations begins.
May 24: Final illustrations complete.
June 11: Public unveiling of art on 3rd Street.
Questions/Details?
Call Ben Kaufman, Outreach Coordinator of the Bayview Merchants’ Association, at 415-647-3728 x407 if you have any further questions.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Western Addition, contrary to what Wikipedia would have you believe, used to encompass all of San Francisco west of Larkin Street. You’ll find the term “WESTERN ADDITION” in the property records of all sorts of high rent San Francisco real estate. But smaller enclaves have been carved out over the years, most recently with the North of Panhandle Area. This process is now complete, so the shrinking Western A has shrunk again.
And here’s the proof. First note the Underwood typewriter and then take it from there. These hipsters are moving out, but they’ll be replaced.
As seen on the eastern side of Divisidero:
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Hang in there, Western Addition. Those real estate agents will stop subdividing you, eventually.
Tags:5 five, agents, area, brolers, district, garage, golden gate park, hipster, larkin, neighborhoods, NOPA, north of pandhandle, north of panhandle, pacific heights, panhandle, real estate, sale, San Francisco, typewriter, underwood, western addition
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