By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Vice-President
San Francisco’s District 1 Supervisor, Sandra Lee Fewer, started a movement with interest and the advent of the first community-owned residential property in her district that prevented evictions. SF Community Land Trust (SFCLT) purchased a multi-unit building on Fulton Street that would have displaced many renters who are seniors and persons with disabilities, and provided them with lifetime leases under their current rents, perpetuating the trend towards “forever homes” and aging-in-place; a much needed convention in our current world of living longer and healthier. Plus with an overbearing, inflated real estate market that seeks to empty buildings for unscrupulous developers and speculators this out-of-the-box solution will solidly help.
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As you know, there has been ongoing construction on Haight Street. The Department of Public Works calls this the “Upper Haight Transit Improvement and Pedestrian Realm Project.”
Phase I of the project consists of sewer replacement work. It began in September, 2018, and is expected to end in May. At the time the Voice was sent out for publication, work was expected to progress at the Cole and Haight intersection and along both the north and south sections of Cole Street, as well as in the western half of the block of Haight Street between Shrader and Stanyan. A small section of sewer lateral pipe near the corner of Haight and Clayton was also scheduled to be replaced.
Phase II of the project is expected to begin in mid-May and is anticipated to be completed by September, 2020. Phase II will include increased pedestrian lighting, tree planting, bulb-outs and curb ramps, bus bulbs, sidewalk replacement, street base repairs and repaving, some fiber conduit work and a decorative sidewalk at the Haight and Ashbury intersection.
You can find out more information about the project and sign up for email updates at http://www.sfpublicworks.org/upper-haight.