San Francisco High School of the Arts, (formerly Xian Yun Academy), located at the former Boys’ and Girls’ Club site at 1950 Page Street, has been planning an expansion since 2014. The Planning Department shows the project, 2014.0734 opened in May, 2014, with this description:
Previously occupied by the Boys & Girls Club community facility, the project would legalize and intensify an existing school use (Institute for Arts and Culture) and construct a vertical addition with group housing to an existing building, among other building changes . The project would add a 12-foot vertical addition to the existing building, increasing the height to approximately 40 feet; and increase the size of the existing building by 23,540 square feet, increasing the total building size to 54,666 square feet. The project would add seven units of group housing. The proposed maximum daily occupancy would be approximately 250 students and 46 faculty/staff during the weekday period between 2:30 and 5:00 pm. The project also includes a transportation management plan. The project would add seven off-street vehicular parking spaces, and 114 Class-1 and 33 Class-2 bicycle parking spaces. The project would expand an existing 65-foot passenger loading zone (white color curb) to 162 feet.
HANC held a meeting about the site in January, 2019 (https://www.hanc-sf.org/24-home/450-questions-about-xian-yun-s-expansion-plans). It appears that the Planning Department is recommending that the project be declared exempt from CEQA. All we have been able to determine at this time is that the Planning Commission will hold a future public hearing regarding the project. We will provide details when we are notified about the hearing.
Foodrunners is a non-profit with a mission of feeding those in need with food that would otherwise be wasted. It does this by picking up excess food from businesses and delivering it to agencies that feed the hungry in San Francisco.The Waller Center (the former Hamilton Church) at Waller and Belvedere, which had been an urban retreat and community center, found itself empty as groups canceled their reservations for February, March, and later. Foodrunners expressed an interest in using the Waller Center kitchen, and now Chef Todd Corboy, and a team of volunteers, many who had lost their food service jobs, now deliver approximately 2,000 meals per day, six days a week (the Haight-Ashbury Food Pantry uses the space on Saturdays) from that location.
You can volunteer to help here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-runners-meal-program-new-schedule-for-volunteer-shifts-tickets-104843313172. Duties include serving as shift lead, assembling wraps/sandwiches/salads, chopping and prepping ingredients, organizing donated goods, packing meals, and assisting with cleanup and dishwashing. The Foodrunners website (http://www.foodrunners.org/ ) also gives an option for delivering food, donating money and donating food.
