By Rupert Clayton, HANC Land Use Chair

HANC's monthly (except August) general membership meeting is usually held downstairs at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street (between Cole and Shrader) on the second Thursday of the month, beginning at 7 pm.  Our meetinngs are open to the public and free to attend.

As the oldest official park in San Francisco, Buena Vista Park has seen a lot of use and in many ways is showing its age. While the City has used bond money to build new facilities and renovate old ones across many parks over the past decade, work on Buena Vista Park has been limited to maintenance and the occasional emergency project to address dangerous trees or badly broken infrastructure.

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By Shira Noel, HANC Board Member

The Homeless Youth Alliance will be providing a Naloxone training at the July HANC meeting and will also have Naloxone on hand. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and is used to counter the effects of an opioid overdose.

It is non-addictive and only works if a person has opiods in their system; the medication has no effect if opioids are absent. 

If you want to be trained on how to safely administer naloxone but are not able to attend the community meeting please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The July 23 meeting of the Coalition for a Complete Community, as announced on this website and in the July Voice, has been postponed.  We will let you know when the meeting has been rescheduled.

Two very different pre-application meetings have been announced for the week of July 8. 

First, on Wednesday, July 10, at 7:00 pm, there will be a pre-application meeting at 1560 Haight Street (formerly Diamond Supply Co.) for a formula retail business.  The business is a clothing store named 2^nd Street USA.  It sells primarily second-hand clothes from Japan, and has three locations in Los Angeles.  It is considered formula retail as it is the largest second-hand retailer in Japan, and its parent company owns over 1,800 stores in Japan.  

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By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board Member

You may have noticed that some trees have been removed from Haight Street, and other trees are surrounded by wood and plastic.  We contacted the Department of Public Works with our questions, and here’s what we were told:

38 trees are scheduled to be removed from Haight Street, and 44 trees will be planted as part of the “Haight Street Transit Improvement & Public Realm Project.” 

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Congratulations to the remaining tenants at 520 Shrader!  The tenants were threatened with an Ellis Act eviction.  Instead, the nonprofit San Francisco Housing Development Corporation purchased the site, with help from  the Mission Economic Development Agency.  Here’s a picture of tenant Jude Stalker at a press conference celebrating the purchase.

By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member

HANC's monthly (except August) general membership meeting is usually held downstairs at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street (between Cole and Shrader) on the second Thursday of the month, beginning at 7 pm.  Our meetinngs are open to the public and free to attend.

Senator Scott Wiener’s wildly controversial SB 50 is currently in political limbo but the assumption is that it is not dead. Indeed, SB50 is only one of several "market-based solutions" now being considered by the California State Legislature (dominated by the Democratic Party) and strongly supported by Mayor Breed, Governor Newsom and the entire Sacramento delegation of San Francisco elected officials: all Democrats.

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Vice-President

At HANC's May membership meeting we heard from Bruce Lee Livingston of Alcohol Justice and Kevin Ortiz of Jamestown Community Center about the effects Supervisor Vallie Brown's legislative proposal on streamlining the sale and availability of alcohol will have on people and the neighborhood. As community health advocates and harm reduction specialists they drew down on the other end of the spectrum.

What started as a necessary approach to use a vacancy tax to fill long-standing empty storefronts, this streamlining bill instead seeks to highlight alcohol sales as the panacea for economic development. Like bus shelter ads, of all the technology, online services, airlines and a plethora of other marketing brands there is plenty of other businesses for landlords to choose from to support and benefit the Haight St merchant corridor and neighborhood.

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