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At our February general meeting, we discussed the Homeless Bill of Rights. We received two emails about the topic. We believe they deserve a response. The emails and our response are below:

A CONCERNED CITIZEN

Hello, I am writing in response to the statement posted on your homepage about AB 5. I have lived [in the Haight-Ashbury] for [some] years and I am extremely concerned about the state of our neighborhood. I support efforts to help homeless people gain access to clean water, bathroom facilities, employment opportunities and rehab facilities. However, I feel that the homeless situation in the Haight is unique and different than homelessness in other parts of the city and that it is not appropriate for us to encourage it.

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Members of the HANC Board made two presentations regarding the actions of the Recreation and Parks Department's (RPD) incredibly rapid demolition and re-configuring of the former HANC Recycling center site at 780 Frederick, pointing out the failure of RPD to meet a previously announced community planning process and its violation of the March, 2011 Resolution of the Board of Supervisors.

On January 24th, at the RPD Commission meeting, HANC’s Vice President submitted a letter and gave testimony calling upon the Commission to direct its staff to involve neighborhood residents in the planning and development of the new “community garden” at the old recycling center site. He also reminded the Commission of the failure of RPD staff to address the March 8, 2011 Resolution of the Board of Supervisors dealing with recycling in Golden Gate Park (see full text at this link or scroll down). 

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Sutter-CPMC has been negotiating with the Mayor's Office, Supervisors Chiu, Campos, and Ferrell, and a mediator, and it seems now that a smaller Cathedral Hill Hospital and a larger St. Luke's are being planned. Sutter has rejected permitting nurses to have transfer rights to the new facilities. We expect the revised proposal to come to the Board of Supervisors sometime in January or February and need to stay vigilant.

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January 24, 2013 

Re: 780 Frederick Street         

Dear Commissioners:                          

       The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) has a number of concerns regarding the site of its former Recycling Center / Native Plant Nursery / Community Garden at 780 Frederick Street. Although we will try to address these concerns during public comment at the January 24 Commission meeting, the concerns may be too numerous to be fully addressed at the hearing, so we are supplementing our comment with this letter.

          1) As far as we know, the last time the site was discussed at a Commission meeting was on December 2, 2010. At that time the action item was to approve a preliminary concept design for community garden plots at 780 Frederick Street. As nothing beyond a preliminary concept design has been approved, why has the Recreation and Parks Department (RPD) been working on the site since early this month? Why is work continuing without further discussion or approval of the scope of work or of any final design?

 

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UCSF is initiating a process to identify real estate opportunities for its Laurel Heights Campus, part of a strategy to reduce the University’s operating costs by consolidating campus work sites. UCSF seeks a developer to help create a compelling vision for the Laurel Heights site that will benefit the neighborhood, the City and County of San Francisco and UCSF.

  1. HANC 2012 Year in Review
  2. Our Loss is No One's Gain: Lies Used to Change Public Policy at the HANC Recycling Center
  3. How the Haight-Ashbury Voted in November
  4. Last Month at HANC - Novmeber, 2012

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