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by Jaime Michaels, HANC Board

In April 2020, a month into the City’s mandatory shutdown due to COVID-19, select corridors in Golden Gate Park were closed to private vehicles while remaining open to recreational use and limited commercial traffic. The closures were intended as a temporary measure to meet the growing demand of residents seeking relief from their quarantined-like existence indoors in a manner that also allowed adequate social distance.

Included in the closures was a 1.5-mile-long section of John F. Kennedy Dr. (from Kezar Dr. to Transverse Dr.) previously closed to vehicles on weekends and holidays only. Since taking effect, the full-time closure of this section of JFK has garnered supporters (e.g., recreational visitors) and detractors (e.g., museum goers and operators) whose positions have been rooted in seemingly conflicting needs for vehicle and mobility access, street parking, and facility operations and management. People with disabilities also have spoken up about access.

Stakeholder Working Group and Action Framework

In an attempt to achieve consensus over opposing views, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority convened a group of stakeholders (“The Golden Gate Park Stakeholder Working Group and Action Framework”) who worked to develop a set of initial findings to be used in the formal planning process for JFK Dr. under the direction of the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA) and Recreation and Park Department (RPD).

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Supervisor Dean Preston has declared District 5 and Eviction-Free Zone, and has provided these important messages for renters:

Know your Rights!

• If you are asked to move, don’t do it. You have protections to stay in your home.
• If you are behind in rent, don’t wait – apply for rental assistance at com. Your landlord cannot evict you if you have a pending application for rent relief.
• If you get an eviction notice, you can get a free attorney to help keep you in your home. Contact the Eviction Defense Collaborative 415-659-9184 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Stay in your home!

If you have questions about your housing, tenant counselors and legal assistance groups are available to help:

Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco

415-703-8644 (English, Spanish, Chinese)

415-947-9085 (Russian)

Open Door Legal

415-735-4124

Visit in person at 1113 Fillmore Street

For more, visit sfadc.org/help

For more information visit sfadc.org/rent

Contact Supervisor Dean Preston:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Nov 11 2021

To: Everyone at the HANC meeting on Nov. 11'21 including Dean Preston

From: Louise Dunlap, Senior Working Group

I was cut off the meeting right after Calvin made his comments about the hold up on 730 Stanyan.  I couldn't get back on the phone site.

So, here are the comments I have about the hold ups:

1) The Senior Working Group needs access during the interim use period in order to help seniors sign up for any units when the building opens;

2)This access would be a  necessary part of  MARKETING units to seniors. A point Calvin brought up in his comments just before I lost my phone connection.  Thank you, Calvin!

3)Someone ask Dean Preston if the building construction could start earlier since no interim use is scheduled. 

The problem is the Developers need to set up providers for the ground floor uses (such as the Senior Center) before construction.  However, as Bo Han informed me, no organization applied to run the senior center for various, logical reasons.  So the  Developers are going to restart the application process [for on-site  senior services] next March.  I dont know if the same problem arose with either child care and or the cafe.  If so,it would have been for the same reasons as happened with the Senior Center.

I any  case, the selection delay prevents starting construction earlier than the exisitng time frame.

If you have any questions for me feel free to call:

            Louise Dunlap

            Senior Working Group

            415 346-3195

By Bruce Wolfe and David Woo, HANC Board

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council has joined the Race and Equity in all Planning (REP) Coalition, a citywide coalition of neighborhood and community-based organizations that are working to ensure that land-use and city planning is directed by racial and social equity as defined by the working class, people of color, and marginalized and impacted communities. Made up of over 30 organizations spanning the city, including the South of Market, Chinatown, Bayview, Mission, and Richmond, among others, REP is challenging the top-down market-driven focus of land use and planning that has guided and ushered in successive waves of gentrification and displacement in San Francisco.

REP’s vision statement reads “The Race and Equity in all Planning (REP) Coalition's purpose is to create an entirely new race and equity framework for self-determination of marginalized communities. We are working together collectively and with the City to dismantle the prevailing racist and oppressive systems of planning, land use, cultural and economic development that have resulted in redlining, gentrification, displacement, and extreme inequality, and replace them with new systems that support, nurture, and prioritize the dignity, health, stability, and aspirations of American Indian people, people of color, people with low incomes and immigrants.”

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