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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 Bruce Wolfe, HANC Vice-President

Have you seen these antenna systems going up around your neighborhood? What is it? Who put it up? Who does it serve? These are cellular phone hotspots. But are they, really? While there are many community issues and objections with this technology, in this article we’re going to focus on the types and how they appear publicly, and the actual technology will come in a later one.

As you can see in the image there are two different kinds. The one on the right you probably have seen while riding along a highway high up on a tower or on a building. These are high-powered to cover longer distances thus all that equipment is needed. The one on the left is truly a hotspot, lower power and output, which means there need to be more of them to cover more area; and they are used this way because of cost and myriad obstructions to the radio waves.

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By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board Member

As reported in the March Voice, the Coalition for a Complete Community timely submitted its proposal for the interim use of 730 Stanyan (the former McDonald’s site) to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) on February 28. As the RFP requested, the proposal provided for a combination of youth services, senior services, and community services for a five-year period. One other proposal was submitted, to use the site for street soccer and food trucks. MOHCD said it would announce its selection in April but did not do so.

We have learned that neither proposal was selected. We have heard that MOHCD is hoping to use funds from a bond measure anticipated for the November ballot to reduce the interim use period from five years to one to two years, even though they have an extensive list of projects awaiting funding. We have heard that the short-term plan is to use the site for parking through Labor Day (this use began this month, June 2019).

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By Christin Evans, HANC Board Member

As Phase 1 of the multi-year construction project along Haight street wraps up, local merchants are bracing for the more extensive impacts anticipated with Phase 2 and expressing their frustration with the City on its slow response to their concerns.

Phase 1 work was primarily located in the roadway with much needed sewer main and lateral replacements and repair.  But the SFMTA-funded project expected to kick off Phase 2 on June 3 will move the work onto the sidewalks with work planned to install conduit for new traffic lights, street lights and community wifi.  All the concrete between the buildings will eventually be replaced with new planter boxes and the removal of one third of the trees along the corridor.

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