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By Christin Evans, HANC Board Member

     DPW staff have been spotted on Haight street these past few weeks, taking measurements, and collecting merchant emails, getting ready to start construction work right after Labor Day.  It appears that after years of planning and a delay due to lack of contractor bids, the Haight street construction project is finally set to start this month.

     The two year project will adhere to the city’s dig once policy and has multiple aims.  Ultimately, the “Upper Haight Transit Improvement and Pedestrian Realm Project” involves tearing up all concrete between the buildings.  Both the roadway and sidewalks are scheduled to be replaced. 

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC President

Coming up on the November ballot is Prop B - The Privacy First Act - proposed by the Board of Supervisors as authored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, which sets in motion principles and guidelines for protecting the public from unscrupulous collection and monitoring of our personal information, behavior and data by city contractors beyond the basic scope pertaining to the direct work contained in their contracts. This is very important to our security as a people considering how unleashed the technology sector is and widespread in our city the experimentation and marketing tests imposed on us on a daily basis, if not, continually in real-time.

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By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board

    At our September meeting, we will have speakers for and against Proposition 10.  Lorraine Petty of SDA (Senior and Disability Action) will speak in favor of the measure, while Todd David of HAC (Housing Action Coalition) will speak against the measure.

     California Proposition 10 on the November ballot seeks to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.  Legally, this measure would repeal sections 1954.50 through 1954.53 of the California Civil Code and add a new section 1954.54.  The Voter’s Guide summarizes these changes as follows:

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By Carlie Leduc, HANC Board Member

     Calvin Welch started our meeting by presenting “How the Haight Ashbury Voted”.  He has been tracking voting patterns for the past 40 years and while the socio-economics of our neighborhood have changed, the voting has stayed the same.  While San Francisco is the progressive bubble inside of California, the Haight is the progressive bubble inside of San Francisco.  In addition to being some of the more progressive voters, we are also constituents who turn out to vote.  As a comparison, District 8 had a Supervisor’s race and 53% turn out.  The Haight had 58% turn out and District 5 as a whole had 55% turn out.

     Calvin separated the Haight into three groups, North Panhandle, the Flats, and the Hills. In his presentation slides (which can be downloaded from https://www.hanc-sf.org/the-voice-and-docs/general-reference/Haight-Ashbury---D5-Vote-Analysis-June-2018-Primary/), you can view the borders of each region.  Now let’s dive in to how we voted.

     For mayor, in the Hills, Breed and Leno were more popular and Kim less so.  Breed received 38% of the Haight’s and 39% of District 5’s and city wide 37% of the vote.   This showed that her being District Supervisor did not significantly increase the likelihood that someone would vote for her.

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