By Calvin Welch, HANC Board
This November will be fifth anniversary of the passage of the deeply controversial--at least in this neighborhood--Sit/Lie law by the voters of San Francisco, which made it a jailable offense to sit or lie on a public sidewalk . One month later the Recreation and Parks Commission voted to end some 30 years of operation of the HANC recycling center at Kezar Stadium. Both actions were sold by both the Gavin Newsom administration (chiefly. Rec and Parks General Manager Ginsburg and Chief of staff Steve Kawa) and the Chronicle (chiefly through the ranting of columnist CW Nevius) as effective measures to reduce homelessness in the Haight-Ashbury. It didn’t quite turn out that way, however. Not even close.