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$600,000 Secured for Two Neighborhood Parks
HANC and Allies Win City Funding for Panhandle and Buena Vista Park
For the past few months, HANC helped organize a multi-neighborhood organizational push to get Rec and Park funding for long-neglected neighborhood parks. The effort was successful, getting $600,000 in funding over the next two years for rebuilding the pedestrian path along the southern boundary of the Panhandle ($500,000) and a tree maintenance program for Buena Vista Park ($100,000).
HANC, along with Friends of Buena Vista Park, North Panhandle Neighborhood Association and the Haight-Ashbury Merchants Association engaged in a joint effort to secure funding for the neighborhood’s two main parks. Supervisor London Breed's support for the effort was early and enthusiastic.
Francisco's most internationally celebrated neighborhoods - This year we are celebrating our 37th Haight-Ashbury Street Fair on Sunday, June 8th from 11am - 5:30pm.
The annual celebration of pot known as "420" Day held on April 20th came to the Haight Ashbury again this year. Both the City of SF and the Rec and Parks Department were much better prepared than in previous years to handle the tens of thousands of participants who flooded into the neighborhood for it. In fact, some might say there was a bit of overkill in the street closures that were in effect. 
in Golden Gate Park, Muni seems to have had added many more buses to move folks out of the neighborhood. There were at least 12 Muni staff people working all day long at Masonic and Haight and a sizable contingent working the N Judah stop at Parnassus and Cole as well. Coming to the event by Muni proved challenging. I rode an N Judah from Fourth and Townsend about 2 pm that day and by the time we reached Powell Street it was packed and no one could get on for the rest of the trip until it reached the Cole Street stop. The next run was scheduled 13 minutes later. I have been told the surface buses were no better.