The Task Force, charged with keeping communities of interest whole and listening to the public, instead decided to ignore the avalanche of public testimony and ended up splitting the Tenderloin from the South of Market, moving the TL from District 6 to District 5. This move keeps the wealthy D6 neighborhoods of Rincon Hill, Mission Bay, and the newly created “East Cut” intact and shifts District 6 in a moderate/conservative direction. For District 5, changes to the D5 boundaries also included the removal of portions of North of the Panhandle, the entire Inner Sunset, Cole Valley, and UCSF - all opposed by the majority of D5 residents.
HANC and D5 residents spoke in solidarity with residents in the Tenderloin and SOMA to keep the two neighborhoods together. While the new map resulted in the split of the TL and SOMA, we continue to be in solidarity with the Tenderloin and residents of the TL.