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By Calvin Welch, HANC Board

Going into the June primary, election media coverage almost exclusively focused on the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The stories written immediately after the election reported a massive vote in favor of the recall. But those reports were, in fact , factually wrong as they were based on Election Day reports, which were less than half the votes actually cast. In fact these early reports were based on returns from the more conservative portions of the City that supported the recall. For example the deeply conservative voting District 2 (Marina, Pacific Heights) had fully half of its total vote reported in these early returns while our district ( District 5) had but 43% of its total vote reported at the end of Election Day. It took another fifteen days during which another 120,000 votes were counted. Unreported by the media was that in these late counted votes the DA recall actually narrowly LOST 59,217 to 57,686.

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Board

Alerting you to legislation pending in California that would take the wrong lesson from the pandemic and weaken open-government laws under the guise of increasing remote access to meetings.

We here in San Francisco have the strongest open government law in the state, the Sunshine Ordinance, but there's a basic tenet for all governments:

SEC. 67.1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

The Board of Supervisors and the People of the City and County of San Francisco find and declare:

(a) Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public.

This has precedent to mean in-person. The two bills that seek to weaken all public meetings in California are:

AB 1944: A Bill Fundamentally Changing the Brown Act

AB 1773: A Bill Overhauling the Bagley-Keene Act

Both bills seek to overhaul public meetings in California, making it inaccessible to attend in-person.

Please go to the First Amembent Coalition website for more information and updates.

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2022/05/fac-opposes-legislation-that-would-weaken-public-oversight-of-government-officials-in-california/

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By Jaime Michaels, HANC Board

In Spring 2020, after the COVID-19 lockdown had taken effect, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) implemented the Slow Street program in various neighborhoods to create more space where people could recreate at safe social distances and also away from car traffic. Page Street between its intersections with Stanyan and Octavia was included in the pilot program. To date, traffic management features on Page St. have been temporary and largely informal, but SFMTA is now proposing several more formal measures, as described below:

Vehicle Turn Restrictions at Page St. Intersections With Stanyan and Masonic. (1) At the intersection of Page and Stanyan, northbound and southbound vehicles on Stanyan would be prohibited from turning onto Page and, thus, from traveling eastbound between Stanyan and Shrader. Westbound vehicles on Page between Stanyan and Shrader, and turns from Page to Stanyan would be allowed; and (2) at the intersection of Masonic, northbound vehicles would be prohibited from turning right and left onto Page and southbound vehicles would be prohibited from turning left onto Page. According to SFMTA, the proposed measures are intended to affect eastbound traffic on Page, and would not apply to emergency vehicles or alternative modes of transit (e.g., bikes, wheelchairs, skateboards, and pedestrians).

Page Street Turn Restrictions

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By David Woo, HANC Vice President

Residents, neighbors, and community workers had another successful event at the 730 Stanyan site drawing well over 200 people, and again showed what can be done for interim use when the community controls the vacant lot. On May 21st, for the second time this year, groups including the Coalition for a Complete Community at 730 Stanyan (CCC), senior working group, HANC, Cole Valley Haight Allies, Acrosports, Booksmith, Amoeba, and Institute on Aging organized a one-day event at the empty lot at 730 Stanyan that will become the site of 100% affordable housing with construction set to begin in 2023. 730 Stanyan May Pic 1

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By David Woo, HANC Vice President

HANC welcomes our new neighbors in the Tenderloin to District 5. We hope to build together around issues that face our communities and struggles for affordable housing, tenants’ rights, and supporting our houseless neighbors.

The San Francisco redistricting process was a joke. The Redistricting Task Force created a predetermined map, aimed specifically at attacking tenants, low-income and working-class residents, communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and established neighborhoods. The Chair of the Task Force even admitted to multiple people that he was under immense pressure from the Mayor, who had appointed him to the Task Force, to make specific changes. The impact of outside influences on certain Task Force members, in an attempt to shift the political landscape of the current districts, became abundantly clear as the months wore on in the redistricting process.

Central to the shifting boundaries in the redistricting process was District 6 and the Tenderloin. Tenderloin and South of Market residents gave testimony, submitted evidence, and spoke again and again about the deep connection and community that spans the two neighborhoods. The refusal of these two neighborhoods to be split from each other, and remain together in District 6, was a consistent demand articulated by the Black, Filipino, LGBTQ+, and Arab communities who live in these two neighborhoods.

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