Category: Open Spaces

Mayor’s Budget Forum & “No Funding” for Rincon Hill Park

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Rincon residents have an opportunity to talk to both our Mayor Ed Lee and our District Supervisor Jane Kim this Monday at the Mayor’s Budget Town Hall at the Main Library’s Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin, next to Civic Center BART/Muni Metro station) starting at 6pm. Reference: http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=285&page=846 One issue that I am hopeful SEVERAL will… Keep reading

Waterfront Playground Under Construction!

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I’m so thrilled to see the efforts of neighbors coming to fruition with the start of construction over at Sue Bierman Park (Washington Street and The Embarcadero) of the community-driven Waterfront Playground!!  I understand it should be built and ready for kids seeking hours of joy by early July! Congratulations to all the neighbors and… Keep reading

Learn the attributes of a successful open space

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The Warriors Arena proposal contains a very large plaza and open space. It would be a shame if the plazas do not invite use by our community.  To help us learn a little bit about what makes open spaces more attractive, I want to share the following video… William H. Whyte: The Social Life of… Keep reading

No on Proposition B – Reform is Needed at San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department

Editorial by Jamie Whitaker I’ve made a video to share my SoMa point of view … I’ll be adding to this editorial over the next week or so … there’s so many reasons to vote NO on Proposition B and insist on a more equitable set of beneficiary projects which account for SoMa’s dearth of… Keep reading

Mission Rock Community Design Workshop Saturday, October 27th

While the Mission Rock development at Giants Parking Lot A (SWL 337) is a little bit outside of the Rincon Hill neighborhood (it is south of the ballpark on 3rd Street), it will still play an important role in providing much-needed public open space for the 20,000 residents projected for our neighborhood and the tens… Keep reading

Oscar Park Design Meeting on Thursday, October 11th!

The Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency is holding a Transbay CAC meeting on Thursday, October 11th at 5:30 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street at 3rd Street, Second Floor Conference Room) where the third Oscar Park community meeting will show us the concept design.  If you… Keep reading

Oscar Park design presentation and comment card

The Oscar Park presentation from the Transbay Redevelopment CAC meeting on Thursday, July 12th is now available online in PDF format along with the survey/comment card. Please send comments to Courtney.Pash@sfgov.org The presentation deck: http://www.sfredevelopment.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3910 The survey/comment card: http://www.sfredevelopment.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3911 You can find the links to these and other Transbay Redevelopment documents at http://www.sfredevelopment.org/index.aspx?page=54 Keep reading

Closing off middle of Clementina to cars – a bold, needed change

One of the ideas presented for Oscar Park is to keep the park’s walking area between Folsom Street and Tehama Street uninterrupted by cars on Clementina Street by closing off that small section of Clementina Street to vehicles and implementing 2-way lanes on Clementina which would require removing some (all?) street parking between 1st and… Keep reading

Oscar Park Planning Meeting on Thursday, July 12th

From Courtney Pash: The City of San Francisco along with the Transbay Citizens Advisory Committee and CMG Landscape Architecture have teamed up to improve select streetscapes and open spaces within the Transbay area. Come help us program Oscar Park, the Transbay Neighborhood’s newest community space. Conceptual designs for Oscar Park and Essex Street will be… Keep reading

2012 Parks Bond Meeting – Our Chance to Get a Playground or Two

Please attend the 2012 Parks Bond District 6 meeting on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 6 p.m. at the Gene Friend Recreation Center on 6th Street at Folsom to voice your opinion on the lack of any apparent playground projects in South of Market.   Inequality for SoMa Kids Unaddressed in Proposed 2012 Parks Bond… Keep reading

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