HANC's November meeting will focus on proposed changes that will affect Haight Street and the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood.
Food trucks have appeared in the neighborhood, and applications for more food trucks are pending. Should they be allowed here? If so, what limits should there be regarding location, hours, noise and fumes? Why are there more applications in the Haight-Ashbury than in any other neighborhood?
Supervisor Mirkarimi has proposed extensive amendments to the Neighborhood Commercial Rezoning. These amendments will directly affect Haight Street, but very few in the neighborhood know what these amendments are about or what effec these proposed changes could have on them.
Come to our general meeting, Thursday night, November 10, beginning 7 p.m., downstairs at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street, for information about your neighborhood that you won't find anywhere else.
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November HANC Meeting -- Food Trucks and Zoning Changes
Community Garden, Nursery, & Reuse Center at Golden Gate Park : Gardener Sign-Up
HANC is supporting the Recreation and Parks Department (RPD) in their desire to develop a community garden at the site of the recycling center at 780 Frederick. RPD has issued a termination notice for the current HANC lease which would remove the recycling center valued by thousands of nearby neighbors with the expressed intent to develop a community garden. RPD is proposing to spend $250,000 to implement just the first phase of a community garden (a few beds, etc.).
HANC has responded to a request from RPD to be involved with the community garden by offering to build out the garden at little or no cost to RPD (saving over a hundred thousand $ of RPD capital budget that could then be used elsewhere to make new gardens or other capital investments) while transitioning the recycling/redemption features off the site at 780 Frederick over a reasonable timeframe so as not to remove the neighborhood benefits of a recycling center.
RPD has expressed concern with this plan because they have stated that they do not believe that ANY gardeners would be willing to manage plots in a space where people donate recycled goods or redeem recyclables (even in the interim). HANC is wondering if that assumption is valid. If you (or your family or friends) would be interested in helping install or maintain a plot at the 780 Frederick site (Upper Haight/Cole Valley/Inner Sunset) please fill out the short form here:
http://bit.ly/HANCgarden
Please also forward this link to folks you think might be interested in signing up.
HAMA and TBOP at HANC
At HANC's October membership meeting, Christin Evans, Treasurer of the new Haight Ashbury Merchant's Association (HAMA) will discuss what their organization is about and present some of their proposals for Haight Street. We will have a chance to discuss the proposals, and, if we support their ideas, HAMA will take the next steps toward implementing them.
Also, Take Back Our Parks (TBOP) will discuss a questionnaire their group sent to the Mayoral candidates about the current practices of the Recreation and Parks Department, and how the candidates responded. Find out which candidates oppose further privatization of our parks, which candidates support making Golden Gate Park a Historic District, and how the candidates stand on other park-related issues.
Join us on Thursday, October 13, 7:00 -9:00 pm, at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street (downstairs)
HANC Addresses Neighborhood Issues
HANC's July meeting focused on neighborhood issues. We invite you to get involved. Here are some issues and the people to contact:
1. Traffic on Stanyan, especially at Frederick, and how to make it safer for pedestrians. Contacts are Rupert Clayton and Jim Rhoads.
2. Whole Foods's violation of its Conditional Use Permit, noise impacts on Page Street neighbors, and impacts on Stanyan Street traffic. Contact is Susan Latham.
3. Good PR for the Haight-Ashbury. We want to increase positive stories about the neighborhood in the media and decrease the slamming. Contact is Jim Siegel.
4. Setting up a physical attraction commemmorating the Haight-Ashbury in the 1960's. Contact is Pam Brennan.
If you want to be involved with any of these issues please send an email message to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will forward your contact information to the appropriate contact person or persons. We also welcome any ideas or comments you may have about neighborhood issues.
We expect to hear back at our September meeting (September 15) about actions and further ideas for the above issues.