Membership Meetings: 2nd Thursdays ~ 7-9pm
Park Branch Library, 1833 Page St, SF, CA 94117 (except August)

By Carlie Leduc, HANC Board Member

     Calvin Welch started our meeting by presenting “How the Haight Ashbury Voted”.  He has been tracking voting patterns for the past 40 years and while the socio-economics of our neighborhood have changed, the voting has stayed the same.  While San Francisco is the progressive bubble inside of California, the Haight is the progressive bubble inside of San Francisco.  In addition to being some of the more progressive voters, we are also constituents who turn out to vote.  As a comparison, District 8 had a Supervisor’s race and 53% turn out.  The Haight had 58% turn out and District 5 as a whole had 55% turn out.

     Calvin separated the Haight into three groups, North Panhandle, the Flats, and the Hills. In his presentation slides (which can be downloaded from https://www.hanc-sf.org/the-voice-and-docs/general-reference/Haight-Ashbury---D5-Vote-Analysis-June-2018-Primary/), you can view the borders of each region.  Now let’s dive in to how we voted.

     For mayor, in the Hills, Breed and Leno were more popular and Kim less so.  Breed received 38% of the Haight’s and 39% of District 5’s and city wide 37% of the vote.   This showed that her being District Supervisor did not significantly increase the likelihood that someone would vote for her.

By Bruce Wolfe, HANC President

Coming up on the November ballot is Prop B - The Privacy First Act - proposed by the Board of Supervisors as authored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, which sets in motion principles and guidelines for protecting the public from unscrupulous collection and monitoring of our personal information, behavior and data by city contractors beyond the basic scope pertaining to the direct work contained in their contracts. This is very important to our security as a people considering how unleashed the technology sector is and widespread in our city the experimentation and marketing tests imposed on us on a daily basis, if not, continually in real-time.

By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board

    At our September meeting, we will have speakers for and against Proposition 10.  Lorraine Petty of SDA (Senior and Disability Action) will speak in favor of the measure, while Todd David of HAC (Housing Action Coalition) will speak against the measure.

     California Proposition 10 on the November ballot seeks to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.  Legally, this measure would repeal sections 1954.50 through 1954.53 of the California Civil Code and add a new section 1954.54.  The Voter’s Guide summarizes these changes as follows:

By Christin Evans, HANC Board Member

     DPW staff have been spotted on Haight street these past few weeks, taking measurements, and collecting merchant emails, getting ready to start construction work right after Labor Day.  It appears that after years of planning and a delay due to lack of contractor bids, the Haight street construction project is finally set to start this month.

     The two year project will adhere to the city’s dig once policy and has multiple aims.  Ultimately, the “Upper Haight Transit Improvement and Pedestrian Realm Project” involves tearing up all concrete between the buildings.  Both the roadway and sidewalks are scheduled to be replaced. 

By Tes Welborn, HANC Board Member

The Interim Proposal for 730 Stanyan was presented for the Coalition for a Complete Community by Rupert Clayton, Maggie Lohmeyer, and Calvin Welch. It ties interim uses to proposed permanent uses in the coming new housing, such as a community meeting and event space and offices for youth services. The proposal calls for keeping neighborhood character of housing over commercial, such as neighborhood-serving business, hopefully some employing youth housed here, and non-profit offices. The proposal also calls for no on-site parking since 5 MUNI lines serve the site. Along with permanent housing at this site for seniors, families, and youth, particularly those aging out of foster care, this mixture of people and services will manifest our community.

By Christin Evans, HANC Board Member

It was one of the most competitive mayoral races San Francisco has seen in years.   And after a lengthy week that dripped out updated voting results, the city learned that it had elected District 5 Supervisor London Breed to occupy room 200 – the Mayor’s office suite at City Hall.

By Rupert Clayton, HANC Housing and Land-Use Chair

Several local projects and initiatives have progressed in recent weeks.

First, the Department of Public Works has postponed the start of sewer replacement work along upper Haight Street from July to early September 2018. Many merchants had been concerned that this work would massively disrupt their businesses during their peak summer season. DPW said that, “after hearing from HAMA and HANC members, residents, and discussing with District Supervisor London Breed, we have decided to postpone our start date until after Labor Day 2018.”

1355 Fulton

In planning news, the architect (SIA Consulting) and owners for a proposed development that would replace the F. Lofrano auto body business at 1355 Fulton St (between Divisadero and Broderick) held a public pre-application meeting on Thursday June 14. They plan to build a 71,000-sq-ft, 9-story building behind the façade of the existing garage. There would be 2,100 sq ft of commercial space on the 1st and 2nd floors and 75 residential units above, divided among 22 studios, 45 two-bedrooms and 8 three-bedrooms.

By Bruce Wolfe, HANC President

Last month, Senator Scott Wiener and Senate Pro Tem Kevin de Leon tried to combine their respective California bills to save Net Neutrality, SB 822 and SB 460.. Wiener had a fight on his hands. His bill was introduced and moved through the Capitol sausage making machine, making it through the Senate but running into heavily-industry-financed legislators in the Assembly, who opposed the strong intent of the bill.

HANC has been working on Municipal Fiber for over a decade including measures to save Net Neutrality. Our colleagues and allies, including a retired CPUC attorney who had worked in this very area, all say Wiener's bill didn't go far or deep enough.

Makena Kelly, a reporter with The Verge, puts it quite right, "Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, chair of the Communications and Conveyance Committee, proposed his own amendments to the bill at the beginning of the meeting, morphing it into what Sen. Wiener called it a ‘fake net neutrality bill.’ AT&T is one of Assemblyman Santiago’s top donors, according to advocacy group Fight for the Future."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484836/california-net-neutrality-bill-amendment-democrat-senator

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