Hello friends and supporters of the Glen Park Greenway. Our next work party will be on Saturday January 26! I hope that you’ll be able to join us. We’ll start at 9:00 - there’ll be coffee waiting for you Meet at the top of the Chilton … Read More about Greenway beautification event next Saturday
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City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
It's worth reading the legislation Mandelman and others are introducing in the Rules Committee under … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
Got a lemon tree? It’s quarantined now. Yellow Dragon Disease has arrived in San Francisco
An innocuous insect that carries a devastating disease which has destroyed citrus groves in Africa and South America has arrived in San Francisco. The Asian citrus psyllid has been found in the … Read More... about Got a lemon tree? It’s quarantined now. Yellow Dragon Disease has arrived in San Francisco
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
The BOS Land Use and Transportation Committee will meet Monday, January 14, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda The SFMTA Board of Directors will meet Tuesday, January 15, 1 p.m., in City … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
Glen Canyon gardener’s landscape show through Jan. 27
Christopher Campbell pulls weeds and paints willows. An early member of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Natural Resources Division, Campbell, 55, has been familiar with Glen Canyon for 20 … Read More... about Glen Canyon gardener’s landscape show through Jan. 27
Hazardous tree removed
The growling of a chainsaw and the grinding of a woodchipper reverberated through downtown Glen Park today. The Bureau of Urban Forestry of SF Public Works was removing the ficus tree in front of … Read More... about Hazardous tree removed
Early Morning BART Service Disrupted
Forwarded from BART Dear Community Partners, Starting on February 11, 2019, morning weekday BART trains will start one hour later for vital repairs and critical earthquake safety work. … Read More... about Early Morning BART Service Disrupted
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
What's hot this week? Land use! See Mandelman Legislation below. He is co-authoring legislation to penalize landlords of vacant storefronts as well as to dramatically change the rules and penalties … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
Kern Parking Lot Closed
[Edited most recently on January 7] Nearly 50 years of free parking in downtown Glen Park ended abruptly last week when the gravel-strewn lot on Kern Alley was vacated and taped off. Two years of … Read More... about Kern Parking Lot Closed
Healthy Parks Healthy People at Glen Canyon
(from SF Rec and Park Department) Join us and Healthy Parks, Healthy People (HPHP) as we kick off the new year in a brand new location at Glen Park on Saturday, January 12 from 10 a.m. to noon! Meet … Read More... about Healthy Parks Healthy People at Glen Canyon
Using artificial intelligence to map every tree in SF
(Note: Glen Parkers have a keen interest in the state of greening in Glen Park and the City. The following is a reprint from Curbed San Francisco) Machine learning might be able to tally … Read More... about Using artificial intelligence to map every tree in SF
Dear Glen Park, Happy New Year
It was a clear chilly night in Glen Park on New Year's eve. A number of people chose to ring in the new year close to home. Manzoni was open for dinner until midnight. Over at Bird and Beckett, … Read More... about Dear Glen Park, Happy New Year
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
City government is on vacation this week, but here's some good news: MUNI will be free from 8 p.m. on December 31 through 5 a.m. on January 1, and BART will run until 3 a.m. I'm looking forward … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
SF’s first city-run high ropes course slated for John McLaren Park
(Editor's note: Because this will be a unique recreational facility in the City, we are reprinting this story from Hoodline by Teresa Hammerl.) San Francisco is getting its first city-run ropes … Read More... about SF’s first city-run high ropes course slated for John McLaren Park
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation (Holiday Edition!)
The Board of Supervisors is on recess through January 4. Pretty much everyone else is taking the week off, too (as expected), except good old SFMTA: The SFMTA Engineering Hearing will happen … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation (Holiday Edition!)
(HI)STORIES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
This article was previously published in the Fall 2018 print edition of the Glen Park News. The year 2018 marks the 110th anniversary of the Glen Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. … Read More... about (HI)STORIES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
Of interest: Lime Scooter's appeal of its ban was heard today. I would have mentioned it had I read this article about how they treat their mechanics and other non-engineers. The Board of … Read More... about City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation