The SFMTA Board of Directors will meet Tuesday, September 4, 1 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. See agenda and supporting documents here. The Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday, September 4, 2 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. See agenda here. The Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee will meet Wednesday, September 5, […]
Archives for August 2018
DHB Median Clean-Up Sept. 8
Forwarded from Paul Matalucci: Hello friends and supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, You may have heard about Love our City! a City-wide clean up event focused on sweeping sidewalks and picking up trash (including median curbs and drains). To capitalize on their momentum and additional volunteers, we’re moving our next volunteer work day from this Saturday, […]
Urban Angels helps homeless people in our neighborhood
Hello Champions of Human Rights and Social Justice, Urban Angels SF offers events and projects in our neighborhood to help homeless people. There are many ways you can help! Please see the information below for the “Sort and Fold Pot Luck” of donated clothing on Aug. 30 at Nelson Barry’s law office in the Diamond Heights […]
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
The Board of Supervisors is out until September 4. Public Works will hold a tree removal hearing Monday, August 27, 5:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 416. See agenda here. To consider the removal one (1) significant tree without replacement adjacent to 42 Lippard St. The SFMTA Policy and Governance Committee meets Tuesday, August 28, 10 a.m., at 1 […]
Miguel St. Re-grade Mtg Sept. 11
The SFMTA and SF Public Works will host a community meeting regarding the re-grading of Miguel Street (at Chenery) on Tuesday, September 11, at 6:30 p.m., at the Glen Canyon Recreation Center in Room 2. The Glen Park Association Transportation Committee has been working with neighbors and the city to get information on this process, […]
Join the Greening of Glen Park
The Glen Park Greenway needs more volunteer waterers. Would you join us? The Greenway is an undeveloped public open space that many of us use as a green and pleasant way to walk between Glen Park village and Glen Canyon Park. Last December we planted about fifty trees along the Greenway and this month we […]
Citywide Cleanup Sept. 8
Forwarded from SF Public Works: We’re excited to let you know that Public Works is organizing LOVE YOUR CITY, a citywide cleanup for September 8 from 9am to 12pm. San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it takes teamwork to keep it looking good. On September 8, we’ll make a […]
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
Your faithful reporter cheated last week and didn’t post. I don’t think we missed anything GP-related, however. The Board of Supervisors is out until September 4, so nothing missed there. This week we’re the Party Neighborhood! The SFMTA Board of Directors meets Tuesday, August 21, 1 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. See links to […]
Glen Park Businesses: Longevity Rules One family. Three locations. Fifty years.
Even for tiny Glen Park, where a surprising number of businesses are in their second, third or even fourth decade under the same ownership, Dalere’s Beauty Salon stands out for longevity. Glory Dalere is 83 now, a widow, and has long since turned over the operation of the shop to her daughter Marian, who runs […]
Progress report on Diamond/Bosworth intersection
(Note:The Glen Park Association has received this information from Sustainable Streets Director Tom Maguire.) Below is a short summary of what we have currently done at the intersection to date and what our next steps will be. Summary of Changes Signal timing changed on 7/18/2018 o Improves pedestrian safety by removing conflict between southbound left […]
Rafael Mandelman Vows to Bridge Divide
Rafael Mandelman is preparing to take office as Glen Park’s new District 8 representative on the Board of Supervisors after he won the recent election in a landslide with 60 percent of the vote, besting incumbent Supervisor Jeff Sheehy. Mandelman is expected to take the oath of office in July, once results of the June […]
Sept. 8: Supervisor Mandelman hosts meeting on fire mitigation and evacuation planning
To Resilient Diamond Heights Workgroup and Other Interested Persons, Resilient Diamond Heights is delighted that Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will host a meeting with City Officials concerning wildfire mitigation in our neighborhood parks and evacuation planning on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 2 pm at the SF Police Academy. Supervisor Mandelman has confirmed attendance by representatives of the […]
Camp Mather workers, shut down by fires, come to Glen Canyon to work in the park
As wildfires continued taking their toll near Yosemite National Park in the fourth week of July, San Francisco Rec & Park officials closed Camp Mather, its City-run summer camp. As a result, McLaren Lodge administrators offered seasonal Mather employees an opportunity to come to Glen Park and work with its Natural Resource Division. Six young […]
Notes on the Quarterly Glen Park Association Meeting, July 26, 2018
DIAMOND/BOSWORTH INTERSECTION UPDATE First up was Britt Tanner, senior engineer with the Sustainable Streets program of SFMTA. She came to speak about the recent Diamond and Bosworth signal update. “I’m going to try and stay clear of history,” she said lightheartedly – and preemptively. Changes to the troubled intersection began in 2015 and are focused […]
City Agency Hearings + Mandelman Legislation
The Board of Supervisors will be in recess through September 3, 2018. There are no regularly scheduled meetings during this time. The next regularly scheduled Board of Supervisors meeting after recess, will be held on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. The Park, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, August 7, 6:30 p.m. at McClaren […]
Two – Count ’em – Greenway Events!
We have some upcoming work days on the Greenway, so please attend if you can and feel free to spread the word. We can always use more hands. * Saturday, August 11, 9 AM-12 PM: We’ll have a Greenway Work Party to prepare the planting sites for new shrubbery – yeah! We’ll be working on […]