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News from our neighbors in College Park

September 15, 2013 by Elizabeth Weise

Check out their video below, really a wonderful job of using basic video to really show a problem to officials.

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Crosswalk coming to Richland at the Bernal Cut Path

Last Friday, CHNA Treasurer Robert Lane and three mamas with kiddos attended an MTA hearing at City Hall about the long-desired “midblock” crosswalk for where the Bernal Cut Path crosses Richland Avenue. It was approved! We’ll soon have a safer crossing with more visibility for pedestrians and cyclists. (And we’ll keep you updated on timing when we learn the installation date.)

Our thanks to MTA transit planner Adam Gubser for his diligent work on traffic calming in our neighborhood! And to Bob Lane for being our diligent traffic calming liaison!

If you haven’t seen documentary filmmaker Sophie on Richland’s short video about Richland’s needs, click through and you’ll understand why we’re excited about this crosswalk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWrgGHgcEc

 

Upcoming improvements to Richland and Highland Bridges

DPW engineers have plans for both under and over our neighborhood bridges. First up, work is scheduled for under both bridges to level out the hillside grading and add stronger fencing to protect the underside of both ends of both bridges (where campers have previously set fires). This work should begin early next month.

Next, both the Highland and Richland Bridges will be getting new concrete guardrails … especially needed after a car accident this past weekend damaged a guardrail on the Highland Bridge. This work is scheduled to start toward the end of the year (but perhaps the accident will bump up repairs for at least the Highland section).

If we hear more specifics (on timing, possible bridge closures), we’ll let you know.

 

 

More Parks Alliance greening on the Bernal Cut Path!

We’re grateful for the SF Parks Alliance’s Clean & Green Crew, which came back to the Bernal Cut Path a couple of weeks ago to clear out fennel, weeds, and trash around the Richland Stairs down to San Jose Avenue. The crew is scheduled to come back to our Path next month to help out at DPW’s district-wide Community Clean Team event (on October 19th).

Here’s more info on the Clean & Green Crew from Julia Brashares at the SF Parks Alliance:

The crew is made possible through a partnership with the Department of Public Works, SF Parks Alliance, and the Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. The crew can do the following types of work at Street Parks: weeding, pruning back overgrown brush and bush, clearing out trash and encampments, spreading mulch, planting, sweeping, etc. They can also remove massive amounts of fennel and ivy, and other invasive plants that may have taken over.

Thanks again, Julia and crew!

 

Erika Ehmsen

Secretary, College Hill Neighborhood Association

collegehillneighbors@gmail.com

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Saturday’s Glen Park Greenway Work Party is Cancelled.

“I’m very sorry to say that
we have cancelled our Work Party for this Saturday July 12, along with all organized volunteer activity on the Greenway until further notice.
As you may have read in the news, our fiscal sponsor, San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA), has shut itself down. Just as SFPA has shut itself down, the Greenway, as an organized part of SFPA, has also been “shut down.” We are busy looking for a suitable alternative fiscal sponsor that is willing to replace SFPA. That search is going well but it is a slow process. We had hoped to find temporary ways to enable the Greenway project to function responsibly as a community activity without a fiscal sponsor. Sadly, despite our best efforts and the help of many others in Glen Park, we have failed. That is why we must cancel our Saturday Work Party and discontinue future work parties and other organized volunteer activity on the Greenway (like weeding and watering) until further notice. We recognize that the Greenway is public open space and that the organizers of the Greenway project have no control over the activities of you or of anyone else on the Greenway. However, if you do venture onto the Greenway to satisfy your urge for outdoor recreation, please be aware that your activity is not in any way organized or sanctioned by the organizers of the Glen Park Greenway project. I’m well aware of the efforts that many of the
Greenway’s supporters are making to get the Greenway organized with a new fiscal sponsor and I’m confident that this will be arranged within weeks or perhaps a few months.
However long it takes, I will contact you with news of our progress.
Many thanks for all that you do for the Greenway.”

Nicholas Dewar, volunteer Project Director

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Wonder what’s stopping just organizing it separate from that non-profit. It seems like the volunteers largely come from Glen Park.

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It was a beautiful day for the annual #july4th celebration on Laidley street!

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