Search Results for: Glen Park Community Plan

Agenda items of note are bulleted   The BOS Land Use and Transportation Committee meets Monday, April 9, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. See agenda here. The Transportation Authority meets Tuesday, April 10, 10 a.m., in City Hall, room 250. See agenda here. Not GP, but two items recently in the news will be discussed. […]

Fun new geeky tool to look up permits across the city: https://sanfrancisco.buildingeye.com/ You can find Building, Planning or Fire permits here. (Menu in the upper right.) The BOS Land Use and Transportation Committee meets Monday, March 19, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. See agenda here. Not GP, but item 6 is a proposal to require […]

Better Market Street Public Meetings happen March 10 to 14 at UC Hastings. See more here. The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the BOS meets Monday, March 12, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. See agenda here. 180191 [Planning Code – Public Parking Lot as a Permitted Use in the Glen Park Neighborhood Commercial Transit District […]

We are EXTENDING the deadline for ONE MORE WEEK. This is the week to get those final requests in for our upcoming planting. Consider filling out the forms with your neighbors – look over a cellphone or fill out the paper form over a nice neighborly conversation! The Tree Request Deadline for your neighbors to request a […]

Quite a few Glen Park items at next Friday’s Engineering public hearing plus partial chimps, Walking While Texting, expediting emergency housing shelters and an underwhelming effort to curb boorish behavior on MUNI. A meeting for SFMTA’s MUNI Service Equity Strategy will focus on the Mission on Saturday, February 10, 9 a.m. to noon, City College, 1125 Valencia […]

The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the Board of Supervisors meets Monday, February 5, 1:30 p.m. in City Hall, room 250. See full agenda here. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board meets Tuesday, February 6, 10 a.m., in City Hall, room 400. See full agenda here. The Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday, February 6, 2 […]

Forwarded from Sandra Zuniga, Fix-It Team Director: Hello Glen Park Neighbors!  Thank you for providing input on what should be fixed in your neighborhood, based on you feedback and work we are able to accomplish, we created the below action plan for your review, please let us know if we forgot anything.  Also, in addition […]

GLEN PARK RELATED CITY AGENCY HEARINGS The SFMTA Board of Directors meets Tuesday, October 3, 1 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. See full agenda here. 12. Amending Transportation Code Division II to (1) delete the defined term for “Institution” and add “Residential Area”; (2) limit the number of parking permits that may be issued […]

Late update: SF Planning reports that last week’s hearing of an Appeal of Determination of Exemption from Environmental Review  for 43 Everson was tabled. The Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday, September 19, 2 p.m. in City Hall, room 250. See full agenda here. The SFMTA Board of Directors meets Tuesday, September 19, 1 p.m. in City Hall, […]

By Michael Rice, past president, Glen Park Association Bruce Bonacker, architect, community activist, historic preservation advocate, and long-time Glen Park resident, passed away on August 3, 2017, at age 69. Bruce had been in treatment for over a year for a rare form of cancer, but he was engaged in Glen Park Association work, in […]

Thank you GPA members for helping us win a Community Challenge Grant that will pay for new trees planted along the Greenway! To honor those who have worked very hard in the last months the make this vision of revitalizing our community’s green space a reality, the GPA will be serving complimentary frozen yogurt from […]

By  Murray Schneider The PG&E substation at Rousseau at Bosworth Streets is undergoing a facelift. Originally constructed in 1935 and until recently situated adjacent to the defunct Ray Oil Burner Company at 1301 San Jose Avenue, Substation M is undergoing a significant upgrade. The safety and reliability makeover, which begins in mid-April and is scheduled […]

Quarterly Meeting October 27, 2016 – 7:00 pm San Francisco Police Academy Community Room 350 Amber Drive Agenda Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center Construction Progress report from Park and Recreation staff on the construction. Pedestrian Safety Improvement Plans at Diamond Heights Boulevard/Sussex Street/Elk Street Status update from Kimberly Leung and Casey Hildreth of the SFMTA. […]

NOTES FROM THE GLEN PARK ASSOCIATION MEETING January 21, 2016 By Bonnee Waldstein ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS: The first quarterly meeting of the Glen Park Association (GPA) kicked off with the election of officers. It was a mix of incumbents and new officers, elected unanimously: President – Michael Rice (12th year); Vice President – Scott […]

Story by Murray Schneider One of Glen Park’s own, Dennis Nix, 60, died on November 22, a victim of a suspected hit-and-run motor vehicle incident. The collision occurred around 2:30 a.m., only blocks from Nix’s Mangels Avenue home. Traveling on his scooter near Monterey Boulevard and the BART station, Nix, who had earlier left a […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider I didn’t know Jimmy Ryan all that well. I’d see him on the Fridays I dropped by Bird & Beckett, to catch his ensemble serving up bebop at the bookstore. On the second Friday of each month, Jimmy sat at the rear of Eric Whittington’s stage, leaning over his […]

New Mid-Market food emporium to be 1st in high end SF chain By J.K. Dineen Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle IMAGE 1 OF 7 Pedestrians walk outside the new locally owned grocery store named Market on Market on the first floor of the Twitter building in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Under construction Market on […]

by Murray Schneider Emily Bratt still speaks with a trace of an accent from Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she was born 92 years ago. She has lived in Glen Park since 1950, first settling on Bemis Street when it was nothing more than a dirt path. That move came after she served in the U.S. Army […]

Diamond Heights Health and Safety Fair, Saturday, Sept. 13 at SF Police Academy  SF Police Academy, 350 Amber Drive, at Duncan Street The Diamond Heights community is providing its 4th Health and Safety Fair. The Fair is free and is open to the public. Smokey the Bear is our featured guest! Live Music • Babar […]

By Murray Schneider With an Elk Street destination in mind, two Glen Park Garden Club volunteers marched across a portion of a Glen Canyon hillside on a recent Friday, armed for battle. They were there to weed. This plan, to leave not a stalk of mustard or radish left standing. “The Elk Street hill was […]

  Dear members of the Glen Park Association, The SFMTA invites you to attend a District 8 Open House to learn about Transportation 2030 – the proposed infrastructure investment program proposed for the November 2014 ballot. Through three ballot measures and two funding sources, Transportation 2030 will provide $1.5 billion to complete hundreds of transportation […]

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency, Supervisor Scott Wiener, the College Hill Neighborhood Association and the Glen Park Association invite you to an upcoming community meeting on Monday, February 3 to discuss proposed safety improvements for San Jose Avenue between Monterey Boulevard and Randall Street. The City, after many years of working with Caltrans and other […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider  After taking off two weeks for Christmas and the New Year, nine members of Friends of Glen Canyon Park resumed volunteering on January 8. They were working along a trail high on the canyon wall that leads to Turquoise Way. Working under the supervision of Dylan Hayes, a Recreation […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Jesse James had a really sore toe! Tori Jacobs, an Ecology Center of San Francisco co-founder and volunteer, sat at Higher Grounds on a recent December afternoon. She nursed a Chenery Street latte and explained. “Jesse picked up a stone in August and it lodged in the crevice of […]

Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year. The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page http://sfrecpark.org/project/glen-canyon-park-2012-bond/. As […]

Hi Everyone – Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year.  The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page. As […]

Stories and photos Murray Schneider Richard Linder came face-to-face with a cement wall, which he didn’t cotton to, so he transformed it into a fantastical alchemy of glass, marble, copper and clay. You can see the results with your own eyes on the first block of Miguel Street, where you’ll find his ceramic relief sculpture, […]

What would it be like to walk from Portola Drive to Elk Street, using only Glen Canyon Park trails? We’re about to find out – this month the Department of Recreation and Park rolls out its “Creeks to Peaks” Trails Project, which means, among other things, pedestrians will eventually be able to avoid O’Shaughnessy Boulevard […]

By Murray Schneider On July 13, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee put aside his legislative pen and picked up a pair work gloves and assisted 20 Sunnyside volunteers collecting litter and pulling weeds along Monterey Boulevard’s thirteen street medians. “The idea is to let my interns experience first hand a successful City and neighborhood project,” […]