Search Results for: Glen Park Community Plan

An email by Sup. Scott Weiner about notices that have been circulating in the neighborhood of late. ======================== In the past week, I’ve received a number of emails from constituents concerned about tree removal in Glen Canyon in connection with the upcoming project to upgrade and make changes to recreational facilities in the area of […]

By Murray Schneider The 36-Teresita crawled along Myra Way, sandwiched between cars parked on both sides of the street in front of Miraloma School. The bus squeezed up Myra, eventually idling by the entrance to Mt. Davidson’s one-mile trail loop at Lansdale Avenue and Dalewood Way. Next to the stopped bus, naturalist Jake Sigg, 85, […]

Glen Park Association   Quarterly Meeting   July 19, 2012   Glen Park Recreation Center – 700 pm   AGENDA   700 PM Call to Order Committee / Treasurer Reports 715 PM Glen Park Recreation Center Improvement Plan – update by Recreation and Park Department Proposed Glen Park Association resolution to endorse the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond for the November […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider June 2, 2012 One year to the day that Lt. Vincent Perez and Firefighter/Paramedic Anthony Valerio lost their lives combating a Diamond Heights house fire, an estimated throng of nearly 300 family, friends, neighbors, firefighters and police officers spilled from Station 26 on Digby Street to observe a moment […]

March 2012 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:               My New Legislative Aide: Andres Power I want to extend a warm welcome to my new legislative aide, Andres Power. Andres is replacing Gillian Gillett, who has moved on to the Mayor’s Office. […]

Thank you so much to those of you who responded to the survey about the Glen Park Festival. We’ve received many warm fuzzies and lots of helpful feedback, and we appreciate so many of you taking the time to respond. We’ve received 236 responses so far, 229 of whom feel positively or very positively about […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]

By Murray Schneider Later this year Diamond Heights resident, Richard Craib, steps down as president of the 130-member Friends of Glen Canyon Park, a position he has held for 15 years. Craib, 71, a native San Franciscan, was raised in the Sunset District and a 1958 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He has lived […]

By Murray Schneider On January 29th, Jimmy Ryan and his Balboa Be Bop Band performed an encore to their earlier May 19, 2011 gig in the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Ryan, 72, and his Generation X jazz band mates warmed up the nearly capacity-filled theater with a rendition of Horace Silver’s “Blowin’ the Blues Away,” […]

On Feb. 1, the  Capital Committee of the Recreation & Park Commission voted to move approval of the Twin Peaks Trail concept plan to the consent calendar of the full Commission meeting to be held on February 16 at 10am at City Hall in Room 416.  This is great news, not just for Twin Peaks, […]

By Murray Schneider The Canyon Market turned five years old on November 21st, so owners Janet and Richard Tarlov threw a birthday party for their village grocery on December 10th. “We wanted to show our appreciation to the community,” said Janet Tarlov, sitting in her postage-sized office, which she shares with her bookkeeper. In the […]

By Bonnee Waldstein Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The new playground in Glen Canyon Park, slated for completion in winter 2013-14, will feature the newest, most up-to-date play structures for Glen Park’s youngsters to run around and frolic in. Yet, the burning issue in the new design couldn’t be more low-tech:  Sand or no sand?  Most […]

October 2011 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  My Policy Work   Dogwalker Legislation This week, I introduced legislation to regulate and create a permitting system for commercial dogwalkers who use city property, including parks. The legislation would require commercial dogwalkers […]

By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]

Successful Fund Raising for the Fallen Firemen After the June 3 Berkeley Way fire that took the lives for Lt. Vincent Perez and Fireman Anthony Valerio of Station 26 in Diamond Heights, the Glen Park Association board of directors announced a $500 matching plan for donations to funds set up at the San Francisco Fire […]

Hello ‘Friends of the Urban Forest’ organizers and tree planters – Organizing for tree planting is going extraordinarily well throughout the city! In the next few months OMI, SOMA, Castro, Central + Outer Sunset, North Bernal, Crocker Amazon, and Glen Park are in contention for a coveted community planting date in their neighborhood. Can you help organize […]

July & August 2011 Newsletter   Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email: scott.wiener@sfgov.org   For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  Community Updates   Open House and Art Show In My Office Thursday, July 21st  5:30PM-7:00 PM San Francisco City Hall, Room 274 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place Since I was sworn […]

Story by Murray Schneider Photos by Chris Hardy “Citizens. Citizens, news from Philadelphia” shouted Brian Brosnahan, the Sage of Laidley Street. He stood on his front steps, preparing to list the abuses of King George III. “Down with the King,” sang a chorus of Fairmount Heights and Glen Park patriots, their clothes festooned with red, […]

      April Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email: scott.wiener@sfgov.org Community Updates District 8 Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Ed Lee April 14th, 6:30-8:30pm Mission High School, Auditorium* 3750 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 Please come share your thoughts and concerns at this District 8 Town Hall I am co-hosting with Mayor Ed Lee.  […]

The first community meeting regarding a possible Sunday farmers’ market in Glen Park was held on Monday January 3rd.  The meeting, called by Ric Lopez, president of the Glen Park Merchants Association was attended by as many as 30 people. Among the attendees:  Scott Wiener – our newly elected District 8 Supervisor who supports the […]

Glen Park News City officials today held up the issuance of a street-closure permit for the proposed Sunday farmers’ market project in the heart of Glen Park village, saying more time is needed for concerns to be aired and addressed. The San Francisco Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation, known as ISCOTT, put off […]

The people who put together the San Francisco Housing Element want to hear from you. But what, you might ask, is a ‘housing element?’ Simply put, California state law requires that every city council of board of supervisors put together “a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city, city and county, […]

By Rachel Gordon More than a century ago, a British-born inventor and stargazer built on his remote San Francisco estate a whimsical conservatory with eight sides and a soaring ceiling to house his collection of exotic plants and flowers. Time, vandals and the threat of a wrecking ball nearly brought the structure to ruin. View […]