District 6 Focus at March 7, 2022 Redistricting Task Force Meeting

Supervisorial District 6 which encompasses South of Market (including Rincon Hill), the Tenderloin/Civic Center, and Treasure Island needs to get reconfigured as our high-density development has led to our District 6 population growing by +30.35% between the 2010 and 2020 Census to 103,564 residents whereas the target size is 79,545 residents.

Please attend the March 7, 2022 meeting of the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force in-person (mask required in City Hall regardless of vaccination status) at 5:30pm in City Hall, Room 408 or attend online:

Click here to join the meeting  online on March 7, 2022 at 5:30pm

password: comment

Moreover, if you would like to make public comment at any point of the meeting, you can raise your hand in the Webex meeting, or you can call in with your phone with the instructions below:

PUBLIC COMMENT CALL-IN
Please dial: 1 (415) 655-0001
Meeting ID: 2493 558 6324 # #
(Then press *3 to enter the speaker line)

Learn more at this web page: https://sf.gov/meeting/march-7-2022-redistricting-task-force-meeting-district-6

Some community of interest considerations if you support keeping Rincon Hill, South Beach, and Mission Bay together in the next Supervisorial District map that includes them:

  • Our communities are significantly impacted by the Bay Bridge and Highway 280 traffic transitioning from 50 -70 MPH speeds to our high-density residential 25 MPH streets. Pedestrian safety infrastructure and traffic law enforcement are especially important in our neighborhoods.
  • Our communities rely upon good relationships between our Supervisor and the Port of San Francisco as our neighborhoods are adjacent to and include Port of San Francisco properties.
  • Our communities are significantly impacted by the regional event centers of Oracle Park and Chase Center or events like the San Francisco Marathon – adding to the traffic on roadways, utilization (or surges) on the public transit routes, and crimes of opportunity that 19,000 – 50,000 attendee events attract to our area.
  • Our communities have added thousands of units of below market rate affordable housing, but no new K-12 schools for the children of those families, very little in the way of new pubicly owned parks (mostly privately owned public open spaces like Yerba Buena Gardens, Salesforce Park, and the various office building smoker plazas). The desire and health need for public recreation and publicly owned parks unites us in Rincon Hill, South Beach, and Mission Bay.
  • Our communities are subjected to second class consideration for Public Works cleaning services – forcing us to form our own Community Benefit Districts and charge ourselves a property assessment tax that is in addition to the tax we pay for funding Public Works in order to get the clean streets traditionally residential neighborhoods take for granted.

There is a very short time left for your voice to be heard. Please speak up now!

Vote for more frequent 12 Folsom bus service!

12 Folsom Bus heading east on Folsom at Beale Street 9/19/2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to take a fresh eyes look at the City’s bus system and re-tool it to reflect the increasing population with most added housing on the east side of San Francisco in neighborhoods like Rincon Hill, SoMa, Potrero Hill, Mission Bay, and Civic Center/Van Ness. The challenge in San Francisco as it is in many cities is that once services are started, they are politically challenging to end when they become too costly, suboptimal, and otherwise not serving the core mantra of government to do the most good for the most people.

Our bus service provider, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is phoning a friend for help – YOU!!

They are asking YOU to vote (Take the 2022 Muni service Survey online or by phone at 415.646.2005) for 1 of 3 options for MUNI service in 2022 to help cover the political butts to make a good dollars and sense choice to turn off the spigot in suburban designed portions of San Francisco in favor of making the MUNI bus service routes more appealing to the new, high-density neighborhoods like Rincon Hill and SoMa that built the bulk of new housing in San Francisco over the past 20 years with the Frequent Alternative or Hybrid Alternative. Check out the details of the proposed alternatives for SoMa/Rincon Hill/FiDi in particular.

The great news is that the 12 Folsom bus route has resumed serving our neighborhood for the first time since December 5, 2009’s service cuts due to challenging economic times caused by 2007-08’s Great Recession. The 12 Folsom bus will take you to the nightclubs in West SoMa and to the Mission neighborhood and its wonderfully developed commercial corridors and popular parks like Dolores. The 12 Folsom bus also takes us further north to Jackson Square, Chinatown, North Beach, and the Russian Hill where there are all sorts of great restaurants, sights, walking paths and stairs up to hilltops, and other experiences to try out. However, the 12 Folsom bus’s frequency is typically 15-20 minutes. Voting for the Frequent Alternative or the Hybrid Alternative options in SFMTA’s survey both will increase the frequency of the 12 Folsom bus to every 8 minutes along with increasing frequencies of many other highly utilized bus lines in the denser populated sections of San Francisco. The Familiar Alternative leaves the suboptimal status quo that ignores the 2020 Census and extent of residential development that has already occurred on the east side of San Francisco.

Take the 2022 Muni service Survey online or by phone at 415.646.2005 – and I encourage you to choose the Frequent Alternative – or secondarily the Hybrid Alternative

Learn more with these SFMTA meetings online:

Attend one of 3 virtual open houses 
Formal presentation plus Q&A 

Free interpretation available. Please request 48 hours in advance at TellMuni@SFMTA.com or 415.646.2005. 

Take the 2022 Muni service Survey online or by phone at 415.646.2005 – Please strongly consider the Frequent Alternative – secondarily the Hybrid Alternative

Please pass along this information to others and help get those votes for Frequent or Hybrid alternatives entered! Let SFMTA and San Francisco municipal government hear our voices!

Transbay Block 3 Park Community Meeting #4

New Transbay Block 3 Park (middle acre of former Temporary bus terminal location) – Community Meeting #4 scheduled for Thursday April 29, 2021 from 6pm – 7pm online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97815254866 or Webinar/Meeting ID 978 1525 4866. Best to connect via Zoom website/app, but you can also dial-in by telephone to 1-669-900-6833 and enter Meeting ID 97815253866#

https://sfpublicworks.org/Block3Park


Share this with your neighbors, please! Mark your calendars – Thursday, April 29 6pm-7pm

14 Years of blogging Rincon Hill

Since February 2007, I’ve made it a hobby to blog about going’s on in Rincon Hill. While my frequency has slowed as my interests have spread to other things, thanks for tuning in. I plan to keep on keeping on with my occasional blogs, but recommend you check out NextDoor app for connecting with neighbors!

Rincon Hill Neighborhood Park Community Meeting #3

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 6pm – 7pm PT

Web address: https://zoom.us/j/96855754906?pwd=Vk5lVjF2SGdjaUhEWCsvN2JoeXk0Zz09

Dial in:
1) Telephone 1-669-900-6833
2) Meeting ID 968 5575 4906
3) No participant ID (0#)
4) Password 546420

iPhone One-Tap (US):
+16699006833,,96855754906#,,,,,,0#,,546420#

Please join via online Zoom webmeeting the third OCII, SF Recreation & Parks, and Public Works for community input on the 1-acre public park in the middle of the former Temporary Transbay Terminal bus lot between Main Street, Folsom Street, Beale Street, and Howard Street.

Learn more about the park plans and community input/presentations from prior meetings here: https://www.sfpublicworks.org/Block3Park

Contact for more information: Kathleet O’Day, Project Manager, Public Works kathleen.oday@sfdpw.org or 415-218-7515.

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