Sunnyside Neighborhood Association held its quarterly meeting last night. Here is a summary. Many thanks to our speakers at the final meeting of 2019.

Highlights of the meeting included:

Announcements

• SNA elections in February, 2020. Please consider running for office!
• Come to the senior exercise program at St. Finn Barr, Monday and Wednesdays at 9:30am
• The SNA holiday party will be on Sunday, December 8 at the Sunnyside Conservatory

Tom Doudiet, Assistant Deputy Chief (retired) SF Fire Dept to discuss Westside Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS)

• Western parts of the city have no high pressure water supply system, which could result in unchecked firestorms resulting in significant human loss in the event of a major earthquake or disaster
• Residents are urged to read the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Report, July 2019, “Act Now Before It Is Too Late: Aggressively Expand and Enhance our High-Pressure Emergency Firefighting Water System” and write Supervisor Yee to express your thoughts.
• Supervisors Yee, Mar, Fewer, Safai have sponsored a resolution directing appropriate agencies to address this potentially catastrophic deficiency

Ashley Murray, Liaison from Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services (MONS)

• MONS is soliciting your feedback about neighborhood services. Contact: Ashley.Murray@SFGov.org 415- 554-6723

 Rosaura Valle, Detroit Steps Project

• Exciting upcoming events
  • Nov 9, 9-12 noon – Clean-up Day
  • Nov 24, 10-12 noon – Rise and run Step-a-thon
    • $10 for kids
    • $15 for adults
    • 15 minutes to see how many flights of steps you can run
  • $25,000 Participatory Budgeting Award (Phase I) will enable 3 upgrades in 2020:
    • Fence on Monterey Blvd will be replaced with decorative steel Fence ($15K), similar to fence at Conservatory and St. Finn Barr
    • A water meter will be installed to enable future irrigation of lower steps ($10K)
    • Infrastructure problems (cracks in stairs and retaining walls) will be repaired by DPW
  • Contact: rpcvalle@gmail.com

Amy O’Hair and Jennifer Heggie, Balboa Reservoir Project

• Next Balboa Reservoir Project Meeting is Dec 9, 6-8pm in Multi-purpose Room at City College
• SFMTA studied the proposed shuttle from Balboa Park to City College and BRC and said it was too expensive
• Parking update
  • Parking impacts are considered separately from the environmental impact report
  • SFMTA studied the parking issue and concluded that parking supply, with the developers option, would exceed the demand
• Public outreach for Ocean Avenue Safety Project will begin next summer
  • Will redesign the intersection at Freida Kahlo and Ocean Ave and make it safer, as well as to improve the corridor to BART
• Contact: Sunnyside.Balboa.Reservoir@gmail.com or BRC.SNA@gmail.com

Pearl Villa – Food Rescue Project

• Pearl promotes zero waste by rescuing food (using the OLIO app, olioex.com) and invites neighbors to come and eat.