This Monday: SNA Quarterly Meeting

On February 3, 2017February 6, 2017 By Sunnyside Neighborhood AssociationIn Balboa Reservoir Project, Bikes, Crime, development, Housing, NERT, Traffic, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Meet your neighbors in person — hear about issues that impact life in Sunnyside — ask questions about things you care about — become a member of your neighborhood association — come to the quarterly meeting of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association on Monday Feb 6th.

Time and place: Monday Feb 6th, 7-8:30pm, at St Finn Barr Auditorium (415 Edna Street).

Topics and speakers on the agenda are: Pedestrian Safety improvements for Sunnyside; Capt McFadden from Ingleside Police Station; update on the important Balboa Reservoir Project housing development; NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team); a representative from Bay Area Bike Share, which is coming to Sunnyside; and the airplane noise issue.

We welcome all residents of Sunnyside to attend, and membership is open to all residents.

If you are not a member, you can join that evening. If you need to pay your dues, you can also do that. Or join or renew online (see below or click ‘Membership’ tab at the top). Continue reading “This Monday: SNA Quarterly Meeting” →

Two recent articles on family housing in SF

On February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 By Sunnyside Neighborhood AssociationIn Balboa Reservoir Project, development, Housing, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Two recent articles on the subject of housing and families in SF. (Read a related recent piece in NY Times here.)

In SF Chronicle: “Keeping kids in San Francisco makes the city better for everyone”
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Keeping-kids-in-San-Francisco-makes-the-city-10895278.php

In SF Examiner, Op-Ed: “A city for all includes families”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-includes-families/

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NY Times article on San Francisco and Children – Supervisor Yee quoted

On January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 By Sunnyside Neighborhood AssociationIn Housing, Norman Yee, UncategorizedLeave a comment

The New York Times just published a longish article about children and San Francisco, which includes quotes from District 7 Supervisor, Norman Yee.

Read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children.html. Beyond Chron’s reply: http://www.beyondchron.org/ny-times-whiffs-sfs-lost-children-story/

“Everybody talks about children being our future,” said Norman Yee, a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. “If you have no children around, what’s our future?”

[….] Mr. Yee, the supervisor, is urging his colleagues to hold hearings next month on the issue of children.

“For me it’s part of the fabric of what a city should have,” he said. “It makes us all care more.”

SF Examiner on RV parking: ‘No space for safe parking program’

On November 27, 2016December 6, 2016 By Sunnyside Neighborhood AssociationIn CCSF, City College of San Francisco, Housing, SFMTA, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Extended parking by RV owners on Sunnyside streets has been an issue discussed at membership meetings this year. Article from SF Examiner today on the issue reprinted below. Source: http://www.sfexaminer.com/no-space-safe-parking-program/.

No space for safe parking program

A man stands by the door of a mobile home seen on Division Street on Nov. 2. (Aleah Fajardo/Special to S.F. Examiner)

By Patrick Fitzgerald on November 27, 2016 1:00 am

Kurt Heilman has lived in San Francisco for more than 20 years.

He doesn’t reside in an iconic Victorian style house, one of the fresh new condominiums in Mission Bay or even in one of the single-room occupancy units that pepper the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.

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SF Examiner: ‘Balboa Reservoir development to have 50% affordable housing’

On November 15, 2016November 22, 2016 By Sunnyside Neighborhood AssociationIn Balboa Reservoir Project, development, Housing, UncategorizedLeave a comment

[From SF Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/balboa-reservoir-development-50-percent-affordable-housing/ Read more about the Project on our site here.]

Balboa Reservoir development to have 50 percent affordable housing

By Michael Barba on November 14, 2016 1:00 am

City officials are looking for a developer to build at least 50 percent affordable housing as part of a mixed-use development on the vacant Balboa Reservoir site near City College of San Francisco. Continue reading “SF Examiner: ‘Balboa Reservoir development to have 50% affordable housing’” →