November 2009 Next Meeting November 24 Potrero Hill Neighborhood House 953 DeHaro Street (at Southern Heights)

6:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Business Meeting Introductions / Welcome to New Members Police Report Neighborhood News and Updates The New Boosters Website (preview) Starr King Open Space contribution (discussion and vote) Connecting Potrero Hill Open Spaces: A Potrero Greenway? with Shawn Gorman, Brian Liles, Cris Rys
Also at the Boosters meeting on Tuesday, well be discussing and voting on making a major contribution $3,000 to the Starr King Openspace. This is a much larger contribution than the Boosters normally give to anything, and it is a substantial portion of our modest bank account. The Boosters Executive Committee voted to recommend the contribution to the Boosters membership because of the unique nature of the openspace, its collective ownership by the residents of the Hill, and the unique need of the openspace to build its financial reserves at this time.
A big contribution to Starr King Open Space

7:20 pm

8:10 pm

Coming Up: The Potrero Boosters Holiday Party Sunday, December 13, 3 - 6 pm
at Horatius, 350 Kansas Street Savories and sweets, wine and other holiday goodies from Horatius, all free to Potrero Hill residents.

The Starr King Openspace Board writes: As many of you know, the Starr King Openspace Board elected May 2009 has been active on many fronts. Starr King Openspace now has its own website and Yahoo! Group, and has restored public Board meetings which have been well attended. Community outreach at the Potrero Festival and History Night received enthusiastic response, and new volunteers signed up for work days. An op-ed piece about wildlife and wildflowers appeared in the November Potrero View, following an in-depth story in the October View. The Board is currently planning a community fundraising event for the New Year. One of the Board's biggest projects has been dealing with the proposed development at 1321 De Haro. The Board, the Boosters and other community members showed up in force at the October 15th Planning Commission hearing. The Commission voted to remove the 1321 garage from the Openspace side, and gave directives to project owners and architects to more carefully consider building impacts on the Openspace. The Commission decision and subsequent negotiations may end the 25 year struggle to remove cars from the Openspace, important steps towards bringing protection of the Openspace and residential development into balance.

Presidents Message
During the long, long process of re-zoning the Eastern Neighborhoods, we were reminded constantly of the lack of well-designed, connected open spaces serving our neighborhood. It isnt that there is no land available for open space around here; between the Port (from Pier 64 to Warm Water Cove and Islais Creek), Mission Bay (and its existing plans for parks on the Bay and along Mariposa Street), Caltrans property (near the highways) and the rebuild of Potrero Hills public housing, there are numerous opportunities for new open spaces of all kinds on the Hill, and an almost unlimited potential to link those open spaces in a way that makes the entire Hill more walkable and livable. But once again in our neighborhood, one big challenge is in the planning connecting land owned by different public agencies and some private owners into a shared network of green spaces, trails, paths and streets. Think of the beautiful and inspiring Visitacion Valley Greenway, on a larger scale.
At Tuesdays meeting - A New Potrero Greenway?

For more information about 1321 DeHaro and the open space, visit the Starr King Open Space website:
www.starrkingopenspace.org Showplace Square Open Space Planning Workshop

All Hill residents jointly own Starr King Openspace; we all share a responsibility for ensuring proper management and care. The Boosters Executive Committee has voted to provide financial support to Starr King Openspace, pending Boosters membership consent. The Boosters financial assistance would help build long term sustainability of this neighborhood resource.

This is a really huge idea; the Visitacion Valley Greenway took 14 years of negotiations, fundraising and construction, and its only six blocks long! But with everything, there is a beginning. Well be presenting a draft of this work at the next Boosters meeting on Tuesday. Its ready for your opinions, and the sketch will certainly change based on your feedback, so come join us!

Thats where the Boosters come in. Booster members Shawn Gorman, Brian Liles, and Cris Rys Shawn during the Plan Potrero Hill workshops, the others on their own sketched independent ideas of connecting Hill open spaces in the past couple of years. Weve tried to combine their similar ideas into a shared vision for future open space on the Hill.

When: Wednesday, December 2, 6-8 pm. Where: Fiore Hall at Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling (Norcal), 900 7th St. @ Berry St. For More Information: showplace.sfplanning.org

This meeting will be a culmination of the work so far, including conceptual designs for the open space sites presented by the Planning Department at earlier meetings. At the workshop, the Department will also ask us to help us prioritize the potential open space projects (theyll have rough cost estimates for everything).

The Showplace Square Open Space Planning workshops are drawing to a close, with the next (final?) meeting on Wednesday, December 2 from 6 to 8 pm.

The Boosters are finally upgrading their website, and part of that will be links to as many Potrero Hill neighborhood associations as we can - neighborhood organizations, block associations, advocacy groups, garden clubs, HOAs, online discussion groups, everybody. Make sure your group(s) are linked on our site! Email your groups info and any online links to president@potreroboosters.org.
Calling ALL neighborhood groups!

COMMUNITY RESOURCES
City Hall Web site: Mayor Gavin Newsom 1 Goodlett Place Rm 200 SF Ca 94102 www.sfgov.org ph: 554-6141 fax 554-6160 gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

CITY PLANNING
PARKING VARIANCE APPLICATION, Case #2009.0802V, 1514 25th/ Texas Sts.: Propose to add a 3rd flr unit to an existing 3 story 2 unit bldg without the required off-street parking in a RH-3, 40-X Zone. A previous Case #2003.0002V granted a variance from off-street parking. requirements. Contact: Diego Sanchez, Planner; ph: 5575-9082. REAR YARD VARIANCE APPLICATION, Case #2009.0857V, 537 CONNECTICUT/22nd Sts: Pro-pose to replace 2 decks and add a spiral stair for access to a new roof deck at the rear of the existing 2-story single family house. The existing bldg is already non-conforming, its rear decks encroach into the required 45 ft. rear yard. The proposed replacements would encroach 16 ft into the required rear yard, l ft deeper than the existing deck, and would result in a 29 ft rear yard in an RH-2, 40-X Zone. Contact: Pilar LaValley, Planner; ph: 5575-9084. LOT WIDTH, LOT AREA & FRONT SETBACK VARIANCE APPLICATION,Case #2009.0803V; 690A ARKANSAS/22nd Sts: Proposed lot Sub-divison of lot 037 in Assessors Block 4098 into 2 lots each with a single family house. One single family house exists at the project site. The 2nd bldg was approved per Bldg Permit Application #2007.03156345 R1. The Planning Code requires newly created lots to have a minimum lot width of 25 ft and a minimum lot area of 2,500 sq. ft. plus a minimum front setback for every bldg. In this case, the new lot would be 24-6 wide and a lot area of 930 sq. ft. Additionally, the front setback should be 9 ft; the proposed setback is 0 feet. Contact: Edgar Oropeza, Planner; ph: 5588-6381.

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org Bayview Police Station SFPD Web site: Capt. Gregory Suhr Anonymous Tips Community Liaison Quality of Life Liaison Abandoned autos Potrero Terrace/Annex 201 Williams St, SF 94124 www.sfgov.org/police/ ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 gregory.suhr@sfgov.org 822-8147 voicemail, 575-4444 live 671-2302 (Sergeant Garrick) 671-2333 (Officer McConico) 850-9737 (Officer Rodriguez) 509-1408 (Officers Rodatos & Sanders) 987-6389 (Officers Fowlie & Ferraez)

Potrero Boosters Executive Committee President Tony Kelly 341-8040 president@potreroboosters.org First Vice President Dick Millet 861-0345 1stvp@potreroboosters.org Second Vice President Audrey Cole 648-1926 2ndvp@potreroboosters.org Recording Secretary Hilary Cohen 341-8441 recordingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Corresponding Sec. Keith Goldstein 282-9800 correspondingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Treasurer Robin Talmadge 863-8925 Sergeant-at-Arms Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Auditors Jean Neblett 550-2613 Joe Boss 826-2515 Webmaster: webmaster@potreroboosters.org

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