The San Francisco Planning Department serves as the Lead Agency and will prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) to evaluate the environmental effects of the proposed Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP). The San Francisco Planning Department will hold two public scoping meetings, at the following location, dates, and times:Document (English Version) | Language Version | Date | Contact |
| Spanish | Chinese | 11/9/2011 | Debra Dwyer (415) 575-9031 | |
| Spanish | Chinese | 11/9/2011 | Debra Dwyer (415) 575-9031 |
IMBIBE at the Potrero Branch Library
Read more at SFGateThe newest restored wetland in San Francisco was little more than a mound of mud surrounded by water Tuesday, but the messy quagmire was like gold to Elizabeth Goldstein.
The executive director of the California State Parks Foundation stood ankle deep in sticky wet clay at Yosemite Slough and called to everyone around, "Look, over your head - a red-tailed hawk being chased by a crow!"
The 7-acre site at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area was officially reclaimed as a wetland by the incoming high tide Tuesday, and the hawk and crow were the first wildlife visitors.
Do you have a building you'd like to go solar? What if you rent, live in a condo, have a shaded roof, plan to move soon -- or are unable to afford installing solar? Most Americans are in your shoes. In several states, people can subscribe to solar power from a common array called a solar garden, supplying their homes through the existing power grid. We're on the way to making that happen in California. Join us to learn about solar gardens and how you can participate.
The Southeast Community Facility Commission Presents Thanksgiving Vegetable Give Away Tuesday, November 22,2011 6pm Alex Pitcher Room 1800 Oakdale Organic vegetables grown and provided by THE GARDEN PROJECT 
SAN FRANCISCO AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce (SFAACC) is one of California's most influential minority business organizations, representing and promoting African American business owners in San Francisco. Through advocacy and economic development, SFAACC is creating a firm economic base that supports the self-determination and survival of African American business. SFAACC is a non-profit 501c6 corporation. To this end, the SFAACC will give out an unprepared Thanksgiving turkey to no less than 75 low-income families that live in district 5 and 10 in San Francisco. For more information contact: Ruth Mays | Executive Director (415) 749-6400 | rmays@sfaacc.org
First Exposures is a unique mentoring program that uses art education to develop transferable skills and foster supportive intergenerational relationships between artists and under-served Bay Area youth. Students and mentors meet weekly for a year and work toward a final project, which in the past has included exhibitions, public billboards, and the book First ExposuresKathy Looper, accepting for her late husband Leroy; Joel and Mary McClure accepting for QGI's Bridgeview Garden; The Portola Neighborhood Steering Committee for the Alemany mural project; the Visitacion Valley Greenway; and Visitacion Valley's Marlene Tran for her lifetime of achievement.
Five very inspirational leaders from D10 to be proud of.
On November 12th at noon, a resident in the area of DeHaro and 18th left his bicycle in his garage. Also in his garage was an unlocked car with a video camera and binoculars inside. When he returned to his garage at noon the following day, he found that the bicycle was stolen along with the items inside the vehicle. Although his garage door was still secure, he noticed that the rear door leading from the garage to the backyard had been left unlocked. The responding officers did not find any damage to the door or vehicle. This incident is under investigation. (SFPD Case No. 1109189993)
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The battle over AT&T’s plan to install up to 726 utility boxes throughout San Francisco is now in the courts and San Francisco Beautiful is celebrating Monday’s decision by Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn to prevent any box installations while the legal battle continues.
San Francisco Beautiful, a nonprofit group fighting to preserve The City’s natural beauty, has joined forces with several neighborhood groups -- San Francisco Tomorrow, the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association and the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association -- to take on the telecommunications giant arguing that an environmental impact review must be conducted before the boxes could be considered for installation.
[Some parents have] decided to enroll [their] children because of the school’s diversity, its close-knit family atmosphere, peaceful and orderly environment, and her long-standing relationships with the teachers...with African-Americans, Samoans, Filipinos, Chinese, Latinos, Vietnamese, and Caucasians as fellow students,... children feel at ease with different cultures.
More than half the children at the school receive substantial assistance, said Church of the Visitacion pastor Father Thuan Hoang, who escaped from Vietnam in a boat in 1987 after the Communist government closed the seminary.
If you're a regular reader of Curbed SF, you know we're quite obsessed with 881 Innes, aka the Albion Castle in Hunters Point. The old home of the Albion Ale and Porter Brewery hit the market in late 2009 with a jaw-dropping asking price of $2,950,000, or $2,054 per square foot. Not bad for a castle, right? Wrong. The castle sat on the market for months and months while its price took chop after chop after chop. For over two years, the 1,436 square foot castle sat patiently on the MLS, waiting for an offer. And an offer it (finally!) got! So what if it took leaving the Millionaire's Club! We reported that in mid-October the sale of the Albion Castle was pending. We're happy to report that as of yesterday, the building has sold for $820,000. Congrats to all parties involved!
San Francisco chocolate stalwart Recchiuti Confections will open its new shop Little Nib (807 22nd St., San Francisco) for a preview pop-up session from November 17-20, offering the company's boxed holiday selections. The pop-up store will continue each Thursday through Sunday through New Years Eve. Also on the way from Recchiuti is Chocolate Lab (801 22nd St.), a cafe in the former Piccino space that is projected to debut (along with Little Nib's permanent hours) in May 2012. Once open, it will share some of its baked goods with Little Nib in addition to a savory and sweet menu of charcuterie and cheese, tartine, beer and wine, and, of course, lots of sweets. It will be a place where proprietor Michael Recchiuti can finally sell his incredible, below-the-radar experiments in ice cream, something the original Ferry Building location isn't equipped to offer.
Recchiuti has also recently introduced a stunning redesign of its "Chocolate Bar Suite," with the addition of new bars with inclusions such as sesame nougatine, burnt caramel almonds or hazelnuts, and burnt caramel almonds with dried fruit and sea salt. They're all available now at the Ferry Building.
On Saturday, November 19th, from 12-4pm, VVCC will be hosting 30-35 students from BuildOn (http://www.buildon.org) doing community-service in the Visitacion Valley community. Students will be serving brunch to our seniors at the community center, 50 Raymond Ave, painting a mural on the front wall of the community center, canvassing with VVCC and JumpStart to promote our Early Children literacy workshop & encouraging parents to enroll their children into Kindergarten. In addition, a few students will help clean up the community center. 
Last week's SFCTA meeting covered the replacement of the structurally deficient Quint St Caltrain bridge; the Caltrain Oakdale Station status, and; the Quint St/Jerrold Ave Connector Road
This idea is proposed because Caltrain only has $25M for the bridge replacement, and while it would cover the cost of a new bridge that is two-tracks wide, just like the new Jerrold Ave bridge, it's not enough for one that would accommodate a future Oakdale Ave Caltrain Station, a station that would run from about 420ft east of the Oakdale tunnel to about the middle of Quint St. This proposed station would have up to four tracks - two for Caltrain, which would stop at the station, and two for High-Speed Rail, which would not. To keep Quint open and put a new bridge here is projected to cost $35M. Just for comparison, the Jerrold Bridge cost $13.6M to replace, and it is 1/3 the length of the Quint Bridge, so this number seems to be in the ballpark. The Mayor and Supervisor Cohen (who's rep Megan Hamilton was present at the meeting) have tried to work with the TA to come up with the needed $10M to keep Quint open. Apparently, they have not succeeded (yet?).
So, the idea is to replace the bridge with an embankment, removing the bridge entirely and closing off Quint with a continuation of the berm (the artificial 20' tall embankment that the tracks lay on between the Jerrold and Quint bridges), connecting it to the other side, and then placing the tracks on top of that to build the new station around it. This may in fact be the project that is closest to being initiated. In an email to D10Watch, Tilly Chang, SFCTA's deputy Director for Planning, says, "It is likely that the Quint closure will precede completion of the connector road, due to the safety imperative of replacing the structurally deficient [Quint St] bridge as soon as possible and the immediate availability of design and construction funding for the project (Caltrain has funding in hand). That said, our goal is to move the connector road design process along as quickly as possible so as to minimize the period of time that Quint is closed without the Connector road providing alternate circulation through the area."
In the spotlight: The local folks who have been fighting for more than a decade about the future of the Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment project have always known that it's a big deal, but now they have national confirmation.
The $8 billion, 700-acre project has been selected as one of three "Transformative Investments in the United States" by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
With the exception of a small bite in Potrero Hill and adjacent Dogpatch neighborhoods on San Francisco's eastern edge - home to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who placed third in the mayor's race - Lee got the most first-place votes in the neighborhoods that ring the city.
Among Lee's strongholds: Chinatown, the Marina, the Richmond, the Sunset, Ingleside, Visitacion Valley and Bayview-Hunters Point.
| Crime Type | 94114 | 94123 | 94124 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assault | 148 | 38 | 82 |
| Burglary | 85 | 35 | 45 |
| Disturbing the Peace | 411 | 154 | 82 |
| Drug/Alcohol | 58 | 20 | 16 |
| DUI | 17 | 11 | 1 |
| Fraud | 44 | 15 | 22 |
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 100 | 44 | 53 |
| Robbery | 59 | 14 | 23 |
| Sex Crimes | 18 | 13 | 5 |
| Theft/Larceny | 142 | 56 | 44 |
| Vandalism | 57 | 30 | 32 |
| Vehicle Break-in/Theft | 79 | 45 | 32 |
| Weapons | 47 | 3 | 28 |
| Total | 1265 | 478 | 465 |
The 10 Women Campaign awards are presented by 10 leading women in the San Francisco dance/performance community. Through this aspect of the 10 Women Campaign, we are encouraging dance as a vehicle for community gathering. We also hope to bring visibility to female leadership inherent to – but often overlooked in – the Bay Area’s contemporary dance community. The 10 Women are nominated each year by the awardees from the previous year.
The 10 Women Campaign, to be held this year on Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. – come at 6:30 for the reception – at ODC Theater, 3153 17th St., San Francisco, is a biennial celebration of women whose work in law, politics, activism, business, philanthropy and the arts mirrors Flyaway’s mission: the integration of experimental forms with social and political content; the empowerment of women where women’s voices remain an underserved element of public culture as a whole; and risk-taking as a way to expand women’s social, political and cultural identity.
A familiar complaint about city elections under ranked-choice voting is that getting results takes forever. San Franciscans vote on Tuesday and it is often not until Friday that winners are declared.
It is not only the residents of Chinatown but heavily populated Asian communities, such as the people of Visitacion Valley, which showed an 18 percentage point surge in voter mail-in turnout.
In five census tracts, four of them in the East Bay, more than 40 percent of residents live below the poverty line, according to the Brookings Institution report.
The neighborhoods are in downtown Berkeley, uptown Oakland, Alameda Point and parts of West Oakland and San Francisco's Hunters Point.
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When reporters asked about the particulars of her case, she wouldn't give any details, but a check of court records show that in November 2006, Gage took out a $525,000 adjustable rate mortgage that started at 11.99 percent.
Her first payment was due two months later, but she never made it. She didn't pay the next month, nor did she pay the following month.
Lawyers for the company that owns the mortgage told ABC7 Gage never made a payment, declared bankruptcy multiple times, filed a case in federal court and lost for failing to state a relevant claim.
Read more at "Rebuild the Dream"Bayview Families Refusing to Leave Despite Foreclosures
1479 Quesada Ave
SAN FRANCISCO– As San Francisco foreclosures steadily increase in the Southeast Sector, Bayview families at risk of losing their homes due to foreclosure are announcing they are refusing to leave. On Tuesday, one family will announce that they have re-entered and re-claimed the home that they were wrongfully evicted from. The family built the home, and had lived in it, since 1962. The community is supporting this family and others, as they take action to keep families in their homes despite growing number of foreclosures and blighted property in their neighborhood increases.
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