Plan Potrero Hill SF

In observance of the Yom Kippur holiday, this Saturday’s Plan Potrero Hill meeting is cancelled.

The next Plan Potrero Hill meeting is TUESDAY evening, 7 pm to 9 pm, as the main part of the Potrero Boosters regular monthly meeting at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House.

On Tuesday, we will continuing our conversation from the last meeting on September 8, where we discussed strategies to get meaningful contributions to public benefits into our neighborhood planning.

(Our Public Benefits Working Group will then work to get more information on those strategies, and the group will be presenting draft recommendations to all of us at Plan Potrero Hill in late October. Then, we will be ready to draft, present and publish our final document of community planning recommendations.)

On a VERY related subject, this past Tuesday the Board of Supervisors began to take action to protect our neighborhoods during this critical final stretch of the community planning process. Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced a strong set of interim controls designed to limit approvals of ‘pipeline’ projects in the Eastern Neighborhoods while plans for those neighborhoods are being completed.

This action is in direct response to the Planning Commission’s ill-considered vote of August 30, where they decided to exempt all pipeline projects - those with applications pending at the Planning Department - from making any significant contributions to public improvements if they are approved in the next few months. There are still rumors that the Planning Commission may decide to be better public servants and re-visit that decision, and we hope they do. But unless that happens, interim controls at the Board of Supervisors are our only hope to ensure that everyone contributes their fair share to our future neighborhoods, and Potrero Hill has to show up to support the Board when the time comes to consider the controls in October.

For more background and info, check out the Plan Potrero Hill blog over the weekend, or
Join us on Tuesday, and participate!
NOW MORE THAN EVER, your input is critical in making this neighborhood, your neighborhood.

Tony Kelly, Potrero Boosters

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