The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development has announced a citywide plan with Mayor Lee's name on it to revitalize and improve, neighborhood by neighborhood. Conspicuously absent? Ours truly.
Of the 25 areas and neighborhoods identified for targeted development, which included everything ranging from 24th Street in Noe Valley and Union Street in the Marina and North Beach to Bayview and San Bruno Avenue. It did not, however, include the Haight. According to the OEWD's website, the mission of the project is to make sure neighborhood "commercial districts will be economically thriving, safe, resilient, sustainable, and meet the needs of local residents". The public statement for the plan also said that neighborhoods "were selected based on input from community members, City staff, members of the Board of Supervisors, and the Mayor. Priority was given to neighborhoods demonstrating economic need, potential for economic growth, and/or existing social capital." Will the Haight ever see some money through the project? "Additional commercial districts may be added to the program in subsequent fiscal years, particularly as some phase one corridors achieve economic and community development goals and ‘graduate’ from the program." Instead, though, and perhaps in typical Haight fashion, the neighborhood is still on track to deploy its own neighborhood improvement with funding secured through the city for the Public Realm Plan, which Alexis Smith of the city Planning Department has been stewarding through the research phase. Stay tuned for design and improvement alternatives next spring, when they'll be presented for public input and response.
Of the 25 areas and neighborhoods identified for targeted development, which included everything ranging from 24th Street in Noe Valley and Union Street in the Marina and North Beach to Bayview and San Bruno Avenue. It did not, however, include the Haight. According to the OEWD's website, the mission of the project is to make sure neighborhood "commercial districts will be economically thriving, safe, resilient, sustainable, and meet the needs of local residents". The public statement for the plan also said that neighborhoods "were selected based on input from community members, City staff, members of the Board of Supervisors, and the Mayor. Priority was given to neighborhoods demonstrating economic need, potential for economic growth, and/or existing social capital." Will the Haight ever see some money through the project? "Additional commercial districts may be added to the program in subsequent fiscal years, particularly as some phase one corridors achieve economic and community development goals and ‘graduate’ from the program." Instead, though, and perhaps in typical Haight fashion, the neighborhood is still on track to deploy its own neighborhood improvement with funding secured through the city for the Public Realm Plan, which Alexis Smith of the city Planning Department has been stewarding through the research phase. Stay tuned for design and improvement alternatives next spring, when they'll be presented for public input and response.
