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The two-baseball diamond Jackson Park in Potrero Hill has just been approved for a $40 million facelift, with added park and playground space, sidewalk gardens, and bathrooms being modernized into a more deluxe “clubhouse.”
Potrero Hill residents can drop by the Community Garden this week to see the adorable weed-eaters in action.
A dead-end street has been transformed into a one-acre public park with a dog run.
Parks and playgrounds in Bayview, Excelsior, Ingleside, and Visitacion Valley dominated a city evaluation list of Rec & Park's worst-maintained open spaces.
With San Francisco's canine population at around 120,000, about 32 million pounds of dog waste are produced here per year—all of it going to landfill. A new program is aiming to change that.
