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Catching up on the news, on Mariposa Potrero Hill Community Garden. Street, 10 a.m. Photo: Edgardo Rivera Photo: Suzanne Berger

For almost a half-century, the View has published monthly stories about the people, places, and issues impacting Southside San Francisco. Over the years the paper has deployed millions of words. For this issue, the View dispatched a half dozen photographers to capture our neighborhoods in images taken over one 24-hour period, on December 9, 2016. It’s a day in the life, reflecting, in part, who we are. It’s your view, and starts on page five. Happy New Year!

Members of the Potrero Walking Club, which meets thrice weekly for hour-long walks through Potrero Annex. The group is led by Ana Garay (right), 1 p.m. Farley’s, on 18th Street, 8:42 a.m. View staff photographer. Photo: Evan DuCharme 2 THE POTRERO VIEW January 2017

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Politics by the Slice haps more aptly, blech, identified the email address as belonging to Goat Reality According to The New York Time’s Hill Pizza owner Philip De Andrade, “a Top Stories – a blog-like screed that former staff member of Nanci Pelosi as can be found on the Internet – U.S. recently as 2013,” followed by several BY STEVEN J. MOSS Representative “Nanci” Pelosi has a innocuous, silly, or scurilous accusa- campaign email address that’s reg- tions. The assertions are based on istered with Goat Hill Pizza, “which information gleaned from what appears We humans have been trying to Fear, and longing for something has made numerous donations to the understand our reality, while working better, prompted us to search for Democratic Party.” The blog, or per- SHORT CUTS continues on page 20 hard to mask it, since our first spark of imaginary friends. Our interactions awareness, perhaps seven million years with what we could see initially shaped ago. Our quest has been dominated our understanding of the powerful by a biological imperative to, initially, beings we believed were hidden. Our survive, over time, thrive; and a deep first gods were fashioned on the forces desire to find an alternative truth to of nature, lodged on earth: breathing shield ourselves from the pain of liv- from a special cave; hidden in a tree ing and make sense of life’s essential knot. These deities were tied to our December 13, 2016 meaning. corporeal needs: fertility, protection, For a longtime we survived by harvests. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pritzker: carefully examining our environment, As our ecological control advanced, seizing opportunities – an injured through the development of settlements The Dogpatch Neighborhood Association appeals to you for your as- animal became dinner – and avoiding around which wilderness was cleared, sistance in our discussions with the University of California San Francisco. danger. If reality, in the form of sharp roads and irrigation channels, and Although we respect tremendously the work done by the doctors, researchers, teeth, poisonous or edible plants, and sophisticated farming, we removed and students affiliated with UCSF, the institution has run roughshod over possible places of safe shelter, wasn’t the immortals from the ground and our community. seen clearly the consequence was death. put them in the sky, beaming down at UCSF has long demonstrated a pattern of dishonesty in our neighbor- Fire, farming, tools, and social us from the darkness as infinite pricks hood. When the Mission Bay campus was first planned, UCSF assured the organization emerged as methods to and patterns of light. Spirituality community that they had no interest in a hospital. They built a hospital. improve our circumstances, to become largely shifted from a physical pres- They then assured us that the campus would not cross Mariposa Street into the danger. These innovations enabled ence that we visited, to something that our neighborhood. They have purchased and are land banking properties in us to alter our surroundings in ways could be detected, through the right Dogpatch. We are well aware of UCSF’s acrimonious history of steamrolling that made our lives easier; burning methods, everywhere. The gods – in- the neighbors near their Parnassus, Mt. Zion, and Laurel Heights campuses. forests to chase out and harvest the We are also aware of the heated legal battles that have resulted. And we are creatures living within, making room PUBLISHER’S VIEW continues on page 3 prepared to take action to protect our community. for agricultural lands. We hunted The Lisa and John Pritzker Psychiatry Center at 2130 Third Street species to extinction, including, most will inevitably be at the center of attention in any forthcoming conflict. likely, other types of humanoids, and Undoubtedly, you entered into this project with the best of intentions. We transmogrified woodlands into deserts. doubt that UCSF has been honestly keeping you informed of the situation. But we weren’t yet sufficiently power- At a meeting last month regarding the Pritzker Center, the architects ful to disturb the largest cycles at work: admitted that the planned building will not house the full program proposed the coming and going of seasons; the November for the facility, and parts of the Pritzker Center’s program will have to be density of oxygen in the atmosphere. 1,037 Open shelter waitlist requests. housed in other buildings on the UCSF campus. The massing of the building, while appropriate on the Third Street frontage, looms over the low scale Victorian houses on Tennessee Street included in the Dogpatch Historic Number of reservations District and blocks the primary source of light for the Pritzker Center’s 745 (223 women, 522 men). Located in the Tennessee Street neighbor to the south. Ferry Building! Individuals used the adult We strongly believe that the Pritzker Center as an academic and clinical 1,913 facility belongs on the UCSF campus. There is no sound campus planning Local & Varietal emergency shelter system Honeys for one or more nights. reason for it to be remotely located in residential Dogpatch Historic District. When in private, personnel involved with the project agree, but hide behind Individuals used Homeward the desires of the donors—your desires—to push the project forward. The 53 Bound to travel to another Pritzker Center and its faculty, staff, and, especially, its young patients, part of the United States Beeswax Candles where someone was willing would be better served located nearer the Sandler Center for Neuroscience Gifts & to take them in and provide Studies, Children’s Hospital and Children’s Playground and Park. them housing. We request that you to exert your influence on UCSF to truly honor the Vist us at beekind.com Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund’s core values, reverse this bad planning decision, and locate The Lisa and John Pritzker Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco Ferry Building (415) 307-8682 1 The Embarcadero #21B, San Francisco Teen and Children’s Center where it belongs—proudly on the UCSF Mission Bay Campus. Our concerns are not centered solely on the 2103 Third Street site. Last month, the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association voted overwhelmingly to support the rescinding of the UCSF Health and Life Sciences Special Use District, which allows otherwise unpermitted medical uses to set up shop in our residential and light-industrial neighborhood, and have requested that our Supervisor bring the issue to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Dogpatch neighborhood has shown itself to be vibrant without the expansion of medical uses into our neighborhood. Locating the Pritzker PUBLISHER Steven J. Moss Center at 2103 Third Street would set dangerous precedent for other medical

PRODUCTION MANAGER Helena Chiu service providers. We understand that UCSF has reasonable needs. If UCSF wishes to FINANCE MANAGER Catie Magee develop an appropriately scaled residential facility in residential Dogpatch THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS on the 2130 Third Street site or elsewhere in our neighborhood for UCSF Suzanne Berger, Chris Block, Colby Condon, Evan DuCharme, students, faculty and/or staff, they would find the neighborhood much more Amanda Hibbert, Steven J. Moss, Edgardo Rivera, Margaret Yang receptive. Thank you for your kind attention and shared concern. THE POTRERO VIEW, 2325 Third Street Suite 344, San Francisco, CA 94107 415.626.8723 • E-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] (for advertising) Sincerely, Dogpatch Neighborhood Association Board THE VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED NEWSPRINT WITH SOY-BASED INK.

PUBLISHER’S VIEW from page 2 differentiation, multi-story buildings, and the enablement of a diversity of family and commercial arrangements, creasingly, just one – continued to care a shifting of power structures. The Happy New Year! about our corporeal needs, but were printing press triggered an era of mass Wishing you health, happiness & hearty meals in 2017. more concerned about what happened communication and freedom of thought to our non-physical wants; our “souls.” that continues to explode six hundred This, in turn, untied us from ancestral years after its introduction. In well less homes, launching a process of detach- than two hundred years, deployment of ment from place that cyberspace is now the gasoline-powered engine altered perfecting. No longer required to give the world’s mobility, shape, smell, and obeisance to divinities that dwelled in temperature. specific locations, we were free to roam This period of productivity, and the around the earth. wealth it created, enlarged our ability For a longtime we mostly ordered to mold our reality and challenged our our social relationships based on sense of meaning. During current violent, theological, and economic lifetimes our relationship with nature, power, creating endless hierarchies as a force apart from ourselves, has been that linger in card decks, chess boards, almost completely severed, as we’ve 1319 18th Street • (415) 647-7941 • hazelskitchen.com and Monopoly, elements of which shaped the environment into our pre- remain actively present. Beneath the ferred state. We’re more intimate with scrim of “royalty” – never more than asphalt than soil, expert in consumer one percent of the population – men brands and celebrities know nothing dominated women and children, about the insects that inhabit sidewalk races subjugated one another, those cracks. We need to understand how to with capital enslaved those without. cross the street, or summon a shared Meaning as defined by spirituality or ride, not the safest way to traverse the philosophy intermingled, reinforced, savannah or enjoy a stroll through or skirmished with meaning as deter- a meadow. Our feet rarely touch mined by wealth or influence. anything that wasn’t placed there by Roughly a millennium ago, our humans; the only thing we see that we relationship to survival and mean- didn’t choose to be within our sight is ing began to fundamentally change, the sky. Even the ocean, still leashed to principally as a result of an accelerated the moon, rises by our command. understanding, and mastery, of reality. Most of us, apart from scientists The development of knowledge, science, and farmers, don’t need to understand and the rule of law hammered against authentic truth, if that still has any the chains that’d tightly bound us to meaning; not in the way our ancestors being subject to nature’s, the lord’s, or did to survive. That, its complexity and the Lord’s, way. The invention of the faraway origin – we visit supermarkets, chimney, eight hundred years past, started the process of household room PUBLISHER’S VIEW continues on page 15

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Our Photographers years. His projects have ranged from daily news and long-term Suzanne Berger has exhibited her documentaries to portraiture and photographs at The Marin Society commercial contracts. He’s deeply of Artists, The San Francisco Zen inspired by the City, and loves Center, and the San Francisco connecting to it through photography. Buddhist Center, among other places. To see his work: evanducharme. For more information about her work: wixsite.com/evanducharme/ [email protected]. Amanda Hibbert is a San Francisco- Chris Block is a Bay Area native and based editorial photographer and long-time Mission District resident. documentary ﬁlm director who He writes a monthly column on believes in the power of storytelling. homelessness for the View. Her images were included in four American Photographic Artists shows Colby Condon is a native San between 2013 and 2016. Her work can Franciscan and a seventh grader be seen at www.amandahibbert.com at Chinese American International School. Edgardo Rivera is originally from Puerto Rico. He’s still ﬁnding his way Evan DuCharme has worked as around San Francisco. Photography a freelance photographer in and the arts are very Important to San Francisco, specializing in Edgardo. View more of hiswork on photojournalism, for the past seven Instagram @edren_photography 2

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1. The lights of AT&T Park, as seen from Mission Creek, midnight. Photo: Evan DuCharme 2. View of Interstate 280 and San Francisco from the 18th Street overpass, 12:59 a.m. Photo: Amanda Hibbert 3. An ambulance pulls away from Dogpatch Saloon, on Third Street, 1:12 a.m. Photo: Amanda Hibbert 4. Willie McCovey statue, China Basin Park, at the edge of McCovey Cove, 2:11 a.m. Photo: Amanda Hibbert 5. A homeless person sleeps outside the Caltrain 4th and King streets station 2:41 a.m. Photo: Amanda Hibbert

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7. View of Downtown from Wisconsin and 20th streets, 3:55 a.m. 8. A Recology trash pick up on Townsend Street, 3 a.m. 9. Homeless tents line Seventh Street along the Caltrains railroad tracks, 3:22 a.m. Photos this page: Amanda Hibbert

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10. Off to work. Arkansas and 20th, 7 a.m. 11. Mo, one of the brothers who owns/operates All States Best Foods, cutting flowers on 20th Street, 8:58 a.m. Photo:View staff photographer. 12. Coffee to go, from Thinker’s Cafe, 7 a.m. 13. Student making his way to school. Photo: Chris Block 14. Made it! 9 a.m. 15. Next train in one hour, Caltrain, 22nd Street Station, 9 a.m. 13 Photos this page: Suzanne Berger (unless otherwise noted)

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16. Plow, about 10 a.m. 17. Birds, parklet outside Farley’s. 18. Ms. Darlene Martin, Starr King Elementary principal, work interrupted by photographer, 8 a.m. 19. Lunchtime outting. 20. Holiday lights. Photo: Chris Block. 21. Discussion, Farley’s, 11 a.m. 22. Good friends working to “un-elect,” at Farley’s. 23. Mobile home. Photo: Chris Block. Photos this page: Suzanne Berger (unless otherwise noted)

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24. Dogs, taking their companions out for a stroll. From left to right, Alison Heath and Tricia Atlas, Peeka and Bbingka, 10:43 a.m. 25. Politics and art combine in a Mississippi Street window, between 18th and 19th streets, 10:49 a.m. 26. Community Garden on Texas Street. Photo: Chris Block. 27. With nanny on 18th Street, noon. Photo: Suzanne Berger 28. School bus being driven by a trainee, at Texas and 19th streets, 12:13 p.m. 29. Ms. Carrie Betti, principal at Daniel Webster Elementary School, 2:05 p.m. Photos this page: View staff photographer (unless otherwise noted)

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38 30. View of Potrero Hill from Bernal Heights Park, 5:01 p.m. 31. Bob and Linda Belcher, characters on Fox’s Bob’s Burgers, painted on the roll-up doors at Rhea’s Cafe. The mural is by Sirron Norris, a San Francisco artist and lead illustrator for the show. 32, 35, 36. The Compliment Project posters on 18th Street (annasergeeva.com). 33. Encouragement on a street light, on 18th Street. 34. Evening laundry; no waiting for the dryer, Potrero Coin Laundry, on 18th Street. 37. Father daughter shadows, on 18th and Missouri, 7:43 p.m. 38. Dinner is served at Mac Daddy’s. 39. Armistead Maupin, featured at Christopher’s Books. Photos this page: Colby Condon 39 January 2017 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 3

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40. Outside Bloom’s, View staff photographer 41. Attendees walk through the front gate of the Cirque Du Soleil Luzia show in Mission Bay, 8 p.m. 42. Kids play outside the Spark Food Truck Park near the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in Mission Bay. The park is open daily for lunch and dinner, with a rotating set of food trucks, 8:30 p.m. 43. A reflection from apartment buildings shines in front of a Mission Creek houseboat, 11:30 p.m. 44. The view from the top of Arkansas and 20th streets, looking towards Downtown, 9:30 p.m. 45. 18th Street, between Connecticut and Missouri streets, is conspicuously quiet. The inclement weather that evening may have kept many would-be customers home, 10 p.m. 46. A Muni bus passes by St. Teresa Catholic Church, on Connecticut and 19th streets, 9 p.m. Photos this page: Evan DuCharme (unless otherwise noted) 46 14 THE POTRERO VIEW January 2017

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PUBLISHER’S VIEW from page 3 years previously sodomy was illegal in Red States. In this moment, surrounded by the not farms; see politicians on handheld bounties of increasingly pesticide-free devices, not at the mall; consume agriculture, on the precipice of a com- infotainment made in an anonymous plete collapse of aquatic and terrestrial studio-bunker – has stretched our species and the onset of unstoppable ability to fact-check almost anything. human-induced climate change, sur- We have no greater insights into how rounded by whatever gods, or not, we a television works than how a now- choose, we should look around at what forgotten god made rain. We exist in a we have wrought. It’s okay to nod our kind of castle in the sky. heads in satisfaction. Today is certainly better than a Not all of us have arrived at the million yesterdays’ ago, at least for us same place. There are multiple reali- humans. We live longer, arguably hap- ties: a Russian bomb just detonated in pier, certainly more luxurious, lives. Syria, blowing the limbs off a 12 year Our mastery of the environment has old girl; a circle of tribal elders in South enabled us to upend old power dynam- Dakota is blocking a bulldozer poised ics, particularly between genders, but to destroy a sacred place to which a also related to race and sexual prefer- monetary value cannot be assigned; ence. In a fingernail of history, a slice a steady stream of women is carrying of the world’s population has fought mud bricks to a construction site in their way to an unprecedented level India on their heads; a 50-year old man of equality and wealth. Less than one is sitting in a single-wide trailer in hundred years ago American women Idaho, polishing his gun and nursing won the right to vote; it’s been just 50 his grudges. years since the same guarantee was We started our journey so many fully extended to African-Americans, still an unfinished project. Fifteen PUBLISHER’S VIEW continues on page 17

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ZephyrRE.com 16 THE POTRERO VIEW January 2017 Gold, Chapter Seventeen BY STEVEN J. MOSS arms into a T. “T, it’s totally, totally, “Hey,” he shouted at Stephanie, “Whew!” he said as he sat down. H, heavenly, heavenly, C, like a cloud, louder than the bar’s background noise “Hey, John?” It was twilight as Pete strode like a cloud!” He held out the e-cig to merited. “I think we’ve met…” John glanced at him, grimaced, towards The Yankee. He hurried past Pete again. “Inky, you really look like Stephanie looked at Pete. held up his hand dismissively, and a decades-old mural that featured you need a hit.” “Yes, we’ve met!” said Jordan, turned away. “Potrero Hill” in once vibrant colors, its “You didn’t call me,” Pete asked, matching Pete’s volume. “You’re Inky Pete shoved a fist in his pocket, bubble-shaped letters set at a slant, a as he reflexively reached to take the Pete!” pulled out a crumple of bills, and threw style reminiscent of Mr. Natural’s Keep metallic tube. “Yes, yes I am,” Pete said, his closed them on the bar. “I’ll have a beer,” he on Truckin’…The fresco’s jauntiness “Inky, my people don’t call. We mouth smile competing with his desire yelled towards the bartender. “The seemed to mock Pete’s scrawny forward text, twitter, or twirl,” said Justin, to frown. cheapest you have.” tilt, though both were equally faded. handing the tube to Pete as he spun Jordan whispered something to He looked at the side of Chester’s A mass of fog that wet-blanketed around. Nash, who barked-laughed. The trio head, glanced to the back of John’s, San Francisco’s western neighborhoods Pete sucked in the smoke. It tasty turned back to their conversation, and took a chug of his beer. An elderly dissipated after it heaved itself over like pureed raspberry filtered through ignoring Pete, who stared at Jordan man sat down at the stool next to him. Twin Peaks, well before it reached the Styrofoam, with a weedy tang. He for a few beats before re-scanning the Pete recognized him as a long-time Hill. Instead, high clouds fan-danced bobbed at Justin, and walked into The room. His feet felt glued to where he Hill resident and anti-development with a full moon, covering and un- Yankee. was standing; the air seemed to have activist, who owned several homes in covering the white celestial eye, like a The interior seemed hazy, as if Pete gotten even smokier. He reached up and the neighborhood, all of them derelict, slow blink. had entered a 1980s bar, when smoking swatted a wisp of white drifting down most uninhabited. As he crossed the street to The was ubiquitous. It was dense with towards him, like a spider web. Before “Hey,” Pete said. Yankee Pete spotted a tall, muscular, people, chatter, music, and the clatter he could catch it someone bumped into “Hey,” replied the man, who turned figure with a shaved head leaning of pool balls. Pete scanned the crowd. him, hard, causing him to stumble. towards Chester and began a rant against the wall next to the entrance. He saw Justin’s partner, Nash, sitting “Scuse me,” said a man with a about “that idiot” mayor. “Hey, Inky,” said Justin, sucking at a four top with the woman and man shaved head, over his shoulder, as he Pete swiveled, his back to the bar, on an electronic cigarette. he’d bumped into as they exited The continued through the crowd, towards searching the crowd. He circled his Pete squinted. “Um, you waiting Yankee a few weeks ago, their three the men’s room. arm to grasp his beer, gulped the rest for me…?” heads huddled closely together. Someone grabbed his arm, arrest- of it down, and glanced at the change “Yeah, Inky, I’m waiting for the last Chester was sitting on his regular ing Pet’s fall. “A little puff will do the bartender had left; a dollar and a printed newspaper in the galaxy to die barstool. John was two spots over, you,” said Justin. “Let me help you few coins. Pete sighed, heaved himself in my arms,” Justin shaped his arms next to Joanne, all three staring at the find your way.” He spun Pete around, up, and made his way outside. into a wide open hug, then held out the television screen above them. away from the table, and pushed him Each month the View publishes a e-cig to Pete. “You wanna hit?” “The trinity,” Pete muttered to towards the bar. chapter from Gold, a serialized tale of Pete shook his head, and started to himself, glancing from the three at the “What,” said Pete, glancing at politics, capitalism, and corruption in bob, waiting for Justin to out himself as table to the three at bar. “Father, son, Justin’s shaved head, and then at the San Francisco. Previous chapters can the caller. Justin responded by moving Holy Ghost?” he giggled. He stared at back of the shaved head that’d pushed be found on the paper’s website, www. his head to the beat of Pete’s bobble, the back of John’s head. “More like him as it disappeared into the short potreroview.net. Advertisers or sup- transitioning into a full body dance, rock, paper, scissors.” Pete recognized corridor leading to the restrooms. “Are porters interested in sponsoring future his eyes locked on Pete’s. “Did you call a few other regulars, scattered around you coming, or going,” Pete said, to the installations, or publishing the final me?” Pete finally asked. the establishment. He gazed at each, air. He grabbed onto the stool next to manuscript, should contact editor@ “Only in the most metaphorical waiting for them to out themselves as Chester, and started to sit down. potreroview.net. of ways,” said Justin, who stopped his secret source. 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PUBLISHER’S VIEW from page 15 then, our corporeal and metaphysical erected, built on the bones of van- are allowed to survive and flourish. realities have morphed into something quished species and activists’ blood, an History doesn’t bend towards a that resembles the faraway stars of infinite number of futures can be seen. particular kind of justice; it only does years ago, desperately seeking to which the ancients tried to make It’ll take new skills, keen observations, so if we push it in that direction. To survive, trembling in fear, protected sense. Reality now takes the form of revolutionarily different mindsets, to do so we need to see our circumstances, by a thin cloak of gods. We thrived by sharp tweets, possibly fictitious news thrive in the reality that we’ve made. and how they’ve been created, quite developing deep insights into our physi- bulletins, and monetary transactions What’s at stake isn’t so much our clearly. The winning creators of cal environment, what we could touch that appear as numbers on a computer lives, but our ways of living, who gets dominant reality – there may be many and manipulate, bolstered by a myriad screen. It cannot be touched or smelt. to decide how truth is defined, what or few – will determine what’s to come. of beliefs about what it all means. Since From the hilltop we’ve so cleverly ecologies, cultures and relationships

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UCSF announces Dogpatch Community Task Force Meetings

Next Meeting: Thursday, January 19, 6:30pm UCSF at Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, Room N-114

The Dogpatch Community Task Force has been formed to identify and discuss potential impacts and solutions of UCSF’s proposed development in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The group is composed of Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighbors and merchants, city staff and UCSF staff. UCSF is currently planning two developments in Dogpatch that will be the focus of the discussion: • Graduate student and trainee housing at 560, 590 and 600 Minnesota Street • Department of Psychiatry Child, Teen and Family Center at 2130 Third Street

PAST MEETINGS: UPCOMING MEETINGS: Join in the conversation. Thursday, September 29, 2016 Thursday, January 19, 2017 Monday, October 24, 2016 Wednesday, February 22, 2017 All meetings are open to Monday, November 28, 2016 Tuesday, March 21, 2017 the public.

For more information, contact Michele Davis at [email protected], 415-476-3024. To be on our notiﬁ cation list, email [email protected], specifying the campus site(s) of interest: Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mount Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. UCSF fully subscribes to the Americans with Disabilities Act. If at any time you feel you have a need for accommodation, please contact UCSF Community and Government Relations at 415-476-3206 or [email protected] with your suggested accommodation. UCSF Mission Bay Campus is accessible using the MUNI T-Third light rail line and bus #55. If you need to drive, please park at no charge in the 3rd St. Garage along 4th Street, one block north of 16th Street. Parking vouchers will be provided. 18 THE POTRERO VIEW January 2017

COMMUNITY JANUARY

Science: Catch a Wave Printmaking: Wine Art Music: Daniel Berkman of participating venues: http://bit. Our universe is awash with 7 Calendar Posters 11 Potrero Hill resident Daniel ly/2ha5Wnl 5 waves: sound waves jostling Printmaker James Tucker, Berkman is a composer, air molecules, seismic waves shifting from local letterpress print shop, the multi-instrumentalist and innovator of Community Meeting the earth beneath our feet, Aesthetic Union, will teach the kora, a 21-stringed harp/lute from The Dogpatch Community Task Force electromagnetic waves vibrating participants how to create single West Africa. 7:30 to 9 p.m., Farley’s, has been form to identify and discuss through the vacuum of space. We’re sheet 2017 calendar posters featuring 1315 18th Street. potential impacts and solutions of buffeted by traveling disturbances. custom designs by Tucker. Use the UCSF’s proposed development in the Come surf a groundswell of wave Aesthetic Union’s mobile printing Music: Bum Wagler & Dogpatch neighborhood. UCSF is science and ride the face of big wave press to produce your poster; The Tune Wranglers currently planning two developments culture with short documentaries, and customize it with a variety of artistic 12 Bum Wagler & The Tune in the Dogpatch that will be the focus live surf rock. 6 to 10 p.m. $15 general embellishments. 2 to 5 p.m. $30 non- Wranglers play original tunes in the of the discussion: graduate student admission; $10 members; free for Lab members; $20 members. Workshop, honky-tonk country vein. 7:30 to and trainee housing at 560, 590, and members. Adults, 18+, only. exhibition access, and light 9 p.m., Farley’s, 1315 18th Street. 600 Minnesota Street; Department of Exploratorium, Pier 15, Embarcadero refreshments included. Museum of Psychiatry Child, Teen, and Family at Green. To purchase tickets: http:// Craft and Design, 2569 Third Street. Comedy: Good Times in Center at 2130 Third Street. 6:30 p.m. bit.ly/2hEnmtw. For more information: To purchase tickets and register: the Grotto UCSF Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, http://bit.ly/2hEfbgF http://bit.ly/2h3AY3z. For more 13 Good Times in the Grotto, Room N-114. For more information, information: http://www.sfmcd.org hosted by local comedian Anthony contact Michele Davis at Michele. Art: Monet or 415.773.0303 Medina on (most) second Fridays [email protected] or 415.476.3024 This lecture, presented by Dr. Esther of the month, features a diverse Bell, curator of European paintings Dance: Lunar New Year lineup of Bay Area comedians. 6:30 Education: Volunteer at the Fine Arts Museums of San Celebrate the Lunar New Year at the to 8:30 p.m. Free admission, drinks, Opportunity Information Francisco, is held in advance of the San Francisco Public Library with a and snacks, though a suggested $5 20 Session February 25 opening of Monet: The Chinese Lion Dance and Martial Arts donation. 18+ unless accompanied by Experience Corps Bay Area taps the Early Years, the first major American Performance. 12:30 p.m. at the North adult; 21+ to drink. Sports Basement, life experience of literacy volunteers, exhibition devoted to the initial Beach Branch, 850 Columbus Avenue; 1590 Bryant Street. age 50+, to tutor elementary school phase of Claude Monet’s, 1840 to 1:30 p.m. at the Marina Branch, 1890 children throughout the Bay Area, 1926, career. $3 members; $4 non- Chestnut Street; 2:30 p.m. at the Family: Cork Crafts and is seeking volunteers to serve members after general admission. Golden Gate Valley Branch, 1801 Green This all ages Family Day Starr King Elementary School, where No reservations. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Street. For more information: http:// 14 takes corks beyond the 56 percent of third graders read Florence Gould Theater, Legion of bit.ly/2hQens8 bottle stopper to create playful animal below grade level. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Honor, Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue. figures, keychains, stamps, jewelry, Potrero Hill Library, 1616 20th Street. For more information: http://bit. magnets and more! View current For more information: http://www. ly/2h9Hkvb Museum of Craft and Design exhibit, experiencecorpsbayarea.org or Beyond the Pour II: The Creative 415.759.4222. Process, for inspiration, and join the MakeArt Lab for this free, drop-in Family: Movie activity. 1 to 4 p.m. Free with general In partnership with the Potrero Hill admission: http://bit.ly/2gTpWxM. Family Support Center (PHFSC), the Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco Public Library presents 2569 Third Street. For more the family-friendly film, Akeelah and information: 415.773.0303 or the Bee, with a meal provided by http://bit.ly/2gU458z PHFSC. In Akeelah and the Bee, a young girl learns to believe in herself Book: The Modern Salad when she enters the school spelling Bursting with bold flavors, hearty bee and wins! Her workload increases ingredients, crunchy textures and as she prepares for the statewide bee. brilliant colors, the salads in this book Potrero Dogpatch Merchant’s Association meets the second Tuesday of each Starring Keke Palmer, Laurence by Elizabeth Howes are a feast for Fishburne, and Angela Bassett. Rated month at 10 a.m. at Goat Hill Pizza, corner of Connecticut and 18th streets. your senses. Free. 3 to 4 p.m. PG. 112 minutes. Stay after for a fun Website: www.potrerodogpatch.com. Call 415.341.8949. Next meeting: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a activity. 3 to 5 p.m., Potrero Branch January 10th. Cesar Chavez Street. For more Library, 1616 29th Street. For more information: http://www. information: http://bit.ly/2hQgDiT Starr King Open Space meets for monthly Stewardship Day the second omnivorebooks.com/events.html Mini Parade: Lunar New Year Saturday of each month from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Starr King Open Family: Mochi Pounding 21 Experience what the original Space, corner of Carolina St. and 23rd St. Come out and meet your Ceremony parade was like 150 years neighbors, be a community steward, enjoy the natural grassland habitat, see 15 Celebrate the Japanese New ago while you sneak a peek at what spectacular views, and celebrate our beautiful neighborhood open space. Year with Kagami Kai, an acclaimed the larger Lunar New Year parade Everyone is welcome. Find out more at www.starrkingopenspace.org or mochi group, as it presents the will bring. The procession begins at colorful and exciting New Year historic St. Mary’s Square, follows facebook.com/StarrKingOpenSpace. tradition of mochi pounding to make the original parade route down Grant delectably sweet rice cakes, with Avenue and proceeds to the Flower SOMA Rotary Club meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month at music, dance and costumes. As part Market Fair’s main stage on Mission Rock Resort, 817 Terry Francois Blvd. We meet at 6 p.m. for a mixer of the day, paint a Year of the Rooster Washington below Grant. The and 7 p.m. for a dinner meeting. We provide community service to the netsuke to take home for luck and procession will include lion dancers, Mission Bay, Potrero, and Bayview communities. The focus is on providing prosperity in the new year.Free with giant walking puppets, costumed stilt general admission. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., walkers, drummers and dancers. 10:30 services for the under-served of our community. The website is located Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall, 200 a.m. For more information: http://bit. at: www.meetup.com/Mission-Bay-Rotary-Club. For more information Larkin Street. ly/20rz5eM contact Nine at: [email protected]. Meeting: Dogpatch & 1/21 and 1/22 Fair: Lunar New Year Potrero Hill Garden Club usually meets the last Sunday of the month at 11 a.m. Northwest Potrero Hill Green Purchase fresh flowers, fruits, candies, 18 Benefit District and other supplies for the home to for a potluck in a local home or garden. We occasionally visit gardens Working together to green-up, begin the new lunar year. Delight in such as Ruth Bancroft, Yerba Buena, Cornerstone, Filoli, and the rooftop clean-up and beautify public spaces performances of traditional Chinese garden at the Fairmont. We discuss gardening appropriate for Potrero in Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill. magicians, acrobats, folk dancers and Hill’s microclimates, and often have speakers on subjects such as drought, Board of Directors meeting. Free. opera as you take in the beautiful wind, shade, pests, and even flower arranging. For details, please contact 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tivoli Room at spring fragrances. San Francisco UCSF, 654 Minnesota Street. www. us at [email protected]. Chinatown, Grant Avenue from Clay dnwph-gbd.org to Broadway; Pacific, Jackson and Washington between Stockton and At the Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District, our Art: Museum & Gallery Kearny. Saturday, January 21, 10 a.m. mission is to clean, maintain, enhance, and expand open spaces, parks, 19 Crawl to 8 p.m.; Sunday, January, 9 a.m. to plazas, parklets, gardens, sidewalk greening and the public realm in Yerba Buena Third 6 p.m.. For more information: http:// general in the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill neighborhoods; Thursdays is a monthly outing of art, bit.ly/2hY5WqI performance, music, and drinks. Look support community and volunteer efforts; and promote sound for the yellow balloons for Third 1/26 through 2/15 ecological practices and green infrastructure with a locally controlled, Thursday events at participating Theater: Re-Opening sustainable and transparent funding structure. Next meeting venues; be sure to pick-up your wrist 26 PlayGround, the Bay Area’s will be January 18th, 6:30 PM, in the Tivoli room at 654 Minnesota band at Yerba Buena Center for the leading playwright incubator and Street. Visit our website to see what we are working on near you! Arts for special rates at participating theatre community hub will reopen in bars and restaurants. 5 to 10 p.m. All late-January under the new name www.dnwph-gbd.org gallery and museum admissions “Potrero Stage: The PlayGround Center free, except for the Contemporary for New Plays.” To mark the occasion, For a $120 annual fee your organization can be listed in Getting Involved. Jewish Museum, which’ll offer PlayGround commissioned eight of its Contact [email protected] a special entry price of $5. For listing alumni to help create a theatrical January 2017 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 9 imagining of Potrero Hill’s past, Music: John Lewis and Gary present and future. 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he University of California, San Francisco UCSF is roosing to UCSF Minnesota Graduate Student/Trainee Housing develo a graduate student and traineehousing comle on Draft EIR Public Hearing innesota Street, between ariosa and 1th Streets, ust south of the eisting UCSF ission ay camus site. he roect would hel The purpose of the public hearing is to provide neighbors an opportunity to ee rents affordable for graduate students and trainees in resonse comment on the Draft EIR, verbally or in writing. No responses will be provided to to rising housing costs, while reducing cometition with City residents comments/questions during the hearing.

for limited housing inventory. Recent studies commissioned by UCSF have found that u to 2,600 students and trainees reuire housing in the immediate future. he roosed roect would rovide housing to hel offset some of this demand. th he roosed roect would house u to 10 residents, which would Please enter from the 4 Street Public Plaza near include graduate students and trainees along with souses or Mariposa St artners. he housing comle is not intended for families with he SF Medical enter at Mission Bay is on MI line and the and bus lines. If you children. must drie, please park at no charge in the Medical enter surface lot. emember to get a prepaid parking voucher at the end of the meeting. he site is located at 566, 50 and 600 innesota Street. hile the IR analysis assumes the maimum number of units, the roosed roect may ultimately contain fewer than 610 units, deending on Draft EIR The Draft EIR, including a detailed project description, is available for public design inut from neighbors and tenant focus grous . Graduate review and comment starting January 9, 2017 at http://campusplanning.ucsf.edu/ students and trainees would be in two structures on innesota The purpose of the public hearing is to receive comments on the adequacy of the Street, one to the north of 1th Street and one to the south. ach Draft EIR. UCSF will not respond to comments/questions at this hearing. building would be si stories tall about 5 feet in height, in Certification of the Final EIR will take place at a later meeting. comliance with local oning restrictions for building height. ff street aring would total about 140 aring saces accessed from You can obtain a paper version of the Draft EIR by calling 415.476.2911. To give Indiana Street and would be belowgrade or artially belowgrade if written feedback on the Draft EIR, please write to Diane C. Wong, UCSF Campus determined to be financially feasible. Aroimately 30 saces would Planning, Box 0286, San Francisco, CA 94143 or email her at be set aside for vehicleshare services, and electric vehicle charging [email protected] Public comments on the Draft EIR will be accepted as of stations would be rovided. lanned onsite amenities would include January 9, 2017, through 5:00 pm on February 23, 2017. If you would like to bie aring, social sace, community rooms, laundry, and a small receive notification of future meetings, please contact us at corner maret to serve the roect residents and the Dogatch [email protected] or at 415.476.3206. If you have neighborhood. he roosed roect is anticiated to begin general questions, please contact [email protected] construction in 2017 and be occuied by summer 201. or 415-476-3024. UCSF fully subscribes to the Americans with Disabilities Act. If at any time you feel you have a need for accommodation, contact UCSF Community & Government Relations at 415.476.3206 or [email protected] with your suggested accommodation. If you would like to be on our email notification list, please email [email protected], specifying the campus site(s) of interest: Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mount Sutro, Mount Zion, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. 20 THE POTRERO VIEW January 2017

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UCSF is proposing to develop a new Child, Teen and Family Center and 2130 Third Street Draft EIR Public Hearing Department of Psychiatry building on the site of 2130 Third Street. The After a brief recess, part two will focus exclusively on the Draft Environmental Impact proposed project would provide a location for clinic and office space for Report (Draft EIR) public hearing for the proposed project. The purpose of the public the UCSF Child Teen and Family Center (CTFC) and the UCSF hearing is to provide neighbors an opportunity to comment on the Draft EIR, verbally or in Department of Psychiatry. The outpatient clinic would be managed by the writing. No responses will be provided to comments / questions during the hearing. UCSF Department of Psychiatry and would comprise existing departmental patient care, as well as research and training activities, plus two Department of Pediatrics patient care and research programs. Other departmental activities include adult mental health clinical services, a EXTENDED PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD broad array of research and training programs and administrative services. Clinicians, educators, researchers, trainees and staff in this new FOR UCSF DRAFT EIR: Child, Teen and building would largely be relocated from the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI) at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights and other campus sites. Family Center at 2130 Third Street The project site is about 33,600 square feet and is located in the UCSF has extended the public comment period Dogpatch neighborhood, at 18th Street between Third and Tennessee streets, one block south of the UCSF Mission Bay campus site. The by 30 days to Monday, February 6, 2017. All existing three-story office building is approximately 36,000 gross square feet (gsf), and the building and its associated surface parking lot would be comments on the DEIR for 2130 Third Street are demolished as part of the proposal. The proposed building would be approximately 150,000 gsf (excluding parking) and would contain now due on February 6 (instead of January 6) outpatient clinics, dry research space, educational space, administrative offices, and may include some accessory retail. The proposed building Draft EIR would be three to five stories, measured between 45 and 68 feet in height The Draft EIR, including a detailed project description, is available for public review and with some underground parking. comment starting on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at http://campusplanning.ucsf.edu/. The purpose of the public hearing is to receive comments on the adequacy of the Draft Preliminary Building Design Presentation for 2130 Third Street EIR. UCSF will not respond to comments / questions at this hearing. Certification of the During the first part of the meeting, the building project team will provide Final EIR will take place at a later meeting. an update on its work to develop the proposed project design. We will share some preliminary design ideas, recently shared with the Dogpatch You can obtain a paper version of the Draft EIR by calling 415.476.2911. To give Neighborhood Association/Potrero Boosters Design and Development written feedback on the Draft EIR, please write to Tammy Chan, UCSF Campus Committee (Committee). The project team plans to work with the Planning, Box 0286, San Francisco, CA 94143 or email her at [email protected]. Committee to refine the project design prior to a future building design presentation with neighbors. This part of the meeting will include an open Public comments on the Draft EIR will be accepted from November 22, 2016 to 5:00 discussion on the building design progress to date. However, the second pm on February 6, 2017. If you would like to receive notification of future meetings, part of the meeting, as described below, will involve a formal public please contact us at [email protected] or at 415.476.3206. hearing to take questions and comments on the draft EIR to be answered If you have general questions, please contact later in the published EIR. [email protected] or 415-476-3024.

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