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SEPTEMBER 2012 Serving the Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Mission Bay and SOMA Neighborhoods Since 1970 FREE Hill Residents Concerned About Proposed Changes to 22-Fillmore

By BriAn rinker of the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP), a joint effort by the transpor- Many Potrero Hill residents and tation agency and City Controller business owners are skeptical of a San which aims to improve Muni services, Francisco Municipal Transportation making transit more reliable, faster Agency (SFMTA) proposal to reroute and efficient. the 22-Fillmore bus line from the According to SFMTA, the bus 18th Street commercial district to route change would increase transit 16th Street, from which it would efficiency, and help connect the grow- travel north on Third Street toward ing Mission Bay — an area with in- creasing transportation needs — with the rest of the City. Under the plan, the 33-Stanyan bus line would replace the 22-Fillmore’s coverage of Con- necticut and 18th streets. But average wait times for the 33 are ve minutes Pier 0 Set or Maor Renoation longer than for the 22. How often the 33 will come under its revised route STry And PhTrAPhS By Pier 0s two dry docs are 0 feet and 28 feet is unknown. “Replacing the 22 with MrAne BylS long. The smaller doc lifts ships weighing up to the 33 would result in a signi cant cut 14000 tons. The larger one can lift a 600 ton in service to the Hill, a neighborhood After a century and a half of in- ship maing it the Pacic oasts largest dry doc. with a growing population that is ex- dustrial and ship building and repair pected to boom in the coming years,” activities, Pier 70 is on the verge of “Replacing the 22 with the 33 will said Tony Kelly, Potrero Boosters major change. Following a ve year gross revenue. They took over shipyard result in a signi cant cut in service Neighborhood Association president. planning process that involved ship operations in 2006; their current lease to the Hill, a neighborhood with a On 16th Street from Church to repair company BAE Systems San agreement extends through 2017. Over growing population that is expected Third streets the 22-Fillmore aver- Francisco Ship Repair, City officials, the years BAE Systems has repaired to boom in the coming years” ages seven miles per hour, and carries and community members, the Port of hundreds of ships, including barges, TONY KELLY, POTRERO BOOSTERS 8,000 passengers a day. If SFMTA’s San Francisco will break ground on tug boats, U.S. Coast Guard Cutters, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT. proposal is adopted, the agency the rst phase of what’s expected to container ships, tankers, bulk carriers Mission Bay. “Bus service in general expects to increase the speed to 8.7 be a 20-year redevelopment project and cruise ships. is inadequate in our area,” said Jim miles an hour, which will shave off next year. Under the plan, ship repair “We repair several dozen ships, Wilkins, Hill resident and Eastern six minutes in each direction, a 28 work will continue, but be steadily barges and tug boats, both in the yard Neighborhoods United Front (ENUF) percent reduction, according to Paul surrounded by commercial, cultural and at anchor or other facilities around member. “The move of the 22 bus will Rose, SFMTA spokesman. “That and recreational activities. the bay [every year],” said Joe Chopek, further diminish that service.” The could potentially allow us to save on BAE Systems leases the shipyard BAE Systems Ship Repair communi- plan to reroute the 22-Fillmore is part and additional acreage at Pier 70 from

ILLUSTRATION BY PETER LILENTHAL 22-FLLMORE page the Port, with payments linked to their PER 0 page 1 Potrero Hill an (Unpaid) Television and Film Star

By elizABeTh MelChr to be a view magnet for location agents,” month, Woody Allen’s was shooting his said Lortz. yet untitled feature lm around San After 27 years at the corner of 19th Susannah Robinson, the San Fran- Francisco. Major lms and television and Texas streets, Ed Lortz has seen cisco Film Commission’s executive shows that’ve been lmed on Potrero his share of movie shoots. He even got director, con rmed that Potrero Hill is Hill include Bullitt and Nash Bridges. a piece of the action once: $300 from a popular location to lm movies, televi- “The message we try to get across Paci c Heights’ production staff to plug sion, and, increasingly, commercials. to all the neighbors is that this industry in an extension cord. His house ashes According to Robinson, the Hill visually bene ts locals because they hire local across the screen in one scene. “I’ve seen offers it all, with great views, Victorian crew and actors. It is keeping this in- dozens, most likely over 50 shoots, in the architecture, and San Francisco’s iconic dustry alive,” said Robinson. There’s no vicinity of 19th and Texas, which seems steep hills. legal requirement that productions hire This summer, the Hill served as locally. Unions encourage it, and most Stunning views lie this one of downtown backdrop for the oft-played AT&T/ commercial shoots are done so quickly from Aransas and 20th streets mae Potrero Samsung commercial of a man running that bringing in people from outside San Hill attractive to llmmaers and a favorite for through San Francisco, and appeared in Francisco doesn’t make sense. While wedding portraits. PHTAPH AI IHIAA. the DC Shoes viral video of a car racing PECKISH IN POTRERO by KID BEYOND 1 234 5678 9 10 11 12 13 and skidding around City corners. Last FLMSTAR Southside page 3 14 15 16

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ACROSS DOWN 1 Brunch mecca on 42 Hip-hop clothier Karl 1 Promote 29 Fare served at 18th & Texas 43 Bedroom 2 The Swoosh, e.g. 39-Across 5 Turkish delight on community, briefly 3 Swanky Thai on 19th 31 Seoul Patch on 18th 18th & Connecticut 44 Coeur d’____, Idaho & Valencia & Connecticut, e.g. 9 Jagger & Fleetwood 45 Abbr. at the bottom 4 Kanye and Mae 32 Anastasia's ancestors 14 Misplace of a letter 5 Mexican bistro on 33 Trainspotting, e.g. 15 Mucho 46 Emulate Milli Vanilli 18th & Connecticut 36 Israeli gun 16 Wear ____ and tie 48 Latvia, once: Abbr. 6 It flies to Tel Aviv 38 Georgia airport code 17 Sounds of dismay 49 Fix a shoe 7 Bike shop next to 40 Schoolhouse Rock’s 18 ____ Alto 51 One day ____ time Dos Piñas Taquería "I'm Just ____” 19 Big brass 53 Community in a cup 8 Straddling 41 Cali capital, for short instruments on 18th & Texas 9 Passover fare at Wise 46 Loewe’s lyricist 20 Potrero's oldest 60 Squirrel’s snack Sons, 24th+Shotwell 47 Dish at Dos Piñas on restaurant 62 With 68-Across, 10 12-Down rival 15th & Rhode Island 23 Lush monster hunter's 11 Drink orders at 50 Country rocker Steve 24 French seaport near mecca 5-Down 52 Spokesduck co. Marseilles 63 Old Italian bread? 12 Sephia maker 54 Brio 27 Playboy founder, 64 Intact 13 De Haro, 19th, etc. 55 Harness an ox informally 65 Sony co-founder 21 Pharaoh's suffix 56 Bio., chem., etc. 30 Daredevil's dare Morita 22 "Who goes there?" 57 Prix ____ , like one 34 Shiba ____ (dog 66 Cafe / gallery on response menu at Aperto on breed) 8th & Irwin 25 They’re in the soup 18th & Connecticut 35 Based on ____ story 67 Feast featuring at 39-Across 58 Brockovich, e.g. 37 Bears, in Baja 9-Down 26 Half of a Nabisco 59 Sunset-to-Potrero 38 15-Across’ opposite 68 See 62-Across cookie direction 39 Provençal palace on 69 Small change 27 Computer intruder 60 Puppies elicit them 18th & Missouri 28 Odorless gas 61 Fidel comrade 2 THE POTRERO VIEW September 2012

strange accumulations of white on screen in the last ten years. Its powder underneath every other street appearance is a perfect antidote to SHORT CUTS tree and against a couple of buildings. America’s ever intensifying obsession Not just a pinch of powder; more like with fame and money. Don’t read noisy. Although Torelli’s Connecticut a half-cup. Rat poison? Alarmed, her anything about it, just go see it. And Enouh Street neighbors don’t mind the noise, husband carefully scooped up the then check-out Bimbo’s 365 Club for Concerned about San Francisco a couple of Arkansas Street residents material under their tree and watered an after-party, but not until you’ve Municipal Transportation Agency are crowing foul about the sounds and the rest away. After more consider- seen the film! If you think this is plans to place meters throughout smells. Feathers are ying between ation, Adams decided to call for help. obscure, it’s on purpose, and for your Southside San Francisco, East- the chicken owners, their landlord, Within minutes a patrol car and re own good. Follow these directions; ern Neighborhoods United Front and their irate neighbors. The birds truck arrived. The cops thought the you won’t be sorry…If you’re annoyed (ENUF) is surveying residents and themselves — up to three of which are white droppings were weird. The by the constant deluge of tourists in businesses to nd out what parking legal to keep in San Francisco — seem re ghters said not to worry; there’d our City by the Bay, keep in mind changes they believe are merited in happy to be living on the Hill, but are been reports of a jogger running along that the average visitor spends almost Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, the Mission now up for adoption… the streets and marking his path. $10,500 on food, lodging, shopping, and elsewhere. ENUF hopes to collect Adams remains concerned. Readers and other entertainments for each hundreds of surveys, a copy of which Poder who know the who, why, and what’s San Francisco resident. That family can be found at sfenuf.org by Septem- Lynka Adams was walking out- going on are encouraged to contact in shorts and t-shirts freezing in the ber 7… Mission Rock Resort: Oyster side her Texas Street home — between the View… Telegraph Hill’s parrots fog is generating jobs for us… 2.25” Bar— aka “The Rock” — opened last 18th and 19th streets — one Saturday appear to have moved to Potrero Hill, month at the former site of Kelly’s morning, and was disturbed to nd with daily sightings of the colorful Mission Rock, 817 Terry Francois birds. Real estate values must now be Boulevard. You might want to go there sufficiently high in the neighborhood now; it’s looking to quickly become a to attract the exotic creatures. waterfront destination for the rest of the City. Preshoo Sweet Peas Preschool, which Chiens opened at 17th and Florida this A small group of chickens have month, has spaces available for three stirred-up a nest of trouble on the to ve year-old girls. The preschool North Slope. For the past couple of has a low teacher/child ratio, offers years Connecticut Street resident year round — September through • Grades K–8 • Innovative Programs Irina Torelli and her family have been August — full-day care. The cur- • Challenging • Extended Care Academics raising three chickens in the backyard riculum is play- and project-based, • Tuition Assistance of their rental home. Each chicken with on-site yoga, music, Spanish, Open House produces roughly a half-dozen eggs and gymnastics enrichment activities. Saturday, December 1 a week, most of which Torelli gives 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. away to friends, family and neigh- Suarman 1387 Valencia Street bors. Problem is, the chickens cry for Waiting for Sugarman may be San Francisco, CA 94110 about 15 minutes a day before laying the best documentary — certainly the www.synergyschool.org (415) 567-6177 their eggs, with “KimK” particularly These feathered friends are up for adoption. most compelling story — presented 3.875

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Letters to the Editor PuBLISHER’S VIEw Editor, neighbors of mine — who was en- My neighbors and I read “Kaiser gaged in the lengthy rezoning pro- and Youth Wellness Center: Coming cess of lower Potrero over the past Government to Potrero Hill, Bayview” (August) decade, I can assure you that a seven with dismay and alarm. For us, the story tall, 200,000 square foot medi- BY STEVEN J. MOSS proposed development by Kaiser rep- cal office/residential complex wasn’t resents an unwelcome blueprint for what we envisioned and wanted for lower Potrero Hill. It will radically our area. We have consistently op- reshape and damage the character of posed Mission Bay-type building on our area, spreading the ugly infec- the western side of the 280 freeway. tion of Mission Bay. We believed we’d succeeded in this As proposed, the project’s scale effort after the final Eastern Neigh- remains excessively big and fat, borhoods rezoning rules appeared with 84 foot heights — which is at to bar “medical” institutions from least 34 feet taller than existing locating in our Urban Mixed Use heights — and medical office plus area. It's now clear to us that we've ILLUSTRAT I residential/retail space totaling been duped. upwards of 200,000 square feet. Kaiser and the lead project This type and scale of development developer are engaged in an ag- ON BY PETER L I belongs in Mission Bay, east of the gressive campaign to sell this mas- 280 freeway, not at the bottom of sive development and buy off our

Potrero Hill, among residences and neighborhood. Project backers tout LENTHAL small blue-collar businesses. its economic benefits. But a genuine The effect would be to wall off livable neighborhood isn’t merely lower Potrero Hill. Moreover, traffic about creating jobs and putting and parking congestion — already money into the pockets of businesses ig government or small? America’s great debate,” was the question escalating out of control — would or out of town developers, such as poised on a recent cover of The Economist magazine. It’s the reprise worsen, despite assurances and Walden Development. And it’s dis- of a conversation Americans have been having since the nation was plans offered by the developer. No maying to learn from your article B underground parking garage is deep that a sitting officer of the Potrero founded. But, at this point, it’s not the size that matters, it’s the performance. enough to mitigate what a complex of Boosters Neighborhood Association For the past fifty years the number of federal employees has ranged this size and density would unleash. is accepting Kaiser and developer from a low of 4.1 million at the end of the Clinton Administration, to a high Public infrastructure — think sewers money as part of the campaign to of 6.6 million when Johnson left office. No doubt, that’s a big swing. But and streets — is already inadequate win over community support. in our area, as is public transporta- I, along with my lower Potrero government staffing levels isn’t where the money is, nor will it determine tion. The traffic impact of such a Hill neighbors, urge people to reject the quality of our future. Roughly two-thirds of all government spend- development would be demonstra- the pro development spin peddled by ing — federal, state, and local — is for just four things: health care, pensions, bly worse, especially at a location the Kaiser Permanente, the devel- education, and defense. We’re spending too much on health care and defense. already strained by ever-increasing oper, and their paid representatives. use of the 280 Mariposa on-ramp Here’s a simple message we hope But chances are we’ll need to either invest more in pensions and education, and exit. they heed: keep Kaiser and Mission or, better, significantly reform these areas. And we’re not devoting nearly The development does virtually Bay out of our lower Potrero Hill enough resources to protecting ourselves and the planet from emerging nothing to help preserve or protect neighborhood. dramatic eco-system changes. Potrero Hill’s blue-collar businesses The health care sector — on which government spends $1.1 trillion a and industrial aesthetic or heritage. Rod Minott Indeed, the City conducted a flawed Mariposa Street year — is a well-known sore point in American politics. There’s no doubt and biased historical review process that too much money is being lavished on technology-driven, profit-focused, of the property site that smacked Editor, medicine. Upwards of 80 percent of federal health-care dollars are spent of government coddling of a de- I enjoyed Melissa Pandika's during the recipients’ last year of life. And hundreds of millions of dollars are veloper. Even though the Planning article, "Residents Have Mixed expended on procedures and equipment that are not needed or overpriced. Department’s own consultant found Feelings About...," in the July issue, historic merit of buildings on the but please tell her that "pointed- There’s no perfect fix to these problems. Coping with our fear of death, and Cor-o-van site warranting possible out" — which she used twice, so it bringing dying back into the mainstream, is one important step. You’re go- protection and preservation, the de- wasn't a typo — should be "pointed ing to die; get over it. So too would be the adoption of a single-payer health partment brushed aside and rejected out" (phrasal verb). care system, under which well-managed cost and quality control standards those findings and sided with the developer’s effort to deny historic Will Turner are implemented. designation. Planning staff relied on San Jose Our pension system, mostly in the form of social security, is the govern- a “heritage” report as the basis for its ment’s $1 trillion annual Titanic. Except, the iceberg — in the form of a fast decision, and called the analysis an “independent evaluation.” Trouble Editor, is, the report was prepared by a firm In "Music Series Hopes to Sooth PBLSHERS page 1 the Cor-o-van site developer had a Troubled Bayview Plaza," (August hired as part of the review process. issue) I was incorrectly quoted Since when is an analysis bought and as saying "I oversee any possible paid for by a developer considered an disruption in the plaza during “independent evaluation”? festivities." While I'm a member of The Kaiser project isn’t a done the Concerned Bayview Residents deal yet; despite what the View’s Association and Bayview Residents headline suggested. The development Improving their Environment, and ™ Masthead design by Giacomo Patri IT and PISH Steven . oss still needs to undergo environmental active in supporting improvements review, as well as succeed in secur- to Mendell Plaza, I did not make this PTI AA .urrant SEPTEMBER STAFF: Lynne Barnes, Morgane Byloos, Keith Burbank, Carol L. Dondrea, ing both a conditional use permit and statement. Rheba Estante, Debbie Findling, Amber Hawkins, Ari Ichinaga, Kid Beyond, the green-light of a Large Project Sasha Lekach, Peter Lilenthal, Catie Magee, Paul McDonald, Elizabeth Melchor, Authorization. Diego Castellani Brian Rinker, Greg Roensch, Bill Slatkin, Mauri Schwartz, and Cindy Yurth. As someone — along with other Shafter Avenue ditorial and policy decisions are made by the staff. All staff positions are voluntary. Published monthly. 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22-FLLMORE ro Front Page “There are not yet any nal plans on Distrit 10 Superisor Etends the 22 and, at this point, nothing has been approved,” said Rose. “We are resources and use some of the buses on beginning the conceptual engineer- Her Reah to Demorati County this line to be redistributed to another ing phase of the route and it will be at route that is experiencing crowding least a year before the environmental Centra Committee By Bill SlATkin or unreliable service,” said Rose. review is complete and the proposals The City expects traffic conges- are approved.” He added that plan- In June, District 10 Supervisor tion to worsen along 16th Street ning for the 22 is especially compli- Malia Cohen was elected to San Fran- because of development in the ad- cated because of the overhead wires cisco’s Democratic Central County jacent neighborhoods. SFMTA has needed to be built around Caltrain Committee (DCCC), a position, that multiple proposals to improve bus electri cation, which will require ad- enables her to promote various Demo- speeds between Potrero Avenue and ditional planning and engineering to cratic Party objectives, including de- Interstate 280, including limiting enable trolley service to be connected termining which ballot measures and bus stops to one every four blocks with Caltrain efficiently. candidates receive DCCC endorsement. instead of every two, developing a “MTA are still working on the “Serving [on the DCCC] is what bus-only lane, shifting the bicycle plan,” said Goldstein. “I sympathize you make of it,” said Cohen, about a lane to 17th Street, eliminating park- with their challenge; pressure from position that can represent a step up ing, and restricting left turns at most Muni riders who want a faster travel on the political ladder, an opportunity intersections. time and pressure from businesses to advocate for issues and candidates, Keith Goldstein, Potrero Dog- who would be adversely affected, and or both. “My first priority is to get patch Merchants Association presi- Muni users who may bemoan the loss President Obama reelected. How can dent, is most concerned with the of bus stops.” we make sure that happens?” And she proposed left turn restrictions, which Finalizing any plans may take wants to “inuence the way the party he believes could adversely affect the some time. Revising the 22 line has a role in moderate-progressive local business community. Goldstein, has been in the City’s pipeline for “I’m interested in looking at how politics in San Francisco.” who also serves on the Eastern Neigh- decades. In 1998, an environmental In addition to candidate primaries we can maximize our ability to borhoods Citizens Advisory Commit- impact report for Mission Bay in- and initiatives, the June 5, 2012 ballot raise money so we can reach out tee, said that the committee is worried cluded similar proposals to reroute offered those registered to a political more…to share our persuasive about the transportation plan’s pos- the 22, expressed concerns about party — Democrat, Republican, Ameri- arguments with the voters.” sible effect on 16th Street business, overhead wires, and noted that the can Independent, Green, Libertarian, MALIA COHEN, DISTRICT 10 and has sent a letter outlining their proposed plans were similar to those or Peace and Freedom — a list of candi- SUPERVISOR, PICTURED ABOVE concerns to SFMTA. “It would hurt presented in a 1990 report. “Muni has dates to be selected for leadership roles my business,” said Nasser Nasarah, been claiming recently that the 22 in each voter’s chosen party. Cohen was owner of JB’s Place, referring to the rerouting is some sort of transit im- among the 14 highest vote getters out program, under which individuals are rerouting of the 22. However, in the provement for the area as part of the of 30 candidates to serve Democrats paid to register new voters. “We need quarter century his restaurant has Transit Effectiveness Project, when in the state’s 17th Assembly District a cost/bene t analysis to determine operated along the 22 route on 17th in fact a) it isn't an improvement, it's (AD). She was among ve San Fran- what we’re spending on the program Street, he’s seen many changes to the a reduction of service on the Hill, cisco supervisors elected to the AD 17 and if people are voting. It needs to neighborhood, and managed to ride and b) it was in the works long, long committee, including board president be about spending effectively and out every bump along the way. before the TEP,” Kelly said. If the David Chiu. building long-term relationships with Nasarah and the other concerned City ever reroutes the 22 Kelly hopes The committee is “an organizing people who will get behind Democratic community members might not have that it provides adequate replacement body” for the party, said Cohen. She issues and Democratic candidates.” to ride out these particular changes. transportation. explained that it helps determine what Cohen also supports ending the death issues and individuals the party will penalty and enforcing equal pay for support, and raises funds to nance equal work laws. And she wants to Democratic campaigns. “I’m interested be sure the party’s efforts “focus on in looking at how we can maximize our outreach to folks in public housing and ability to raise money so we can reach among young people; teaching them the out more…to share our persuasive importance of voting.” arguments with the voters.” One of County Democrats are served by Cohen’s fund raising roles is to help 32 individuals who can, with a simple “moderate events and host lunches and majority, endorse a candidate or ballot dinners” held to add cash to the party’s measure. In addition to the 14 commit- coffers. She noted that scoring the tee members of the 17th AD — which party’s endorsement — she was one of covers the eastern half of the City — 10 three candidates in the 2010 superviso- people serve on the DCCC from the rial race to receive the DCCC’s stamp of 19th AD, which includes San Fran- approval — helped her win the District cisco’s western neighborhoods and a 10 supervisor’s election, out of a eld slice of northern San Mateo County. of 21 candidates. The balance of the DCCC is lled by Among DCCC projects that have eight ex officio members, who are Cohen’s attention is the “bounty” federal or state elected officials.

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development — which opponents believe Potrero Hill Democratic Club Gets Political was pushed along with “spot zoning,” that allows for exceptions to height By SAShA lekACh who pay $25 annual dues. Non-residents maintain their position on the build- and other limitations which could set may join the club for $20 per year, but ing, the referendum will be voted on a precedent for other projects — won’t Politically-inclined Southside can’t cast a vote. in 2013, stalling the project for another include units for low-income families. residents have been gathering at the PHDC meets on the first Tues- year-and-a-half. Bash argued that opponents are falsely Potrero Hill Democratic Club (PHDC) day of the month at the Potrero Hill Golinger brought a copy of the 520- asserting that the building is another for years, to debate local, state and Neighborhood House (Nabe). At last page referendum that was produced to “Millennium Tower,” which rises 58 national issues, and share ideas about month’s gathering the rst discussion “defend all charges we had not given stories high alongside the Bay Bridge. how to address challenges associated topic was a proposed development voters enough information.” He hopes to “This is not a high rise building,” he with the environment, budget de cits, at 8 Washington Street, along the keep the waterfront and Embarcadero said, with the plans outlining an 84-foot campaign nance, equity, education, waterfront. Jon Golinger, president of free of large scale buildings, and argued tall edi ce reaching no more than 10 public safety and more. the Telegraph Hill Dwellers — which that Hill residents have a stake in the stories high. Currently led by club president successfully pushed for issue, as views of the A vote was called on whether or not Joni Eisen, a Hill resident and art- Proposition B, which area may be obstructed to endorse reevaluating the building’s ist with a custom cake business, the encouraged limits on and development could height, which would stall the project. club reemerged in 2007 following a the use of Coit Tower set a precedent for how Several members thought more infor- seven-year interruption in its previous as a way to preserve the Central Waterfront mation about the referendum, project almost quarter-century history. Now the landmark — was on is developed. He dis- plans and waterfront development was in its fth year as the newly established hand to debate why tributed signs urging needed before a decision was made. But Potrero Hill Democratic Club, the the project’s proposed District 10 Supervisor by the end of the meeting a quorum group has recently tackled district heights needed to be Malia Cohen to stop of voting members was present, and supervisorial elections, state policies, reevaluated. Arguing construction of “the the club endorsed the campaign “No and presidential campaigns. In 2008 it for construction of the wall.” Wall on the Waterfront” with seven in hosted a debate with four Democratic mixed-use apartment Bash, who admitted favor, four opposed and one member Potrero Hill emocratic Party candidates for the state senate: building on what’s now that “it’s much more fun abstaining. lub president oni isen Joe Alioto Veronese, assemblyman a parking garage to to be anti-development,” Eisen, who became the club’s head PHTAPH STT . I Mark Leno, state senator Carole Migden continue as planned believes that the project following her involvement with Clean and former assemblyman Joe Nation. was Alec Bash, who has “is a good development” Elections, which pushes for public PHDC also helps out with various worked with the Port of San Francisco that won’t change the already built-up nancing of political campaigns, gave community-minded events, including as a planner and consultant. Telegraph Hill neighborhood, and a quick overview about the Disclose coastal cleanups, and tabling at Sunday Issues with the building’s height, would improve the quality of the Act. Assembly Bill 1648, penned by As- Streets and the annual Potrero Hill labeled by opponents as a “wall on waterfront approaching Broadway. semblywoman Julie Brownley, D-Santa Festival. the waterfront,” prompted an historic He touted locally-based developers Monica, would require full disclosure The 84-member club serves as a fo- referendum — the rst in 20 years— to Paci c Waterfront Partners, as well as of who funds political advertisements rum for political debate, with a chance overturn the San Francisco Board of the opportunities for cafes, restaurants of candidates and measures. The bill is for all sides of an issue to present their Supervisors’ approval of the project. and shops to open up on the building’s being blocked by Republican lawmak- arguments before the group endorses a However, if the board modifies the ground oor. ers. PHDC endorsed efforts to pass the candidate, proposition, measure, stance building’s height at their meeting the Audience members grumbled that legislation before attempting to place or bill. The club gives voting power to day after Labor Day, the issue won’t the project was just another luxury Dogpatch and Potrero Hill residents go on the ballot. If the supervisors residence for rich San Franciscans. The DEMOCRATC CLB page 13

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By SAShA lekACh casional outdoor — climb. She sees this form of exercise as a healthy activity Following the success of Mission that requires oft overlooked mental Cliffs, “Dogpatch Boulders,” a new strength. indoor climbing gym, is set to open Neff, who has lived on Utah Street January 2013 in the American Indus- for eight years, said bouldering is trial Center, at 2573 Third Street. Ac- part of a supportive climbing commu- cording to Lauryn Claassen — spokes- nity lled with people of all ages and woman for Touchstone Climbers backgrounds. Spotters are available Incorporated, which owns both facili- to monitor climbs with short routes ties, as well as a slew of other centers and no ropes as boulderers work on throughout the state — Dogpatch “problems” and eventually let go and Boulders will feature a 17,400-square- fall onto a crash pad. A few years foot “bouldering-only” gym, one of ago, Neff noticed many Mission Cliffs PE Proposes Potrero Poer Pant the largest bouldering facilities in members heading to Planet Granite the country. for bouldering because the Harrison Remediation Stratey to Water Board Mission Cliffs, which owners Street facility was small and there Mark and Debra Melvin opened in was “a lot to be desired in that part By keiTh BurBAnk The Potrero Power Plant site is located on Indiana 1995 on Harrison Street, maintains of the gym.” and 2rd streets. PHTAPH . AT a small bouldering section beneath With her $70 a month Touchstone Paci c Gas and Electric Company the massive walls on which climbers membership Neff can go to any (PG&E) held an open house at Dogpatch belay toward the warehouse ceiling. Café last month to brief community In addition to its preferred option, Bouldering, which entails climbing members on its proposed environmental PG&E considered other approaches, without a rope on short boulders or MSSON CLFFS page 11 remediation plan for the Potrero Power such as excavation-only, solidi cation- imitation rocks, and falling onto a Plant site. The investor-owned utility only, extraction-only, and a barrier crash pad after a climb, is hard to intends to submit the latest version wall. But the utility asserts that its nd in San Francisco. Planet Gran- of its preferred clean-up option to the proposal is the safest and most envi- ite, in the Presidio, is the City’s only San Francisco Regional Water Quality ronmentally sustainable, eliminating other bouldering-dedicated facility. Control Board this month, which will most of the contaminants and allowing Claassen pointed-out that bouldering make the final decision as to which for future development. According to doesn’t require the massive space of remediation approach is adopted. PG&E, extraction would remove only indoor climbing, making it easier to PG&E’s preferred option consists half the pollutants, possibly limit fu- open a facility. Bouldering has been principally of solidifying the contami- ture development, necessitate ongoing “popping up more in the past five nants in the ground, using augers and maintenance, and require more than 10 years. Bouldering truly wasn’t a thing a cement-type mixture to eventually years of pumping. An excavation-only when Mission Cliffs opened,” she said. form a cement block. In addition, con- strategy would require 8,800 trucks According to Potrero Hill resident taminants would be excavated from a to travel through the neighborhood. Erin Neff, trekking to Crissy Field portion of the property, and a durable According to Johnson, the process is to go to the only current bouldering cover would be placed over the entire technically challenging, with the pos- gym is no easy feat for climbers on site, which includes a part of Pier 70 sibility of the Bay being contaminated San Francisco’s Southside. Neff, an and the northeast section of the power if a mistake is made. opera singer and classical musician, ission liffs will open ogpatch oulders plant property. Under PG&E’s proposal most of the has been climbing for 20 years, and anuary 2012 on Third and 20th streets a According to Mark Johnson, an affected property would be solidi ed, has been going to Mission Cliffs for 16 1400suare foot boulderingonly gym. engineering geologist with the Water though one area would be excavated of those years. “It’s really hardcore,” PHTAPHS TST ISSI IS. Board, the public can comment on to a depth of roughly 20 feet — rather Neff said about an indoor — and oc- PG&E’s proposal this month and next. than 45 to 55 feet — because solidify- He said the Water Board will distribute ing that area would be “difficult to fact sheets about the option chosen, implement around existing subsurface

which will include links to PG&E’s structures on Port property,” according entire proposal. The Water Board will to information conveyed at the meeting. also host community meetings to allow Using a barrier wall as the only option residents to share their concerns. “We'll would require future maintenance and ST.TERESAOFAVILA hear what others have to say. And it may limit development, according to CATHOLICCHURCH changes things,” Johnson said. “We do PG&E. Zeynep Ungun, PG&E's project modify things because of the public's SC comments.” POWER PLANT page 1 AWI FC Suzy Reily 149019S Driven, Informed, (CS) Focused... A Fresh Approach. SUNDAY MASSES Saturday Vigil 4:15 pm Consistently Within Sunday 8:30 am The Top 10% Of Realtors 10:00 am In Potrero Hill & Dogpatch. WEEKDAY MASSES Tuesday 8:30 am Friday 8:30 am PARISH OFFICE 390 Missouri St San Francisco, CA 94107 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: Phone: 415.285.5272 E-mail: [email protected] StTeresaSF.org September 2012 THE POTRERO VIEW A Diné Happily Runs a Turkish Restaurant on Potrero Hill

By Cindy yurTh where she was when she Special from the Navajo timeS met Yalçin and the idea for Pera crystallized. Working for the Navajo Times, “It was de nitely a leap one meets all kinds of intriguing Diné of faith,” she said with (Navajos) doing interesting things all a laugh. over the world. But there are always At first, things surprises; like nding a Navajo run- didn’t seem to be go- ning a ne Mediterranean restaurant ing their way. The pair on San Francisco’s trendy Potrero had hoped to recoup Hill. some of their invest- For Sherry Wilson, it was a com- ment costs by selling bination of determination, serendipity, left A meditterranean breafast from the huge woks the Chi- and devil-may-care adventurousness Peras weeend brunch menu. above nese restaurant had left that led her far from her hometown Partners Irfan alin and Sherry behind. That’s when ilson coowners of Pera estaurant. of St. Michaels, Arizona, to a busi- they learned a little- PHTAPHS TS SH IS ness in which she had no training or known fact of Chinese experience. culture. “The Chinese It started three years ago. A social are very superstitious worker on the verge of burning out, Area shipping docks alongside Mexi- to Oakland, so he could take part in about their woks,” Wilson said. “No- Wilson had turned 40 and was ready can co-workers. Immigration came the occupation of Alcatraz. Wilson was body would buy a used one. Nobody. for a change. Her partner, Irfan Yalçin, along and shipped them all back to too young to take much interest in the We ended up paying a guy $400 to a Kurdish immigrant from Turkey, Mexico; including Wilson’s gramps, a protest, but “I remember the fog and destroy them.” had just lost his job waiting tables on full-blooded Navajo. Eventually, the the green hills,” she said. The oor space had a lot of divid- a cruise ship. The pair had saved some government realized its mistake, but The memory drew her back for ers and dead areas. Wilson and Yalçin money, and when long-time 18th Street by then Cheii didn’t want to leave. “He a trip with her grandmother when decided to clear everything out and staple Eliza’s closed, they decided to actually loved it down there,” Wilson she was 18 or 19. That’s when she put in as many tables as could fit. make an offer on the space. “Neither of said. “His dad had to send for him. He decided she would one day call the “The more tables you have, the more us had owned a business before,” said said, ‘You’ve got a wife, you’ve got a Bay Area home. After graduating from money you can make, right?” Wilson Wilson, who is Tódích’íi’nii — Bitter kid, you gotta come home!’” It’s a good high school, she attended Arizona asked rhetorically. Wrong. Wilson’s Water Clan — born for Maricopa. thing, because Wilson’s Cheii ended up State University for “a smidge,” then social work skills were soon required Yalçin had learned the restaurant having several more children after he bounced around a while before, at as the new entrepreneurs learned that business from the coffee grounds up, returned to the states, including her age 27, moving to the place that had running a restaurant is one-fourth and felt con dent he could succeed. As mother. beckoned her all her life. food and three-quarters psychology. for Wilson, she’s never been known to There’s another San Francisco Wilson completed a degree in Eng- “People would walk by and look in run from a grand adventure. connection on the other side of Wilson’s lish at San Francisco State University, the window, and there were all these It’s a trait she comes by natu- family. Swept up in the Native Rights and worked her way into a social work empty tables,” Wilson recalled. “They rally. Two generations ago, Wilson’s Movement of the early-1970s, Wilson’s position serving San Francisco’s large grandfather was working the Bay father briey moved the whole family Native American community. That’s din page 13

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TOOLS OF A TEACHER MS. B LACKETT First-Grade Spanish Immersion Teacher at Daniel Webster Elementary School

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, AU GUST 20 Students from Daniel Webster and Starr King Elementary Schools

Right column, from top Left column, from top MIddle column, from top 1 Emmett (second grade at SK) 1 Daniel Webster (DW) Principal Moraima 1 Claire (first grader at DW) 2 Fifth-graders from Starr King Machado leads the pledge of allegiance. 2 Buddies Roman, Soren, Sam, and 3 Alex (fifth grader at SK) 2 First-graders line up to enter their Christopher (third graders at DW) 4 Potrero Hill residents Jet (sixth grader at Aptos classroom. 3 Morning circle at DW with Ms. Machado. Middle School), Skylar (fitth grader at SK) 3 Friends Samuel and John Haley 4 Emmett, Milan, and Emma (second and Lola (third grader at SK) (second graders at DW) graders at SK) 5 Matthew (first grader at SK) and 4 Sadie and Leila (second graders at DW) 5 Starr King (SK) Principal Greg John sister Jasmine, (kindergartener at SK) addresses students and parents on the first day.

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1459 18th Street #105 San Francisco 94107 415.779.4107 September 2012 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 1 MSSON CLFFS ro page Friends o Potrero Hi Nursery company-owned gym. The climbing a cionado is eager to try out the Dog- Shoo Starts ear in Ne Buidin patch facility once it opens. “Climbing is an extremely addictive sport,” she said, noting that the new location will be in a at area, accessible to freeway commuters and bicyclists. Neff said that many Hill residents climb; introduction of a climbing spot in the neighborhood will serve to in- crease the family-friendly, close-knit community she experiences when she stops by the gym, which she does four to ve times a week for spinning, yoga, and, of course, climbing. The Dogpatch gym will have 17-foot highballs, much higher than the average 10 feet or so bouldering “problems;” 12-foot top-out boulders, By keiTh BurBAnk The new school design which is fresh modern which will allow the climber to swing and beautifully simple matches the schools aldorfinspired philosophy. PHTAPHS TS onto the top of the structure; and “We've moved in. It was seamless. A 13,000-square feet just for bouldering. It felt like we were coming home,” The company also promises a kids’ said Monica Leicht, Friends of Potrero structure with a castle design. “Kids Hill Preschool’s director. “This was tor and alumni parent,] really had a are a big part of our gym,” Claassen a beautiful and seamless beginning.” vision of what could happen. And we said, indicating that the facility will The Friends of Potrero Hill Preschool went with it.” The director added that offer after-school and camp programs opens this month at a new location in the school has been “so lucky with the and services for families. Bouldering Dogpatch, after many years of changing support in fundraising from alumni and lends itself well to the younger crowd locations. “We've moved a lot,” Leicht the neighborhood. My main message who may nd the ropeless challenge said. “In 1996 we were in St. Gregory's is one of gratitude to everyone who easier to negotiate. “Bouldering is church. We didn't know how hard it was supported us because it seemed like a something kids are interested in,” to move then. We really have spent years “It felt like we were pipe dream.” The school exceeded its Claassen said. in this semi-crisis state. We were in a coming home. This was a $500,000 fundraising goal. “We've had With the announcement of the new classroom in Starr King Elementary beautiful and seamless beginning.” a lot of crisis, but a lot of blessings,” Dogpatch bouldering annex, changes School. Then we were in Ocean View.” Leicht said. MONICA LEICHT, DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER to Mission Cliffs “will be in layers,” The preschool starts the school year OF FRIENDS OF POTRERO HILL About 30 children attend the school, Claassen said. Plans for a new yoga at 1060A Tennessee Street, in one of PRESCHOOL with roughly 24 on-site on a given day. studio and completely new entrance the smaller buildings that’s part of the Besides the just completed building, at the facility will take longer with historic I.M. Scott complex. I.M. Scott secure a permanent site in Dogpatch which is south of the largest I.M. Scott the opening of the bouldering gym. is San Francisco’s oldest schoolhouse, because of the lack of space that could edi ce, Friends of Potrero Hill Pre- More immediately, rope routes will be built in 1877 (see story in the View’s be licensed for a nursery school. “The school is renovating a smaller building revamped, adjustable cracks repaired, September 2009 issue). The space was industry is highly regulated. Which to the north, which could double the size and an automated climbing terrain renovated with the help of Jackson makes sense, because nothing is more of the school’s indoor space. machine and enhanced tness area Liles Architects, who are based in the precious than what you are putting in In addition to “strengthening and may be added. American Industrial Center. “I'm really the space,” Leicht said. The school’s new nurturing” a child's imagination, Mark and Debra Melvin built grateful for all the support that we've location has been transformed from a Friends of Potrero Hill Nursery School Mission Cliff’s climbing walls them- had and really for the hard work of the derelict building replete with graffiti hopes to encourage its students to have selves — something they take pride board of directors and for the teachers and garbage into a place where children an appreciation “for the earth, for food in — and constantly monitor the walls who have gone through so many transi- can develop their imagination through and for each other,” according to its tions with us,” Leicht said. play. “This is our mission,” Leicht said. brochure. “We believe a reverence for MSSON CLFFS Southside page 2 It took years for the school to “...the pre-school age is the develop- nature will create the environmentalists ment stage when a child's imagination of the future.” The school’s curricu- is developing. This happens naturally, lum includes activities speci c to the but it needs time, space and support. seasons, such as gathering leaves and Children need time to play to develop acorns in the fall, as well as using toys their imagination capacity.” made of “wood, cotton and other natural Leicht said that she was dismayed materials.” when she rst looked at the I.M. Scott Open House with official ribbon location with Brian Liles, principal of cutting ceremony will be held Sep- Elementary School Fair Jackson Liles Architecture and alumni tember 30 at 3:30 p.m. Open house Sunday, September 23 — 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. parent and board member of the school, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. FOPH at I.M. Scott because the space was in such disrepair. School, 1060 Tennessee Street. Informa- FREE TO ALL “But,” Leicht said, “He and Katherine tion: Katherine Doumani, 713.4561 or [Doumani, the capital campaign direc- [email protected].

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development agency located in Bayview- for needed repairs and enhancements. Hunters Point. He previously was the Development of the walls at Dogpatch director of the Economic Opportunity Boulders will be outsourced, with the Council of San Francisco's Potrero Hill selected company designing the boul- Family Resource Center. Walton is a for- dering walls and determining other mer classroom teacher in the Vallejo City aesthetics, including color schemes Uni ed School District, and, according and layout. Touchstone will construct to his campaign website, has “developed the front desk area, locker rooms and and implemented academic, school readi- bike parking. ness, mentorship and workforce training The Dogpatch space — which is programs” in San Francisco Unified being considered as an off-site exten- School District schools. sion of Mission Cliffs — will join a All Good Pizza Rocks the Bayview To increase funding for the school slew of Touchstone climbing facili- district, Walton wants to leverage re- ties throughout the state, including By PAul MCdnAld All ood Pia wners ristin Hou and att sources from federal agencies, such as Berkeley Ironworks, Sacramento Trahan PHTAPH PA A There's a new place to have lunch in the U.S. Department of Labor, to provide Pipeworks, Diablo Rock in Concord, Bayview, and it's turning heads and ll- vocational opportunities for kids. If Great Western Power Co. in Oakland, ing stomachs with delicious, all natural like a neighborhood back yard than elected to the board, Walton plans to Metalmark in Fresno, and the Studio food. All Good Pizza, on the corner of any sort of restaurant. Once inside the ask the district to invest more in teacher in San Jose. The San Jose location Third and Jerrold, is the creation of gate, one enters an environment that’s training and development, as well as is the newest gym, and opened in Kristin Houk and ancé Matt Trahan, kid friendly. Houk's son, Hudson, can make improvements to school facilities. spring 2012. who live walking distance from their often be found riding his bike about the He wants the board to “continue to eatery. Houk formerly managed the property. Cactus and various succulents pursue legislation for facilities improve- Dolores Park Café, and helped open two grow among picnic tables, lending a ments.” He suggested that the board use subsequent restaurants. pleasant, casual feel to the outdoor proceeds from the sale or lease of district After Houk bought her Hudson space. properties that aren’t being used to pay Street house more than ten years ago, Houk and Trahan are planning to for improvements. “I just want every kid she realized that Bayview could bene t install a 700 gallon hydroponic farm on to be successful,” he said. from a healthy alternative to fast food the site to produce organic vegetables. Walton also wants the San Francisco joints, like the Taco Bell/Kentucky They’ll use what they grow for their Board of Supervisors and the Board of Fried Chicken outlet that’s directly menu, and deploy the farm as an educa- Education to work together more ef- across the street from All Good Pizza. tion center to teach local farming. “This fectively. To close the achievement gap, Houk and Trahan wanted a plot of land is a very close knit and neighborhoody Walton advocates that teachers have all that would accommodate the trailer place,” said Kristin Houk. “My neigh- the materials, training and enhance- they found in Modesto on Craig's List. bors are all too eager to help me with my ments they need. And he’ll ask for After striking out with property a groceries or lend a hand for just about innovative programming and increased couple blocks away, they secured a 7,000 anything. I feel this not only gives back parent participation. “These are all our square foot triangular vacant corner lot to the neighborhood, but also lets me kids,” he repeated. on Jerrold. With raw muscle and a pick- express my passion for real food.” up truck, they made trip after trip to the Houk grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, nearby dump, clearing 11,000 pounds of a “meat and potatoes" place. She knew garbage from the lot within a month. that there were healthier alternatives, Opened last April, All Good Pizza and studied nutrition at the Univer- is quickly gaining notoriety as a casual, sity of Colorado. Trahan is from Lake wholesome place to grab a bite. As the Charles, Louisiana, and may be more name implies, pizza is the top seller, closely aligned with the menu’s smoked but the simple and reasonably priced link offerings. Together they make a menu also features Panini sandwiches, great team. As it says on the side of their salads, smoked links from an on-site trailer, ” A little bit Iowa, a little bit smoker, and ice cream. Items are Louisiana and a whole lot of Bayview.” priced from $6 to $9. Encircled by a For additional information: all- chain link fence, the place looks more goodpizza.com. SEPTEMBER 2012 | southside/potrero view D3

FILMING ro view Front Page and generally the people have been nation to lm their tricks. BLIGHT ro Southside Front Page great,” Crawford said. But he was angry With both the DC Shoe video that he’d been told to donate $1,000 to and the Buick commercial shoot, the feature lms and television shows might a neighborhood group or the neighbors neighborhood association solicited process can take a long time. The 2004 import some of their own talent, they would protest. “That is bribery. It makes donations — $1,000 for a day of shoot- violation on 1881 Oakdale is still open; tend to rely on local crews. Robinson me not want to come back. This wouldn’t ing — which will be dedicated to street complaints about the lots on Third and pointed to the television show Trauma, happen in LA.” maintenance and neighborhood safety. Thornton streets have been continually which, before it was cancelled, employed Marty Kenlon, the location scout And while Vermont may have increased lodged since 2000. 135 people a week at union wages. for the Buick shoot and a San Fran- exposure of late, the money is certainly With mounting pressures from While the City collects fees from ciscan who has been working in the needed. The San Francisco Department neighbors, and the administrative pro- production companies to use San Fran- industry for decades, saw things differ- of Public Works calls the 800 block of cess exhausted, DBI is now determining cisco as their backdrop — including a ently. According to Kenlon, donations Vermont — like its crooked counterpart how to proceed with the Third Street nominal daily rate to the Film Commis- to neighborhood groups by production Lombard — an “unaccepted” street. This lots. Tom Hui, DBI’s acting director, sion, plus payments to the San Francisco companies are a common practice in the means that the City doesn’t maintain it; visited the lots in July, escorted by the Police and the Recreation and Parks City. “In overexposed areas, especially responsibility falls to frontage property San Francisco Police Department. Hui’s departments for extra personnel and like Lombard, North Beach, and Alamo owners. Which is why, Book explained, inspection followed a May visit by a City permits — there’s no requirement for Square, they want to be involved in a the street has so many potholes and taskforce that included representatives any contributions to a neighborhood dialogue with film companies. They damaged historical walls. from DPW, DPH, and DBI. or neighbors who may be displaced by have well-organized groups that work “If the City is not going to maintain “We are considering asking for an lming or bothered by large equipment with the people that are lming and get it or clean it then we are going to create emergency order for blight,” explained blocking nearby streets. funds,” said Kenlon. a neighborhood association. We are go- Dan Lowrey, chief building inspector. Lortz feels strongly that produc- The Vermont Street Neighborhood ing to ask for donations to support and The department has never issued an tion companies should be required to Association, which received the Buick maintain the street,” Book said. She emergency order for blight, which would contribute to the communities in which donation, has seen their street’s media dismissed Crawford’s account of how the require the demolition of all structures they operate. The companies have paid exposure jump over the last few years. association solicited the donation, insist- on the property, with the associated his neighbors thousands of dollars to In 2012, the association decided to solicit ing that she had a cordial conversation costs assigned to the owner, potentially “rent” exterior shots of their homes. “I money from larger companies for using with Kenlon, and, as she understood it through a tax lien. “Normally with an know each production company pays their street. Vermont Street’s rise in Buick was happy to make the donation. emergency order for demolition, it is for the City tons of money, but Potrero popularity is mainly due to the annual The conversation may have taken place a building that is going to collapse any gets nothing. We should require each Bring Your Own Big Wheel Event, a shortly before lming had been sched- minute. The difference here is that it is production company to contribute to an toy bike race that arrived on Vermont uled, but, according to Book, that was so blighted; the police department has approved list,” Lortz said. in 2008 after being kicked off Lombard because the neighborhood hadn’t been deemed it so. This will be a test case. It Last July, at a still photography Street. “Production scouts tell me they properly noti ed, an issue Book wants is expensive.” shoot for a Buick car commercial, found Vermont Street by reading about it to work on with the San Francisco Film While the City administrative pro- roughly 15 people gathered at the top in Wired [Magazine] or seeing it on You- Commission. cess trudges on, Sweeney noted that real of Vermont and 20th streets to make Tube because of Big Wheel,” said Joyce The Vermont Neighborhood As- estate development has been quicker sure they got the perfect camera angle. Book, a Vermont Street Neighborhood sociation wants production companies and perhaps more effective at correct- Creative director Zach Crawford, of Association member. This year, Book to provide more advanced notice of ing blight. “Things are improving in First Shot Productions, had traveled has witnessed productions come almost lming, so neighbors can be prepared, Bayview-Hunters point and a lot of it from Los Angeles to produce the shoot. monthly to the street, ranging from the move their cars, and make alterna- is market driven…That wasn’t the case It was his first time working in San DC Shoe video, the Buick commercial, tive arrangements when needed. “On three or four years ago, the shining light Francisco. “The police have been great, and skateboarders seeking a new desti- Lombard Street there are no long-term here is the market is correcting itself, homeowners. The average time to sell [the DBI is] certainly helping it and doing your house is 2.5 years. The tour bus our job,” he said. driver honks his horn down the street,” A few blocks away, at 5800 Third Community Enginuity explained Book. “If you really love your Street, a new development features 137 neighborhood, you learn to protect it in condominiums, a grocery store, and the a responsible way.” restaurants Limon rotisserie and Brown While the Film Commission re- Sugar Kitchen. The building replaced quires production companies to notify abandoned warehouses and a vacant CMYK neighbors and neighborhood groups in Coca-Cola factory. “I don’t want to think Green (20, 2,advance 95, 0) of a shoot, Lauren Machado, ipping houses and gentri cation is a Red (0, 90, 95,the 0) commission’s lming coordinator, policy to deal with blighted buildings. said that schedules can change quickly, I don’t think that is consistent with our which can make advance noti cation values as a city,” said Myrna Melgar, difficult. “A company could want to lm a Building Inspection Commission Voted Best Car Mechanics 2012! in a different place one day because of member. (Bay Guardian Readers Poll) weather. They want sun and it happens According to Ed Sweeny, blight to be fog,” Machado explained. tends to follow a set pattern. A notice of Some residents who had to make violation is sent to property owner for slight changes to their routine because a leaky roof, or other problem. But the Honda. Acura. Subaru. of the Buick shoot weren’t miffed. “We owners are elderly, on a xed income, Toyota. Lexus. Scion. Hybrids. are not at all inconvenienced. It is no and cannot afford $10,000 to x it. They big deal. And I like Potrero Hill in the move out; the abandoned building falls For First Time Potrero View Customers, we will: movies and commercials because it sort to disrepair. Sweeny explained that • change oil and filter of con rms that this is the lovely place contractors and developers buy proper- • check brakes, brake lines and hoses that I know,” said Meghan Cochran, who ties that have been sitting vacant and • rotate tires and inflate as needed Through had walked from her home two blocks blighted for years. “Gentri cation is not • refill wiper fluid eptember , • adjust clutch away to pick up her child from her nanny our policy, but it’s a reality and we’re mention this ad for • inspect accessory belts for wear share in front of the shoot. part of it,” he said. chance to win 2. gift • test 12-volt battery certificate (think road trip • check transmission fluid snacks) to The Good • inspect cooling system Life Grocery. • check axle boots • check exhaust system • check rear shocks and front struts • inspect oil pan gasket • road test for general handling, steering, engine power, transmission performance and clutch operation value $132. standard oil now $60. $162. synthetic oil now $90.

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thing happened, maybe a windstorm, so the osprey didn't successfully build a nest.” According to National Geographic, osprey “can be identi ed by their white under parts. Their white heads also have a distinctive black eye stripe that goes down the side of their faces…The birds happily build large stick-and- sod nests on telephone poles, channel markers, and other such locations. Human habitat is sometimes an aid to PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL MCDONALD the osprey…Osprey are superb shers,” subsisting almost completely on sh. Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to SoMa Streat Food Park Opens Osprey, which are between 21 to 23 noon, during which the Port provides By PAul MCdnAld diners. White lines are painted to clearly inches in length, live up to 30 years in facilities for volunteers. mark where each truck should reside, the wild. Their wingspan is ve to six According to Weeden, the Port has Opened in June, the SoMa Streat- and there are multiple eating areas feet, and the birds can weigh 3.1 to 4.4 been very supportive of the nesting. Food Park, located on the corner of 11th that encircle a main dining pavilion, pounds. “It stopped operation of the crane and Division streets, is the brainchild of complete with gas heaters, piped in Osprey can be found on every con- when the birds were seen. [And] they 25 year old Carlos Muela. Muela, whose music and dual at screens anking long tinent in the world except Antarctica. [the Port] continue to be interested in Mission District family own Picaro, on picnic tables. Electricity to power over- After the U.S., Canada, and Mexico the activity. They want the osprey to 16th Street, and Esperanto on 22nd, had head street lights and restroom lighting banned DDT, a pesticide found to successfully breed. We're excited this been mulling the idea of a collective food has been installed. The property has harm to humans, in 1972 “it seems the is happening. We're hopeful the envi- truck destination for a while, but it took a beautiful array of plants, including species is doing much better,” Weeden ronment is improving along the Bay.” him two years to get the proper licenses large palm trees in repurposed bins, said. According to Weeden, the birds The Port's environmental man- and permits and secure the lot that and a multitude of other ora in creative may stay in San Francisco until the ager, Carol Bach, con rmed that the formerly held U-Haul trucks. The park containers. There’s Wi-Fi, an automated end of this month, after which they’ll osprey “chicks are still present at the features up to 10 food trucks at each of teller machine, stand up eating bars, likely migrate to Mexico, Central or nest atop one of the cranes” on the east two daily shifts, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and 5 bicycle parking and the appropriate South America. or south face of Pier 80. “The best place p.m. to 10 p.m. tri-bin disposal units. The place is Access to Pier 80 is restricted to view the nest is from the wetlands “This is de nitely 100 percent a fam- welcoming and clean. by the Port of San Francisco. GGAS at Pier 94,” she said, “which is open ily effort,” said Muela, whose girlfriend, Muela and Mahani have relied on volunteers view the birds from nearby to public access. The best folks to talk Whitney Mahani, is operations manager, word of mouth, social media and a bit Pier 94, which is open to the public. about the history of sightings and cur- and sister, Paloma, is in charge of the beer of hired public relations to spread the The area near Pier 94 has signi cant rent status of chicks and assist with garden, which opens this month. Accord- word on their new venture. The space is amounts of heavy industrial traffic viewing are the Golden Gate Audubon ing to Muela, dealing with independent available for special events; the Potrero during the week; Weeden encourages Society.” business owners — the food trucks — pres- Hill Goodwill donation party will be anyone interested in seeing the birds to For information about volunteer- ents different challenges than managing held there on September 15th, from come to a volunteer workday, the rst ing: goldengateaudubon.org/volunteer. employees. The truck owners often jockey noon to 4 p.m.. On weekends after-hours for the most advantageous schedule; part events will be held from midnight to 4 of his daily responsibilities is accommo- a.m. to accommodate the crowd closing dating each of the ever changing trucks the local night clubs. In the future, and their owners’ requests. Muela plans movie nights, live music A MONTHLY UPDATE SPONSORED BY BRIDGE HOUSING The triangular lot, ideally located to and perhaps a "Taco Tuesday," where serve the three bordering neighborhoods each of the various food trucks can put of Potrero Hill, Mission and South-of- their own ethnic twist on the food that VOLUME 24 • SEPTEMBER 2012 Market, as well as nearby nightclubs, has started it all. been impressively renovated to provide For more information: somastreat- “It takes three generations to make a musician; a welcoming place for both trucks and foodpark.com. the first to leave poverty, the second to go to school, and the third to master an instrument.” Presented By: YO-YO MA children in poverty can experience healthy brain development. The G plants the seeds of early intervention based on four essential principles R ealthy eating Donate ‘n’ Dine R timulating brain activities R Toxic-free environments Come to the SOMA street food park and support R ositive home and community interactions Goodwill and SCRAP by donating unwanted electronics, ased on these principles, parents will be provided with the tools to create an Rebuild Potrero (in partnership with clothing, furniture, office supplies and reusable art parts! environment where their childs young brain Potrero residents, the Potrero Family has an opportunity to develop to its Resource Center and Jennifer Dhillon highest potential. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 Associates) is excited to launch the Healthy Generations Project this The G is grounded in the belief that in 12 PM - 4 PM coming fall. This three year pilot project is order to break the cycle of intergenerational a comprehensive initiative that will enable poverty, we must focus on the health of FAMILY FUN: parents and other caregivers in otrero future generations. G therefore introduces JUMPY HOUSE, FACE PAINTING, Terrace nnex to play an active role in parents to practices, habits and simple ARTS AND CRAFTS promoting the developmental health of their activities that they can put into practice for children. The project will educate parents their entire family. hildren will not only grow ADULT FUN: and train community peer leaders to up healthier but will eventually employ these implement a sustainable program for principles and practices with their own FOOD, BEER GARDEN, encouraging healthy brain development in children, creating a generational path that SPORTS ON FLAT SCREEN TVs children living in poverty. offers greater opportunity. The most important developmental period in an individuals life occurs between infancy Weekly Zumba Class Ready to move your body and age . roviding home and community and get your heart pumping to high energy environments in these first five years that music? Free Zumba classes are now being held enable a young childs body and mind to at the NABE every Monday from 6:00-7:00 pm. grow and thrive is critical to ensuring life- long success in learning and health. The Join us for Garden Days: work/harvest ealthy Generations roject (G) focuses every Wed. 10-12. Info., call 415-806-1429 directly on fostering an atmosphere where

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DEMOCRATC CLB ro page 5 of downtown and the Bay — Eisen and of ambitious young members who get tables. “As soon as people saw a line her husband, Chuck Bennett, also a involved and offer their expertise, but out the door, we started to take off,” club member, had set up a small buf- inevitably move to bigger things, such Wilson said. “San Franciscans don’t in on the ballot through an expensive fet of snacks, including Potrero Hill as graduate school in public policy or mind waiting in line for good food. signature collection campaign, and grown plums and green beans from the Washington, D.C jobs. Although the They’ll wait an hour and a half for renewed their pledge to lobby Senate longtime Hill couple’s Pennsylvania demographics of last month’s meeting breakfast.” president pro Tempore Darrell Stein- Street home garden. At the end of the leaned toward older, long-term Hill Another stroke of serendipity berg, D-Sacramento, and Speaker John two-hour meeting, the food table served residents, according to J.R. Eppler, came when it was time to hire a chef. Perez, D-Los Angeles. Last summer, as the social area for schmoozing and a lawyer who settled with his wife “There are a lot of people selling Turk- club volunteers tabled in Esprit Park, nishing up a few bottles of wine that on Utah and 17th streets in 2009, the ish food in the Bay Area, but most of urging residents to send a postcard to appear to spice up the Tuesday night club has “a good mix of members.” it is like fast food,” Wilson said. “It Perez’s office, and registering people to meetings, which are held after many Eppler got involved in the club to really isn’t very good. Finally this guy vote for the fall election. members endure full work days. learn more about local races and be walks in. It’s like the eleventh hour. Kierith Jones, who heads the South According to Eisen, who is a Potre- part of the community. “Potrero Hill He had just moved from Turkey. We of Market-Potrero Hill-Dogpatch ro Boosters Neighborhood Association has strong, vibrant neighborhood didn’t even taste the food, that’s how group of Organizing for America, member and is involved with Rebuild associations,” he said. desperate we were. We just hired him. suggested that club members come to a Potrero, both Rebuild Potrero and Longtime member and 35-year Sure enough, this guy could cook! It phone banking training session, or get PHDC are interested in registering Potrero Hill veteran Bob Boileau served was amazing.” involved in registering people to vote. voters and establishing and protect- on the club’s executive committee Yalçin hired his brother and a She emphasized the work San Fran- ing neighborhood gardens. Eisen, before 2000, and continues to attend cousin as waiters, and eventually cisco volunteer groups do in “battle- who has previously supported Rafael meetings and stir up debates. He said took over the kitchen as well. Had ground” states, such as Colorado and Mandelman’s and Rebecca Shearin’s the club draws larger crowds when they planned it, it would have been a Nevada. Volunteer Arthur Murrillo, campaigns for the Democratic County there’s a hot issue — such as parking stroke of genius. “Then people were who will serve as a delegate at the Central Committee, jokingly said she meter plans or a District 10 race — and like, ‘Oh, it’s a family restaurant!’” Democratic National Convention in was “dragged” into San Francisco’s po- that new faces are always popping up. Wilson recalled. “People love family Charlotte, North Carolina this month, litical scene when Hill residents noted Of the relatively new leadership, he restaurants.” shared his experience phone banking. that the previous Democratic Club had said, “Joni and the executive team have Once you get folks in the door, of “We need to create excitement in San been suspended. She agreed to go to a been keeping it interesting.” course, it’s all about the food. From Francisco,” he said. planning meeting to revive the club, but Potrero Hill Democratic Club the online reviews, it’s apparent that Club treasurer Hilary Cohen only if it was held at Farley’s. meetings are held the rst Tuesday of Pera’s menu is a hit, even with ever-so- touched on the group’s nancial status, “I know this is a real Democratic the month at 7 p.m. at the Potrero Hill jaded San Franciscan palates. Food, reporting that there was $1,300 avail- town,” Eisen said. “I saw it as a way Neighborhood House at 953 De Haro claims Wilson, is nobody’s business able in the bank, and suggested a push to get more access to political leaders Street. For more information: 648.6740 like the Turks. Because Turkey is the to recruit more due-paying members. in the City.” She helped put up posters or www.phdemclub.org. crossroads of the world’s classic trade She also inquired about what mem- around the neighborhood that stated, routes, Turks encountered the best bers wanted to hear about during her “Potrero Hill Democratic Club will avors of Asia, Europe and Africa, and monthly nancial report. Two separate rise again.” Rise it did. Five years later, made them their own. “They swept din ro page 7 endorsement meetings will be held this she encouraged someone to run against through all the cuisines and spread month to discuss different measures her in next year’s executive board race, it into their own Turkish hyper- and candidates that will appear on the which will be held in the beginning assumed the food wasn’t good.” cuisine,” Wilson explained. November ballot. of next year, “I’m not going to do this The new owners quickly adapted, In the back of the Nabe’s commu- forever,” she said. lling some of the space with a long nity room — which has sweeping views Eisen lamented the constant loss wine bar and removing most of the din page 22 1 THE POTRERO VIEW September 2012

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Creative Writing Workshop. Join writer, lmmaker, and journalist, Shevi Rosenfeld Loewinger, for a free, ongoing workshop in a supportive environment. Information: [email protected] or 602.7961. September 6, 13, 20, 27, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Film: Grey Matter. Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-ref- erential lm-within-a- lm describes the vision and trials of a determined lmmaker, Balthazar, as he tries to produce his rst feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach. The drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath NATIONAL PARK of genocide, offers a bracing insight into the nature of political violence. Sep- tember 8, 3 to 5 p.m. Perhaps the country’s most acclaimed wine event, Vintners’ Holidays take place each eBook and eAudiobook Help Sessions. Bring your Kindle, Nook, iPad or November and December at The Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park. It’s an intimate other eReader device and learn how to download books and other materials event with access to winemakers, their latest for free from the Library website. For adults, 18+. September 12, 19, 26, 6:30 offerings and gourmet cuisine paired with p.m. session wines. Packages starting at $896 for two adults. Man Ray/Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism. The Fine Arts Museums’ Docent Visit YosemitePark.com/Vintners or call 801.559.4887 to learn more. Council will discuss the fascinating lives of Lee Miller and Man Ray, who lived in Paris between 1929 and 1932, sharing a mercurial relationship and artistic ©2012 Hospitality by Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, authorized concessioner of the National Park Service inspirations and aspirations. Their relationship and artistic discoveries fueled not only their own work but that of artists around them. September 15, 4 to 5 p.m.

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The Potrero Hill Book Club meets at the library every third Wednesday of the month. September’s selection is Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. September 19, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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Art should for making non-runny berry jam Cinea Clai 12 10 and tackling tomatoes like a champ. include the child’s name, age, and This series surveys French lm his- Scheduled on Labor Day weekend parent’s phone or email. 1315-18th tory from the end of the silent era to because the labor of canning will Street. Information: Nicki Dugan, the beginning of the sixties, and in- produce delicious gifts for friends and [email protected] cludes both beloved classics and rari- family! 4 p.m. Tickets: $125. 18 Rea- ties, many in imported 35 mm prints. sons, 3674 18th Street. Information: The September program spotlights, edation 415.568.710 or [email protected]. among others, René Clair, whose ex- 23 noe alley Sool Fair periments with sound translated the Wading through the process Teater avant-garde into popular art; Marcel of nding a school is daunting at 5 calling america: Don’t Carné and Jean Grémillon, whose best. 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For details and full Meet and view the art of more than 40 schools and quickly The Delusional Diva, portrays a schedule: bampfa.berkeley.edu. three artists in residence: Tamara learn each school's basic informa- melting pot of hilarious and heart- Albaitis, Amy Wilson Faville, and tion and personalities. For other wrenching characters from her wild Fndraier Calder Yates. This exhibition is the workshops available that day, see double life as a nonpro t fundraiser 15 donate n dine culmination of four months of work noeschools.com. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Hollywood. Sky weaves insanity Do some good, and have by the artists, who have scavenged Free. Upper Noe Recreation Center, and insight into an examination of great fun at this event for the whole materials from the dump to make 295 Day Street. Information: kate- our country's inhabitants and the family. Bring your e-waste, office art and promote recycling and re- [email protected] or 415.647.8567. human condition, with plenty of supplies, used clothing, and other use. 5 to 9 p.m. Free. Recology Art humor and provocative wit. 7 p.m. clean, organized reusable materials. Studio, 503 Tunnel Avenue, and Tickets: $13. Exit Theater, 156 Eddy Enjoy arts and crafts, a jumpy house, Environmental Learning Center Street. Information: sffringe.org. face painting, and all kinds of fam- Gallery, 401 Tunnel Avenue. ily fun. Bring an appetite as well, donate San . as an eclectic variety of food trucks Street Fair Tird Annal koen 22nd Annal will be offering delicious eats. The 22 Sper heroe Street Fair rae or te Cre event is a joint venture of the Potrero in Bayvie Enter now to race for a cure in this Dogpatch Merchants Association, Don a costume and join the heroic Goodwill, and Scrap. The celebration unique event, which promotes posi- journey pitting heroes and villains Celebrate brings together community while tive awareness, education, and early within an urban theatrical landscape; Friend o Potrero hill breast cancer detection. Up to 75 providing jobs and job training. 11 a day full of worm-holes and time 30 percent of the funds raised at the race a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. SOMA Street machines, spy gadgetry and visual Preool ribbonCtting Come celebrate the completion of a remain with the Komen San Francis- Food Park, 11th and Division streets. explosions, fantasy and reality played project that’s transformed the I. M co Affiliate to provide breast health out on a colossal stage where capti- Scott outbuildings into a preschool research, diagnostics, screening, olnteer Caliornia vating displays of human feats will for Friends of Potrero Hill Preschool. treatment, services, and education for Coatal Cleanp day at entrance and amaze all. Dozens of 15 Past and present FOPH families, uninsured or underinsured women. amazing bands on six sound stages, war water Cove Park neighbors, lenders, grantmakers and The remaining 25 percent a climbing wall, extravagant games, Dozens of cleanup and restoration all neighborhood and city supporters goes to fund national extraordinary circus side show, a activities will be happening in San will be in attendance. Open House research to discover the go-go oating barge, and so much Francisco, Marin, and Paci ca. with official ribbon cutting ceremony causes of breast cancer more, right by the bay. All ages are You can lend a hand right here at taking place at 3:30 p.m. Free. 2 to and, ultimately, its welcome. $10-20. 2 Warm Water Cove Park. The focus 4:30 p.m. FOPH at I.M. Scott School, cure. Participants p.m. to midnight. at the Cove that day will be trash 1060 Tennessee Street. 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PER 0 ro Front Page ing it the Paci c Coast’s largest dry dock, able to service post-Panamax vessels that are too large to transit cations manager. “Smaller jobs are through the Panama Canal. Both of done wherever the ship is working its San Francisco’s dry docks are bigger cargo.” In addition, BAE does “a lot of than Alameda’s 400-foot-long facility. work on government support vessels The larger dry dock’s capacity for the Military Sealift Command enabled BAE Systems to repair the and the Maritime Administration,” Golden Princess, which was in the said Chopek, charging their custom- yard in May and weighed more than ers from several hundreds to tens of 52,000 tons. Other recent repairs millions of dollars per vessel. include the Carnival Splendor, which BAE employs about 200 people, lost power off the coast of San Diego, who hail from ten different unions Carnival Spirit, and the World War II and commute to work from throughout Victory ship Rider Victory. “We have PHOTOGRAPH BY MORGANE BYLOOS the Bay Area. Depending on demand, ships come in for small repairs for BAE Systems brings in more workers. several hours,” Chopek said. “Cruise the Transcontinental Railway. Ships Bay shoreline, but is cut off in some “When we have a cruise ship in the ships come for seven to 10 days. Major built at Pier 70 supported United parts; the Blue Greenway is a13-mile yard, we swell to over 300 men and overhauls can take up to four months States military engagements from corridor that will connect China Basin women,” Chopek said. “We also use or more.” the Spanish-American War in the late in the north to Candlestick Point many small and independent local The Port started planning this 1800’s through the two World Wars State Recreation Area in the south. contractors to supplement our work- round of Pier 70 revitalization in 2007, and into the 1970’s.” Throughout the Once completed, the Blue Greenway force for special projects.” and issued its Preferred Master Plan years, the shipyard has been operated will offer recreation, art and nature BAE engages in municipal work- for Pier 70 in 2010. The plan presents by several companies, including Union discovery along the City’s Southside. force training programs. “BAE is a proposal based on the shipyard’s Iron Works, Bethlehem Steel, Todd Adjacent to the park, waterfront working with local unions and San history. Historical buildings damaged Shipyard and Southwest Marine. construction is slated to begin in Francisco’s “City Build” program, in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 The Preferred Master Plan, which 2016. Historic building rehabilitation which provides skilled training and would be rehabilitated, with the goal will be nalized after the Port re- is being done by Orton Development apprentice programs for people from of creating an area that would become ceives developers’ input by the end of Inc. The edi ces will ultimately house under-employed neighborhoods in the a destination for the neighborhood and the year, lays out a plan for Pier 70’s office, commercial and cultural space, City, to recruit and retain a skilled the rest of the City, similarly to the three main areas: Slipway 4, which with renovation to occur along the workforce,” according to the Preferred Ferry building. would become Crane Cove Park; the same time line as Crane Cove Park, Master Plan for the revitalization of “Pier 70 is an important part of Waterfront area; and the historic with estimated completion in 2014. Pier 70. the maritime history of the Bay Area buildings. Crane Cove Park is a Port Pier development would reduce the The shipyard comprises two piers, and is the most intact 19th century of San Francisco-led project, which ship repair space to 17 acres, leav- two dry docks and several cranes, industrial complex west of the Mis- will be funded in part by 2008 Parks ing 50 acres for other functions. The along with steel, machine, sheet sissippi River,” according to the Bond monies. The rst phase of the project will likely cost more than $600 metal, pipe and carpenter shops. The Preferred Master Plan. “The site was park should be completed by 2014, million, excluding expenses associ- dry docks measure 950 feet and 528 signi cant in the industrialization of and is designed to extend the San ated with new construction. feet long. The smaller dock lifts ships the United States, where supplies were Francisco Bay Trail and the Blue The Preferred Master Plan can weighing up to 14,000 tons. The larger manufactured for the California Gold Greenway to and through Pier 70. The be found www.sfport.com/index. one can lift a 56,900 ton ship, mak- Rush, Nevada’s mining operations, and San Francisco Bay Trail runs on the aspx?page=263.

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there are only a handful of ways to eco-system of schools and learning PBLSHERS ro page 3 POWER PLANT ro page address the age tsunami. Working experiences that encourages the best people could pay (much more) in in each student, so that they, in turn, aging population and low savings pension taxes, elderly people could can help contribute to our colorful, by working class and low income wait longer to retire, and/or social complex, changing world. families — is clearly evident on the security could be income-tested, The roughly $900 billion spent on horizon. Current estimates have with recipients receiving amounts defense could be cut by 20 percent, and there’d likely still be fat, in the social security’s “lockbox” running according to their need. More dra- form of overblown weapons systems, a deficit by 2033, when I turn 73. But matic reform could entail changing unneeded bureaucratic entities, and even if we start pouring more money our pension policy instruments in excess personnel. More fundamental- into the trust fund, most people’s ways that better match society’s, ly, a half-century of wars, petty and benefits will be barely enough to and individuals’, evolving require- large, have demonstrated that we’re pay for rent, utilities, and a daily ments. Under this approach people just not that good at the endeavor. supply of Top Ramen. This year the would work — in some fashion, The greatest American victory in the average monthly payment is $1,230, with increasing amounts of vaca- 21st century — assassinating Osama providing an individual — who will tion and health leave and reduced hours — until they’re no longer Bin Laden — was accomplished with typically have $110,000 in total as- PHOTOGRAPH BY J. DURRANT a handful of well-trained soldiers, sets, in the form of a still-mortgaged able. Unemployment insurance, job aided by satellite imaging and mod- manager, said the soil in the impacted house — with just enough money to training programs, and our educa- est air support. China is emerging area has a consistency “like molasses. escape being officially poor. Forget tion system would be modified to as a global competitor, but that’s not It's not feasible to extract all of it by about it if they have to support a cater to support continual learning, our problem alone. pumping.” partner, child, or live in San Fran- to enable flexible adoption of new The American military should be The Potrero Hill Power cisco or another expensive location. skills to meet changing employment vastly shrunk and diversified, with Plant — which was purchased by a Barring creating a vast new needs. the liberated funds invested in de- company now called “GenOn” in population of seniors in poverty, More than $9,000 a year is spent on public education for every Ameri- veloping a flexible, resilient response 1999 — stopped generating electricity in can between the ages of five and 24, to coming environmental threats, 2011. PG&E is responsible for cleaning roughly $950 billion a year, mostly which will include more bouts of up operations that occurred during its through state and local governments extreme weather, droughts, massive ownership, which stretches back to the But it’s not being spent well. Forget species dislocation, and mounting 19th century. From the 1870s until the about test scores and teacher per- population pressures. 1930s, the company used oil and coal formance. Both are important. But In this respect, size does matter, to manufacture gas to fuel businesses, there are much more fundamental but more important is intelligence. homes, and gas lamps around San problems with our education “sys- In the not too distant future, gov- Francisco; hence the name “gas light tem,” which almost completely fails ernment — federal, state, local, and district.” Pollutants created during to address the diversity of ways chil- even smaller — is going to need to this period will be the principal focus dren learn, and the speed in which be both large and nimble enough to of PG&E’s remediation efforts. new skills need to be acquired in the lead us through challenges that will According to Carol Bach, Port emerging world. This government be too massive for even the current, of San Francisco’s environmental sector needs to be completely up- sizeable, public sector to cope with. manager, the site is contaminated, but ended. When the dust settles, public Government needs to be both too big PG&E is “…taking a very thorough education should consist of a rich to fail, and smart enough to succeed. approach” to remediation.

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By AMBer hAwkinS a few more angry comments with other passengers. A man — who could Potrero Hill resident Cheryl have been African-American or Fili- Shanks, 51, was riding the 22 bus on pino — walked from the back of the bus her way home from yoga when she to the front, where Shanks was seated, was attacked and beaten by a young and confronted her. Zia said it looked man last summer. After she boarded as though he was intentionally trying the crowded bus near Bryant and to intimidate Shanks by staring at her 16th streets, Shanks, who has splits directly in the eyes and getting close on both legs and high blood pressure, to her face. requested a seat. None of the pas- According to Zia, Shanks and the sengers responded. Shanks persisted, man then exchanged words. “What drawing attention to her injured legs; are you going to do about it?” asked it’s extremely painful for her to stand Shanks. The next moment, Shanks for long periods. said “he punched me like Mike Ty- According to Shanks, the passen- son,” He dragged Shanks off the bus gers continued to ignore her increas- and began kicking her in the ribs. Zia ingly angry and loud requests. Some jumped from the vehicle to pull the acted hostile towards her; others man off of Shanks. Shanks screamed laughed. Many passengers started to for someone to call the police. Zia yell at her to get off of the bus. Finally, held the attacker until police and a small child in the front of the bus paramedics arrived. sat on his mother’s lap to make room San Francisco Police Department for Shanks. (SFPD) officers accepted Zia’s citizen After Shanks sat down, some pas- arrest. After hearing witness state- sengers continued to laugh and point ments, SFPD released the suspect, at her. Zia, an African-American determining that there was insuf- man standing in the front of the bus cient evidence to physically place admonished his fellow riders. “Why him under arrest. don’t you just leave this poor woman alone,” he said. Shanks engaged in Muin page 22 September 2012 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 1

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din ro page 13 gentle Navajo-style handshake, and see what her fellow tribe members think of her grass-fed lamb. At Pera’s you’ll nd Middle East- For information about the res- ern-style hummus, Greek-style spana- taurant: www.perasf.com kopita and dolmades, and — making Wilson feel right at home — lots of grass-fed lamb. You won’t encounter fry bread. “I don’t even know how to Muin ro page 20 make it,” Wilson confessed. She does, however, purchase wines from some of According to Shanks, the police Bayie Poie Station Captains Community Meetin is held on the rst the California tribes’ wineries, which didn’t take photographs of her injuries, Tuesday of each month at the Bayview Station, 201 Williams Avenue. Wilson says are excellent. “The wine and she didn’t see them handcuff the Next meeting: September 4th, 6 p.m. list is the only Native thing about the man who had beaten her. After return- restaurant,” she said, “besides me.” ing home from the hospital with a black Dopath Neihorhood Assoiation usually meets the second Tuesday of Pera’s hospitality is more casual eye and bruises all over her body, she each odd-numbered month. Next meeting: Sept. 11th. Voting membership Navajo than formal Turkish. Wilson’s called SFPD to see if the man had been is open to anyone living in or owning property or a business in Dogpatch. social work experience kicks in when arrested. She was told that the incident For more information or to join/pay online: mydogpatch.org she talks to her customers, drawing had been documented as an assault and out their stories. Whether it’s Carlos battery, but the man who had beaten her Miney Suare Community roup is a communication and discussion Santana, Barry Bonds’ defense at- was no longer in custody. Shanks was group regarding events and activities, clean up days, improvement and torney, or the errant Tennessean who shocked and frightened that there’s a beauti cation, and other concerns, such as crime in the neighborhood. “just wanted to look at the wood on “criminal on the loose.” The SFPD is MSCA board meets approximately quarterly on the second Wednesday of the bar,” Wilson greets as many people still investigating the incident. If they the month. Look to the online discussion group for postings of upcoming personally as she can. “Everybody has gather probable cause they’ll attain an meetings. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/McKinleySquareCommu- a story,” she said. “But you knew that.” arrest warrant for the suspect. nity. Locations vary between the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House and Nonetheless, this happily ex- Shank credited Zia with saving her Downtown High School. For updates, including sustainable gardening patriated Diné occasionally misses life. About the man who had beaten her, and park workdays, and our grant progress, check out the MSCA blog at: home. “There are those days,” she she said “Although they did not arrest mckinleysquareblog.blogspot.com. sighed, “when you just want to go to that man, I forgive him. He must be a Grandma’s and barbecue something.” sick individual and I hope he receives Potrero Boosters Neihorhood Assoiation meets the last Tuesday of Wilson would like nothing more than help before this happens to anyone each month at 7 p.m. (social time begins at 6:45 p.m.) in the wheelchair- to hear a friendly “Yá’át’ééh,” feel a else.” accessible Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more information: www.potreroboosters.org or email president@potreroboost- ers.org. Next meeting: September 25th, 7 p.m. CLASSIFIED ADS Potrero Dopath Merhants Assoiation meets the second Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. at Goat Hill Pizza, corner of Connecticut and 18th streets. Visit www.potrerohill.biz or call 341.8949. Next meeting: August TOM’S PLUMBING Tom has been satisfying 14th, 10 a.m. Community Atiities Potrero Hill customers for over 30 years. All plumbing needs handled promptly and effi- SENIORS (60+) — DON’T EAT ALONE! ciently at a very low cost. Keep it local and Potrero Hi Demorati Cu meets the rst Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. Join us for daily lunch and add to your call Tom Keats: 415-824-3538. social life. Mon-Fri, hot nutritious at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more meals — your rst time with us you get a INTERIOR DESIGNER: ANASTASIA information: 648.6740, www.PHDemClub.org. Next meeting: September free lunch! Bingo, cards, birthday celebra- FAIELLA very experienced in interior tions, special events, and other activi- 4th, 7 p.m. design and color consultation. Excellent ties. For more information, call Dolores at working with client’s budgets. Special- Maghari at 415.826.8080. PH Neighbor- ize in color & design consultation, space- Potrero Hi arden Cu usually meets the last Sunday of the month at 11 hood House, 953 De Haro St. planning, window treatments and creat- ing beautiful spaces that enrich your life. Free a.m. for a potluck lunch in a local home or garden. Discussions are held WANT TO TAKE A CERAMICS CLASS 1 hour design consultations. 415-377-2325, af@ on organic, edible, or ornamental gardening appropriate for Potrero Hill’s IN SAN FRANCISCO? Come to sfclay- faiella-design.com, www.faiella-design.com. works! New sessions every 8 weeks. microclimate. Call 648.1926 for details. All levels welcome. sfclayworks.com (415)647-CLAY Starr in Open Spae SKOS The Starr King Open Space Board Meeting Houseeepin is on Tuesday, September 11th, 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the arden Series CLEANING PROFESSIONAL 25 years Public Potrero branch Library at 1616 20th Street SF CA 94107..SKOS Experience. Apartments, homes, or of- EXPERT GARDEN & LANDSCAPE ces. 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Although the 2007 recession tem- “We want the buildings to be vibrant porarily halted most new construction with engaging architecture and as in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, since much open space as possible.” 2009 contemporary-style apartments SUSAN ESLICK, WHO HAS SERVED AS DOGPATCH computech.com. and condominiums have been emerging NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION’S in the neighborhoods at a steady pace. Mixed use projects that are in some development stage include 2051 Third dealers are gone, replaced by young Street, 2121 Third Street, 616 20th families and gourmet restaurants. Street, 2235 Third Street, 650 Texas Development is inevitable, though it can Street and 480 Potrero Avenue. “It’s be managed, said Eslick. “We are not been a slow steady drum beat,” said afraid of development,” she said, “We Susan Eslick, Dogpatch Neighborhood just want good development.” Lihts Wi Spare on Bay Association’s (DNA) vice-president. Potrero Launch, located at 2235 According to Eslick, when she rst Third Street, will be ready for occu- moved to Tennessee Street in 1996 crack pancy this September. The apartment Brides West Span By kATrinA SChwArTz was being dealt nearby. Today, the drug complex consists of four buildings, two new and two renovated, with 196 lofts. The grey bridge will celebrate light will be individually controllable Two of the many locations currently under Rents are expected to range from $2,400 its 80th birthday on July 9, and programmed to twinkle in various development on Potrero Hill. top 480 Potrero to $4,500 a month. 2013, at which point Bay Lights patterns for two years without repeat- Avenue ottom 616 20th Street. Photographs by At 616 20th Street, around the will be up and twinkling. ing. The effect should be a shimmering Ari Ichinaga corner from Potrero Launch, a new array of lights dazzling anyone looking project is emerging. After demolishing Starting this January, San Fran- at the bridge from San Francisco, the a one-story building that had housed cisco will be home to one of the biggest Golden Gate Bridge or Marin. a long shuttered restaurant, construc- and most ambitious public art projects Words Pictures Ideas has worked tion crews have started on a ve-story in recent history. Bay Lights, a light extensively with the California De- facility that will include 16 residential installation on the northern-facing partment of Transportation (Caltrans) HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD: units, a ground level commercial space side of the Bay Bridge’s west span, is on marketing efforts to brand the Bay suitable for a restaurant, and 11 off-site the brainchild of Ben Davis, founder Bridge East Span public works project, parking spots. According to Eslick, the of Words Pictures Ideas, a Dogpatch- a reconstruction initiative that stretches building’s look will be “contemporary based communications company. The from Oakland to Treasure Island. and well designed.” The principal project includes 25,000 LED lights While his connections with Caltrans designer’s, Stanley Saitowitz, project spaced a foot apart on the vertical plans were well received by DNA cables of the span’s north side. Each LHTS page 13

NEW DEELOPMENT page 5 SPECIAL HEALTHCARE & BIOSCIENCE SERIES: PART THREE Kaiser and Youth Wellness Center: Coming to Potrero Hill, Bayview By MeliSSA MuTiArA PAndikA “San Francisco is growing, and we UPDATE, POST, & PAY ONLINE MAIL OR CALL IN YOUR AD anticipate to continue to grow,” said Ran- Kaiser Permanente and Walden dy Wittorp, director of public affairs at Development plan to develop a Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. “We 200,000-square-foot medical office selected the site on 16th and Mississippi building just southwest of Mission Bay, to bring our services to the southeastern along 16th and 17th streets. The site, now neighborhoods and to accommodate occupied by office moving and storage future growth we see coming along in company Corovan, will be divided into the City on the east side.” The project two parcels, with the Kaiser facility is still in the entitlement process, with fronting 16th Street and housing on 17th completion planned for 2016. Visit www.potreroview.net & follow the View Wants Ads Street. The multi-use development will The Kaiser facility will provide be located across the street from Daggett outpatient services, including primary Place, another mixed-use development on 16th Street. HEALTHCARE Southside page 3

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