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OCTOBER 2014 Serving the , Dogpatch, Mission Bay and SOMA Neighborhoods Since 1970 FREE Jackson Playground to Receive $1.6 Million, Mostly to Plan Clubhouse Upgrades BY KEITH BURBANK

The Eastern Neighborhood Citi- zen’s Advisory Committee (ENCAC) has proposed that Recreation and Parks Department invest $1.6 million in developer fees over the next four years to improve Jackson Playground. One million dollars would be directed towards developing designs to renovate the playground’s clubhouse, which Rec and Park estimates will cost $13.5 million to fully execute, with a higher price tag if the building is expanded. The Scents of Potrero Hill ENCAC’s recommendations will be transmitted to the San Francisco BY RYAN BERGMANN Above, First Spice Company blends many spices Board of Supervisors, where they’re in its Potrero location, which add to the fragrance expected to be adopted. According Potrero Hill has a cacophony of in the air, including, red pepper, turmeric, bay to the Committee’s bylaws, ENCAC smells, emanating from backyard leaves, curry powder, coriander, paprika, sumac, collaborates “with the Planning De- gardens, street trees, passing cars, monterey chili, all spice, and rosemary. Below, partment and the Interagency Plan and neighborhood restaurants and Anchor Steam at 17th and Mariposa, emits Implementation Committee on pri- the aroma of barley malt cooking in hot water. bakeries. But two prominent scents oritizing…community improvement PHOTOGRAPHS BY GABRIELLE LURIE tend to linger year-round, no mat- projects and identifying implemen- ter which way the wind is blowing, tation details as part of an annual evolving throughout the day. The in the sky the smell from the facility expenditure program that is adopted smells come from Anchor Steam gets progressively stronger. “When I by the Board of Supervisors.” Brewing Company and First Spice get here early in the morning…I don’t “The money the park will be Mixing Company. really get any smells, but later in the receiving will enable many of the Founded in 1871 by a German day I do,” Carpenter said, “because renovations the community asked us brewer, Anchor Steam moved to 17th the mash has been cooking all day.” to advocate for,” said Briony Doyle, and Kansas streets in 1934, where He said that years ago, the brewery Friends of Jackson Playground San Francisco they stayed until 1959. In 1960 the received complaints about odors member. “In addition, we saw that brewery shifted to South-of-Mar- emanating from the boil kettle, but SF Rec and Park Department and District ket, and, after multiple ownership they’ve since installed a vapor con- the ENCAC both appreciate the changes, moved back to Potrero in denser which eliminated the smells. importance of Jackson Playground Attorney 1979, to the Mariposa Street building “In the past, the steam vapors in our neighborhood, and the need the company occupies today. Warm coming from the boil kettle would for attention [to] the park…with… and yeasty aromas from the brewery be released out of the stack on the an influx of residents in the nearby Doesn’t Track journey up and down the Hill for roof into the neighborhood. Now that area.” several blocks in each direction. those vapors are condensed, they Related wants to its Case “What you’re smelling is the turn back into a liquid so there are bring hundreds of new residents to mash; barley malt cooking in hot no runaway aromas released into the a new development across the street Closure Rate water to change the starches in the air,” Carpenter said. from the park. In addition, mul- grain to fermentable sugars, and In addition to curbing the scent, tiple residential buildings are being BY KEITH BURBANK it produces this malty aroma” said the vapor condenser has economic constructed in Dogpatch, and up Mark Carpenter, Anchor Brewing’s to 2,000 units are being planned by The San Francisco District Attor- head brewmaster. “It’s a wonderful Forest City at Pier 70. Not all of the ney’s Office appears to keep no data on kind of bready smell.” new population will place a burden the number of cases it closes each year, Next to a second floor window on Jackson Playground. Forest City or on how quickly cases are resolved, facing Mariposa Street sits a large plans to include open space at Pier according to a response to a public re- copper vessel called a Mash Tun, 70, and Crane Cove Park will add cords request submitted by the View. where up to 7,000 pounds of malt green space. The View asked for “monthly data for steep in 1,800 gallons of hot water The money for Jackson Play- the past seven years on the number to produce wort, the liquid extract ground will come in three alloca- of cases closed by the San Francisco from the mashing process. The mash tions. In fiscal year 2015, the park DA’s Office” as well as “the opening takes about an hour and a half. Once will receive $110,000; in FY 2016, and closing dates of the cases opened complete, the spent grain is filtered $530,000; and in FY 2018, $1 million. during the last five years,” including from the wort and transferred to a Doyle said the initial allocation will the “cases that are currently open.” nearby kettle to be boiled with hops. be used for a new water fountain, “Under the Public Records Act Anchor typically produces five brews daily. As the sun gets higher SCENTS page 28 JACKSON PARK page 28 DA page 30 2 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014 SHORT CUTS Letters to the Editor Editor, Clinton stating that we’re bullying the developers, the reverse is true. Journalist Robbed host of kids’ activities. Good-bye, Lia!... As neighbors concerned about D&C ignored our initial feedback and Dogpatch Café is the latest business the proposed Kansas Street project presented their original plan to the In early September a KRON-TV reporter to be squeezed out of the area by high we’re glad to see you cover the topic City. Since then, they’ve presented was robbed of equipment and personal rents and promises by a prospective in your September issue (“Proposed ideas for minor changes, but the property in the neighborhood. The em- tenant to invest significant monies in Kansas Street Development Opposed looming question remains, will they ployee, whose name wasn’t released, was building renovations. The café, which by Neighbors”). However; we wanted move ahead without any changes sitting in his news van on the Interstate featured cutting edge art exhibits, to clarify our position. unless we acquiesce? 280 overpass near 18th and Pennsylvania will be replaced by Ozumo, a high-end First, we wish to underscore that The response from the neighbor- Avenue at about 5 a.m., preparing a re- Japanese restaurant with locations in we’re not opposed to development hood has been one of concern, but port on work that was recently completed downtown San Francisco and Oakland. per se, as the article’s title suggests. always with a desire to work with on the freeway. Two men with bandan- As the View pointed out not so long We’re happy to see the land going to the developers to find a solution that nas hiding their faces got out of a car, ago, in the neighborhood use. But from the outset we’ve been meets everyone’s needs. We believe opened the van doors and put a gun to the was signaled first by the emergence of concerned with the size and design. this development will, with proper reporter’s head while ordering him to get multiple nail salons, followed by toney These buildings are too tall, and are revisions, be a benefit to the unique in the back. The assailants stole a laptop cafes, expensive chocolate vendors, and of a radically different character street on which it’s being built. computer, a wallet and a camera tripod then a proliferation of sushi restaurants. than our neighborhood. before fleeing in their vehicle. What are Up next will be luxury clothing and Adjacent properties developed Beata Piasek, Dale Scott, and we, Bagdad? accessory outlets, to join the MAC store in 1989 were limited to 40 feet above Pete Richards, in Dogpatch. street level. Following the street’s Kansas Street Neighborhood Telecommunications Customers rhythm, the neighbors want this final Association Dogpatch and Potrero Hill residents have Mariposa Meeting piece of property to adhere to the been frustrated by a deep degradation Last month members of Grow Potrero same restriction. in AT&T service starting last summer. Responsibly, along with Friends of Furthermore, in lieu of a de- Editor Apparently, the decline is the result of Jackson Park, Save the Hill, Home Own- velopment looking like one massive I hope you support “yes” on AT&T disabling the 18th and De Haro ers Association for 18th and Mariposa, complex — of which none others exist Proposition H, to keep natural grass streets tower site that services the and Live Oak School met with Related, nearby — we’ve requested that each and no stadium lights at Golden Gate North Slope due to “landlord issues.” Inc. representatives as part of a series of of the lots appear as five distinct Park’s Beach Chalet soccer fields, The company is looking for new cell gatherings to discuss Related’s proposed residential units. and vote “no” on Proposition I, which tower sites in the area. Until they are 1601 Mariposa Street development. Lighter subjects, such as green seeks to destroy the soccer fields with established, expect bad service… Linda The developer floated several ideas for and living buildings and micro- phony plastic turf and tall stadium Edson, who previously managed Axis neighborhood amenities associated with gardens, are all welcome ideas, but lights. Café and other eateries on Potrero Hill, project go-ahead, including an onsite they’re simply not the sort of details opened Aracely Cafe on Treasure Island public community center, an active that we’re concerned about. G. L. Hastings last month. The new restaurant features ground floor with commercial and retail Regarding allies of Dawson & 42nd Avenue patio space with bridge views, and serves space, expanded open space, and Jackson brunch and lunch…A new stop sign Park clubhouse renovation and park OP-ED I presents a Pandora’s Box of un- has been installed at the intersection improvements. Issues to be addressed foreseen consequences for all of San of Southern Heights and De Haro…The in the environmental impact report — a Francisco’s parks. The initiative is second season of HBO’s Looking is being draft of which is scheduled to be released Vote “Yes” on unnecessary: Park and Rec already filmed, with offices and stages located next month — including hazardous possesses the authority under the in the old Jessica McClintock outlet at materials, parking and traffic—will be Proposition H; City Charter to renovate parks. 1400 16th Street…Arch Art and Drafting discussed at a future meeting…Save The It’s misleading: it doesn’t provide Supplies is now located at 2339 Third Hill, with support from District 10 Su- “No” on I any new funding for renovations. Street until their permanent new digs are pervisor , has secured a rare And Proposition I’s dependence ready… District Attorney Tiffany Sutton environmental “scoping” session on the BY KATHERINE HOWARD on “anticipated usage” data opens has been assigned to the Bayview and proposed development at the Corovan the door for Park and Rec to create Potrero Hill neighborhoods…Umpqua site. No date has been scheduled, but the Next month’s election pits a their own data. The department can Bank and Philz Coffee will open outlets community hearing will likely take place grassroots initiative that would then use that information to decide on 17th and De Haro streets towards the later this year or early next. protect against unilaterally which projects should end of next year, and Mocha Peruvian, a a San Francisco Recreation and take precedence in your neighbor- restaurant and bar, will open at 18th and Development Large Park Department (Park and Rec) hood park. Connecticut Street later this year. New plans for Crane Cove Park, which power grab. Park and Rec wants to Additionally, Proposition I’s Librarian Checking Out will encompass nine acres along the Cen- demolish the natural grass fields “doubling in usage” criteria could tral Waterfront, between Mariposa and at the Beach Chalet soccer fields in be tied to virtually any development, Potrero Branch librarian Lia Hillman 19th streets, include a sandy shoreline western Golden Gate Park to make including commercial or private ac- transferred to another position at the and waterfront walk, large open green way for a seven-acre artificial turf tivities. Proposition I impacts local Main Library last month. Hillman for lounging and picnicking, native gar- soccer field containing toxic tire control over parks. Its supporters supervised the branch’s renovation, and dens, multi-use lawn and playgrounds, waste and 150,000 watts of stadium have already admitted that Proposi- initiated innovative programming, such lighting on 60-foot-tall poles. Lo- tion I would prevent any new laws as the seed exchange, exhibitions, and a SHORT CUTS page 32 cated right next to Ocean Beach, the from being passed to protect a park lights would be kept on until 10 p.m. after a project had been through an every night of the year. EIR. Proposition I’s impact on the This summer more than 15,000 public’s right to challenge or appeal San Franciscans signed petitions a project — or even to file a ballot to put Proposition H on the ballot. initiative — is unclear. The initiative would enable voters Proposition I isn’t “for the chil- to cast a simple “yes” or “no” vote dren.” In reality, the initiative is on putting artificial turf and sports just a thinly veiled Park and Rec lighting in Golden Gate Park, and power grab, disguised as a mea- require the City to maintain those sure that will somehow benefit same fields as grass. children. If you want to maintain But, fearful of San Franciscan’s control over your park — your play- love for Golden Gate Park, Park and ing fields, playgrounds and walking Rec created a competing initiative, trails — please think seriously about Proposition I, which amends the voting “no” on I. Park Code to “authorize renovation To protect Golden Gate PHOTOGRAPH BY EMILY PAYNE of children’s playgrounds, walking Park, join the 15,000 peo- trails and athletic fields where a ple who signed petitions and certified environmental impact vote “yes” on H. report documents at least doubling For more information, go to in anticipated usage.” Proposition protectggp.org and sfoceanedge.org. October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 3

PUBLISHER’S VIEW VIEW ENDORSEMENTS: Supervisor LOCAL BALLOT INITIATIVES Proposition A, The San Francisco Agency employees the right to either transportation and road improve- join the City’s health insurance BY STEVEN J. MOSS ment bond, asks voters to authorize program or stay in the state program a half-billion dollar bond to improve in which the former Redevelopment Muni and enhance the safety of San Agency was a member. The initiative Francisco streets. The bond requires is directed at former state employees ive community members particularly from Visitacion Valley, a two-thirds vote to pass. Proponents who now work for the City, and want are running for the Dis- but should be nobodies’ second choice. insist that bond repayments won’t credit toward municipal retirement trict 10 seat on the San Cohen has recently shown signs act to raise local property tax rates. benefits for the years they worked Francisco Board of Su- of legislative life, championing pro- That’s true, but the revenues collected for the state. There’s no sound reason pervisors: the incumbent duction, distribution, and repair through these rates could be invested to make what some proponents are Malia Cohen, Tony Kelly, Marlene businesses in Showplace Square, and in other municipal projects, or cur- calling a “technical change,” but is Tran,F Ed Donaldson, and Shawn Rich- improved air quality rules near the rent higher rates could be allowed actually a giveaway, albeit a modest- ard. The first four vied for supervisor freeways that encircle the district. to expire, reducing property taxes. sized one. It would be akin to gifting in 2010. I also ran that year, and spent During her first term she’s pursued a Public transportation is an essential former private sector workers credit many hours in many different rooms, centrist agenda, generally following a government service. But Muni doesn’t for the time they worked on City con- small and large, getting to know their similar moderate path as her predeces- have a stellar reputation for manag- tracts after they became a municipal views and personalities. Campaign- sor, , which is probably ing the existing system. And there’s employee. Vote no. ing for office is hard, if sometimes a match with most Potrero Hillians’ no guarantee that any funds will exhilarating, work. All five candidates politics. be dedicated to needed projects in Proposition E, Tax on sugar- deserve respect. But only one of them But Cohen suffers from significant Southside neighborhoods. If you vote sweetened beverages, would impose is going to win. flaws that make her difficult to sup- yes on this one vote no on Proposition a two cents per fluid ounce levy on Donaldson and Richard have port. She seems enthralled with San B, or vice-versa. Too much money to sugar-sweetened beverages sold in pursued admirable career paths. After Francisco’s power structure, reluctant a difficult to manage government San Francisco, with the resulting rev- the murder of his brother, Richard to disturb dominant economic or agency isn’t a good outcome. enue dedicated to funding nutrition dedicated his life to ending violence. political interests that may sour her and health programs. The initiative, He founded Brothers Against Guns, future prospects for higher office. As a Proposition B, Adjusting which could generate between $35 and served as a Juvenile Probation result, she’s exhibited little leadership transportation funding for popu- million and $54 million annually, Department commissioner and Gang on the most pressing issues in District lation growth, would amend the presents an interesting set of issues. Free Task Force member. Donaldson 10: an avalanche of development, and City Charter to increase Municipal Excessive sugar consumption can has invested time advocating for af- the resulting public transportation, Transportation Agency (MTA) fund- cause medical problems, which tend fordable housing. Both have a role to traffic, and parking crunch; affordable ing by the percentage growth in the to be visited on lower income families, play in District 10, particularly in the housing; and crime. She does not, in City’s population over the past ten who, because of easy and cheap access wake of a recent spate of shootings, short, appear to have the community’s years, as well as in future years. The to sugar — combined with little or ex- and with ever-rising prices pushing back. change would result in an immediate pensive access to alternatives — have home ownership further out of reach. Worse yet, Cohen has demon- $22 million in additional funds, with a tendency to consume more than But that role isn’t supervisor. Neither strated a lackluster ability to develop annual increases of roughly $1.5 might be healthy for them. That, in candidate has demonstrated an ability the web of community relationships million. This initiative would be more turn, can also prompt the need for to engage communities outside their needed to represent our diverse dis- compelling if it was accompanied by health care services, which is more immediate experiences. And, like the trict, and goes out of her way to avoid an in-depth audit of MTA’s expendi- often than not paid for by the public. last election cycle, when he garnered communicating with those who might tures on labor and capital, along with A tax would, as economists say, “in- only a few hundred votes, Donaldson oppose her. That’s probably why her a demonstration that there’s a tight ternalize the externalities,” resulting seems more interested in calling atten- hometown Democratic Club endorsed linkage between population growth in lower sugar consumption, possibly tion to his housing ideas than actually another candidate, as have a number and demand for the services MTA of- reducing related morbidity. But, ex- winning office. of prominent merchants, including fers. As it is, the emergence of Google actly because low-income households Tran has been a consistent cru- the owners of Goat Hill Pizza and The buses, ridesharing, and easy-access tend to consume greater amounts of sader for Asian-Americans, insisting Good Life Grocery. The world does not vehicle and bicycle rentals implies sugary beverages they’d pay the tax that multi-lingual access be provided need another politician who cannot that new business models may be more often the upper-income fami- for public services, and assisting recent make friends with her neighbors, much a better way for the City to invest lies, making it “regressive.” And the immigrants negotiate the process of less with people with whom she might money; vouchers for Sidecar could City doesn’t have a great track record becoming fully-realized citizens. But disagree. be more cost-effective than adding in making wise spending choices on she seems to have little interest in, or Kelly, who beat Cohen in terms of buses along transportation corridors. nutrition and health programs, with ability to, grapple with other municipal first place votes last election, suffers As suggested above, vote yes on either a tendency to support ill-attended issues, and does not have the aptitude from a different set of weaknesses. He this initiative or Proposition A, not and poorly run athletic and edu- for the hard-knuckle fights necessary leans towards the type of “progres- both. cational programs. It’d be better if to win positions at City Hall. She’ll the proposition’s tax revenues were garner her share of first-choice votes, PUBLISHER’S VIEW page 27 Proposition C, Changes to used to directly reduce (sales) taxes children’s fund; public education elsewhere — something that under its and enrichment fund; children and language is expressly prohibited — be families council; rainy day reserve limited to paying for needed preven- extends the Children’s Fund for 25 tative medical services at places like years and increases the associated San Francisco General Hospital, or set-aside from three cents to four be dedicated to hard infrastructure, cents over four years; prolongs the like high-quality playground drink- Public Education Enrichment Fund ing fountains or appropriately placed ™ Masthead design by Giacomo Patri EDITOR and PUBLISHER Steven J. Moss for 26 years; creates an Our Children, playing fields. While a tax on bad PRODUCTION MANAGER J. Durrant Our Families Council, with manda- things is a good concept, this initia-

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS tory development of a Children and tive needs more work, preferably as Margaret Allen, Nathan Allen, Ryan Bergmann, Sara Bloomberg, Thi-Ca Bonilla, Families Plan; and initiates City part of a comprehensive assessment Keith Burbank, Courtney Clouse, Kimberly Gomes, Debbie Findling, Kayren Hudiburgh, and School rainy funds. Support for of the City’s tax policies. Vote no. Gabrielle Lurie, Abigail Johnston, Peter Linenthal, April Mckay, Jake Richardson, Vivian Sachs, children and rainy day funds; that’s Rebecca Schuetz, Mauri Schwartz, Indrani Sengupta and Jim Van Buskirk good public policy. Vote yes. Proposition F, Pier 70 develop- Editorial and policy decisions are made by the staff. All staff positions are voluntary. ment asks voters to more than double Published monthly. Address all correspondence to: Proposition D, Retiree health the height limit for buildings at the THE POTRERO VIEW, 2325 Third Street Suite 344, San Francisco, CA 94107 415.626.8723 • E-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] (for advertising) benefits for former Redevelopment Agency and successor agency employ- THE VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED NEWSPRINT WITH SOY-BASED INK. VIEW ENDORSEMENTS page 29 Copyright 2014 by The Potrero View. All rights reserved. Any reproduction without written permission from the publishers is prohibited. ees, grants former Redevelopment 4 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014

Don’t Shred City College We’re dog friendly. By Dr. Anita Grier, City College Board of Trustees Saving City College is our number 1 priority. ACCJC, the Accrediting Commission that’s supposed to “ensure the Bring your buddy quality of education” at City College has recklessly and seriously endangered the hard-earned reputation of our 79 year-old college. We have nothing to apologize for. City College offers an in for a visit! excellent education. Finances are not the problem. CCSF is in strong financial shape, the Board left it with a balanced budget. And with Prop 30 and Prop A and new facilities to attract new students, plus the improving economy, City College has a bright financial future. The quality of City College’s education is not in question. City College is renowned for its teachers, staff and educational excellence. Hundreds of thousands of successful students have gone on to rewarding careers, contributing to our community. What annoys the ACCJC is the bureaucracy — not because it’s unresponsive to the will of the voters — just the opposite. The ACCJC’s has imposed its will through “Extraor- dinary Powers” behind closed doors, without hearings or input from the public—that’s antithetical to San Franciscans’ sense of fair play and due process. Destruction of records. Now that ACCJC has been forced to defend its actions in court, it’s reportedly shredding documents. It’s no wonder U.S. Congress Member Jackie Speier calls it “an agency run amok.” Policy pushback. The ACCJC wants to impose policies that read straight out of the right-wing playbook: remove faculty from the decision process, hire part-time, temporary, low-wage “adjunct” professors, slash job security for teachers, increase wages for administrators, trim “unnecessary classes,” nullify child care agreements, rewrite the Mission Statement to exclude thousands of students, close neighborhood serving facilities, cancel expansion plans. All these “fiscal austerity” mandates are demanded despite the fact they will further cut enrollment, aggravating the fiscal health of CCSF. Lifelong learning is not lifelong failure. We disagree with the ACCJC and the non-repeatability ruling. We favor repeating classes when repetition ensures success — hundreds of classes: learning English (ESL), basic skills, art, theater, music, tai chi, yoga, aerobics are being closed because students can’t re-enroll. This especially hurts our seniors for whom a class makes a big difference. Grandma’s pottery class does not threaten the community college system! Education for All. It’s why City College began. I take pride in the students who do not have the option of 4 year and elite universities, whose successful careers started at City College. They are the very people who need it the most, I’ll always advocate for them. No Apologies. I am confident that we will prevail if we stay true to what we believe. I do not apologize for standing up for the values San Franciscans cherish — living wages, a seat for everyone at the table and education for all — our San Francisco values. A great career begins at City College! Please sign my petition on repeating classes: petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-kick-grandma-out 251 RHODE ISLAND SUITE 110, SAN FRANCISCO INFO: anitagrier.org 415.896.4393 / EYESONYOUOPTOMETRY.COM Advertisement Paid for by Committee to Re-Elect Anita Grier 2014 FPPC #1370587 October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 5

base, followed by private consultants ($8,550); technology ($7,200); the un- Cohen Outraises Kelly Five to One employed, not including retirees who BY SARA BLOOMBERG ments isn’t as long, it features some are likely to be “stay-at-home” spous- notable names. These include As- es married to individual in one of the Roughly a month before the No- semblymember Tom Ammiano, former other dominant categories ($7,150); vember election, notable endorsements San Francisco Mayor , construction ($6,800); law ($5,200); for the District 10 Board of Supervi- Supervisors David Campos and John and banking/finance ($4,700). sor’s seat were almost exclusively split Avalos, the Potrero Hill Democratic Politically-connected venture between incumbent Malia Cohen and Club, the San Francisco Latino Demo- capitalist Ron Conway donated $500 challenger Tony Kelly. Likewise, both cratic Club, the LGBT to Cohen’s campaign, while San Fran- had raised more than and outspent Democratic Club, the San Francisco cisco’s Public Defender Jeff Adachi the three other candidates vying for Green Party, Service Employees In- gave $100, as did technology mogul the position, with Marlene Tran the ternational Union, Local 1021, and the Nicholas Josefowitz, who is chal- only other contender who collected San Francisco Tenants Union. lenging incumbent Bay Area Rapid significant funds. Neither the San Francisco Transit Director James Fang for his Cohen had received about $250,000 Chronicle nor the San Francisco Bay seat. Cohen took in nearly all real IMAGE COURTESY OF THE CANDIDATE in contributions, and only spent about Guardian has released endorsements estate contributions. Kelly received a third of those monies by the end of for District 10 supervisor. The View limiting condo conversions is an just $100; Tran was gifted nothing by June, according to the most recent endorsed Kelly in this issue. infringement of property rights. And real estate interests. campaign finance records. Excluding In 2010 the Chronicle selected she’s way too vague on other issues.” Retirees were Kelly’s top con- public matching funds — which Cohen Lynette Sweet as its preferred politi- Cohen, Kelly and Tran — who tributors, bringing him $7,200, fol- has elected not to receive — Kelly cian. She’s “not a perfect candidate,” came in fourth in 2010 — were the lowed by law ($4,850); arts ($2,300); had collected $42,000, and expended the Chronicle wrote of Sweet, but she only District 10 candidates who technology ($$2,250); the unemployed, nearly all of it. “has a clear edge in depth of experi- raised campaign funds, according not including retirees ($2,100); and Cohen boasts a long list of en- ence and can-do centrist sensibilities to the most recent campaign finance private consultants ($1,950). dorsements on her campaign website, for creating jobs and growth.” In that documents, which cover the period be- Tran’s top two groups of donors including several unions, the Police election Sweet won the most votes, tween January 1 to June 30. Roughly were retirees and the unemployed, Officers Association, San Francisco just more than 12 percent, during the one-third of Cohen’s contributions who contributed $1,100 and $900 to Black Young Democrats, San Fran- first round of ranked-choice voting. In came from non-San Francisco resi- her campaign, respectively. The rest cisco’s Democratic County Central the final count Cohen and Kelly were dents. Kelly brought in one-fifth of of her contributions came from gov- Committee, San Francisco Bike Co- the only two candidates left, with his donations from outside the City. ernment employees ($600); technology alition and the Alice B. Toklas Club. Cohen winning nearly 53 percent of Tran received less than eight percent ($100); education ($100); construction She’s also been endorsed by prominent the votes to Kelly’s 47 percent. of her donations from beyond San ($100); and banking/finance ($100). politicians, including Mayor Kelly was the Bay Guardian’s Francisco’s borders. According to San Francisco State and five fellow supervisors—David top pick in 2010. “He has a deep Retirees contributed the most to University political scientist Jason Chiu, , , understanding of what the district is all three candidates. Their contribu- McDaniel, campaign funds tend to Eric Mar and Katy Tang—as well as facing… [and] has solutions” the Bay tions totaled $17,565, with Cohen re- have the greatest impact when party Lieutenant Governor Guardian wrote. “Malia Cohen has ceiving more than half of that amount. identification doesn’t provide a clear and Congresswomen and raised a lot of money…but she’s by Real estate was the biggest single difference between the candidates, Jackie Speier. no means a progressive, particularly donor to Cohen, contributing $12,750. which is the case in the District 10 Although Kelly’s list of endorse- on tenant issues — she told us that Retirees were her second largest donor race.

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United States Representative, District 12 State Board of Equalization, District 2 NANCY PELOSI California Governor Superior Court Judge: office Number 20 JERRY BROWN DANIEL FLORES California State Controller San Francisco Board of Education BETTY YEE California State Treasurer San Francisco Community College Board JOHN CHIANG JOHN RIZZO California Attorney General San Francisco Assessor-Recorder KAMALA HARRIS CARMEN CHU California Commissioner of Insurance San Francisco Public Defender DAVE JONES JEFF ADACHI California Superintendent of Public Instruction TOM TORLAKSON SF Supervisor, District 10 State Assembly, District 17 TONY KELLY DAVID CAMPOS San Francisco Propositions B – YES AdjustingTransportation Funding for Population Growth. San Francisco's explosive growth – mostly here on the east side – means that it's time to do this. Muni needs to keep up. C – YES Children and Youth Fund. Extending the Children’s Fund and the Public Education Enrichment Fund for another quarter-century will help keep families in the City. D – YES Retiree Health Benefits for Former Redevelopment Agency and Successor Agency Employees. A fair, not-too-costly way to grant normal benefits to a few left-out City workers. E – YES Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. San Francisco needs affordable housing, not affordable soda. Fight obesity and Type II diabetes by passing this industry-opposed tax. F – YES Pier 70 Height Limit Increase. The next step to reclaiming public access to the city’s waterfront at a historic pier, bringing parks, housing and local jobs back to the area. G - YES Additional Transfer Tax on Residential Property Sold Within 5 Years of Purchase. Stop greedy house flippers! This does NOT affect longtime homeowners. H – YES Golden Gate Park Athletic Fields (natural grass). Protect the western end of the park; from bright lights and used tires; it was always meant to be the more natural side. I – NO Renovation of Playgrounds, Walking Trails, & Athletic Fields (artificial turf). Toxic tire crumbs offer the biggest bang for the buck.. Never mind our children's health! J – YES!!! Minimum Wage Increase. Join the fight against income inequality. K – YES! Affordable Housing policy. It should be City policy – watered-down though this is – to build or rehab 30,000 homes by 2020, with over 50% affordable to the middle class, and at least 33% for low- and moderate-income households. L – NO Transportation Priorities policy. This ridiculous, dangerous policy would prioritize car traffic and parking above all other modes, taking money away from Muni sending SF backwards. We deserve streets that are safe for ALL users.

California Propositions 1 – NO Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement bond. Dams for wealthy private interests. Industrial ag over-pumping the Delta. 2 – NO State Budget. Budget Stabilization Account. Unfairly reduces money available to schools, by means of little-known triggers. 45 – YES Healthcare Insurance. Rate Changes. Health insurance companies should publicly justify rate increases before they go into effect 46 – NO Drug and Alcohol Testing of Doctors. Medical Negligence Lawsuits. The drug-testing part is ill-thought-out and kills it for us. 47 – YES!!! Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor Penalties. Stop overcrowding prisons with low-level noon-violent offenders. 48 – NO Indian Gaming Compacts referendum. Approving this breaks the promise to keep casinos on reservations, and opens the door to a gambling boom. Potrero Hill Democratic Club is a proud sponsor of the Potrero Hill Festival. - look for us October 18, registering voters and selling 94107 t-shirts! The Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. All meetings are open to the public. For more information, please visit PHDemClub.org or find us on Facebook. 6 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014 UCSF’s New Mission Bay Hospital Facilities State-of-the-Art

BY KIMBERLY GOMES

Last month the University of Cali- fornia, San Francisco (USCF) offered an early tour of its 878,000-square- feet Mission Bay hospital complex, which is set to open February 1, 2015. Stretching over two city blocks, the 289-bed medical center hosts Benoiff Children’s Hospital, Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital, and the Bakar Cancer Hospital. Between its efforts to create environmental sustainability and multi-faceted children’s services, the $1.52 billion campus aims to create a new standard of inpatient care. The complex contains a range of state-of-the-art facilities, including a pediatric emergency center with 19 exam rooms, 60,000 square feet of outdoor rooftop gardens, and 10 major art commissions, along with medita- The 36-bed women’s hospital will teachers help patients continue their Last month, the University of California, San tion rooms, a Zen garden, and a Ronald focus on reproductive care, cancer education and smoothly transition Francisco’s Benioff Children’s, Betty Irene Moore McDonald House for families in need treatment and specialty surgery. The back to school. The Bakar Cancer Women’s, and Bakar Cancer hospitals celebrated of support. 70-bed cancer hospital will provide Hospital also offers an art recovery Lights On Festival, in anticipation of the complex’s “There are so many things that cancer surgeries, as well as medical program, where patients can express opening in February 2015. PHOTOGRAPH BY DREW are taking place in these sites…it’s a services ranging from endocrinology themselves while working through ALTIZER holistic way of supporting families and and orthopedics to melanoma and their illness. electricity as a standard hospital, and teenagers who are going through chal- gynecologic oncology. “We want kids to not only get will rely on its own generating facili- lenging times,” said Michael Franti, Children’s Hospital patients have through it and understand what’s ties, located just off Third Street. The global musician, San Franciscan, and access to a variety of artistic services. happening to them, but maybe even medical center features an extensive father to 15-year-old Ade, who is a Children and teenagers meet with come out a little stronger,” said Mi- filtration system, which cleans water Benioff Children’s Hospital patient the facility’s art, music, and poetry chael Towne, UCSF child life services via bio-soils before it’s discharged into being treated for Focal Segmental therapists, affording them an oppor- manager. “They can realize who they the bay. UCSF has also implemented Glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disease. tunity for creative expression. Patients are, and see that they have skills which conservation measures that should The 183-bed children’s hospital can use the playroom, teen lounge may not be connected to their medical save roughly two million gallons of will attend to virtually all pediatric and digital arts studio, which offers needs.” water annually. The hospital plans conditions, including cancer, heart music recording, radio broadcasting, The UCSF-Mission Bay’s campus to install a 730 kilowatt solar panel disease, neurological disorders, organ and film editing. And the hospital is on its way to Leadership in Energy system in 2015, which would annually transplants and orthopedics, as well has an on-site classroom, where San and Environmental Design Gold certi- as care for critically ill newborns. Francisco Unified School District fication, projected to use half as much UCSF page 30

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UCSF will use helicopters to accept transfers of critically ill newborns, Community Meeting: children and pregnant women from community hospitals to UCSF for the • Tuesday, November 18, 2014 most advanced, lifesaving medical care. To ensure that helicopter transport is reserved for the most critical cases, • 6:30 PM each and every helicopter transport will require UCSF physician • UCSF Genentech Hall approval. UCSF implemented a primary flight path designed for helicopters to approach and depart to and from the east over the 600 - 16th St. (at 4th St.) San Francisco Bay to minimize noise impacts on residences. Hovering is not a part of a routine helipad landing. The UCSF Mission Bay Campus is accessible using the MUNI T-Third light rail line. If you must drive, please park at no charge in the 3rd St. The helipad has met all requirements and obtained all local, state, and garage or the surface lot, which can be accessed by taking 16th St. federal approvals. A Day in the Life “dress rehearsal” for new hospital to 4th St. operations on October 15, 2014 will include helicopter test flights. ______UCSF fully ascribes to the Americans with Disabilities Act. If For more information, see www.ucsf.edu/childrens-helipad or at any time you feel you have a need for accommodation, contact [email protected] 415/476-3024. please contact UCSF Community & Government Relations at 415.476.3206 or [email protected] with your If you would like to be on our email notification list, please email suggested accommodation. [email protected], specifying the campus site(s) of interest: Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mount Zion, San Francisco General Hospital. October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 7 Chinese Medicine Students Bring their Practice to San Quentin BY COURTNEY CLOUSE

Last summer, nine American Col- lege of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) graduate students, one practitioner, and one administrator attended the 11th Annual Health Fair within the walls of San Quentin State Prison. It was the first time ACTCM participated in the event, most of the attendees had never before entered a state prison. The students joined chiropractors, nurses, dentists, yoga and Tai Chi instructors to offer health education and services to inmates on a rare, once-a-year basis. ACTCM students provided ear acupuncture seeds — also known as auricular therapy — to accommodate each inmate’s chief complaints. Ear seeds are small kernels from the Vaccaria plant. The seeds are held in place on the ear with a small piece of adhesive tape, and may be left in the ear for a few days or up to two weeks. whatever it was that they intended for Of the almost 400 male patients each seed to address. While ear seeds treated over a four-hour period, the are not a “magic pill,” patients were most common complaints included encouraged to continue to rub their stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, ears. In traditional Chinese medicine pain — back, neck, head, shoulder — an- ears are seen as a microcosm of the ger, trauma, testicular issues, and whole body. Daily massage can have toothaches. One student noted that two a long-term calming and nourishing different inmates asked for help with effect on the body. “a broken heart.” Many of the ACTCM students Receiving auricular acupuncture became so immersed in the experience was a new experience for the inmates, that they forgot they were in a prison. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF ACTCM who were both curious to learn about The patients were calm, respectful, inmate said, “Thank you for looking medicine at the American College how the treatment works and open to and on their own paths to making at me with compassion and treating of Traditional Chinese Medicine. the process. The students explained to deeper personal changes; many dis- me like a human being.” She’s a certified massage therapist, each patient how to rub the seeds dur- closed details of their own journeys. Courtney Clouse is pursuing specializing in Shiatsu massage, and ing times of ailment, anger, anxiety, or In response to his treatment, one a master’s in traditional Chinese teaches Yoga. 8 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014

supervisors supported such items as nually to human and senior services. Board in the Back Seat on Budget street resurfacing in their districts. Much of the $8.6 billion budget The Board of Supervisors’ influ- is locked into hard-to-examine ex- BY REBECCA SCHUETZ Committee has just 30 days to evalu- ence over the budget extends beyond penditures. Nearly half of the budget ate the mayor’s proposed budget. their summer review. Starting in is associated with departments that Earlier this year the San Fran- The committee can recommend March, the Board’s Budget and generate their own revenue, such as cisco Board of Supervisors unani- spending cuts, or reallocations. Finance Committee expands to five San Francisco International Air- mously approved an $8.6 billion The Board’s review is guided by the supervisors, and begins meeting port. These monies are generally not budget, reallocating just $23 mil- Budget and Legislative Analyst’s with different departments to gain reallocated. In addition, state law lion, or well less than one percent, Office, which is run by Harvey perspective on how the city is do- and local initiatives passed by San of the mayor’s proposed expenditure Rose. Rose, who owns his own ing, and what changes in resource Francisco voters require mandatory plan. The municipal government public sector management auditing allocations may be needed. The funding, staffing, and reserves for spends more than the gross domestic and fiscal analysis firm, has spent supervisors discuss their priorities certain departments, such as the San product of 54 countries, including the last roughly 40 years providing for the upcoming financial year with Francisco Unified School District. Haiti, Rwanda, and Morocco. consulting services to the Board, department staff and the mayor’s As a result, discretionary general “This is a budget that certainly, even though his roughly $2 million- office. fund monies represent roughly one as chair of the Budget and Finance a-year contract is periodically open “It’s a very collaborative pro- quarter of total expenditures, with Committee, I hope reflects the pri- for a competitive bid. Rose’s firm is cess,” Farrell said. “Every year, I the $23 million in cuts this year orities of our entire Board of Super- hired to analyze the mayor’s pro- provide the mayor with a list of my representing about one percent. visors,” said Mark Farrell, District posed budget and conduct audits of budget priorities, and the mayor has “The mayor has the ability to 2 supervisor, “which is, given the departments. According to Farrell, been very good about including, not influence significantly more dollars diversity of the perspectives on the meetings with the budget analyst all of those, but a number of them in during the budget process than the Board, certainly not an easy task.” occur daily toward the end of June. his proposed budget, which I’m very Board of Supervisors,” acknowl- The budget process officially “We either accept those recom- appreciative of. And then, during the edged Farrell. starts in September, when the City mendations made [by the Budget Board’s process, I try to get as many District II Supervisor John creates preliminary revenue projec- Analyst], we either make reductions, of the other priorities into the budget Avalos, who chaired the Budget and tions for the upcoming budget years. or we don’t,” said District 8 Supervi- as I can.” Finance Committee in 2009 and 2010, In December, the mayor’s and con- sor Scott Weiner, who is also on the Last year, several supervisors put it more bluntly: “Generally the troller’s offices issue budget instruc- Budget and Finance Committee. At expressed concern about federal mayor has a lot of influence with tions to all of the departments, ask- the end of the process, the money ac- government spending cuts to HIV the budget. We can only tinker with ing each to develop a budget within cumulated from any proposed cuts is funding. In response, Mayor Edwin the edges.” certain parameters given revenue typically reallocated; it’s rarely left Lee partially filled the gap in his “It is a compromise,” Farrell projections and the mayor’s priori- unspent. After the committee makes proposed budget. When the com- added, “and it is about working ties. A department may be asked to its proposed changes, the Board mittee reviewed the budget they together and understanding that create a budget that’s a specified votes on the budget, which is then allocated sufficient funds to cover different people on the Board have percentage larger or smaller than sent back to the mayor to be signed. the rest of the federal cuts. different priorities, and accepting the previous year. The mayor takes This year, the committee reallo- When a mayor doesn’t take the those that are important to our col- these budgets, reviews them, and cated funds to homelessness preven- Board’s priorities into consideration leagues, but also accepting that the incorporates them into his two-year tion, food security, and additional in his proposed budget the backlash overall budget is something that we proposed citywide budget, which he park patrol officers. Weiner secured can be noticeable. In 2009 and 2010, can stand behind as a group and I’m presents to the Board of Supervisors funds to support additional Depart- in response to Mayor Gavin New- very thankful and proud that we on June 1. ment of Public Works cleaning crews som’s proposed budget, the Board were able to accomplish that again The Board’s Budget and Finance to maintain transit stations; other reallocated roughly $40 million an- this year.” SmArT, EFFECTivE LEADErShiP VOTE wiTh PridE by NOVEmbEr 4

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cArmEN chu cArOl KiNgSlEy mArK murPhy▼ Amy bAchArAch rOdrigO SANTOS ThEA SElby ASSESSor-rECorDEr SuPErior CourT JuDGE BoArD oF EDuCATion CiTy CoLLEGE CiTy CoLLEGE CiTy CoLLEGE USe the FUll alice endorSementS below when yoU vote San FranciSco board oF State candidateS local ballot meaSUreS State ballot meaSUreS candidateS edUcation Governor: Jerry Brown YES PROP A: Transportation Bond YES PROP 1: Water Bond Assessor-Recorder: Mark Murphy▼ Lieutenant Governor: Carmen Chu Gavin Newsom YES PROP B: Muni Funding YES PROP 2: Rainy Day Fund Supervisor, District 2: city college Secretary of State: YES PROP C: Children’s Programs Mark Farrell board oF trUSteeS Alex Padilla YES PROP 45: Make Health YES PROP D: Retirement Benefts Insurers Justify Rates Supervisor, District 4: Amy Bacharach, 2-year seat Controller: Betty Yee Katy Tang NO Rodrigo Santos, 4-year seat Treasurer: John Chiang YES PROP E: Creating a Healthy SF! POSITION PROP 46: No Position Supervisor, District 8: Thea Selby, 4-year seat Scott Wiener▼ Attorney General: YES PROP F: Pier 70 Redevelopment YES PROP 47: Reform Sentencing Kamala Harris Supervisor, District 10: NO POSITION PROP G: No Position Malia Cohen aSSembly Insurance Commissioner: YES PROP 48: Approve Tribal candidateS Dave Jones NO PROP H: Against Playgrounds Gaming Compromise Superior Court Judge, State Assembly, Offce 20: Board of Equalization, District 17: District 2: YES PROP I: For Playgrounds Carol Kingsley Fiona Ma David Chiu ▼ indicates that the candidate is LGBT YES BART Board, District 8: State Assembly, Superintendent of PROP J: Raise Minimum Wage Nick Josefowitz District 19: Public Instruction: YES PROP K: Affordable Housing Paid for by Alice B. Toklas Phil Ting Tom Torlakson LGBT Democratic Club PAC NO PROP L: Outdated Transit FPPC #842018. www.AliceBToklas.org Policies October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 9 The Little Neighborhood That Could BY NATHAN ALLEN

Jean Bogiages stood inside Fallen Bridge Park on a luminous summer af- ternoon. Her eyes were beaming almost as much as the sun as she looked over the mini-park’s newest renovations. The former graffiti has largely been replaced with flora. Prostitutes and squatters have been exchanged for children and their families. And an activity court has taken the place where decaying playground materials previously stood. The renovations are the latest in a multiple-phase project to reclaim an area once known for homelessness and drugs. The changes have been a long time coming for Bogiages and her fellow members of MUNA, a neighborhood association serving residents of Utah, Mariposa, 18th, Potrero and San Bruno streets. MUNA was formed in 2004 to fa- Company Landscape Architects. Miller, cilitate communication among residents who has developed parks, green school- and improve the neighborhood’s quality yards and community gardens in San of life. Since then the association has Francisco for the past 35 years, drafted worked to remove bridge graffiti, and designs for Fallen Bridge Park pro bono. renovate the Potrero Gateway and In 2009 the committee secured a other mini-parks. One of those parks $40,000 grant from the San Francisco is Fallen Bridge, which MUNA wants Community Challenge Grant program. to transform into a haven for close-by Another $6,000 was raised from local residents. bake sales and donations. Miller gifted work days, remaining monies from Above Left, Jean Bogiages rolled a ball in the In 2006 that dream started to materials, with manpower contributed the Challenge Grant, donations from newly laid court in Fallen Bridge park, above and become a reality. The Friends of Fallen by neighbors. The funds were used to neighbors and contributions from Miller bottom right, at the 18th Street pedestrian bridge. Bridge mini-park committee was dismantle a chain link fence, for land- Company. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF NATHAN ALLEN formed, and teamed with the San scaping, and to construct a sitting wall. Bogiages and other residents use the Francisco Neighborhood Parks Council The most recent renovations — which court to play Pentanque — pronounced game are stored in a secure location and San Francisco Recreation and Park feature extensions to the sitting wall and pay-tonk — the French version of bocce managed by Bogiages. Department to secure needed funds. the addition of the activity court — were ball. Bogiages agreed to a View in- The activity court and newly reno- The committee connected with Bernal completed last June. They were made terview only if it included a game of Heights resident Jeff Miller, of Miller possible by community clean-up and Pentanque. The items used to play the FALLEN BRIDGE page 27

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sorption (VPSA), to be turned down. Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant to be Upgraded The oxygen produced is injected at the aeration basins, and provides food for BY INDRANI SENGUPTA on the system’s performance. The solids digesters have been online the bugs that facilitate the secondary mechanical and electrical infrastruc- since the 1950s. They’ve functioned treatment. The VPSA will replace The Southeast Wastewater Treat- ture of the two facilities is also past well past their expected lives because the Southeast Plant’s antiquated ment Plant (SEP), which processes 80 its prime, demanding a great deal of of capable upkeep by the plant’s staff, cryogenic facility. percent of San Francisco’s wastewa- maintenance. but are nonetheless in dire need A new distributive control system ter and stormwater flow, will soon be The new Headworks facility, of replacement. Under SSIP, new has also been planned, which will extensively remodeled. Built in 1952, estimated to cost $184 million and bio-solids digester facilities will be upgrade all aspects of the plant, au- the SEP functions admirably despite projected to be completed by 2020, developed, estimated to be online tomating sensors and the monitoring its aged infrastructure, but routine will combine the two buildings into a in 2022, at a $1.2 billion cost. This of digesters. The system will provide repairs can no longer guarantee its single unit, saving space, and promot- overhaul will upgrade the bio-solids for real-time monitoring of the SEP’s continued productivity. Under the ing improved routing and odor con- from a Class B level of treatment to collections system: liquid levels in Sewer System Improvement Program trol. Expected to be able to process Class A. Class A bio-solids contain no transport/storage boxes, flow rates at (SSIP), a multi-billion project dollar sand particles as fine as 250 microns, detectable pathogens, and are suitable pump stations and at outfalls at the eight years in the making, upgrades grit removal efficacy will jump to 90 for a wider range of beneficial uses, Bayside and Westside facilities. The to the facility will be made in multiple percent, hugely reducing the cost of including horticulture and soil blends technology will enhance the SEP’s phases, with the most vulnerable and digester cleanings and ongoing repair A new preprocessing step has ability to use its existing capacity for vital elements targeted first. of damaged or abraded equipment. been proposed that would further storage, conveyance, and treatment. Headworks, the SEP’s first line The San Francisco Public Utilities breakdown the solids, making the SFPUC is coordinating with training of defense, processes 60 million gal- Commission (SFPUC) will conduct sludge easier to digest, necessitat- programs and unions so that workers lons daily during dry weather; 250 a large-scale pilot test over the next ing less digester volume and saving will be prepared with the necessary million gallons during wet weather. year to compare two grit removal sys- space. The bio-solids end product new skills. The Southeast Plant’s two Headworks tems, Pista 360 and Hedcell, as part of would be of higher quality, practi- Aesthetics have also been taken buildings, built in 1979 and 1994, a process to select the best available cally odor- and pathogen-free. The into consideration in the remodel work like sand removal machines, technology for the new facility. new technology is already used in plan. According to Carolyn Chiu, extracting grit from the sewage at After grit removal, sludge taken Europe, and is about to go online in project manager for the new Bio- the beginning of the liquid stream from the liquid stream is further Washington D.C., providing func- solids Facility, SFPUC wants the treatment process. Nearly 5,500 tons treated, then dewatered into a cake, tional models for SFPUC to look to Southeast Plant to be a “community of grit enters the Southeast Plant by the bio-solids facility. This cake, for guidance. The digesters and other asset,” a place to visit. The design annually, or, according to project once further treated, is beneficially process units will also be relocated team has been developing themes manager Jignesh Desai, “enough to used in land soil applications and further inside the plant, allowing for and architectural features, hoping fill 25 standard-size swimming pools as compost blend for non-food crop a greater buffer between the process to create something of a “campus every year.” use. The bio-solids treatment process and the nearby residential area, and feel.” However, the current Headworks also produces biogas, which can providing greater noise and odor Efforts by SFPUC to purchase buildings are no longer up to the task, be converted to provide heat and control. land adjacent to the SEP owned by the allowing up to half of the grit to pass electricity to power the treatment During the remodel, SFPUC will Circosta family — which established downstream, damaging equipment process. Although the cogeneration test a number of new technologies, Circosta Iron & Metal Company in at the later stages of the treatment plant has been intermittently down, such as Pista 360 and Hedcell, as well 1932, now the largest scrap recycling process, building up as deposits in it currently produces two megawatts as a system that allows the oxygen business in San Francisco — were the sedimentation basins and digest- of electricity. flow pace of a new oxygen generation unsuccessful. This has not, however, ers, and generally putting pressure The Southeast Plant’s 10 Bio- plant, Vacuum Pressure Swing Ab- impacted the remodel designs.

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California Pacifc Medical Center cpmc.org/stlukes Sutter Pacifc Medical Foundation October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 3 Potrero Hill Festival Fun for the Whole Family BY KAYREN HUDIBURGH College of Culinary Arts at the Nabe at 953 De Haro Street. The Randy Craig The toe-tapping tunes of the swing Trio will provide the entertainment, as band the Klipptones, and the dynamic will the views. N’awlins-style St. Gabriel’s Celestial Following the brunch, the Festival Brass Band will meet on the main stage, begins at 11 a.m. on 20th Street between at the corner of 20th and Connecticut Missouri and Wisconsin. The street will streets, to kick off the annual Potrero be closed to traffic on those three blocks Hill Festival on October 18th. The to allow food trucks, vendors, commu- Festival is a fun-filled family event with nity and nonprofit exhibits, along with food and crafts booths, jumpy houses a farmer’s market and two music stages. and Mission pony rides, packed full of The Klipptones, featuring Kansas community spirit for the young and old. Street resident Josh Klipp, is the open- The Festival is a fundraiser for the ing act, with a sound that covers a “wide Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. The range of killer tunes… a healthy swath day begins at 9 a.m. with “Bleu Cakes of ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s standards with rock and Jazz,” a pancake and Cajun-style and roll pulsing through the middle.” brunch catered by the Le Cordon Bleu Later, the Festival welcomes its

headliner, the St. Gabriel’s Celestial Top, Saint Gabriel’s Brass Brand. Bottom left, Brass Band, recognized as the “only Randy Craig. Bottom Right, The Klipptones. authentic traditional jazz brass band PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF LARSEN & ASSOCIATES west of New Orleans.” St. Gabriel’s led this year’s Pride Parade, and plays zydeco, gospel and soul. The Youth At press time there were still booths Stage features LeRoy as the DJ, a available for craftspeople and nonprof- talent contest with a cash prize, and its. The Potrero Hill Festival draws a dance-the-day-away party to keep people from throughout the City. teenagers of all ages entertained and Special thanks to Stephanie engaged. Alston, Festival event coordinator, and Neighborhood businesses, com- Keith Goldstein, head of the volunteer munity groups, the View and larger committee. The Festival is free; brunch corporations located in and around tickets are $12. Details can be found at the Hill sponsored this year’s Festival. potrerofestival.com. 14 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014

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HAPPY AUTUMN October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 1 5 Open Studios—Local Artists

Tesia Blackburn Martine Jardel

Tesia Blackburn’s studio will be Martine Jardel’s studio located open October 18th and 19th from 11 at 689 Bryant St. at Fifth, will a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hunters Point be open October 25th and 26th Shipyard, Building 101, studio 2315. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. She’s Blackburn has been a working art- a painter and printmaker. ist in San Francisco for more than martinejardel.com 25 years. She teaches art, offers Girl Scout troops and student tours of her studio, and is the author of Acrylic Painting with Passion.

blackburnfineart.com PHOTOGRAPH BY ALMAC CAMERA Highlands 26, oil on canvas, 44 x 52.5 inches, 2014

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Gregory Vernitsky’s studio at 285 Daniel Diaz Tai’s studio at 285 Ninth Ninth Street will be open October Street will be open October 25th 25th and 26th from 11 a.m. to 6 and 26th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Born p.m.. After moving from Ukraine to in Venezuela but raised in Cumana, San Francisco in 1991, Vernitsky’s Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and works became more abstract and San Francisco, Diaz-Tai defines organic. He started using found himself as a Latino-Asian male. His materials—driftwood, burls, or multiple homes strongly influence tree limbs. If a piece of wood can his art. His work, as a painter and wake up imagination, or possess graphic designer, emerged from an undefined promise, it can be the need to find common ground PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF SALLY DOUGLAS ACRE made into sculpture. Vernitsky among his journeys. His artwork Reader, Tamarind and Birch wood usually lets wood lay idle for a has been shown throughout the 16.5 x 20 x 3.5 inches, 2013 while, until he can see what it , Venezuela and Asia. might become. Then, he starts diaz-tai.com carving and cutting it to reveal hidden structure, movement, or emotion, until the sculpture is PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF SALLY DOUGLAS ACRE able to occupy and hold space. gregoryvernitsky.weebly.com

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Brent Bushnell was born in Hol- lywood in 1940, raised in Utah from the age of seven, and moved to San Francisco in 1967. His family heritage in America extends to 1630; his grandfather was a cowboy in Utah, practicing a profession distinctly different from today’s world of cell phones and constant texting. Bushnell was drawn to the City by the Bay Area Figurative Movement — a rejection of abstract expressionism, with a return to a more figurative style of painting — as well as an interest in the Beats, the Movement, and the concept of Museum without Walls. He earned a bachelor of art degree in philosophy and master’s degree in studio art from San Francisco State University. Left, Bushnell next to one of his paintings, in According to Bushnell, each of his art which he employed a broom to make the broad pieces “…is a conversation of his beliefs strokes, above. Bottom, Brent and Sofa together and viewpoints, which he will explore for in their studio. PHOTOGRAPH BY VIVIAN SACHS a while before the conversation changes.” His most recent works examine the ing in San Francisco Open Studios, the environment and environmental change, country’s oldest and largest open studios cowboys and the west, and spiritual Carmi, was born in Jerusalem in 1956. been exhibited at the Bade Museum, Pen- program, which is held every October themes. He’s currently showing at the Like Bushnell, she was influenced by insula Museum of Art, Magnes Collection and showcases more than 900 emerging Sandra Lee Gallery’s Real and Surreal her desert upbringing. As a child she of Jewish Art and Life, Stanford Art and established San Francisco artists Group Show, and, by appointment only, moved to Northern Europe, and then to Gallery, STUDIO Gallery, and Campbell- in their studios. During Open Studios at the George Krevsky Fine Art Gallery. Brooklyn, New York. She matriculated Thiebaud Gallery, among other places. the couple will show a variety of work, His work has previously been exhibited at the Ontario College of Art and Design Bushnell and Carmi started fre- including affordable small cards and at the Stanford Art Gallery, Oakland before moving to San Francisco to study quenting Potrero Hill almost 15 years paintings in oil, watercolors, and mixed Museum of California, the Peninsula painting at the San Francisco Art Insti- ago, caffeinating at Farley’s while doing media. Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art, tute in 1985. laundry across the street. They moved to Bushnell’s and Carmi’s art — along and the Crocker Art Museum, which is Carmi paints in the abstract, influ- the community in 2007. The couple paint with that of other artists in resi- the oldest public art museum west of the enced by places and nature. Her current separately and together in their studio, dence — can be seen on October 25th Mississippi River. work focuses on water and land, which plein air, and when traveling. and October 26th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bushnell’s life partner, artist Sofia investigates her lineage and roots. She’s Bushnell and Carmi are participat- at the Goodman 2 Building.

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The helicopter able even in Debbie’s childhood home, There are few things my father the mall had recently been planted in. hovered for a few moments, surveying which included the occasional exotic likes better than getting something for Maybe it was in Torrance, or Pasadena. the crowd. I’ve got to think somebody vacation and housekeepers, but not nothing. During Southern California’s I don’t remember, and, in Southern up there said, “You know, maybe this chartered jets to enchanted islands. 1970s-era real estate boom almost every California, it doesn’t really matter. isn’t such a good idea after all.” But it “Yeah, I heard,” said Sara, as she weekend he’d make a round of the local We were surprised by the size was too late for that. And from above, chewed on a piece of avocado sushi. “I savings and loans, caging free cookies of the crowd. The parking lot was the copter released its load. said I’ll think about it.” and coffee. He has a constant stash of jammed with people. 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I milled men leapt for the same ball at once, and isn’t anything he needs. among the assembled crowd, my nose struggled for possession. Handbook Tips: Dream a Little Dream When I was 12, living in Palos about the height of an average armpit, I quickly discovered that I was too Until she turned 10 Sara loved Verdes, he gathered up my mom, my thinking, “no way are we catching any short to snag a ball while it was air- to study the latest toy catalogue three sisters and me and told us that balls,” but also mustering all of the borne. I scuttled around people’s knees, and circle what she liked, typically we were going to a promotion at a new determination and competitiveness searching for fallen prizes. I snatched a marking many pages. She didn’t seem shopping mall. A helicopter was going I could. 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No need to importantly, though, a rare number of unruly, but, hey, there was free stuff dad claimed a ball had directly hit his promise your kid the moon, but if you balls would deliver something finer: a at stake. And there were a lot of us, net, and bounced back out. I believed give them half of what they say they brand new car, or all-you-could-eat at probably more than expected, strangers him, but the ball I held in my hand was want that’ll be plenty. Bob’s Big Boy. all jockeying for position, though not real. I held it out to examine the tattoo After my dad finished explaining knowing what a good position would plastered on its plastic. I’d won 50 cents There’s nothing better than a at one of the mall’s shoe stores. The lemonade stand to give your child a lady at the counter didn’t smile as she chance to earn some spare change. handed me the shiny half-dollar coin. The entire enterprise has iconic sta- Having a baby? 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Artist Employs Unique Style to Paint BY MARGARET ALLEN a long paint brush that he controls with his jaw and neck. “I take it as When Kenzi Robi was a child his a compliment when people at first father brought giant spools of paper don’t believe that I made my work,” home from his job. “He worked at said Robi. “Some can’t believe it’s a paper mill, so my siblings and I all done with my mouth.” His paint- had an unlimited amount of paper ings reflect a diversity of styles and to draw and color on,” Kenzi said. subjects, spanning San Francisco “Ever since then, I’ve had a passion landmarks — like the Golden Gate for art.” Throughout his youth, Robi Bridge — portraits, landscapes, still- experimented with different paint- lifes, and the occasional abstract. He ing styles, and created his own com- also does commissions. ics. As a high school student at the Robi isn’t afraid to let his emo- San Francisco School of the Arts he tions overflow onto his canvas; his helped create backdrops for school work reflects both his inner and PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST plays and videos. outward instincts. “I don’t limit board president of the San Francisco Goat Hill Pizza from September 16 Then, at the age of 19, while Robi myself,” he said. “Sometimes I want In-Home Supportive Services Public to December 15th, with an artist’s was a graphic arts student at San to paint butterflies or airplanes, or Authority, which assists older adults reception on October 19th from Francisco City College, he was shot sometimes I want to paint a black and those with disabilities to live 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., where he’ll in the neck during an altercation on and white abstract. And I like to use independently and be active in their demonstrate his unique technique New Year’s Eve. The accident left as many mediums as I can. I have a communities. of painting by mouth. him without the use of his hands or huge imagination. And in that case, Robi’s work will be exhibited at legs. “I could not deal with not being I’m not limited because I’m using able to paint,” said Robi. “I had to my mouth.” realize that art comes from within, Although art is Robi’s greatest not from my hands.” passion, he’s aware that he can use Years after the accident, Robi, his abilities to help those in similar now 41, is a prolific painter. He positions. In 2010, Kenzi won the can often be found at Fisherman’s American Disability Institute’s first Wharf — not far from his North annual My American Dream video Beach home — where he produces contest. The Institute helped him pieces full of color, texture, and develop a business plan to promote detail with the help of a mouth stick; and sell his artwork. Robi is also the October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 1 Plastic Art BY JIM VAN BUSKIRK

“Junk is a dirty word,” reads the Ajax Auto Dismantlers T-shirt sported by Jerry Barrish in an early scene of Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish. The documentary depicts the colorful life and times of Barrish. Beneath the big lovable lunk of his exterior lies the heart and soul of an artist, at least according to the film. Born in San Francisco in 1939, Barrish grew up dyslexic in a fourth- generation Jewish working-class family. His father was a boxer who was friends with gangsters and movie stars. Named for welterweight champion Barney Ross, Barrish was “surrounded by tough Jews.” But “lox and bagels and sports were the only thing I had in common with my family,” he said. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF LARSON & ASSOCIATES In 1961, fresh out of the U.S. Army mental shorts, three feature-length instinctual collecting of materials Other films with local connec- at the age of 22, Barrish established narrative films, and starred in George from the beach, junkyards, and city tions that will be screened at the Barrish Bail Bonds across from San Kuchar’s I Married a Heathen, win- streets are intercut with images of the prestigious festival include Barrett Francisco’s Hall of Justice, which he ning awards at film festivals and wide range of Barrish’s fully realized Edmonds’ Ahh…San Francisco, which ran until closing the business in 2013. museums internationally. In 1986, creations. “I don’t consider myself an features Peter Coyote reading Herb His progressive politics inspired him to during a residency with the German environmental artist because I leave Caen’s words on a journey through provide bail for arrested anti-war, civil Academic Exchange Service in West lots behind, a piece has to speak to me.” our beautiful City. States of Grace, rights and free speech activists, includ- Berlin, Barrish began creating col- In the film, Barrish is seen working a documentary directed by Helen S. ing local celebrities Dennis Banks, lages using found objects. His return to in his Dogpatch studio, assembling Cohen and Mark Lipman, follows Dr. Huey Newton, and Marilyn Chambers. sculpture led to a full-time pursuit of elements into whimsical creatures, Grace Dammann after a head-on colli- Arriving at the San Francisco Art assemblage and construction, chiefly human and animal. Each finished sion on Golden Gate Bridge. Enduring Institute in 1971, where he’d planned from plastic detritus. “My studio is piece is carefully placed on shelves in a 48-day coma and nine surgeries, to major in sculpture, Barrish quickly really my sanctuary,” he confessed. his warehouse cum museum. The film Dammann regained consciousness determined that the department had From his beachfront home in focuses on his dyslexia as an important with her body shattered and severely nothing to teach him, and transferred Pacifica, Barrish began collecting element in his creative process. “It’s so disabled, but her cognitive abilities in- to filmmaking. Over the next fifteen refuse washed up on the shore. In intuitive, it’s magic to me,” he said. “I tact, requiring her to reinvent herself. years he completed several experi- the documentary, scenes of his slow, don’t know how I do it.” In Soul of a Banquet, Wayne Wang The final chapters of Plastic Man focuses on Cecilia Chiang, whose follow the development of “Bayview restaurant The Mandarin opened Horn,” a 16-foot commission cast in in San Francisco in 1961, and was award-winning bronze to be installed at the Hunters instrumental in introducing authentic live theater right in Point Shipyard. “It’s a lot of work. If it’s Chinese food to America. And 3 Still your neighborhood! fun, I’m not doing it right,” explained Standing, by Robert Campos and this true Bay Area character. Directed Donna LoCicero, follows the checkered locals discount: 20% off! by William Farley, produced by Janis careers of local comedians Will Durst, advance tickets only · use code “neighbor” when you Plotkin, and accompanied by Beth Larry “Bubbles” Brown, and Johnny order your tickets at crowdedfire.org Custer’s whimsical score, Plastic Man Steele. has its world premier at the Mill Valley For schedule and tickets visit mvff. Film Festival. com/.

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This year she and Candidate Forum portrait of “the President” inside 14 Art: Open Studios her son, Bob Bullard, will talk All the candidates for the clubhouse depicts Franklin SF Open Studios is the oldest about the Karetoff family’s fve District 10 Supervisor are invited Delano Roosevelt. Admission and largest open studios generations on the Hill and share for a question-and-answer $10-20. Full no-host bar. 4:30 to program in the country, featuring family photos. Come at 5:30 to discussion. Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Monte Cristo Club, 136 more than 900 emerging and enjoy pizza slices from Goat Hill St. Gregory Nyssen Church, 500 Missouri Street. established San Francisco Pizza ($3), desserts from Chat’s De Haro Street. Information: artists in their studios. The Coffee ($2) and music. History saintgregorys.org Theater: Christopher event connects collectors with Night program 7 to 9 p.m. Free. International Studies Academy, Chen’s The Late artists for engaging dialogue 11 Parenting: Solving The 655 De Haro St. Information: Wedding and a glimpse into the life of Preschool Puzzle This Crowded Fire Theater 14 the working artist. The 18th-19th 863-0784. Many parents are commission is inspired by and weekend will feature artists at baffed when faced with the a homage to Italian fabulist the Studios and November 2 search for the perfect preschool. novelist Italo Calvino. It’s at Hunters Point Shipyard in Performance: Camila Perez- Play based or academic? a magical bit of dramedy, their studios, and the 25th-26th Goddard, Baba and Me Montessori, Reggio, or Waldorf? consisting of a series of short weekend will be in Potrero Hill, Baba and Me is a personal Does getting into the “right” acts, tied together by not Dogpatch and Bayview. All narrative written by Karen preschool really guarantee a altogether reliable narrators events, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. Canihan Byrnes about her spot in the “right” kindergarten, who invite the audience into the See guide for specifcs: guide. memories of her Russian ensuring a straight path to an “joke,” similar to Kevin Spacey’s artspan.org. grandmother, Baba, who lived Ivy League education? What’s on Carolina Street in the ‘50s. character in House of Cards. the difference between a Various themes are intriguingly Community: Baba was part of the Russian preschool and a daycare; is one and creatively explored, Warm Water Cove community that lived on Potrero better than the other? Explore 25 including marriage, time, the Gardening Day Hill since the early 1900s. The all of these questions and more. role of ritual in identity-building Join community members for a play highlights the importance Expect to walk away with a and the interplay between being morning of gardening at Warm of family, tradition and legacy clearer idea of the different a viewer and a participant. Water Cove. Tools and gloves and speaks to anyone whose philosophies in education, While the venue’s seats are provided. Bring plenty of water relative helped raised them. The what to look for when touring somewhat uncomfortable, the to drink. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 cast includes Karen’s son, who schools, and what to expect show’s pacing and allure easily p.m. Free parking or easy walk/ plays his great-grandfather, and once you begin the application overcomes this challenge. The bike ride from Dogpatch and her daughter-in-law as young process. $38 single, $48 couple Late Wedding is well worth Potrero Hill. Warm Water Cove, Baba. The piece premiered at the (Recess members save $10). seeing; it may be among the East end of 24th Street at the Notre Dame de Namur University. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Recess Urban top fve live theater experiences Bay, two blocks east of Illinois 1 p.m. Free. Donation. Potrero Recreation, 470 Carolina Street. in San Francisco this year. Street. Information: gtsfcw.org or Hill Neighborhood House, 953 Information: recess-sf.com/ Thick House, 1695 18th Street. 282.5516. De Haro Street. Information and classes/#workshops Wednesday to Saturdays 8 p.m. to reserve seat: karencbyrnes@ Tickets $15 to $35. Information: Community: yahoo.com. Community: Potrero crowdedfre.org. 25 Youth Day on the Bay 18 Hill Festival India Basin November 2 The 25th annual October 11 + 12 Neighborhood and America True Community: Pawtrero’s Eighth Potrero Hill Festival returns to Art: Jewelry Trunk Show invites the community to hop Annual Dog Day Afternoon 20th Street for a day of live Kaye Kennedy creates elegant on a kayak with an experienced Help raise money and awareness music by The Klipptones and jewelry for the fashionable boater and paddle on the bay. for eight local dog and cat Saint Gabriel’s Celestial Brass woman, including one-of-a kind Dawn Riley, an America’s Cup rescue organizations. Join the Band, local food, informational necklaces, earrings, bracelets, racer, will be a special guest. day’s activities where there’ll be booths, and a kids zone. Come eyeglass holders, bookmarks, Free. Youth must have an adult many dogs and cats ready for by the View’s table for some kid and much more. Kaye uses with them to participate. 11 a.m. adoption; 40 pet-related vendors; fun. The event kicks off with a Swarovski crystals, considered to 3 p.m. India Basin Shoreline pet photographers; two bands; traditional New Orleans–style the fnest crystals in the world; Park, Hunters Point Boulevard BBQ; a beer garden; pet costume mimosa brunch, with music beautiful classic pearls; and and Hawes Street. Information: contest; and more. Last year, by the Randy Craig Trio, at fancy glass beads from the indiabasin.org. more than $5,000 was raised the Potrero Hill Neighborhood Czech Republic, among other and donated to the participating House, 953 De Haro Street. materials. Custom designs are Community: Farley’s rescue organizations. All dogs Brunch 9 a.m. to noon. Festival 11 also available. Free. Noon to Pet Parade and people welcome. Free. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brunch tickets: $12; 25 4 p.m. South Beach Café, 800 Calling all canine, feline a.m. to 3 p.m. on Brannan Street festival free. 20th Street between The Embarcadero. Information: and fowl in your best dress for between the Embarcedero and Arkansas and Missouri streets. [email protected]. a chance to show your stuff. Delancey Street. Information: Information: potrerofestival.com. This year’s parade and contest pawtrero.com. 26 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014

From the Hill to the Valley, Claudia’s got you covered.

Library News BY LISA FAGUNDES, LIBRARIAN

CLOSED MONDAY OCTOBER 13TH FOR COLOMBUS DAY

“Claudia worked diligently with me to get the house ready to put on PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS the market. She is very resourceful and helped with the coordination Digital Drop In: Do you have questions on how to download eBooks to your of contractors, painters, plumbers, etc. to get work done on the device, or how to use the library’s databases? Have a reference question that house prior to listing it. She is an excellent communicator, very requires time to answer? Meet with a librarian to help answer your basic tech- responsive, flexible and extremely organized. She is a true real estate nology conundrums! Wednesdays, October 1, 8, 15, 23, and 29, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. professional who puts her clients first. She made the entire process very seamless and was a pleasure to work with.” — CECILIA B. Qi Gong for Everyone — Hun Yuan Chen Style: Qi Gong is a system of gentle moves that help promote energy cultivation and physical wellbeing. In this class we’ll utilize the entire body to help develop our coordination, stability, Claudia Siegel and capacity. No previous experience required. Thursday, October 2, 6:30 to Top Producer BRE# 01440745 7:30 p.m. 415.816.2811

[email protected] La Bamba — Movie celebrating Latino Heritage Month: Biographical story of www.claudiasiegel.com the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens, who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Rated PG-13. 108 minutes. Sunday, October 5, 2 to 4:30 p.m.

PROGRAMS FOR TEENS Game On!: Come play PS3 and Wii games on our big screen in the Potrero meeting room! Ages eight to 18 welcome. Thursdays, October 7, 14, 21, and 28, 4 to 6 p.m.

Make a Leather Cuff Bracelet: In honor of the One City One Book selection of Tales of the City we’re offering a 1970s style cuff making workshop. Tiffany, of Hoof and Horn Leather Goods, will teach you how to stamp, dye, and paint your own leather cuff. Ages 12 and up. Thursday, October 30, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN Baby Rhyme and Play Time: Songs and rhymes for infants up to 18 months old and their caregivers. Tuesdays, October 7, 14, 21, and 28, 1:15 to 1:45 p.m.

Family Story time: Featuring stories, songs and rhymes. For children from birth to five years old and their caregivers. Thursdays October 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Saturday Snacktivity: Potrero Whole Foods sponsors a wholesome snack, followed by a fun activity. All ages welcome. Saturdays, October 4, 11, 18, and 25, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Fun Flicks: Bring a snack and enjoy children’s films. This month’s movies are Beneath the Ghost Moon, Teeny Tiny Witch & Other Scary Stories, Georgie, and Katura the Cat. For ages three to eight. Wednesday October 8, 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.

Homework Help: Kindergarten through third-grade students will receive one- on-one help from our capable volunteer. Tuesdays, October 7, 14, 21, and 28, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Movie and Meal Day: We’ll present The Lorax and the Potrero Hill Family Sup- port Center will provide a meal. Friday, October 17, 3 to 5:30 p.m. skona.com Tricycle Music Fest –The Pop Ups: The Pop Ups feature hand-painted sets, View 415-494-2854 original puppets, and a truly cool sound. They were named one of 2012’s Best [email protected] 15 Bands for Kids, and earned a 2013 Grammy nomination. Wear a costume Supporter! and rock out with us! A tricycle will be raffled off. Sunday October 26, 3 p.m.

LIBRARY SPONSORED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Potrero Branch Seed Library: Thanks to the generous contributions of local gardeners and Whole Foods Grocery, Potrero Branch Seed Library continues. You’re welcome to “check out” seeds, plant them, and bring your harvested PHILIP ANASOVICH seeds back to the library. Architect

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vated park is attracting people to the sive” politics that engenders Board space. During the hour-long View of Supervisor votes on international interview on a Sunday afternoon, issues, attempts to fix problems that Bogiages greeted nearly a dozen neigh- are better left to the state or federal bors. They want to walk and play governments, and that can be hostile games; to be outside; to interact and to even middle-class property own- know their neighbors. ers. It’s hard to imagine him being “This doesn’t completely solve the much of a force in policing the City’s problems,” Bogiages said. “But now profligate spending. If he wins the we are doing something. We will still election he’ll need to work hard to see a tent in the park sometimes and rein in his tendency towards atmo- someone might be doing drugs, but it spheric lefty politics that sound swell, is getting better because everyone in but are generally full of sound and the neighborhood is doing something.” fury, signifying nothing. We are your local paint Store. “When we create something with But there’s no doubt that Kelly is 150 Pennsylvania Ave. 415.431.6940 beauty, it gives our neighbors something dedicated to Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, to be proud of,” Bogiages continued. and the rest of the district. Over the

“High school kids walk by and can see past decade and a half he’s spent We carry Benjamin Moore, Farrow & Ball something beautiful and feel a since of countless hours in numerous com- and much more, plus everything you’ll pride and high self-esteem.” munity meetings fighting for better need to make your project a success Miller believes health benefits transportation, parking, and land including expert advice! are associated with passing green use policies. He can be counted on to spaces while walking from building stand up to economic and political to building. “Most people do not stop interests that erode our neighbor- at a place like this until it is a destina- hoods’ quality of life. And, as a Mention this ad and we tion,” Miller said. “But there are still result of his consistent engagement subliminal benefits. And now with the in local politics and public policy, will give you $10 off your activity court and sitting features it is he has an understanding of the way a destination.” city government works, increasing purchase of $50 or more! The committee is working to secure the chances that he’ll be able to suc- funds for the final park renewal phase, cessfully move a community-friendly which, according to Miller, will tie agenda. everything together. The project could There are no perfect politicians, include a sundial, akin to the monument just like there are no perfect people. found in Hilltop Park. The best of this year’s bunch running “There are some deep-seeded im- for District 10 supervisor is Tony pacts to projects like these,” Miller said. Kelly. The View recommends him for “It is an opportunity to nurture social your first-place vote. Choose Cohen interactions and improve the overall second ; perhaps a near-death scare health of our community.” this election will set her straight . 28 THE POTRERO VIEW October 2014

SCENTS from Front Page JACKSON PARK from Front Page

and environmental benefits, as it granite benches at the tennis and produces hot water, which is saved basketball courts, repairs to play- for the next brew or can be used for ground equipment, a kiosk to post cleaning equipment. “Ever since park happenings and for a compost its installation, we don’t really get bin at the existing learning garden, complaints about the smell. We do get which is principally tended by Live a lot of positive comments though,” Oak School students. Most of the $1.6 Carpenter said. million will be used to develop park Jim Hanson, a 30-year resident plans, with an emphasis on restoring of the Hill, loves the smells coming the clubhouse. from the brewery. “They are mag- “The initial changes will be nificent and they remind me that largely very modest, but will in- I’m home. My only complaint is that clude the items that the community they make me hungry,” Hanson said expressed great interest in,” Doyle emphatically. said. One block east on the other Franklin Square will get $120,000 side of Jackson Park is First Spice for the installation of adult fitness Mixing Company, a spice importer equipment. And $180,000 will go that specializes in the wholesale of toward new trail lighting near the spice blends used primarily in meat Potrero Hill Recreation Center. products, as well as soup and drink Schoolchildren use the trail to get mixes. Owned and operated by to and from local schools; lighting second and third generation family employees staff the tiny 5,000 square Ollie, Anchor Steam’s brewmaster stirring the is especially important as the days members, First Spice was originally foot office, where 30,000 pounds of hops. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ANCHOR STEAM grow shorter. “It [the trail lighting] founded in 1939 on Long Island, New spices are stored and mixed into 600 will be so much better for everybody,” York. Overwhelming demand for different spice formulations. said Uzuri Greene, a Dakota Street quality spices led to their westward Outside the facility a passerby It’s great walking around at night, resident. “It’s going to change the expansion. can detect a complex array of spices, it compliments the trees that also lives” of many individuals, she said. In 1970 the company opened an a savory mix dominated by notes of smell really good,” said Jeff Smyzer, a ENCAC set aside $6.4 million for office on the corner of Mariposa and pepper, garlic and onion. Like the Potrero Hill resident since 1993. “It’s public improvements in the Central Arkansas streets, the same building brewery, the company takes measures part of living in a city.” Waterfront Area, which includes they occupy today, 44 years later. to reduce their aromatic footprint on With the upcoming arrival of a Dogpatch. These funds won’t be “The location of the Potrero office the neighborhood. “When blend- new cannabis cultivation shop be- available until FY 2021. In addition, was originally selected because of ing our mixes we keep everything ing developed on 25th and Indiana $850,000 of in-kind services would the neighborhood’s proximity to covered,” Davis said. “Because of streets, Dogpatch residents can be provided in FY 2016 to support big meat processors, such as Gallo this, Bay Area Air Quality likens look forward to even more sensory development of the Dogpatch Arts Salame” said Glen Davis, who has the smells coming from our facility stimulation as they stroll through Plaza, which is being planned at been the facility manager for the to that of a restaurant.” one of San Francisco’s most aromatic the dead-end of 19th Street, west of past 15 years. Today, eight full-time “Wonderful Indian spice smells. neighborhoods. Indiana Street. Come one, come all! To the Mariposa Movie Night – Halloween edition October 25 6:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. 1601 Mariposa Street Pumpkin decorating begins at 6 P.M. and the movie begins at 7 P.M.

Our goal is for this to be one of a series of events that will begin to transform this industrial space into a communal area for the entire neighborhood to enjoy.

Get into the Halloween spirit! Join us at our block party on Mariposa Street, next to Jackson Park for an outdoor screening of Hotel Transylvania (rated “PG”). Dress up with the kids, decorate a pumpkin, and enjoy hotdogs, popcorn and Halloween candy.

If you have any questions about the event or the project, please visit 1601 Mariposa www.1601mariposa.com for more information. October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 2 9

VIEW ENDORSEMENTS from page 3 field lighting in these areas. The initia- are supposed to be oases for children and Proposition L, Policy regarding tive emerged as a result of a City plan others. Rec and Park is already well on transportation priorities, would to artificially turf the fields, and illumi- its way to privatizing Golden Gate and establish a declaration of trans- 28-acre portion of the pier slated for nate them until 10 p.m. nightly, thereby other parks; let’s not give them more portation policy, urging the City to mixed-use development, from 40 to 90 disrupting any semblance of a natural ammunition. Vote No. prohibit charging parking meter feet. The initiative would also make it environment, and potentially damaging fees on Sundays, holidays, before 9 municipal policy to encourage parks, nearby animal habitats. San Francisco Proposition J, Minimum wage in- a.m. and after 6 p.m.; putting new housing, cultural space and job creation needs more playing fields — particularly crease, would increase the hourly mini- meters in neighborhoods without at the site, and urge the City to proceed to accommodate the growing legions mum wage of $10.74 to $12.25 in 2015, consent from the affected residents with the public approval process. Both of soccer kids — but the western edge $13 in 2016, $14 in 2017, and $15 in 2018. and businesses; and raising parking the Dogpatch and Potrero Boosters of Golden Gate Park should be kept as After that, the rate would be adjusted garage, meter or ticket rates for at neighborhood associations have en- natural as the existing grass fields al- annually based on the Consumer Price least five years, with increases tied to dorsed Proposition F, which is good lows it to be. Much better would be for Index (CPI). The $15 rate would be the consumer price index after that. enough for the View. Vote yes. the City to comprehensively inventory the highest in the country, along with The proposal would also require the possible playing field locations — includ- Seattle and Seatac. But even with that City to enforce traffic laws “equally Proposition G, Additional transfer ing on rooftops and by encouraging the pay level — four years from now — a full- for everyone using San Francisco’s tax on residential property sold within construction of large athletic centers time worker might gross $30,000 a year, streets and sidewalks” and motorist five years of purchase, would impose an in Bayview-Hunters Point, Dogpatch, hardly a fortune even in Daly City, much representation at the MTA. In other extra 24 percent fee on the sales price of a and Mission Bay — and leave that park less this City. San Francisco has among words, this is mixed bag of pro-car multi-unit building if it was sold within alone. Vote yes. the highest income inequality gap in the flotsam and jetsam, amounting to a year after it was bought, declining to world; providing what amounts to barely motorists shouting “I’m mad as hell a 14 percent surcharge in year five, and Proposition I, Renovation of play- a living wage for a single individual and ain’t going to take it anymore!” then dropping off entirely. The initiative grounds, walking trails and athlet- shouldn’t be considered revolutionary. If you feel the same way, vote “yes;” is an attempt to staunch the real estate ic fields, would amend the Park Code But, compared to the rest of the nation, otherwise vote “no.” speculation that’s been sparked by San to enable the City to renovate any it would be. Vote yes. Francisco’s escalating property values. children’s playground, walking trail or CANDIDATES But there are other reasons why someone athletic field if the Rec and Park deter- Proposition K, Affordable hous- State Assembly District 17: David might need to sell a building not long mines that the renovation would double ing goals, is a toothless measure that Chiu after they’ve purchased it, including the public’s use; and an environmental confirms Mayor Ed Lee’s goal of death, divorce, or a health care crises. impact report has been certified if building at least 30,000 new housing San Francisco Board of Supervisors, A modest anti-speculation charge might required by law. This bizarre initiative units by 2020, with at least one-third District 10: First: Tony Kelly, Second: be reasonable — less than a 10 percent is intended to counter Proposition H, affordable and more than fifty per cent Malia Cohen (Incumbent), Third: Ed penalty — but high double-digits is too and pave the way for Rec and Park to within reach of the middle class, and Donaldson onerous. Vote no. artificially turf playing fields in Golden calls for the development of a Housing Gate Park and elsewhere. Most neigh- Action and Neighborhood Stabilization San Francisco School Board: Emily Proposition H, Golden Gate Park borhoods have to beg the department to Plan. No money would actually change Murase (Incumbent), Mark Murphy, athletic fields (to prohibit artificial turf renovate cherished green space, and the hands, other than to the consultants Shamann Walton and field lights), would require the City initiative’s criteria of a doubling of pub- running the yes and no campaigns. to keep all athletic fields in Golden Gate lic use could result in renovations that If you like affordable housing, or the Community College Board, Four- Park west of Crossover Drive as natural are antithetical to the very purpose of mayor, you should be in favor of the Year Term: Thea Selby, Bridget grass, and prohibit nighttime sports playgrounds and walking trails, which initiative. We like the former. Vote yes. Davilla, Rodrigo Santos.

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UCSF from page 6 DA from Front Page Under the system people convicted of misdemeanors or infractions can have their case heard before volunteer produce 1.1 million kilowatt-hours. and the Sunshine Ordinance, a ‘public adjudicators, who are “trained in “We did an unprecedented screen- record’ is broadly defined to include restorative justice and problem solv- ing for materials and fabrics that were ‘any writing containing information ing,” according to a web page devoted used to build the hospital to reduce relating to the conduct of the public’s to the initiative. The DA’s office has toxins in the environment. We did business prepared, owned, used or established ten neighborhood courts everything we could to build a health- retained by any state or local agency in San Francisco. Gascón’s office sent ful environment that is also beautiful regardless of the physical form or 651 cases to these courts last year. and welcoming,” said Cindy Lima, characteristics,” said Cristine Soto Neighborhood courts are an alter- UCSF-Mission Bay Campus executive De Berry, SFDA chief of staff, in a native to the criminal court system, director. written reply. “If the department has and are supposed to reduce the burden Ruthann Dickinson Launched in 2004, the 10-year no records responsive to the specific on criminal courts by resolving cases July 26, 1943 – September 7, 2014 planning and building process enabled request, the department has no duty efficiently. Participants have their UCSF’s team to gather feedback from to create or recreate one. Therefore case heard in a matter of weeks, and Ruthann Dickinson died on Sep- parents and youths as part of design there are no records responsive to complete the process even before a tember 7 at Ralph K Davies Medical efforts. “Children have been involved your request.” criminal court arraignment. Center after suffering a stroke at her all along. In fact, they made dioramas The DA’s Office, which is led Another DA initiative, the San Bernal Heights home. She was 71. Ruth as to what a hospital should be like. by George Gascón, didn’t respond Francisco Sentencing Commission, moved to Potrero Hill in 1967, and lived They were very colorful and our ar- to View questions about whether aims to find “the most efficient and ef- in that community or Bernal Heights chitects actually took inspiration from residents have complained about — or fective use of correctional resources,” for the past almost fifty years. She was the dioramas created,” said Towne. complimented on — the rate at which among other goals. The commission an original partner of Goat Hill Pizza, Lima and her team also acquired the office is closing cases. The View began its work in 2012, to “analyze which she helped found in 1975. feedback from Southside residents could find no media reports on the sentencing patterns and outcomes,” After graduating from Syracuse throughout the process. That engage- issue. “advise the Mayor, Board of Supervi- University in New York, Ruthann was ment resulted in UCSF changing a According to the U.S. Agency for sors and other City departments” and drawn to San Francisco by the Summer helipad’s location from the center of International Development, “Case recommend sentencing reforms. The of Love. She volunteered at Huckle- campus further north, away from Dog- tracking and management are critical materials made available for its March berry House in the Haight, counseling patch. Children Hospital’s ground- to the effectiveness and efficiency 2014 meeting show felony sentencings teenage runaways. floor conference room, cafeteria, of judiciaries.” Without closure rate dropping to 1,500 in 2013, from 6,000 Once in San Francisco, she took to and art exhibits will be open to the data, it’s impossible to assess whether in 1992. During the same period, the piano, became a keyboard player public. The Mission Bay campus also or not the DA’s office is effectively felony filings dropped to about 3,800 and spent many happy hours jamming includes an outdoor plaza, tree grove, doing its job, or whether justice is in 2013, from nearly 10,000 in 1992. with other musicians, playing and and mosaicked amphitheater, located being served. The data show the number of teaching jazz and blues on her Fender between Fourth and Mariposa streets. While the DA’s Office does not sentencings fell precipitously between Rhodes. From 1975 to 1985, Ruthann Neighboring Mariposa Park will be track the progress of its cases, it has 1993 and 2001, when they started to sponsored a Monday night jam ses- finished around the time the hospital initiated a number of innovative ap- increase slowly again. After 2008, sion at 300 Connecticut that gathered opens. proaches to increasing the efficiency sentencings again dropped quickly, musicians from the neighborhood and “We really tried to create an by which non-serious crimes are with 2013 being the low point during throughout the City. amazing civic space for the City, handled. In 2011, Gascón created a the past 20 years. In 2001, there were She’ll be missed by her many rela- neighbors, patients and families,” new model for the City’s community about 2,500 sentencings, compared to tives and good friends. said Lima. court system: neighborhood courts. 3,500 in 2008.

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Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association meets the last Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. (social time begins at 6:45 p.m.) in the wheelchair-accessible Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more information: potreroboosters.org or email [email protected]. Next meeting: October 28th, 7 p.m.

Potrero Dogpatch Merchant’s Association 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: October 14th, 10 a.m.

Potrero Hill Democratic Club meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street. For more information: 648.6740, www.PHDemClub.org. Next meeting: October 7th, 7 p.m.

Potrero Hill Garden Club usually meets the last Sunday of the month Urgent Care at 11 a.m. for a potluck lunch in a local home or garden. Discussions are held on organic, edible, or ornamental gardening appropriate for Potrero Hill’s microclimate. Call 648.1926 for details. Next here in Potrero Hill meeting: October 26th.

Pennsylvania Street Gardens has volunteer workdays the first Satur- day of every month from 10 a.m. to noon. We meet at Pennsylvania Garden, 251 Pennsylvania Avenue, and provide all the necessary tools and training. We’d love to see you at the gardens. For more information visit our website psgsf.org or email Emily at emily@ Urgent Care Center with complete services psgsf.org. Next volunteer day: October 4th. for nonlife-threatening illness or injury. Starr King Open Space The Starr King Open Space Board Meeting 2 Connecticut Street (between 16th & 17th) is on Monday October 20th, 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of 415-621-5055 / www.concentra.com the Public Potrero Branch Library. Thank you for your continued donations and support, for more information: Webb Green, 648.6168, Monday through Friday, 7 am to 7 pm [email protected]. Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm

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Today, MS-13 is active in 42 SHORT CUTS from page 2 states, with between 12,000 to 15,000 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT U.S. members and another upwards of 65,000 adherents outside North a furnished sun deck and look-out pier, SPONSORED BY MAINLINE SECURITY America. and the Crane Plaza/Keel Park and In San Francisco, MS-13’s pres- promenade, which will accommodate issues I defer to the San Francisco ence peaked in 2008, when a federal farmers markets, food trucks and other Graffti Removed Quickly Police Department to investigate and law enforcement raid resulted in the large gatherings. Looks pretty tasty… from Potrero Hill oversee.” deportation of more than 100 mem- On 16th Street, between Wisconsin and MS-13 was originally formed bers, which significantly reduced the Carolina streets, near EQR Potrero, Recreation Center by El Salvadoran immigrants in the gang’s influence. “You take out 108 a block-long midrise on the site of a MacArthur Park area of people and your murder rate drops windowless concrete warehouse is BY JAKE RICHARDSON during the 1980s in response to drastically,” said U.S. Immigration being planned. The project, known as other established gangs. Some Mara and Customs Enforcement special 1301 Sixteenth, is being developed and Graffiti suspected of being con- Salvatrucha founding members were agent Mark Roberts at the time, designed by Workshop1, the same team nected to the MS-13 gang – also known guerrilla fighters in Central America. though he noted that the gang con- behind 901 Tennessee. The seven-story as Mara Salvatrucha – that appeared They sometimes clashed with other tinued to function in San Francisco. building is slated to include 234 new on the Potrero Hill Recreation Center gangs. Since members have experi- In 2012, an MS-13 member was residences, 38 of which will be below was removed quickly last month. The ence in war, violence isn’t new to sentenced to 35 years in prison for market rate. According to the project’s presence of graffiti often indicates them, and it became part of the gang’s attempting to kill three men in San website, City regulations demand that that a gang is active in the area. reputation. Francisco. In a case of mistaken 40 percent of the new units be “family “New gangs are marking their MS-13 quickly expanded into identity, he and two of his gang as- style,” offering two or more bedrooms. territory, because of the demographic other North American cities, includ- sociates believed a group of young The building’s future residents will changes from African-American to ing San Francisco, Washington, men to be gang members, so they have access to a roof deck, as well as Latin gangs. That’s what my friend in D.C., and Toronto, Canada. By the shot at them multiple times, killing a large south-facing courtyard on the the police department said,” explained mid-1990s their criminal activities one and severely injuring two others. second floor. By the lobby there’ll be Hill resident Terence Jones. Jones first and associated violence caught the This summer, in a separate incident, two bicycle stations with space for 264 encountered the graffiti on September attention of federal authorities, who a San Francisco MS-13 member was bikes. Plans also call for ground floor 9th. “MS-13” was spray-painted in deported gang members to Central sentenced to life in prison without the retail along 16th Street. The project will silver or white on the Rec Center’s American countries, where they possibility of parole for the murder of likely obtain approvals this winter, and north exterior wall in roughly three- rapidly regrouped. three City residents; two sons walk- break ground shortly thereafter. foot-high letters. The same letters and “A gang that once numbered a few ing with their father. He mistook at numbers were also spray-painted near thousand and was involved in street least one of the sons for a rival gang the tennis courts on concrete steps, violence and turf battles has morphed member and shot all of them. SHORT CUTS page 34 but those were smaller. into an international network with “Upon being notified about the as many as 50,000 members, the most graffiti at the Potrero Recreation Cen- hard-core engaging in extortion, im- ter, my office immediately contacted migrant smuggling and racketeering,” the Recreation and Parks Department the Los Angeles Times reported in to have it removed,” stated District 2005. “In the last year, the federal 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen. “Since government has brought racketeering then, the graffiti has been removed. cases against MS-13 members in Long As with all potential gang-related Island, N.Y., and southern Maryland.”

2014 Voting Guide

VOTE YES Proposition A: Transportation Road and Improvement Bond * Allows the City to make much needed capital investments in our transportation infrastructure Proposition C: Renews the Children’s Fund to better serve San Francisco youth and families Proposition F: Approves Union Iron Works/Pier 70 Development Project Heights Proposition I: Allows Renovation of Playgrounds, Walking Trails, Athletic Fields Proposition K: Supports Affordable Housing Goals Proposition L: Advocates for Balanced Transportation Priorities

VOTE NO Proposition G: 24% Surtax on Transfers of Residential Property * Places burdens on residential property owners with no guarantee revenue will go to housing Proposition H: Prohibits lights and turf at Beach Chalet Soccer Fields

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rop. G imposes a massive new tax on many Seniors Lose: Their retirement nest eggs could be homes, including single-family homes with scrambled by this massive new tax. in-law units, sold in San Francisco. This new tax of up to 24% of the total sales price of a People Looking for Afordable Rentals Lose: home is one of the highest taxes ever levied Prop. G creates an incentive for homeowners to take in San Francisco or any city.1 Worse, not secondary rentals, known as in-law units, of the Pone cent is obligated to go towards creating more market — leading to even higher rents. housing — it can all be diverted to other uses. San Franciscans deserve thoughtful solutions to Take a closer look at exactly who gets hurt if address our housing crisis, not Prop. G. Prop. G becomes law: Find out why Supervisors Scott Wiener, Mark Farrell and Katy Tang, the Bay Area Reporter, Noe Valley New Homebuyers and Renters Lose: There are zero protections against passing on all the costs Democratic Club, San Francisco Alliance for Jobs and to new owners or new tenants. Sustainable Growth and many others say no on Prop. G.

Owners Forced to Sell Homes Lose: Owners forced to sell because they face an illness, job loss or job transfer are not protected from Prop. G. funding by National Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization PAC Committee Committee of Realtors Mobilization PAC of Realtors,Issues California Association funding by National Association Paid for by Stop the Housing Tax, No on G, a coalition of homeowners, renters and real estate organizations. Major Major organizations. estate and real renters No on G, a coalition of homeowners, for by Stop the Housing Tax, Paid

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SHORT CUTS from page 32 years, SFBARC has tapped into a groundswell of Chinese interest in the EB-5 program, raising $200 million And Gigantic to date. It plans to raise another $250 The Hunters Point Shipyard and million in the coming year. Candlestick Point is the largest rede- velopment project in San Francisco history. Over the next 15 years, more Food, Wonderful Food than 12,000 housing units, hundreds Potrero Hill foodies need not walk of acres of parks, 800,000 square feet beyond 18th Street to select from a of retail and 3.1 million square feet of smattering of world cuisines, includ- office and commercial research and ing Italian, Mexican, Japanese, French development will be created. According and California-American. But there to The World Post, the project is being may come a time when residents start financed by wealthy Chinese investors, to wonder, why can’t I satisfy my part of an infusion of Chinese capital hankering for Filipino adobo? At breathing life into long-dormant Bay least that’s the goal of Savor Filipino, Area development projects. In exchange a consortium of Filipino restaurants, for their investment, the Chinese hope chefs and grocers. Their first annual to attain American green cards through festival in downtown San Francisco the federal EB-5 program, which allows last month brought together Filipino foreigners to obtain residency permits restaurateurs from around America to for themselves and their families in ex- demonstrate that their country’s punchy change for investments of $1 million; the palate isn’t only a legitimate peer to threshold for high unemployment areas, Thai, Chinese and Malaysian food, but like Hunters Point, is $500,000. After the trendier cousin. A View reporter the 2008 financial crisis, leveraging was immediately sold on the sweet nutty the $8 billion needed for the Shipyard kick of Ginataang Sitaw — green beans project prompted the developer, Lennar simmered in chili coconut broth — and Urban, to tap into Chinese markets, Lumpiang Shanghai — fried pork sprin- which at the time were overflowing with grolls — though less enthusiastic about capital. The Shipyard project has been the staple Sisig; sizzling pork jowls. decades in the making, but at a crucial Filipino food preparation isn’t subtle: juncture following the financial crisis, many dishes, including their take on a it was Chinese money that paved the mimosa, are dashed with calamansi, a way forward. Initial plans involved a deliciously sour fruit that’s like a cross $1.7 billion loan from the state-owned between a lime and cumquat. Before China Development Bank, but when Lumpiang gets as hip as $4 toast, find that deal fell through in 2013, Lennar a good spot — there are a number of began to lean heavily on money raised places in Excelsior and Daly City, as through its EB-5 partner organization, well as Señor Sisig, a Filipino fusion the Regional food truck that sometimes lands in Center (SFBARC). Over the past two Dogpatch — to get your Filipino on. October 2014 THE POTRERO VIEW 3 5

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POTRERO’S OWN TONY KELLY FOR SUPERVISOR

Proven neighborhood leader who was elected nine times as president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association and protected Starr King Openspace from unchecked development. Advocate for schools and jobs who worked for better schools as Site Council President at Enola Maxwell Middle School and fought and improved a City rezoning scheme that would have reduced affordable housing and displaced working-class jobs in the District. Fighter for all San Francisco neighborhoods who has fought to expand and preserve our waterfront public spaces and is actively opposing Ellis Act evictions and foreclosures. Independent voice we need at City Hall who will hold offce hours in the neighborhoods every day and will never accept campaign contributions from corporate lobbyists or Ellis Act evictors. SEND A MESSAGE TO CITY HALL: PUT NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST JOIN US IN ELECTING TONY KELLY FOR SUPERVISOR

“WE NEED “A skilled, fearless fighter” A CHANGE” “Tony’s many years of public service and advocacy in District 10 represent the “We need a change progressive, neighborhood-oriented leadership District 10 needs and must have on the Board of Supervisors. This means it is essential that our supervisor from a City Hall is a skilled, fearless fighter for our neighborhood interests in City Hall. Tony Supervisor to a Kelly has proven he has all of those qualities with his work in Potrero Hill and District Supervisor. throughout the southeast neighborhoods of our San Francisco.” Tony Kelly has proven throughout -Former Mayor Art Agnos his many years of public service that he knows how to represent our communities.” “Thrilled” “As a fellow Potrero Hill resident and advocate, I am thrilled that Tony Kelly is -Marsha Pendergrass Maloof, President, running for Supervisor. Tony Kelly has worked tirelessly to fight for Potrero Hill’s Bayview Hill Neighborhood Association residents, and I have full confidence he will continue to do so at City Hall.” -J.R. Eppler, President, Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association

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