HVNA & CALENDAR See The Voice online! Visit us at: www.hayesvalleysf.org HVNA Membership Form APRIL MAY Join Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association. Just return your completed form with a personal check made payable Thursday, April 23rd Thursday, May 7th to . Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association 6:30 pm 7 pm Greening Committee Meeting HVNA Board Meeting Volume 17/Issue 02 A Publication of The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association | HVNA March/April 2015 ■ Your information: discussing drought concerns and 700 Hayes Street tree plantings Name(s): _________________________________________________ Hayes Valley Playground Saturday, May 16th HISTORIC HAYES VALLEY _________________________________________________________ Clubhouse at Hayes & Buchanan 10 am - 12 pm Walking Tour of Hayes Valley Street: __________________________________________________ Thursday, April 23rd 12 - 2 pm 7 pm Ham & Eggs Fire Brunch HVNA’s Role in the Demolition of the President’s Column City: __________________________ State: _____ Zip:____________ HVNA April Community By Larry Cronander Meeting: Traffic Calming Sunday, May 17th Phone: ___________________________________________________ Hayes Valley Playground 7:30 am - 2 pm Central Freeway Hayes Valley 015 marks the Clubhouse at Hayes & Buchanan Bay to Breakers “2 Mobile/Fax: ______________________________________________ By Larry Cronander First, some background. After the Second World fifteenth anniversary of Cheer on the athletes and War, with suburbs thriving and automobiles the incorporation of the Email (for HVNA mailing use only): MAY wannabes. Hayes Valley has been the race’s Main Street for 103 The struggle to demolish the Central and commuting seen as the way of the future, Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association as _________________________________________________________ years. Freeway is the defining event in the recent transit and urban planning turned toward a non-profit 501(c)4 corporation and the history of Hayes Valley. The thriving, vibrant improving commute and automobile access tenth anniversary of the opening of Octavia Friday, May 1st Thursday, May 28th in and through urban areas. In San Francisco, Boulevard. These are closely related events, Public Safety Meeting neighborhood that Hayes Valley is today is ■ Membership Levels: 6:30 pm as the HVNA was formed in part to seek the Korean American Center the direct result of neighborhood activism with its nineteenth-century street plan, City Greening Committee Meeting demolition of the Central Freeway in Hayes Please check the appropriate membership category: 745 Buchanan beginning in the nineties to demolish the and State agencies in the late forties and fifties continuing discussions of Valley, which had blighted the neighborhood earthquake-damaged Central Freeway. planned to build ten elevated freeways through Voting Member: Must reside within the drought concerns and plantings for forty years. Cognizant of the HVNA’s role association’s boundaries, or own property or a Sunday, May 3rd The HVNA has long desired to create a San Francisco, from Ocean Beach through Hayes Valley Playground in the third Freeway Revolt and of its many business within the association’s boundaries (see map) 11 am - 6 pm commemoration of some kind in Hayes Valley the Panhandle, around the Marina and Sunset Clubhouse at Hayes & Buchanan other ongoing successes in improving the Urbran Air Market districts. Associate Member: Members residing to celebrate the long effort and success of the Hayes & Octavia neighborhood according to its mission, it is outside the association’s boundaries th HVNA, many city officials, and neighborhood Thursday, May 28 Three of these double-decker freeways had with humility that I become your President for Stop by the HVNA booth! activists in bringing down the Central I am a: Returning Member New Member 7 pm been built by 1959: the Embarcadero, Bayshore, this upcoming and important year. HVNA Community Meeting: Freeway and revitalizing Hayes Valley. Some Limited Income $15 and Central. These freeways had a destructive Van Ness Celebrate Summer - Greening & funds have been set aside for this purpose. Much of the work of the HVNA is done effect on the neighborhoods through which Individual $25 Fulton Water Conservation in HV in its Committees. Here the dedicated and Webster they passed, with eminent domain demolitions Families/Dual Members $35 Can you help Hayes Valley Playground talented volunteers of the HVNA can focus of homes and businesses, as well as severe Sponsor $100 organize our Clubhouse at Hayes & Buchanan on our many diverse neighborhood issues in increases in crime and loss of property values. a specialized and effective way according to Benefactor $250 Fillmore new Children Haight Hayes Valley, already in serious decline, was split their main areas of interest. All committees Business $100 Market & Family in two by the Central Freeway and conditions are working hard, and a new Families and Small Non-Profit $50 Hermann became even worse. Committee? Advertise in Children committee has just been formed to assist the many new families moving into Realizing the negative effects these freeways ■ Areas of Interest: The Voice! Hayes Valley. All Committee meetings are Have a vision for had on neighborhoods, widespread opposition open to the public, and I strongly recommend Volunteers are welcome! Please indicate your areas of interest. what HVNA can do to in 1959 managed to halt the State’s plans to Contact that you attend Committee meetings in Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE) support families in our build the remaining six freeways (“The Freeway [email protected] This effort has gained momentum recently as addition to the HVNA’s monthly Community neighborhood? Contact Revolt”). A revised plan submitted by the rd Business Relations the memory of the Freeway Revolt in Hayes Meetings (next meeting: April 23 ) if you have to learn more! State in 1966 was also rejected by the people, Communications (Newsletter & Website) childrenandfamily@ Valley fades with time, as new residents a particular area of interest in neighborhood effectively ending new freeway construction in Families and Children hayesvalleysf.org move in and residential developments fill affairs. Contact the Committee Chairs for to learn more! further particulars. All are welcome! Neighborhood Safety the former freeway’s footprints. A visitor to Continued on Page 7 Hayes Valley five years from now would never Support (flyer distribution, mailings, etc.) And save the dates for upcoming Hayes Valley know that a freeway had ever existed here Transportation and Planning HIGHLIGHTS events, including the Urban Air Market in NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBERS (unless they know the neighborhood’s history) Patricia’s Green on May 3rd (stop by the HVNA Greening or that the thriving neighborhood before booth!) and the fifth annual Ham and Eggs Emergency.....................................................................................................................911 Parcel O: Interim Art Space 2 Other: them is the direct result of visionary activists Fire Brunch on May 16th, a major fundraiser Police: Non-Emergency......................................................................................553-0123 working to improve the neighborhood. It is an Walking Tour & Fire Brunch 3 for the HVNA courtesy of the Biergarten and ■ Return to: Police: Anonymous Tip Line................................................................................614-3451 Police: Northern Station.....................................................................................614-3400 inspirational story of how grassroots efforts Transportation & Planning Update 4 Suppenkuche, preceded by another popular Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association Homeless Outreach Team 24/7..........................................................................734-4233 of individuals and groups can bring about walking tour of Hayes Valley. Join us! 1800 Market Street, PMB #104 Local Voices 7 All City Departments.....................................................................................................311 effective positive change. San Francisco, CA 94102 [email protected] The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association | HVNA | 1800 Market Street, PMB #104, San Francisco, CA 94102 | www.hayesvalleysf.org HISTORIC HAYES VALLEY FEATURES Community Art Space Continued from Page 1 San Francisco (“The Second Freeway LOCAL Coming to Hayes Valley! Revolt”), but the three already- Less Than the Least existing freeways remained. The VOICES damage to Hayes Valley inflicted by We Can Do By Russell Pritchard the Central Freeway continued for By De’Anthony Jones & Devi Zinzuvadia decades. e are very excited that the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association W The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake What does summer have to do with it? If we get them engaged early, and has been given the unique opportunity to create a neighborhood art severely damaged the existing often, under-served youth of color are less likely to find themselves on the community space on the former freeway lot known as Parcel O. This is freeways. The Embarcadero was demolished almost immediately and other end of a violent confrontation. a city-owned parcel of land (corner of Fell and Laguna Streets) on which the Bayshore was seismically reinforced, both without significant 110 units of affordable family housing will be built beginning two years debate. However, a lively debate ensued about the fate of the Central. Black and brown lives matter to us, and whether