June 2008 Next Meeting June 24 Potrero Hill Neighborhood House 953 DeHaro Street (at Southern Heights)

6:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Business Meeting Introductions / Welcome to New Members Police Report Neighborhood Issues and Updates SFs Sewers Master Plan MUNIs Transit Effectiveness Project Service (Cuts?) on Potrero Hill with Julie Kirschbaum, MUNI TEP

Why I Support the Boosters

7:25 pm 7:45 pm

Presidents Message
Thanks to Audrey Cole of the Boosters and Barbara Bagot-Lopez of UCSF Community Relations and many Booster members, last months Boosters Dinner was a huge success! More than 135 members, neighbors and friends of the Boosters crowded into the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center on May 27 for a fine meal, dozens of door prizes (thanks to the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses), and neighborhood awards. Go ahead and mark your calendar for next years dinner, on May 26, 2009.
Thanks for a Terrific Boosters Dinner

At the next Boosters meeting Tuesday June 24, 7-9 pm at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro Street at Southern Heights Julie Kirschbaum from MUNI's Transit Effectiveness Project returns to the Boosters with the results of the TEP and the full scoop on their proposal for new service or new service cuts?? on and around Potrero Hill. Bring your opinions the meeting is open to everyone on the Hill!
The return of the California Culinary Academy restaurant

At the last Potrero Boosters meeting in April, there was a brief and, shall we say, sparky discussion about MUNIs Transit Effectiveness Project and its proposed changes for bus service on Potrero Hill. Is the 19 Polk really being taken off the Hill? Is the 22 finally going to run just on 16th Street? And if that happens, how do we get to 18th and Connecticut by bus?
MUNIs Transit Effectiveness Project at Tuesdays meeting

Booster members fondly remember the 2006 Boosters Dinner at the California Culinary Academys Bistro 350, located at the Academys home at Rhode Island and 16th Street. Just last month, the Academy completed the move of all of their operations to Potrero Hill, and with that move they re-opened their restaurant, now named Carme 350. Its open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Friday, and during their pre-opening week they generously hosted many members of the Boosters and Merchants associations to truly fabulous meals! They are still offering great introductory deals, and a grand buffet for lunch and dinner on Fridays. Its wonderful food, prepared and served by the Academys students highly recommended! Check them out at www.careme350.com, or stop by for lunch or dinner!

Because of the support of neighbors like me, and the hard work of those most involved in the organization, the Boosters are a known quantity in the halls and courtrooms of the city. Its important to have at least a little clout so we dont get completely run over by big developers and others who would profit in our neighborhood at the detriment of those of us who live here. A strong, active neighborhood organization is a force to be reckoned with. During one of my discussions with a friend who asked

Do the Boosters win their fights? They win some and they lose some. But most of the people I vote for dont win, either. I support the Boosters for the same reason I vote because I can; because I have to. Its one important thing I can do with little cost or effort.

Do I agree with every position the Boosters take? No. But in general the decisions they make and the fights they choose to be involved in are based on a sincere love of the neighborhood and desire to keep it what? certainly not the same; theyre not that foolish. To keep it a nice neighborhood where I would want to live.

Do the issues the Boosters champion affect me directly? Not usually. But things like power plants, light pollution from the ball park, density and planning in the Design Center and Central Waterfront affect the neighborhood I love, and because of that its important to me. Not important enough to spend my own nights researching and trying to understand the issues, but certainly important enough to support wholeheartedly those who are willing to do so.

I joined the Potrero Boosters when I first moved to Potrero Hill over 20 years ago. The Boosters concern themselves with issues that are important to me as a resident of the Hill. The amount of work some of the members do is PHENOMENAL! I am not willing to put in nearly this much work to keep up to date on issues that effect the neighborhood, so I am very grateful to, and happy to support from the sidelines, those who are willing to do that work. The small yearly membership fee is a pittance compared to the efforts the organization makes on my behalf.

Many of my friends have asked me why I support the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association. My brief on-the-fly answers never seem very convincing, regardless of my wholehearted belief in the organization. Hopefully this article will answer that question more eloquently than I usually do in person.

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Gloria Van Winkle long time member and officer of the Boosters May 25, 1924 - May 18, 2008

In Memoriam

I truly appreciate the immense efforts of those neighbors and friends who are willing to spend considerable time educating themselves about important issues and showing up over and over when necessary to voice their opinions about things that are important to all of us neighbors on Potrero Hill. I will continue to support the Boosters in whatever way I can.

what the Boosters do, he interrupted me, asking Is all they do fight?. He was using my own words. Yes, they do often fight. This usually takes the form of trying to keep development down to a dull roar. They fight big, inappropriate development projects which would seriously degrade the character of the neighborhood we love. They also fight for for the parks, for street parking or signs, etc. They also like to party and are becoming more involved in issues such as support for the local schools and libraries.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES
City Hall Web site: Mayor Gavin Newsom 1 Goodlett Place Rm 200 SF Ca 94102 www.sfgov.org ph: 554-6141 fax 554-6160 [email protected]

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 [email protected] Bayview Police Station SFPD Web site: Capt. John Loftus Anonymous Tips Community Liaison Quality of Life Liaison Abandoned autos Potrero Terrace/Annex 201 Williams St, SF 94124 www.sfgov.org/police/ ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 [email protected] 822-8147 voicemail, 575-4444 live 671-2302 (Sergeant Garrick) 671-2332, 850 9740 cell (Officer Bandvik) 850-9737 (Officer Rodriguez) 509-1408 (Officers Rodatos & Martinez) 987-6389 (Officers Fowlie & Ferraez)

CITY PLANNING
BLDG PERMIT APPLICATION # 2003.10097072: 1200 19th ST/ Mississippi Sts. Propose to construct a 3 story plus penthouse duplex with 2 car garage on a vacant lot. Rear yard 31 feet, height 33-4 in an RH-2, 40-X .zone. Contact: Tim Frye, Planner; ph: 5756822. Potrero Boosters Executive Committee President Tony Kelly 341-8040 [email protected] First Vice President Dick Millet 861-0345 [email protected] Second Vice President Audrey Cole 648-1926 [email protected] Recording Secretary Hilary Cohen 341-8441 [email protected] Corresponding Sec. Joe Boss 826-2515 [email protected] Treasurer Robin Talmadge 863-8925 Sergeant-at-Arms Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Auditors Jean Neblett 550-2613 Kuzuri Jackson 826-8080 Webmaster: [email protected]

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