Waste of time

Got off the bus this evening, and noticed this taped to a telephone pole-

Notice is hereby given to the general public that the Land Use and Economic Development will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 9, 2007, at 1:00pm, in an unknown room at City Hall, at 1 Dr Carton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, to consider the following:

File (070269) Ordinance adding Section 6.12 to the San Francisco Park Code to prohibit, on a trial basis from Saturday May 5, 2007 and continuing for six months to Saturday November 3, 2007, motor vehicle traffic on Saturdays in Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive between Kezar Drive and Transverse Drive; Arguello Boulevard; Conservatory Drive East and Conservatory Drive West; 8th Avenue; Bowling Green Drive between John F. Kennedy Drive and Middle Drive East; and Stow Lake Drive between Stow Lake Drive East and John F. Kennedy Drive; to require reports from the Recreation and Park Department and Department of Parking and Traffic pertaining to the Saturday road closures; to require the Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority to share its own data and reports that are relevant to the Saturday road closures with the aforementioned departments; to require a hearing on the Saturday road closures before the Board of Supervisors or a Board committee; and making environmental findings.

For more details, go to www.sfgov.org/bdsupvrs or call (415) 554-5184
Gloria L Young, Clerk of the Board

Yes, the Board is dead set on setting up a Healthy Saturday for Golden Gate Park, which means the closing of JFK Dr. from roughly 19th Avenue east towards Stanyan. The Board's continued attempts at social engineering is an unending source of frustration on my part. Previous attempts by the Board to close JFK for just this purpose have been voted down by the voters of this city, yet at the urging of a vocal minority, the Board will not rest until it has subjugated the residents of San Francisco to all forms of government interference and regulations, all in the name of progress. I already have difficulty with finding parking on Sunday, when JFK is already closed, I can only imagine the increased difficulty on Saturday. As an added annoyance, meters are active on Saturday, which increases the competition for parking spaces in the Inner Sunset.

The purported study commissioned last summer to study the effects of the closing of JFK Dr. is hilarious in its research. It basically was a guy walking around asking people what they thought about closing JFK. Assumptions made in the report failed to account for the reopening of the Academy of Sciences, was done on 2 weekends on a Saturday in August, and does not go into the neighborhoods to ask what residents think about the closure.

The Richmond ReView recently began researching and laying out the case of a possible recall of Jake McGoldrick who is the sponsor of this legislation. The supervisor for my district is not beholden to the people who live here; the Inner Sunset is merely a handle attached to the larger swath of Haight, Panhandle, NOPA/Alamo Square and Western Addition, who will not feel the direct impacts of this measure. Here is another article on the lunacy of this measure, from the editor of the Sunset Beacon and Richmond ReView. Fire away.