January 2007 Next Meeting January 30 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 Mirant Power Plant Update (good news!) Potrero View Boosters Ad - continue it? Break Tim Colen, SF Housing Action Coalition

Important Issues for Potrero Hill and the Boosters in 2007

7:30 pm

7:55 pm 8:05 pm

Showplace Square / Central Waterfront planning processes Historic building preservation in both neighborhoods Biotech companies and their proximity to housing Public Benefit Zoning new parks, infrastructure, amenities in new neighborhoods Neighborhood commercial/residential districts Enforcement of the Residential Design Guidelines Demolitions and monster homes
Neighborhood Planning

Coming Up: Community Planning Meetings

Managing UCSFs expansion into surrounding neighborhoods

(Only 700 flights a year planned!)

Well be doing one bit of housekeeping at Tuesdays Boosters meeting. You may have noticed that the Boosters have been running an advertisement for new members in the Potrero View. Were finding that this ad is helping remind members to renew, and we are trying this ad and other methods to increase our visibility on the Hill and attract more regular members. If we are going to continue running the ad in the View, we need a vote of the membership, since it costs $240/ month. So, at the Boosters meeting on Tuesday we will ask the membership to decide whether to keep it running.

Presidents Message

Pier 70; other waterfront development / public access, industrial land Environmental issues: diesel trucking, cement plants
The SF Port Support of Webster, Starr King, and other neighborhood schools

The MTAs Traffic Calming Program writes to us: The Citys Municipal Transportation Authority (MTA) wants to help make your streets safer and more livable, and we need your help to make it happen. Please watch
Potrero Hill Traffic Calming project

Community Policing Neighborhood watch / Project SAFE Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams Parks & Rec improvements, and more public recreation opportunities Homeless and street issues street camping, clean up, services, etc. Underground utilities
Quality of Life

The Potrero Hill Traffic Calming Project is part of the overall Traffic Calming Program in San Francisco. This is one of the first area-wide studies we are initiating. More information is available at www.livablestreets.org. The project will focus on speeding, reckless driving and cut-through traffic. Additional goals are to improve pedestrian safety and improve neighborhood aesthetics.

your mailbox for a kick-off traffic calming meeting at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House.

The Annual Dinner, Potrero Hill History Night, the Holiday Party
Social Stuff

Outreach to other neighborhood organizations New homeowners and new tenants

In Memoriam Nicolaas van Riesen

Potrero Hill was among the first neighborhoods chosen for dedicated sales tax funding. In 2003, City voters approved Proposition K, a ballot measure which extends the Citys local half-cent sales tax program. This program funds transportation-related improvements including traffic signals, Muni projects and other similar projects. Traffic calming is a new category in that program and will have roughly $60 million over 30 years dedicated to that category.
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January 14, 2007 January 13, 2007 John Tricamo

Although fairly new to the City, traffic calming has been used across the country and all over the world. In San Francisco, the best example of traffic calming is the Duboce Triangleparticularly Noe and Sanchez Streets north of Market Streetwhich has the effects of making the local streets safer for pedestrians and others, and discouraging aggressive driving in the neighborhood.
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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 gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

Three issues in particular have fueled the need for traffic calming in neighborhoods. First, the problem of traffic spill-over from main streets into residential areas. Many drivers use side streets as a way to bypass heavy traffic and connect to major streets more easily. The second issue is unsafe motorist behavior such as speeding or violating pedestrian right-of-way. The third issue is the growing problem of road rage, where crowded highways and main streets adversely impact driver behavior. Sometimes that behavior can extend from the highways into the residential roads. The Potrero Hill Area Traffic Calming Project will begin with a kick-off meeting at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Once we gather input from you and others in your community, we can begin work on a comprehensive traffic calming plan for the neighborhood. The planning will involve traffic engineers and residents, including a working group of Potrero Hill volunteers. The planning process should be completed in the next nine to twelve months. Throughout the process, you will be receiving updates on what is happening with the project, and will be given opportunities to get involved.

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org Bayview Police Station SFPD Web site: Capt. Albert Pardini Anonymous Tips Abandoned autos Encampments Potrero Terrace/Annex 201 Williams St, SF 94124 www.sfgov.org/police/ ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 SFPDBayviewStation@ci.sf.ca.us 822-8147 254-7185 (Officer Maurice Edwards) 254-7120 (Officer Sue Lavin) 509-1408 (Ofc. Kevin Sanders, Alex Rodatos) 987-6369 (Ofc. Tim Fowlie, George Ferraez)

MEMBERSHIP
Renew Your Boosters Membership! The Potrero Boosters now have annual membership, meaning that now is the time to pay your dues and renew your membership through 2007, if you havent done so already! Just fill out the form below and send it in . . .

Potrero Boosters Executive Committee Tony Kelly 341-8040 President president@potreroboosters.org First Vice President Dick Millet 861-0345 1stvp@potreroboosters.org Second Vice President Piotr Pawlikowski 328-1435 2ndvp@potreroboosters.org Recording Secretary Joe Boss 826-2515 recordingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Corresponding Sec. Audrey Cole 648-1926 correspondingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Treasurer Kuzuri Jackson 826-8080 treasurer@potreroboosters.org Sergeant-at-Arms Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Auditors Jean Neblett 550-2613 Susan Eslick 822-2301 Webmaster: webmaster@potreroboosters.org

Please visit our new Web Site POTREROBOOSTERS.ORG

Potrero Hill. Our goals are to act as a forum for concerned Potrero residents and to participate in policy and development decisions that affect the quality of life here on the Hill. Meetings are the last Tuesday of the month (7:00 p.m. at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House) and are open to everyone, members and non-members. Dues: Individual $25, Household (couple) $30, Senior $20. (Make checks out to: Potrero Boosters.) Mail check to Potrero Boosters, 1459 18th St., #133, San Francisco, CA 94107, or sign up online (coming soon). Enclosed is $______ for ___ membership(s). New __ Renewal __ Prefer e-mail newsltr (Y/N)? ____

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Does your mailing label say DEC 06? Renew your membership now!! Fill out the form above and send it in!

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