You may have seen the news that I’m facing a recall attempt over my support for putting Proposition K on the ballot.
I’m humbled by the views of residents who opposed the measure. Many said they didn’t feel heard in the process, and I take their concerns to heart.
No matter how you voted, we can all agree that improving street and pedestrian safety while helping drivers get where they need to go is a top priority.
As we kick off 2025, I’m excited to announce the significant progress we’ve made to invest and upgrade the Sunset’s traffic and pedestrian safety infrastructure.
I’ve been coordinating city and state agencies to accelerate the completion of:
• The Sunset Boulevard improvement and repaving project led by the Department of Public Works.
• A new traffic signal at Sloat and Skyline boulevards led by SFMTA, which replaces a three-way stop sign bottleneck.
• A new traffic signal at Skyline and Great Highway led by Catrans, which allows for a smoother commute on Skyline and safer pedestrian crossing from Lake Merced to planned hiking trails near the coast (the light will only turn red when a pedestrian is present). This signal will also direct traffic into a new parking lot for access to the coast.
This new infrastructure will be ready in the next month or so, demonstrating major quality-of-life improvements for drivers in early 2025.
My advocacy helped secure millions of dollars for new traffic signals on Lincoln Way at La Playa and on Lincoln at 45th Avenue. There will also be intersection upgrades at Great Highway and Lincoln. Two lanes of traffic will be able to turn left onto Lincoln simultaneously, greatly improving traffic flow during the morning commute.
I’m also working closely with our new mayor, Daniel Lurie, to deliver traffic improvements at 41st Avenue and Lincoln. We are cutting through the bureaucracy to see results in a matter of months versus what normally has taken years. Mayor Lurie and I agree we need to put key traffic improvements in place before any road closure on the Great Highway.
Through my work with the County Transportation Authority (CTA) – each city supervisor also serves as a commissioner on the CTA board – I have funded more than six miles of new stop signs, safer crosswalks and speed humps in District 4. Many of these treatments are targeted on streets adjacent to the Sunset’s schools. These improvements help make our neighborhood safer for everyone.
I strive to be a responsive and accessible supervisor, working to fix everything from trash cans to broken benches.
As supervisor, I have:
• Created night markets with community partners.
• Brought more police protection to the Sunset.
• Successfully fought to bring algebra back to middle schools.
• Restored parking access at Lower Great Highway.
• Secured funding for the Sunset Boulevard greenway.
• Delivered relief funds to Taraval merchants.
• Funded new traffic infrastructure on Lincoln Way.
• Legislated the ability to create more middle-income and senior housing.
• Started a new Fourth of July parade tradition.
• Launched the Sunset Community Band.
(Learn more at https://engardio.com/about-joel)
Many Sunset residents are telling me they do not support a recall – and they include voters who didn’t agree with me on Prop. K.
The entirety of my work – not just one issue – is what matters. Sunset residents like how I focus on public safety, fight for education, champion small businesses and support the housing that families need to stay in San Francisco.
Residents also know that the proposed recall will not change the outcome or implementation of Prop. K.
A number of Sunset residents are reaching out to tell me why they’re supporting me. I’ve created a new website to share their statements: StopTheEngardioRecall.com.
If you want to join them, please visit the website to add your voice.
Recall or not, I will continue to serve your needs. If you require assistance with anything in your neighborhood, my staff and I will be happy to help. My door, phone and email in-box are open to you anytime and I am committed to working with you to address your concerns.
Together, we can create our best Sunset.
Joel Engardio is the District 4 representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He can be reached at engardio.com/contact.
Categories: City Hall
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 
It’s such a pathetic list of dubious achievements if you actually look at it.
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So this newspaper gives a spot to Engardio but not Chan as a coumnist?
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Connie Chan has had a monthly column for years in the Richmond Review.
https://richmondsunsetnews.com/?s=Connie+Chan
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So she quit submitting or what? Why? And why should Engardio be a sanctioned “columnist” when the entire district disbelieves his obvious and constant lies? Are you trying to stir the pot, or do you really believe giving a platform to a known liar to rehash his deflated propaganda and side-stepping excuses is a good use of public information resources, as a journalistic endeavor, without even so much as a basic fact checking? If this outrage is intended to drive engagement, that’s just sad.
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Elected officials have earned the right to submit columns as they were selected to represent citizens who chose them to lead. We invite readers to share their opinions about the elected officials but discourage name calling and nasty commentaries. Facts are most helpful.
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34 million dollars on a stoplight and he brags about it being his main achievement. I’m so done with Joel.
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There’s nothing bad about those achievements, Joel, but imagine having a doctor who cured your ingrown toenails, got a much needed shoulder injury referral, updated prescriptions, and then totally botched the heart surgery. That doctor would be fired.
The WAY prop K was put to vote is the issue. You put it in at the last minute, leaving your constituents no time to meet or provide a counter argument. The rest of the city voted in a proposition that the majority of the west side does not want and are negatively affected by. This is a signal to current and future supervisors that they too can push through measures that the majority of their district say no to, by putting it to an outside-district city-wide vote. Supervisors are supposed to represent their district, not hammer in their visions on the sly. More future supervisors will follow this tactic unless it is clear that this behavior is not tolerated. And THAT is why you’re being recalled.
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Joel you should really change your title to Abundant SF representative since you still haven’t met with your constutuents regarding the closing of the Great Highway fiasco, yet you did take the time to conspire with Abundant SF & Todd Davis
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Because of the recall efforts, Joel is putting momentum into traffic measures needed, so let’s keep up the recall efforts to keep getting what we need AND see if he’s got what it takes to ban new buildings over 4-stories to truly preserve the character of our district! That’s what it will take for me to support him.
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You mean a four story new building limitation like this?
https://www.kqed.org/news/12018940/san-francisco-developer-unveils-plans-new-22-story-ocean-beach-project
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What this “supervisor” does not understand is that even if prop K had failed, he still betrayed his district. No matter the outcome of K his devious and back-room actions just to put it on the ballot shows his total disregard for his District. Putting more traffic lights (which will just deter traffic onto residential streets because people want to bypass traffic lights) is not helping anyone. He cut off a major artery in D4 and to this day has never acknowledged that more that 60% of the district he was sworn to represent voted against it.
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The supervisor misses the mark here, in my opinion purposely, by stating the recall is because of his support for Prop K. The reason for the recall is because of his failure as an elected official to represent his constituents. A supermajority of the voters in his district voted against Prop K; he pandered to a small number of sunset residents, the bike coalition, and SF YIMBY’s. His statements regarding his recall is backpedaling on the reality of his betrayal. His list of accomplishments is dubious at best.
Sincerely
Marty Murphy
sfpoliticshub.com
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Joel – As an Outer Richmond District resident, and your decision completely locks in our residents. You 100% failed to represent your own constituents- even lied to their faces regarding Prop K. You had one job: to represent your district. How could you have botched this so badly? You can list your “accomplishments” as much or as often as you want, but you will go down in history as the worst D4 Supervisor.
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Also, I’ve updated your list of accomplishments. I’m sure others can add to it.
• Created traffic congestion every weekend with the GH closure.
• Greatly increased the number of cars on Sunset residential streets.
• Created gridlock through Chain of Lakes.
• Successfully worked to close the GH, without constituent input.
• Orchestrated back-door dealings to get Prop K on the ballot.
• Ensured more traffic and congestion on major holidays.
• Blocked in residents who live in the area of GH.
• Increased commute time for parents and children to get to and from work/school.
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Permanently closing the Great Highway to cars (after his constituents had come to a compromise to close it to cars on weekends) by putting incomplete and false information on the citywide ballot at the last minute behind our backs so that we had no chance to publish a balancing argument against it not only betrays the trust of District 4 constituents, but also of the entire city. The Great Highway is an evacuation route off this peninsula we live on in case there’s a major crisis caused by say – an earthquake or a wildfire like we’re witnessing in Los Angeles. It’s the only route that doesn’t have buildings next to it that could crash down and block passage in such an event. The bridges and on-ramps of all the other exits off this peninsula are going to be clogged with traffic – and maybe impassable – as they very often already are under normal circumstances. In other words, the permanent closure of The Upper Great Highway – a major evacuation route will very likely cost lives.
How does this balance out all the other achievements? How can we trust you with anything else?
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Engardio isn’t “humbled” by anything but himself; he’s too busy avoiding taking responsibility for his closing the GH by patting himself on the back. The fact that he’s needed to narcissistically bring in special interest groups to try and save him from the recall shows just how little he cares about what his constituents really think or want.
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