We have a lot to fix in San Francisco. Residents are concerned about public safety, homelessness, the drug overdose crisis, housing affordability and the survival of small businesses – in addition to fixing our downtown.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
City Hall: Connie Chan
Last month, my office welcomed the Golden Gate Park Community Benefit Fund recipients and Another Planet Entertainment to the Richmond Recreation Center to jointly announce $110,000 in funding for community-based organizations and programs benefiting the Richmond. As part of the Outside Lands (OSL) contract with the City, the Richmond District receives annual funding from Another Planet Entertainment (APE) to help mitigate the impacts the concert series has on our neighborhood.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
Public safety is the #1 concern for San Franciscans. That’s why I prioritized hiring a dedicated community safety liaison to help Sunset residents and merchants affected by crime.
City Hall: Connie Chan
As your district supervisor, I am working to deliver the public safety resources the Richmond needs and deserves. With the mayor and her administration prioritizing the revitalization of downtown over our neighborhoods, we are seeing an increase in burglaries on the west side; we experienced two incidents where suspects drove vehicles through the front of businesses, and our small businesses are reporting an increase in broken windows and stolen goods.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
The most important local election most know nothing about is coming up in March.
City Hall: Connie Chan
Last December I sent out a message to Richmond neighbors about the mayor and her Planning Department’s plan to upzone the entire City, which would increase the building height limit on our streets. In the Richmond, this means Geary Boulevard could have buildings as tall as 140 feet at some intersections. I asked our community for input on these plans because your voices are important in this process.
Supervisor Connie Chan: Housing Survey Due Dec. 22
We want to make sure the Planning Department hears from you so please fill out this online survey by FRIDAY, DEC. 22.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
For Halloween, my staff had the idea to each wear a T-shirt representing the various cartoon character emotions from the classic Pixar movie “Inside Out.” There’s fear, anger, sadness, disgust and, of course, joy.
City Hall: Connie Chan
I consider it a privilege to serve you. While it is often uncomfortable to confront the power of City Hall, as your district representative I will continue to fight for and demand resources for the Richmond, including increasing resources for public safety, building housing that people can afford and improving city service efficiency.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
I introduced a ballot measure urging San Francisco’s public schools to let kids take algebra by the eighth grade. Now, we make everyone wait until ninth grade because some aren’t ready for algebra sooner. Let’s better prepare all students instead of holding back kids who love math.
City Hall: Connie Chan
It is hard to believe that it is already November! As we get closer to the holidays, I want to take a moment to encourage all of you to shop and eat locally – TimeOut listed our District as the coolest in San Francisco, and it’s in no small part thanks to our local restaurants and shops. Protecting and supporting our small businesses takes all of us working together.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
Thank you to everyone who attended the first-ever Sunset Night Market. More than 10,000 people showed up. Longtime residents said they’ve never seen that many people gathered on Irving Street or anywhere in the Sunset before.
City Hall: Connie Chan
In August, schools across the City welcomed students back. While public education builds our future generations, and we all want to be optimistic about their future, the reality is the ways that both the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and City College of San Francisco (CCSF) have been operating is greatly disappointing. These districts’ administrations have not been doing right by our teachers, students and our families.
Commentary: Richie Greenberg
Call it what you may, a government-sanctioned and subcontracted facility for addicts of illicit drugs is illegal. Safe Injection, Safe Consumption, Overdose Prevention, all are terms dreamed up by the imaginative advocates to generate public support, while concealing violations of federal and state law.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
If you’ve ever been to Paris, you likely walked down tree-lined streets and enjoyed the quaint sidewalk cafes. If you noticed six-story apartment buildings throughout the city, you probably didn’t leave Paris thinking it was a terrible place because of housing density. The wonderful ground-floor bistros were memorable, not the building height.
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