Communications

Week 6 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

January 13, 2025 Attention SFMTA: See permit violations for this past weekend documented here: Friday January 10, 2025Saturday January 11, 2025 Again, we hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. Permit violations include but not limited to: *Barricades have cones strategically placed to allow for an entry/exit path for cars, scooters, motorcycles, etc.The block is a full scale food delivery pick up zone. It’s time we restore Hayes Street by ceasing this closure and reverting back to the …

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Week 2 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

December 16, 2024 Re: Street Closure Permit No.1091787 for the Hayes Street Closure Attention: SFMTA See permit violations for this past weekend here:  [collectively we witnessed at least a half a dozen vehicles driving on the blocked street] Friday December 13, 2024 Saturday December 14, 2024 Again, we hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. Thank you. HVSafe

Week 1 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

December 9, 2024 Re: Street Closure Permit No.1091787 for the Hayes Street Closure Attention: SFMTA Per the terms and conditions of the permit:  “failure to comply with permit conditions, is ground for immediate revocation of the permit”. See permit violations for this past weekend here:Friday December 6, 2024 Saturday December 7, 2024 Permit violations include but not limited to: For additional reference please see Hayes Street Closure Activity (November 18, 2023 – December 7, 2024) We hereby demand that permit …

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SFMTA Hearing for Hayes Street Closure

November 18, 2024Dear SFMTA Board: You’ve been cc’d to an ongoing thread that outlines the many challenges we’ve been faced with over the last year regarding the Hayes Street closure. We sincerely hope you take the time to read it. Going into a hearing with no dialogue on this matter is not something we expected; we were under the impression that conversations and deliberations would be had at the community level over the course of the last year before any …

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Continued Exclusion at Parcel K Bulletin Board — Request for Immediate Response

This is a followup to our August 2023 correspondence.All correspondence available here. November 7, 2024 Sent to: City Administrator’s Office We kindly ask with whom we can escalate this matter with? It’s been over a year now that we’ve been inquiring and stressing that a resolve needs be had for this matter. Free speech is being stifled and we’re witnessing the use of this alleged “community board” being controlled by a neighborhood group that has seemingly used this as a …

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Public Hearing for Hayes Street Closure

October 9, 2024Dear ISCOTT and SFMTA: In the essence of time because we weren’t given proper notification or information about the permit process renewal it’s critical we direct you to the only bit of information we have been provided this year regarding the street closure. Here in our ongoing thread dating back to the start of this permit term where we have outlined our concerns. We asked Monica to include this in the hearing packet. For good measure we are …

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Head West Permit 2024 Public Hearing April 11

April 10, 2024 Dear ISCOTT and SFMTA: Fundamentally the oversight for the Head West Market permit process is broken. A committee that was set up as a paradigm to expedite permits has in this case been hijacked by an event promoter – this is evident by the disregard to our opposition, repeated inquiries about process, and or organization’s lack of inclusion in the planning process. Each hearing we wait our turn while we witness permits being approved for block parties, …

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