December 23, 2024 Attention: SFTMA See permit violations for this past weekend here: Friday December 20, 2024 Saturday December 21, 2024 Again, we hereby demand that permit No. 1091787 be revoked immediately. Thank you. HVSafe
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
February 21, 2024 Dear ISCOTT and SFMTA: We oppose the 4x event frequency being proposed for the Head West event. We view the sanctioned promotion of outside retail vendors as a direct threat on our small business operators. This event is run by a out of county for profit business at our neighborhood expense. Each time this event occurs it results in direct financial loss to businesses in Hayes Valley. Our business community received reassurance in recent years that this …
November 6, 2023 Good Evening Jeffrey Tumlin and SFMTA Board: cc: Mayor London Breed, Marianne Thompson (Office of Small Business), Alexandra Sweet (Mayor’s Office) & Monica Munowitch (SFMTA) After advocating for 3+ years for fair process we embraced the stakeholder community process this summer led by the Mayor’s Office, Office of Small Business and SFMTA. Outreach to our small businesses conducted by SFMTA clearly showed that a majority, 66%, were willing to accept the recommendations put forth by SFMTA to …
October 16, 2023 Attention Members of the SFMTA Board: HVSafe supports the recommendations put forth by SFMTA for the re-calibration of a closed street programming for the 400 block of Hayes; we find it to be a good approach to establish a level of success for activating this street closure. We want to underscore that throughout the entirety of the street closure on Hayes (including the closures on the 500 and 300 block) we’ve been advocating for a fair and …