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Week 33 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

July 30, 2025 Attention SFMTA: Here are the closure conditions for this past weekend:Friday July 25, 2025Saturday July 26, 2025 This marks 33 consecutive weeks of outreach to you. At this stage the continued purpose of this closure is, frankly, bewildering to say the least. The event held on Saturday which had a dismal turnout but was still used by our Supervisor as a photo opportunity referencing the so-called “promenade” did not go unnoticed. What’s more troubling is that there was zero …

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Week 32 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

July 21, 2025 SFMTA: Here are the block conditions and violations for this past weekend:Friday, July 18, 2025Saturday, July 19, 2025 | see video of rideshare pickups and deliveries clogging the 500 block This past weekend marked the 32nd consecutive week of documented noncompliance under Permit No. 1091787. While a carnival was active on Parcel K Saturday afternoon, the adjacent closure of Hayes Street was unnecessary outside of the scheduled event. Later that evening, traffic congestion on the 500 block was …

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Week 31 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

July 15, 2025 Attention SFMTA: Here are the block conditions and violations for this past weekend:Friday July 11, 2025 | See the 6 Bus moving the cones to drive though the blockSaturday July 12, 2025See all Hayes Street Closure Activity here. This past weekend marked the 31st consecutive week of documented noncompliance under Permit No. 1091787 for the closure of the 400 block of Hayes Street. The most egregious aspect of this debacle is that SFMTA has allowed Andrew and company to …

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Follow Up – SFMTA ISCOTT Hearing for Hayes Valley Head West Event – 4th Date 2025

July 10, 2025 Good evening SFMTA and ISCOTT: Now that the 4th Head West date has been approved, we want to be clear: this pattern cannot become the norm in 2026. We had hoped and worked diligently to address the 4x frequency this year…but we remain trapped in a loophole that Head West continues to exploit. For three years, we’ve submitted hundreds of letters and offered testimony hearing after hearing, yet the concerns of businesses along Hayes and Octavia are …

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SFMTA ISCOTT Hearing for Hayes Valley Head West Event – 4th Date 2025- Hearing 2

July 9, 2025 Following up ahead of tomorrow’s hearing, we wanted to reiterate and expand on the concerns we’ve raised in this ongoing thread:We’ve sent hundreds of letters since 2023. We’ve shown up at hearing after hearing… and still, it’s the same dog and pony show. We’re dragged back into the ISCOTT process – a process created to streamline permits for parades, festivals, and neighborhood celebrations – not to enable recurring for-profit street markets that destabilize business corridors — to …

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Week 30 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

July 7, 2025 Attention SFMTA: Here are the block conditions and violations for this past weekend:Friday July 4, 2025Saturday July 5, 2025See all Hayes Street Closure Activity here. This past weekend marked the 30th consecutive week of documented noncompliance under Permit No. 1091787 for the closure of the 400 block of Hayes Street. As with prior weeks, the permit holder remained in breach of key conditions, with no visible enforcement or corrective action from SFMTA. Despite it being a major …

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Week 29 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

July 1, 2025 Attention SFMTA: Here are the block conditions and violations for this past weekend:Friday June 27, 2025  | includes evening traffic on Grove Saturday June 28, 2025See all Hayes Street Closure Activity here. We are submitting documentation for the 29th consecutive week of noncompliance under Permit No. 1091787 for the closure of the 400 block of Hayes Street. As with prior weeks, the permit holder remains in breach of key conditions, with no enforcement action taken. Ongoing: Unauthorized branded signage was …

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SFMTA ISCOTT Hearing for Hayes Valley Head West Event – 4th Date

June 25, 2025 Dear SFMTA & ISCOTT:  We are writing to formally oppose the proposed 4th event date for Head West in Hayes Valley. Our position on this issue has been clear and consistent: this event causes significant financial harm and directly undermines the ability of small businesses in Hayes Valley to operate and survive. Based on vendor counts and current rates, Head West is estimated to generate over $50,000 per event – while neighborhood merchants face tens of thousands in …

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Week 28 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1091787 Noncompliance

June 25, 2025 Attention SFMTA: Here are the block conditions and violations for this past weekend:Friday June 20, 2025 | video of traffic at Hayes and OctaviaSaturday June 21, 2025 This weekend marked the 28th consecutive week of documented violations under Permit No. 1091787 for the closure of the 400 block of Hayes Street. As in previous weeks, the permit holder remains in breach of permit conditions, with continued use of unauthorized signage and no visible enforcement from your agency. On Friday, …

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Hayes Valley Traffic Sunday June 22, 2025

Grove Street Traffic from Fillmore to Gough Streetat 12 noon.Hayes was open … so this proposed overflow street is already over swamped … can’t handle normal traffic and to close Hayes Street permanently would make Grove St traffic problematic.