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Hayes Street Closure — Pulse

Behind the Process: What Our Engagement Reveals This section outlines our direct engagement with City agencies and offices over the past two years. It is based on public correspondence, meeting notes, and documented interactions –not speculation. The purpose is to help the public understand how a neighborhood issue became a political project and why that context is critical ahead of this renewal. 1. SFMTA: Delay, Deflection, and Denial of Tools 2. Supervisor’s Office: Political Shielding and Private Coordination Meeting with …

What SFMTA Has and Hasn’t Done — A Case Study in Failure for Hayes Valley

400 Block of Hayes Street Closure A year since the last renewal, Hayes Valley is still living with a “temporary” closure run by HVNA; SFMTA’s failures of process, enforcement, and accountability are clearer than ever. The Record Since Last RenewalAs the Hayes Street closure future remains in limbo, it’s worth asking a simple question: what has SFMTA actually done in the past year? Unfortunately, the answer is not much and what they have done has undermined trust even further. Exclusion …

49 Reasons the Hayes Street Closure Needs to End

The Hayes Street closure was supposed to be temporary. Instead, it’s become a politicized experiment with no accountability one that hurts small businesses, fuels division, and defies logic. Here’s why it’s time to reopen Hayes: 1. It was never meant to be permanent.The closure began as a short-term pandemic response. Those conditions no longer exist. 2. Use of the space has dwindled (outside of events).Outside of a handful of programmed events, the closure sees minimal foot traffic and very little …

Petition to Reopen Hayes Street gets removed from HVNA controlled facebook page

April 8, 2025 This post after being up for 24 hours was removed today.No surprise, this private group is controlled and moderated by HVNA board members. HVNA is the permit holder of the Hayes Street Closure. This type of censorship and oppression by the HVNA is nothing new which is why we are highlighting this unjust behavior. This act exemplifies the very crux of the ongoing issue with stifling dialogue and fair civic engagement regarding a critical issue impacting Hayes …

Hayes Street Closure Permit 2024

Hayes St needs to to be restored to the vibrant business corridor that it was pre-pandemic! There are a multitude of reasons why we do not support the continuation of this experiment on our business corridor. Below is an outline of some of the key principles that support why we disagree with the current course of this street closure. Notable takeaways from the SFMTA 11.19.2024 hearing: more info on our Summer Roundup last updated 1/17/25

400 Block of Hayes Street Closure Permit Updates

Earlier permit renewal updates Permit 2024 Restoration of the 500 Block of Hayes Restoration of the 300 Block of Hayes SFMTA ISCOTT contact exchange Permit History 2024 Traffic Report SFMTA ISCOTT permit correspondence permit renewal update UPDATE : November 20, 2025We’ve issued a statement summarizing what occurred at the SFMTA Board hearing this week and our takeaways.—> Read our full statement on the outcome more updates to come UPDATE : November 17, 2025Thank you to everyone who has reached out, …

Shared Street Closure Permit Renewal – 300 Block of Hayes

It is increasingly evident that justification for the Shared Street Closure on Hayes Street has run its course. The program, hastily enacted under emergency policy, has not been subject to community review since its initial roll out in August of 2020. This lack of process has allowed the permittee, HVNA (Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association), to control the closure without input from impacted local businesses, still struggling to recover from the economic fallout of the ongoing pandemic. No data, metrics, or …

Hayes Valley Street Closure Traffic Gridlock

Hayes Valley Shared Streets Closure causes Chaos on Hayes and Octavia Is this the best we can do to achieve environmental justice. What about noise & air pollution?

500 Hayes Street – Shared Streets – Request to Cease Closure/Re Open

Update Wednesday July 14, 2021Throughout the petition process our coalition faced a series of challenges which are outlined below. In January in tandem with the Hayes Valley Small Business Association (HVSBA) we opened an inquiry on the permit approval process with SFMTA; as a result we found a staggering lack of transparency had been applied (for a program that has been under the guise of temporary). After voicing our overall concerns with what had transpired and pointing to several just …