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When Retweets Become ‘Incidents’: What the Permit Holder Reported to City Hall

A particular email has stood out during a recent record retrieval — not for what it proved, but for what it revealed. 1. The Hayes Street closure permit holder has been forwarding social-media posts about our account to the Supervisor as ‘incidents.’ On October 3, the permit holder sent an email chain titled “HVSafe barricade removal.” The message suggested there … Read post

Why the Entertainment Zone fight in Hayes Valley reveals a deeper failure in San Francisco politics

December 2025 Update:When this piece was published in summer 2025, we believed reopening Hayes Street by year’s end was both reasonable and achievable based on agency signals and public input. That did not happen. What followed instead with the quiet advancement and passage of the Entertainment Zone ordinance only reinforced the core argument of this piece: that community process in … Read post

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 … Read post

Lower Haight Fire – 248 Divisadero

Consider Making a Donation Our neighbors in the Lower Haight have shared a GoFundMe campaign to help support residents who lost their homes as a result of yesterday’s fire on Divisadero. Yesterday afternoon, twelve (12) Lower Haight residents lost their homes as a result of a 3-Alarm fire at 248 Divisadero Street. Many of the longtime residents in this five-unit Victorian … Read post

San Francisco Library Dog Attack Victim – GoFundMe Campaign

Fidel Joshua was the Hayes Valley Clubhouse Playground Director for years before it was closed to public community use due to the rebuild. (More on that later…). He is a security guard at the San Francisco Main Library. Recently he was a victim of a dog attack. We checked in with him recently…. here’s what he said about his condition: … Read post

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 … Read post