Week 19 • Hayes Street Farmers Market Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1493851

October 26, 2026Attention SFMTA:Saturday October 24, 2026 Week 19 documents conditions consistent with prior weekly reports and remain part of HVS’s ongoing concerns regarding the market’s operation and impacts on surrounding businesses and neighborhood access.  Our October 19 request to relocate the farmers market from the 400 block of Hayes Street remains outstanding and has not received a substantive response from SFMTA. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance …

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Week 98 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1316522 Noncompliance Copy

October 25, 2026Attention SFMTA:Friday October 23, 2026Saturday October 24, 2026 The documented conditions continue to support our request for revocation of Permit No. 1316522 and restoration of the 400 block of Hayes Street to normal public use. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance of the communication remains unchanged. See all weekly notifications sent to SFMTA

Week 97 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1316522 Noncompliance

October 18, 2026Attention SFMTA:Friday October 16, 2026Saturday October 17, 2026 On Saturday, the Farmers Market was followed by a dog marketplace, further impacting an already constrained commercial corridor. Meanwhile, Parcel K remained vacant during the dog marketplace—an event that could have been accommodated at that location instead. Once again, existing Hayes Street merchants bore the impacts of additional event programming within the street closure, despite the availability of an alternative location. We continue to request revocation of Permit No. 1316522 …

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Week 18 • Hayes Street Farmers Market Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1493851

October 17, 2026Attention SFMTA: Street conditions for the Hayes Street Farmers Market documented here:Saturday October 17, 2026 Week 18 documents the continued recurrence of conditions previously reported to SFMTA, including market-related vehicles occupying customer parking and business loading areas along the Hayes Street commercial corridor. Merchants are repeatedly leaving messages on market-related vehicles asking drivers not to occupy parking needed by their customers. These impacts were raised with SFMTA before the market began and have continued throughout eighteen weeks of …

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Week 17 • Hayes Street Farmers Market Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1493851

October 13, 2026Attention SFMTA: Street conditions for the Hayes Street Farmers Market documented here:Saturday, October 10, 2026 Week 17 documents the continued recurrence of conditions previously reported to SFMTA, including impacts on customer parking, business loading, and access along the Hayes Street commercial corridor. Our request to relocate the farmers market from the 400 block of Hayes Street remains outstanding. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance of …

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Week 96 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1316522 Noncompliance

October 13, 2026Attention SFMTA:Friday October 9, 2026 Saturday October 10, 2026 Week 96 documents the continued recurrence of previously reported permit compliance concerns on the 400 block of Hayes Street. We again request revocation of Permit No. 1316522 and restoration of the block to normal public use. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance of the communication remains unchanged. See all weekly notifications sent to SFMTA

Week 95 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1316522 Noncompliance

October 4, 2026Attention SFMTA:Friday October 2, 2026Saturday October 3, 2026 Week 95 documents another weekend of the recurring conditions previously reported to SFMTA. Our request remains unchanged: revoke Permit No. 1316522 and restore the 400 block of Hayes Street to normal public use. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance of the communication remains unchanged. See all weekly notifications sent to SFMTA

Week 16 • Hayes Street Farmers Market Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1493851

October 3, 2026Attention SFMTA: Street conditions for the Hayes Street Farmers Market documented here:Saturday October 3, 2026 Week 16 again documented recurring conditions associated with the Hayes Valley Farmers Market, including market-related vehicles occupying curb and loading space on and adjacent to the commercial corridor and the continued presence of the Signature clothing vendor during farmers market operations. The recurring use of customer parking by market-related vehicles has now reached the point that Hayes Street merchants are taking it upon …

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Week 15 • Hayes Street Farmers Market Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1493851

September 27, 2026Attention SFMTA:Street conditions for the Hayes Street Farmers Market documented here:Saturday, September 26, 2026 Week 15 again documented recurring conditions associated with the Hayes Valley Farmers Market. Market-related vehicles continued to occupy curb and loading space on and adjacent to the commercial corridor, and the Signature clothing vendor was again selling during farmers market operations.  Photos from this week also show the active market footprint concentrated within a relatively limited portion of the permitted Hayes Street closure area, …

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Week 94 • Hayes Street Temporary Street Closure Permit No. 1316522 Noncompliance

September 27, 2026Attention SFMTA:Friday September 25, 2026Saturday September 26, 2026 Week 94. The same recurring permit compliance concerns continue. We continue to request revocation of Permit No. 1316522 and restoration of the 400 block of Hayes Street to normal public use. This correspondence has been edited for clarity and conciseness. Routine greetings and contact details have been omitted; the substance of the communication remains unchanged. See all weekly notifications sent to SFMTA