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 …

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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 …

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