We pride ourselves on our boots-on-the-ground approach. Our volunteer advocates have 45+ years of experience championing for quality of life, public safety, housing and small business initiatives in Hayes Valley.
Here are some of the areas/issues that we have focused on:
- Community Outreach & Representation: we drill down on initiatives impacting the neighborhood.
- Social Justice
- Public Safety
- Traffic Calming: we are advocating for traffic calming measures at various points in the neighborhood. See our 2023 Traffic Mitigation Strategies.
- Small Business Representation
- Housing
- Hayes Valley Freeway Commemoration Project
- Inserting checks and balances for actions/projects initiated in the neighborhood.
- Street Cleanliness & Garbage Issues
- Octavia Undeveloped Parcels: K, L, R, S
- Shared Streets: we continue to advocate for fair and just process in the permit review and approval process to ensure equal opportunity representation for businesses impacted by the closure. We successfully advocated for the re-opening of the 500 block of Hayes. Last year we advocated for the re-opening of the 300 block of Hayes.
- Camera Surveillance: gathering information regarding the possibility of camera surveillance being implemented in our business district.
- Extended Parking Meter times
- Hayes Valley Playground & Clubhouse
- Formula Retail Ban Enforcement
- 555 Fulton: Trader Joe’s
- Homelessness, Tents & Addiction
- Affordability
- Transit: restoring bus line 21 Hayes
- Living Alley Projects in Hayes Valley
- Tree issues
- Hayes Valley Freeway Commemoration Project: we continue to advocate for a fair process for this project. Extensive info is available on our blog.
- 340 and 362 Fell Street: Rivian Automotive
- History Preservation: Patricia Walkup Interview
- Tenancy and Lease issues
- Head West event permit
- Closed/Shared Streets
- Hayes Valley “Community Board”