November 18, 2024
Dear SFMTA Board:
You’ve been cc’d to an ongoing thread that outlines the many challenges we’ve been faced with over the last year regarding the Hayes Street closure. We sincerely hope you take the time to read it.
Going into a hearing with no dialogue on this matter is not something we expected; we were under the impression that conversations and deliberations would be had at the community level over the course of the last year before any consideration of a new permit plan would be presented. This breakdown in communications and information is detrimental in our civic participation.
To add to our challenges: our own supervisor has not been the unbiased neutral negotiator or representative that he should be for an initiative as critical as this.
We demand that you refocus what is already on the table: optimizing current open spaces/venues and programs that are in play. The HVNA has had their fair share of temporary programs – we disagree with permitting another year of this street closure.
Thank you.
HVSafe