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PHDC Newsletter
Upcoming meeting: Panel on Governor Brown's proposed axing of community redevelopment agencies
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| Issue: #27 | February 22, 2011 | |
Greetings!
The future of Redevelopment Agencies is the timely topic of our next meeting. The Legislature will vote soon on the governor's budget, which would ax them completely. Please join us March 1st for what promises to be a thought-provoking discussion. And on March 20th, Sunday Streets kicks off 2011 right here in Mission Bay - table with us if you can. One more thing - Now's the time to join PHDC for 2011. If this is something you want to do, please bring a check to the next meeting or join online now. Thanks! Joni Eisen, President
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REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES ON THE WAY OUT?
| |  Lively panel discussion at the next PHDC meeting
Part of the Governor's proposed budget completely eliminates community Redevelopment Agencies. Have these entities been essential for job creation and community revitalization, or are they, as Governor Brown has said, "futile"? How have they worked - or not - in the past? (The gentlemen in the 1940s photo are gazing at the navy shipyard at Hunters Point.) Is there an alternate plan if the Governor's budget passes and these agencies disappear? Come for an absorbing discussion with Arc Ecology Executive Director Saul Bloom, housing activist Calvin Welch, SF Redevelopment Agency Deputy Executive Director Olson Lee, and a spokesperson from California Professional Firefighters, as they address these and other questions, including yours. Moderator will be SF Chronicle political reporter Marisa Lagos. WHEN: Tuesday, March 1, 6:45PM sign in & socialize, 7:15PM startWHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St
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SUNDAY STREETS RETURNS MARCH 20
| |  ...and with it, a fun opportunity for outreach & voter registration on car-free streets
The March 20 kick off event will stretch along the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf to Mission Bay, from 11AM to 4PM. If you would like to sign up for an hour or two at our table, somewhere just east of the Hill, please email Monisha.
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YOUR CLUB IS PAYING ATTENTION
| | | Your ideas
The results of the January brainstorming of program ideas & issues for the coming year have been compiled and organized. In February, people added new ideas and stuck dots by their top choices.
The two speakers at the Febuary meeting, and the upcoming 3/1 panel on redevelopment and 3/20 tabling at Sunday Streets all resulted from your input. We will continue to consult this handy source of inspiration at Exec Committee meetings throughout the year. Please feel free to offer additional suggestions any time!
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FEBRUARY MEETING FOLLOWUP
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Power plant closure, more
Joshua Arce, Executive Director of non-profit civil rights org Brightline Defense Project, described the lengthy campaign to get rid of the dirty Potrero power plant, acknowledging the activists who were fighting for years before he joined them. Erin Miller, the new Project Manager of SFMTA's Eastern Neighborhoods Transportation Implementation Planning Study (EN TRIPS), gave a brief introduction and overview of the plan to minimize transportation impacts of anticipated growth, and invited people to a town hall meeting the following evening. (Having been duly invited, several Club members attended that meeting. We were dismayed to find that Potrero Hill with its extremely inadequate public transit - a major concern bound to get much worse as the population expands - was ignored on all the various maps displayed around the room and is obviously not a priority. Hmmmm...To comment, call EN TRIPS at: 415-701-5396 or email them through this link.) At the end of the meeting, voting members elected 2011 Club Officers.
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