September 2005 Next Meeting September 27 Potrero Hill Neighborhood House 953 DeHaro Street (at Southern Heights)

6:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Business Meeting Introductions / Welcome to New Members Police Report Neighborhood Issues Enola D. Maxwell Middle School Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Break City Attorney Dennis Herrera
You can find your copy of San Franciscos Potrero Hill at Christophers Books, The Good Life Grocery, Potrero Mail N More, Chatz, Farleys, and Center Hardware. In celebration of this fine new book, , the authors will be feted at the Potrero Branch Library on Saturday, October 8, 3-5 pm. There will be books available for purchase and the authors will be on hand for signing and more anecdotes. Booster member Susan Eslick writes: FRIENDS of the URBAN FOREST currently has some special funding they need to use this year which will bring 54 new trees free of charge to Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, and after the first 54 the price is just $75 per tree. (The price is normally $150 through them, and over $300 if you plant on your own.)
New Street Trees for the Neighborhood - Free and Cheap! This is just an amazing opportunity for our neighborhood!! Tell your friends and neighbors and sign up soon!

7:30 pm

7:50 pm 8:00 pm

October is Potrero Hill Month

Free History Tour of Dogpatch and Potrero Point
Sunday, October 2, 11 am, 18th and Tennessee Streets

Booksigning for Images of America: San Franciscos Potrero Hill with the Potrero Hill Archives Project

Saturday, October 8, 3-5 pm, Potrero Branch Library, 20th and Connecticut Streets

Saturday, October 15, 9 am - 5 pm, Southern Heights between Carolina and Rhode Island Streets

The $75 includes the price of the tree, the concrete cutting and hauling away, auguring/loosening up the soil for easy digging, all the planting supplies and tools needed, experienced staff and volunteers to help the neighbors plant on planting day, processing of permits, and two follow-up visits by Friends of the Forest after planting (a 2-month survey and an 18-month tree care).

15th Annual Potrero Hill Festival (pancake breakfast at the Neighborhood House from 9-11 am) 6th Annual Potrero Hill History Night, sponsored by the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses and the Potrero Boosters
Saturday, October 22, 6 pm, Enola D, Maxwell Middle School

The deadline for signing up is October 12th so call now. It takes some time to prepare on their end for the planting, and they cannot start preparing until we have at least 25 neighbors signed up (25 different properties). The two required forms to fill out can be downloaded and printed from: www.fuf.net/tree_plantings/forms.html

Presidents Message
Congratulations and Thanks to the Potrero Hill Archives Project for Images of America: San Franciscos Potrero Hill

The Potrero Hill Archives Project has worked for more than 20 years gathering photos, artifacts, and oral histories of Potrero Hills past. Lester Zeidman, writing in The Potrero View, picks up the story from there: When Dogpatch became a Historical District, the editors of Arcadia Publishing, which specializes in local and regional histories of communities around the United States, started looking for authors to do a book about Potrero Hill. Their search came to fruition with Peter Linenthal, director of the Potrero Hill Archives Project, and Abigail Johnston, managing editor of The Potrero View.

Or, call or e-mail Liam Supple at the Friend of Urban Forest office and tell him you want a tree. His number is 561-6890, x100 (liam@fuf.net). He is the one who will actually be consulting with people who are in the planting about species, and the one running the planting day on November 12th. The Potrero Hill Neighborhood House is a multi-generational community center in continuous operation for nearly a century. It serves those in need from the cradle to the grave, with an emphasis on youth and education. (Well hear more at our meeting on Tuesday about the Nabes current programs for youth and seniors.)
Neighbors for the Nabe

Now after two years of painstaking research and photo gathering, Peter and Abby have debuted the first chronological photo history of Potrero Hill.

The Neighbors for the NABE campaign is a grassroots community fundraising initiative to help close a funding gap caused by 2005 city budget cuts. For more information, visit http://nabe.potrerohillsf.com.

Images of America: San Franciscos Potrero Hill contains amazing details and beautiful, rarely seen photographs all displayed proudly in a handsome paperback edition. The book begins in Ohlone Indian times and traces events on the Hill through historical photos, little known facts, old family photos from longtime residents and current day photos of remnants of our past.

Potrero Hill Neighborhood Directory

published by the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses

Be Sure to Pick Up the Latest

Available at Merchants All Over the Hill

New Edition Coming Out in October

CITY PLANNING
BLDG PERMIT APPLICATION #9926483: 721 SAN BRUNO AVE/ 20th Sts. Proposed vertical and rear addition to a single family house in an RH-2, 40-X zone, resulting in a 35-6 high bldg with no parking and a 33 ft rear yard. City Hall. Contact: Mat Snyder, Planner, ph: 575-6891. BLDG PERMIT APPLICATION #2003.02147582: 700 VERMONT/ 19th Sts. Propose to legalize a 2nd unit on the 2nd floor and convert the ground floor into a 3rd unit in an existing building, resulting in a 3-unit bldg with100% lot coverage & one parking space in an RH-2, 40-X zone. Contact: Ben Fu, Planner, ph: 558-6613. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW DOCUMENT available Case #2004.0027E: 900 MINNESOTA/20th & 22nd Sts. The project is a 142 unit, 6,300 sq ft office, 2,100 sq ft cafe, 168 car underground garage PUD in the Dogpatch Historic District, ESPRIT hdqtrs bldg. in an M-2 and RH-3, 50-X zone. A copy of the DEIR is available at the Planning Dept offices, 1660 Mission St, 5th floor. A Public Hearing is scheduled by the Planning Commission on October 20th after 1:30pm Rm 400 City Hall. Comments will be accepted till October 25th addressed to Paul Maltzer, Environmental Review Officer, Planning Dept., 1660 Mission St. Suite 5, SF 94103. Contacts: Joy Navarette, Planner, ph: 558-5975 and Winslow Hastie. Planner, ph: 557-37381. RECEIVING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, Case #2004.0946E: 1717 17th/Carolina Sts. The proposed PUD plans to demolish 3 existg buildings & construct 41 residential units,10,830 sq ft Production/ Distribution/Repair space, 61 off-street parking spaces on a triangular 25,469 sq ft lot in an M-1, 40-X zone. The project site is located within ther Eastern Neighborhoods Community Planning area and the Showplace Square Interim Controls, but exempt because the Environmental Application was filed prior to 23 Nov. 04. Project is across the street from Jackson Playground and JAMBA JUICE Headquarters. Contact: Tammy Chan, EIR Reviewer, ph: 558-5982. City Hall Web site:

COMMUNITY RESOURCES
1 Goodlett Place Rm 200 SF Ca 94102 www.sfgov.org ph: 554-6141 fax 554-6160 gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

Mayor Gavin Newsom

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org Bayview Police Station 201 Williams St, SF 94124 www.sfgov.org/police/ SFPD Web site: Capt. Rick Bruce ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 Rick_Bruce@ci.sf.ca.us Abandoned autos 254-7185 (Officer Maurice Edwards) Encampments, trash 254-7120 (Office Tim Buelow) 254-7107 (Sgt. Carl Fabbri, Lt. Charlie Orkes) Drug dealing, etc. Potrero Boosters Executive Committee President Tony Kelly 341-8040 president@potreroboosters.org Dick Millet 861-0345 First Vice President 1stvp@potreroboosters.org Second Vice President Piotr Pawlikowski 328-1435 2ndvp@potreroboosters.org Recording Secretary Joe Boss 826-2525 recordingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Audrey Cole 648-1926 Corresponding Sec. correspondingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Treasurer Kuzuri Jackson 826-8080 treasurer@potreroboosters.org Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Sergeant-at-Arms Auditors Jean Neblett 550-2613 822-2301 Susan Eslick Webmaster: Joseph Schaller 648-4267 webmaster@potreroboosters.org

MEMBERSHIP
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