We will be having our ITHA Monthly meeting on Thursday, Jan 21, 2016

Please forward any proposed Agenda Item suggestions to me at president@ithasf.org by the end of 
the day, Friday, Jan 15, 2016.

Thank you,

Mark Scardina
President

Revisiting San Francisco's Residence Parks
San Francisco
12:30 p.m. |  Tuesday, January 12, 2016




Flickr image courtesy eric


Promised as relief from the nuisances of city life, San Francisco’s residence parks were designed as master planned communities within the city limits. Restrictions limited what could be built in these communities, prohibiting such uses as apartments and businesses to maximize the suburban atmosphere. Ultimately, eight were created: St. Francis Wood, Sea Cliff, Lincoln Manor, West Clay Park, Forest Hill, Balboa Terrace, Ingleside Terraces and Jordan Park. Come hear about their history and legacy.


+ Richard Brandi / Western Neighborhoods Project

ADMISSION:

Free for SPUR Members and Western Neighborhoods Project members

$10 for non-members

LOCATION:
SPUR Urban Center
654 Mission Street
94105-4015 San Francisco, CA
Email address: publicprograms@spur.org
Phone: 415.781.8726
See map: Google Maps

This notice has been sent to inform you of upcoming construction work -- titled 'Sloat Blvd. Pedestrian Safety Improvements II, 2238J®' at the following locations:

1. Sloat Blvd. at Everglade Dr.
2. Sloat Blvd. at 23rd Ave.

Bay Area Lightworks, Inc. under direction of San Francisco Public Works will perform work that consists of pedestrian hybrid beacons and countdown signals, pavement renovation, curb ramp and bulb-out construction, sewer replacement, traffic routing, and all associated work at the above intersections.

Work is scheduled to begin in about 10 days. Once crews begin working, the work may be performed intermittently based on construction sequencing at each location of the project. No Parking barricade signs will be posted along the sidewalk at least 72 hours before work begins to alert motorists of any parking restrictions. Please expect minor traffic impacts, parking restrictions, traffic routing, and pedestrian routing, etc.

For further information, you may contact me at 415-558-5282 or at grace.moore@sfdpw.org or Bay Area Lightworks, Inc. 24/7 at 415-806-8166.

Construction Schedule:
January through May 2016
Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Contractor - Bay Area Lightworks, Inc.
Jim Lau, Project Manager
1460 Yosemite Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94124
24 Hour Contact: 415-806-8166

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Grace L. Moore
Public Affairs Officer

Office of Communications & Public Affairs
San Francisco Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
30 Van Ness Avenue, 5th Fl
San Francisco, CA 94102
Ph (415) 558-5282 Fx (415) 522-7723
sfpublicworks.org · twitter.com/sfpublicworks

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Welcome to this month's edition of our newsletter!  We hope you will take the time to look at the exciting projects and daily services that we strive to deliver to San Francisco: 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To turn the page, just click on the bottom right hand corner.

For easier reading, you can zoom in and out by click on the magnifying buttons above the newsletter or clicking directly on the area you want to read.

You can also download a PDF for offline reading. 

  You are invited to attend a community meeting in District 7 about the City's Affordable Housing Bonus Program, hosted by Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People (SHARP) and San Francisco Planning.

Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: San Francisco County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park, 1199 9th Avenue
Language or Disability Requests: For language assistance or disability accommodations, please contact 415-575-9157 at least 48 hours in advance.

This event is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the proposed Program’s goals, and how the program works. City staff will present an overview of the Program at 6:00 PM and will be on hand to answer your questions.

Learn more about:

• Why the program was developed
  
• How the program works
  
• How affordable housing is defined
  
• Where the program applies
  
• Next steps
  

Dear Neighbors, Business Merchants and Muni Customers:
 
As the city gets ready to ring in the New Year, the Blue Light Emergency Telephone and Radio System Replacement Projects continue to make impressive headway in Muni subway. We are almost there.

To make it easier and quicker for partygoers to travel to and from overnight celebrations at the waterfront, Muni subway will be open for train service until 4 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. To do this, the ongoing Muni subway communications system upgrades in the subway will be suspended. The nightly subway work, which closes the subway at 9:30 p.m. and provides bus substitution service, will resume January 1, 2016. 

Also starting the night of January 1, the Embarcadero Station, which usually remains open for the T Third service, will close for night work to help accelerate the construction schedule. The bus shuttle service currently in place at night between Embarcadero and St. Francis Circle will extend to Folsom Street. After the subway closes, the T Third trains will only operate between Folsom Street and Sunnydale Avenue between 9:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. The goal is to complete the subway communications upgrades on January 22 to accommodate the construction of Super Bowl City, which begins January 23.

Since the start of construction on July 31, the two projects have been moving along as planned. The contractor for the blue light telephone replacement is using multiple crews to install cable hangers at various locations in the subway. At the same time, the radio replacement crews are installing the infrastructure for the new telephone system including cable hangers, light fixtures and telephones between West Portal and Embarcadero. Special rail vehicles transport the materials and equipment in the subway.

Every night, underground, construction crews are hard at work to modernize critical communication systems in the Muni Metro subway that will allow us to respond quickly in the event of an emergency. The communications upgrades will bring safer, more reliable service to Muni’s 155,000 daily Metro riders.

By the time they’re done, crews will have installed about 15,000 cable hangers and 15 miles of cable for the new communication systems in the subway.

Thank you for your patience  and understanding as we work to improve your Muni.

For more information, visit www.sfmta.com/subwayupgrades or contact 311.

To receive more information, please contact SFMTA Public Relations Officers Jay Lu (415.701.4387 or jay.lu@sfmta.com) or Kelley McCoy (415.701.5428 or kelley.mccoy@sfmta.com).

Please join us at the Merced Branch Library on Thursday, December 10th at 7:00 p.m. for:

San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition 

In its centennial year, Nancy DeStefanis discusses the "last great world's fair," the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, and displays artifacts from the event.  She also presents a slideshow and a film, “The Phantom City,” which features live footage of the Exposition. Constructed on 635 acres of what is now the Marina District, the Fair demonstrated that San Francisco had recovered from the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and was a center of new ideas and manufacture.

=Liz=

Elizabeth Thacker-Estrada
Manager
Merced Branch Library
San Francisco Public Library
155 Winston Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 355-5651
(415) 337-8350 (fax)
elizabeth.thacker@sfpl.org

Next Balboa Reservoir Meeting: December 14th

Balboa Reservoir Draft Language regarding City College and Sustainability to be discussed December 14th.

Please find the newest draft language for the Balboa Reservoir request for proposals (RFP) on the Balboa Reservoir Community Advisory Committee (CAC) web page. The drafts include development parameters regarding the site's relationship to City College, sustainability, and "additional public benefits" which have not been specifically addressed in other sections of the RFP. City staff will present and the public will have the opportunity to comment on these materials at the next CAC Meeting, December 14th, 6:15pm at the City College Multi-Use Building. More info here.

Overall Balboa Reservoir Schedule

As a reminder, this fall the CAC and public have explored several topic areas of the draft RFP. These topic areas include housing, public realm (aka open space), urban design and transportation. The draft language we've discussed provides potential developers the minimum requirements and guidance on how to go above and beyond the minimum requirements. On January 11, 2016, the CAC will address City staff updates to the draft language based on public comment. The overall project schedule is as follows:

Balboa Timeline


Unity Plaza Groundbreaking - December 7th

Unity Plaza
Construction on Unity Plaza, adjacent to the City College Bus Terminal, will begin next week! Unity Plaza will be an approximately 210-by-65 foot public open space with trees and plants, benches, pedestrian lighting, special artistic pavement, a domed climbing structure and photography displays depicting the history of the area. See here for more information: https://www.sfmta.com/news/project-updat...ber-7-2015

中文詢問請電: (415) 575-9010

Para información en Español llamar al: (415) 575-9010

Para sa impormasyon sa Tagalog tumawag sa: (415) 575-9121

Engineering Public Hearing, December 4, 2015
11/19/2015 02:45 PM PST 
Committee or hearing type: Engineering Public Hearings

When: Friday, December 4, 2015, 10:00 am 

Where: City Hall, Room 416

Pursuant to SFMTA Order No. 5501 adopted October 30, 2015, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will hold a public hearing to solicit public input on the proposed changes.

Opinions on these proposed changes may be filed in writing prior to the hearing with SFMTA Transportation Engineering, 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103-5417. Written opinions may also be transmitted by fax to (415) 701-4737 or by email to sustainable.streets@sfmta.com with subject line “Public Hearing.” Submitted opinions will become part of the official public record and will be brought to the attention of the person(s) conducting the hearing. Information on the proposed changes may be obtained from SFMTA Transportation Engineering at the above-referenced addresses or by telephone at (415) 701-4810.

311: Free language assistance provided with 48 hours' notice.

Hay disponibilidad de ayuda gratuita con el idioma con un aviso con 48 horas de anticipación.

 可提供免費語言協助，但需提前48小時通知。

 The agenda for the next Engineering Public Hearing has been posted. 

 View Agenda