Planning Association for the Richmond, SF

Board of Supervisors: AT&T Utility Boxes

 

To: SFB Coalition and Utility Box Working Group

Tomorrow, June 28th, the Board of Supervisors will take up the AT&T Utility Box issue once more at 2PM. It is widely expected, per aides to Supervisors and by an article in the San Francisco Examiner, that the AT&T Utility Box EIR vote will be continued until July 12.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/06/att-supes-stalemate-utility-boxes

Since Planning, Department of Public Works and the Public Utility Commission department heads have yet to respond to Supervisor Wiener's inquiry on the conformity of DPW Order 175, 566 with the General Plan: Urban Design Element and the Better Streets Plan, we expect department heads to report their findings at the Land Use and Economic Development Committee on July 11, one day before the tentative vote on AT&T's EIR. 

In the mean time, San Francisco Beautiful will be launching a window sign campaign (roughly 15" x 24") to demonstrate support for an EIR for AT&T's utility box blight. We hope to have these signs ready by the end of the week. These signs demonstrate grassroots community support for an EIR, efforts that truly sway the votes of Supervisors.

 - How many window signs would you be willing to place/distribute in your neighborhood or in your neighborhood commercial district?

 - Can you distribute window signs to your neighborhood and community members?

 - Are there volunteers to table in front of neighborhood businesses or at community events to distribute signs, write letters, postcards, etc.?

We want to ensure that there is more than adequate window sign coverage in Supervisor Farrell and Supervisor Wiener's districts. 

Thank you for your continued support! 

Regards,

Jonathan Goldberg
Associate
San Francisco Beautiful
100 Bush Street, Suite 1580
San Francisco, CA 94104
T. 415.421.2608 x13
F. 415.421.4037
[email protected]
www.sfbeautiful.org

SF Beautiful will be moving to Suite 1812 on July 1. Please make a note in your address book.

Mark your calendars!

Our Annual Awards Dinner will be held on Friday, October 14, at the Palace Hotel.

Join us as we celebrate and honor neighborhood projects from throughout the City!

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Urban Water Management Plan for SF

 

FYI

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Subject:  Notice of Availability – Final 2010 Urban Water Management Plan for the City and County of San Francisco

On June 14, 2011, the SFPUC adopted the 2010 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) for the City and County of San Francisco. The 2010 UWMP update includes county-wide demand projections to the year 2035, compares available water supplies to meet demands and presents water demand management measures to reduce long-term water demand.  Additionally, the UWMP update includes a discussion of the conservation requirement set forth in Senate Bill 7 (SBx7-7) as passed in November 2009 mandating a statewide 20% reduction in per capita water use by 2020. The updated UWMP includes a quantification of the SFPUC's water
use reduction targets and plan for meeting these objectives. 

The Final 2010 UWMP is available at the links below.  A copy of the document is also available at the San Francisco Public Library, Government Information Center, 5th floor (100 Larkin Street, S.F., CA 94102), (415) 557-4400.  

2010 Urban Water Management Plan for the City and County of San Francisco
https://infrastructure.sfwater.org/fds/fds.aspx?lib=SFPUC&doc=684573&data=263560605  

Appendices to the 2010 Urban Water Management Pland for the City and County of San Francisco
https://infrastructure.sfwater.org/fds/fds.aspx?lib=SFPUC&doc=684574&data=263560990 

 

New SFPUC Conservation Report

Dear colleagues and associates,

 

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is pleased to share a summary of our retail water conservation activities over the last three years.   We appreciate your interest in our water conservation program and hope you will continue to be involved as we plan for the future.       Please call or e-mail me or one of our program contacts noted below if you’d like to know more about any of our services. 

 

One-Page Summary:     

 

 SFPUC 2007-10 Water Conservation Report Executive Summary

 

Full Report:                  

 

SFPUC 2007-10 Water Conservation Report

 

 

Here is to a happy and water efficient 2011,

 

Sincerely,

 

Julie Ortiz

Water Conservation Manager

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

1145 Market Street, 4th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 551-4739

[email protected]

www.sfwater.org

 

 SFPUC Retail Conservation Program Contacts:

 

• Education and Direct Install Programs: Chandra Lawrence Johnson,[email protected] 554-0704
• Landscape and Municipal Programs: Amanda Dougherty, [email protected] 934-5768
• Residential and Commercial Rebate & Incentive Programs: Kevin Galvin,[email protected] 554-3260
• Conservation Audits and Field Services: Sue Tensfeldt, [email protected] 551-4738

 

 

 

Westside Recycled Water Treatment Project -- Public Meeting Thursday, Sept 23 at 7pm

Action Alert!

Public Hearing for the Westside Recycled Water Treatment Project

Water Treatment Plant Buildings

Proposed to be built on parkland in

Golden Gate Park

Thursday, September 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Golden Gate Park  Senior Center, 6101 Fulton Street at 37^th Avenue

 

 

THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL EIR SCOPING SESSION TO DETERMINE THE ALTERNATIVES FOR THIS PROJECT.

 

What is the Westside Recycled Water Treatment Plant?

• What:  Water treatment factory buildings, storage, and visitor center
• Footprint:  Approximately 40,000 square feet  of buildings
• Size:  Tallest building to be 30 feet in height
• Other built elements:  New paving for entry road and parking; Night lighting; Gated area
• Purpose:  Water from the aquifer under Golden Gate Park is now used for irrigation of the Park.  This project is part of a plan to take that aquifer water and use it for drinking water.  The  water treatment factory will then process water from the Oceanside Wastewater Plant for irrigation in Golden Gate Park and other parklands, including the Presidio.
• Location:  Western part of Golden Gate Park,  southeast of the soccer fields and northeast of Murphy windmill
• Current area use:  Construction yard
• Golden Gate Park Master Plan designated use for this area:  Remove construction yard and return to parkland, using the  area for recreation and open space.  It further states that if any treatment plant is built, all buildings are to be placed underground with recreational uses on top.

 

How will this project impact our parkland?

Preliminary drawings show buildings above ground, at a height of 30 feet in some places.  Many questions exist:  Why has this location been selected?  Why doesn’t the PUC use PUC land?  Why aren’t the buildings being placed underground?  Why are we giving up open space to paving, buildings, parking, and lighting?  Why isn’t this area being returned to habitat for plants and wildlife? Why are we giving up valuable Recreation and Park land to what is essentially an industrial use?

The SF Public Utilities Commission is starting the Environmental Impact Report process for this project.  Express your concerns about the loss of our precious parkland to more buildings and paving.

 

• Attend the meeting and ask questions.
• Write to the SFPUC and register your concerns:   

1.    Ask that the EIR include an in-depth exploration of alternative locations for the water treatment plant outside of Golden Gate Park.

2.    Ask for an in-depth exploration of alternative designs for the factory building if the plant is located in Golden Gate Park -- including but not limited to a completely below-ground plan, as described in the Golden Gate Park Master Plan.  

 

Your comments are due by October 13, 2010.

 

  Written comments should be sent to:

 Bill Wycko, San Francisco Planning Department, 1650 Mission Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94103

(copy us at 1243 42^nd Avenue, SF, CA  94122)

 or

by e‐mail to [email protected] , copy us at:  [email protected]

 

For more information:  www.goldengateparkpreservation.org

Reminder: SF PUC Meeting 9/7 to Discuss Two Water Projects (New Water Treatment Plant, Plans to Mix Groundwater with Hetch Hetchy Water)

Representatives of the SFPUC will be holding at the Golden Gate Park Senior Center at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, September 7th to present and discuss two proposed projects.  

 

The "Recycled Water Project" is a proposed new water treatment that would be constructed at the west end of the park between Murphy's Windmill and the Beach and Park Chalets (i.e., where the old water treatment plant used to be located). It would provide secondarily-treated water piped into it from the Oceanside Plant at the zoo with tertiary treatment for use as "non-potable water" in irrigating the plantings in Golden Gate Park. The treated water would be stored in a reservoir in the Sunset District.

 

The "Groundwater Project" would extract potable water from the aquifer underneath the City at approximately that same location to supplement Hetch Hetchy drinking water to the extent that it is sustainable with other current uses. Mountain Lake and Lake Merced are the surface emanations from that aquifer. Some of the waters from it are currently used by municipalities in Northern San Mateo County under an agreement with the City and County of San Francisco.

 

PAR President Ray Holland met with SFPUC representatives on both projects last week and was able to view renderings of the new water treatment plant that is being proposed for the west end of the park. Aesthetically, it would be an enormous improvement over the old water treatment plant at that same location where remnants of it remain. It was reported that the SFPUC intends to ensure that both projects are included within the scope of the Environmental Impact Study that the Recreation and Parks Department has reportedly requested for the Beach Chalet Soccer Fields.