October
Mission Merchants Meeting 2009 -
Mark your
3rd Tuesday
calendar for
Oct 20th
at
Ramblas Tapas Bar
557 Valencia Street
$7 donation for light lunch
noon-1:30 with
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Senator Mark Leno
few know that Mark Leno has owned a business at the foot of
the Mission corridor called Budget Signs which
predates his rise and a star in the Democratic Party. While
more progressive than moderate, he is the opposite of the
doctrinaire views that practical minded business folks can
find so frustrating. Senator Leno earns everyone's respect
by hard work, smarts, an approach to problem solving the
engages everyone in dialogue and then seeks winning
solutions. Earlier this year Senator Leno took on some
unexplained aggressiveness by the ABC which is a big deal to
a district such as ours which leads the SF Bay Area in
dining and hip entertainment establishments. Mark Leno was
first appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Mayor
Willie Brown and was first elected in 1998. He
accomplished the rare defeat of an incumbent when he
defeated Carole Midgen in 2008 and became the first
openly gay man elected to the State Senate representing all
of Marin and part of Sonoma as well as the Mission.
- SFPD-Mission Captain
Stephen A. Tacchini has
been all over the news this last month because of colorful
gang-related violence on Lower 24th St. Just last month, at
the merchant meeting at Bar Bambino we had been told the
Mission had gone the longest stretch in anyone's memory
without a murder. This year there's no Halloween in the
Castro on Saturday Oct 31st, find out why not.
Mission Streetscape Plan
Ilaria Salvadori,
Project Co-Manager
Telephone: (415) 575-9086
Amnon Ben-Pazi
, Project
Co-Manager
Telephone: (415) 575-9077
San Francisco Planning Department
1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Community
Farmer's market proposed
for Bartlett between 21st & 22nd Street [next to
parking garage] Learn more about this popular idea and why
they think this is an ideal location. There's lots of
enhancements planned,
see their web page here.
TRAFFIC CALMING: Also of particular interest are the
plans to traffic calm the three highest volume streets for
through traffic Cesar Chavez, Guerrero and South Van Ness.
Perhaps Senator Leno can tell us what Marin thinks about the
City of SF trying to get cars off the streets although most of
the Mission's through traffic is about access to/from the
Peninsula.
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Inner Mission Heights Discussions continue on the rezoning of the Mission Miracle Mile. A report from the community planning session at MCCLA on September 24, 2009 |
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Every
Memorial Day weekend the SF Mission District hosts the Bay Area's only
annual unity event when we celebrate being alive in the present with
