URGENT CITYWIDE SUPPORT NEEDED
We are facing a battle royale over a 1 block closure with a proposed option to explore a 24/7 closure.
We urge every San Franciscan who believes in a fair and equitable process for SFMTA initiatives/policies that impact Neighborhood Small Business and Residents to show support.
Help us fend off a permanent street closure. If process can go amiss here it can go amiss in your neighborhood. Please support by signing and sharing with your neighbors.
Why this petition matters
The survival of San Francisco Small Businesses is on the line while they face many economic uncertainties and experience their representation diminishing at the policy table. Over and over again their voice has been overlooked while a faction of voices continue to impose ideology over a fair and equitable process for street initiatives that have and continue to impose harm on independent operators.
To suggest/insist that removal of car access on one block is a net positive while serious traffic mitigations in Hayes Valley are needed defies logic. The argument that Hayes Valley lacks open space is also ridiculous; this stretch of Hayes Street sits adjacent to Patricia’s Green and Proxy plus there are a number of parks, community gardens, and pedestrianized streets nearby.
We question whether efforts to shut down our main street is the best use of SFMTA’s budget.
We support traffic and transportation plans for all modes with unobstructed access to our business corridor.
Hayes Valley is caught in the cross hairs of a political feud. We’re calling it as it is: London in this case got it right. She used the City apparatus to get community stakeholders to the table. City Agencies did their job and Dean hijacked process to differentiate himself from her by tilting support from outside the neighborhood in order to garner favor based on ideology at the detriment of our community.
This is not the right time or place to double down on a permanent street closure that is counter to four years of advocacy for a weekend closure. By sabotaging community process led by London’s office our supervisor has made this a citywide issue by using the response of a petition that he co-opted and promoted to make claim that broad support for this closure exists — which is why we are reaching out to all San Franciscans for support.
Share the QR code below with interested businesses and neighbors.
