Next Meeting – September 27
6:45 pm Social
7:00 pm Business Meeting
Introductions / Welcome to New Members
Police Report
7:30 pm Neighborhood Issues
Enola D. Maxwell Middle School
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
7:50 pm Break
8:00 pm City Attorney Dennis Herrera

October is Potrero Hill Month

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

Saturday, October 8, 3-5 pm, Potrero Branch Library, 20th and Connecticut Streets
Booksigning for Images of America: San Francisco’s Potrero Hill with the Potrero Hill Archives Project

Saturday, October 15, 9 am - 5 pm, Southern Heights between Carolina and Rhode Island Streets
15th Annual Potrero Hill Festival (pancake breakfast at the Neighborhood House from 9-11 am)

Saturday, October 22, 6 pm, Enola D, Maxwell Middle School
6th Annual Potrero Hill History Night, sponsored by the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses and the Potrero Boosters

Congratulations and Thanks to the Potrero Hill Archives Project for ‘Images of America: San Francisco’s Potrero Hill’
The Potrero Hill Archives Project has worked for more than 20 years gathering photos, artifacts, and oral histories of Potrero Hill’s 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.

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

“Images of America: San Francisco’s 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.

“You can find your copy of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill at Christopher’s Books, The Good Life Grocery, Potrero Mail ‘N More, Chatz, Farley’s, 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.”

New Street Trees for the Neighborhood - Free and Cheap!
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.)

This is just an amazing opportunity for our neighborhood!!
Tell your friends and neighbors and sign up soon!

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).

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

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.

Neighbors for the Nabe
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. (We’ll hear more at our meeting on Tuesday about the Nabe’s current programs for youth and seniors.)

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.

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 exist’g buildings & construct 41 residential units,10,830 sq ft Production/ Distribution/Repair space, 61 off-street parking spaces on a triangu-lar 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.