Tomorrow evening, March 25, at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House:
7:00 pm Business Meeting
Introductions / Welcome to New Members
Treasurer’s Report
7:20 pm Neighborhood Issues and Updates
— agendas for future Boosters meetings
7:50 pm Break
8:00 pm SF?Planning Director John Rahaim

We’ll be taking time at tomorrow night’s Boosters meeting to set our agendas for the coming months. Just in the last few weeks,
• MUNI came out with the recommendations of their Transit Effectiveness Project (discussed last year at the Boosters): www.sftep.com/docs.html
• the City and the Housing Authority named the developer for the planned rebuild of Potrero Hill’s public housing projects (discussed last year at the Boosters); “The remade projects will include the same number of public housing units they do now, as well as hundreds of new affordable and market-rate rental units and homes for sale to help offset the costs.” www.sfgate.com/ cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/12/BALFVI2P5.DTL
• the City continues to lumber forward with Eastern Neighborhoods re-zoniing; we will discussing that at Tuesday’s meeting with John Rahaim, the City’s new Planning Director.

Join us on Tuesday, and tell us what you want to discuss at Boosters meetings in 2008!

The Executive Committee of the Boosters works year-round to make the Boosters more visible in the neighborhood, and to make the neighborhood more visible in the City. These members of the Boosters are nominated for re-election in 2007:
• Tony Kelly, President
• Dick Millet, Vice President / Advocacy
• Audrey Cole, Vice President / Membership
• Robin Talmadge, Treasurer
• Joe Boss, Corresponding Secretary
• Hilary Cohen, Recording Secretary
• Ellen Kernaghan, Sergeant at Arms
• Jean Neblett and Kuzuri Jackson, Auditors

If you’re interested in serving on the Committee, contact Tony Kelly at president@potreroboosters.org or 415 341 8040.

Nominations are due by the end of the Boosters meeting
on Tuesday, March 25; we’ll have a brief election as
part of our regular meeting on Tuesday, April 29.

As we noted in this newsletter last year, 2007 was a very successful year for the Boosters’ advocacy work for Potrero Hill. A lot of that success is due to a large and vocal Hill community that is aware of neighborhood and City issues. Our crime meetings have had a clear impact on public safety and community policing; our two (or more!) helipad advocacy groups have definitely affected, if not stopped, plans for helipads on top of our local hospitals. If you add up all the neighborhood associations, block groups, homeowners associations, the Merchants and Parents associations and other volunteer groups, you’ll find that nearly 2,000 Hill residents belong to at least one neighborhood advocacy group. With a total Hill population of about 10,000, that is just an amazing statistic; other City neighborhoods envy our awareness and activity. But it always bears repeating: we are only strong if we work together. So get involved!
Choose what is important to you on this list, and call or email Tony Kelly or Dick Millet (phone numbers in the newsletter and at potreroboosters.org).

Plan Potrero Hill – new neighborhood re-zoning
• Showplace Square / Central Waterfront planning
• Public Improvements – new parks, infrastructure, services in new neighborhoods
• Biotech companies in Showplace Square???
• Protecting Dogpatch from large office buildings
• Saving open space possibilities on & around Channel Street
• Historic building preservation in the new neighborhoods
• Cleaning up NC-2 zoning in commercial/residential districts
• Enforcement of the Residential Design Guidelines
• Demolitions, monster homes, and luxury housing

SF General Hospital rebuild and helipad

Closing the Potrero Power Plant

The SF Port
• The AT&T Park parking lot / Seawall Lot 337
• Pier 70 – developing waterfront property
• The Blue/Greenway - public access and parks
• Environmental issues: diesel trucking, cement crushing

Quality of Life
• Neighborhood crime watch / Project SAFE
• Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams
• Parks & Rec – improvements, and more public recreation opportunities
• Homeless and street issues – street camping, clean up, services, etc.
• Underground utilities

Social Stuff
• The Annual Dinner, Potrero Hill History Night, the Holiday Party

Government liaison and support
• Volunteer staff support at Supervisor Maxwell’s office
• Support of Webster, Starr King, and other neighborhood schools

Membership / recruitment
• Outreach to other neighborhood organizations
• New homeowners and new tenants

Thanks to some volunteer help with WordPress, the Boosters site is finally back and running. Look forward to a major update of content and archives, online renewal of membership, and regular updates - starting in the next few weeks!