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