Bumbling Bay

Prop G campaign funding update 👇 • YES on G: $149,291.82 in contributions and $69,022.82 in reported spending. • No on G: $1,610,469.50 in contributions and $1,103,191.71 in reported spending. The No on G donor list includes: 👉Jeremy Stoppelman at $750,000. 👉Laura Yakovenko at $250,000. 👉Emmett Shear at $75,000. Follow the money. campaign.sfethics.org/electi…

We can deal with this on weekends, but can we share access on weekdays? Keep San Francisco moving on weekdays, let people get to work and kids go to school. Vote YES on G. Share and compromise. And this 👇 multi-year project. sfpuc.gov/irving-street-and-…

From Facebook. 👇 SAN FRANCISCO, CA (10/21)- Local residents are coming together in the Sunset, in an effort to demand changes for the future of San Francisco and its Westside. According to GrowSF, "Prop G would close Sunset Dunes Park and reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars for most of the week. It restores a version of the weekend compromise that ran from 2022 to 2024: the road will be closed to private vehicles from Friday at 6:00 p.m. through Monday at 4:00 a.m., and on holidays. Reopening the road to cars would require a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission, and possibly other approvals. Currently, Rec and Park says Sunset Dunes received 1.7M "visits" in its first year. That does not mean 1.7M people visited the new park. The infrared sensors count every pass, so one person can be counted several times. They also cannot tell whether a pass is new park activity or coastal activity that would have happened anyway. The figure measures traffic through the park, not the number of unique or new visitors. Let’s bring Safety back to SF especially the west side for our neighbors specially elders and small children. Let’s allow out parents to get their kids to school on time and ultimately to work on time. Yes to compromise yes to sharing Yes to safe neighborhood streets Neighborhood residents have noted, "A compromise that worked. For years, San Francisco had a practical compromise on the Great Highway: vehicle access on weekdays and a car-free space for recreation on weekends and holidays. It gave residents access to the coast while keeping an important transportation route available during the workweek. A compromise that worked. City Hall changed course. In 2024, five members of the Board of Supervisors placed Proposition K on the ballot to permanently end vehicle access on the Great Highway. The measure passed citywide, despite strong opposition from many of the Westside neighborhoods most directly affected. The Westside fought back. More than 10,000 District 4 residents signed a petition to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio, a leading Prop K proponent. Nearly two-thirds of voters removed him from office, but the recall couldn’t change Prop K. So residents organized again. 16,000 San Franciscans put Prop G on the ballot. In an all-volunteer effort, residents collected more than 16,000 signatures to give voters another say. On November 3, San Francisco can restore the weekday/weekend compromise that worked. Prop G restores it...." Citing the history of the area, proponents who spoke with reporters noted, "This makeshift, asphalt-and-sand park—the only playground along a two-mile stretch—was hastily thrown together to divert 20,000 private vehicles onto neighboring side streets. Voted on by the entire city without a shred of input or notice given to West Side residents, this bitter, windswept lot has completely wiped out a century of San Francisco history. Here lies a piece of our heritage that a handful of people should never have been allowed to erase just to throw up a temporary traffic diversion. Once upon a time, a scenic coastal road ran along SF's western edge right next to Ocean Beach. It went from wild sand dunes to an iconic roadway—and now, into a controversial park space that mostly sits empty in the freezing fog and wind. 100+ Years of Bringing the City Together Back in the 1860s, western SF was just a giant stretch of shifting dunes called the "Outside Lands." People actually used the firm sand near the waves as their main route. By 1868, it was officially named after an 1864 city record that promised development would never ruin access to "God's great highway." 1/2 🧵Great Highway shared with everyone under the Compromise 👇 m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…