Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot)
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In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about a six-month study on opening up more of Golden Gate Park to pedestrians on the weekends.
Both sides of this issue have been clamoring for a six-month trial, whether they know it or not: the pro-Healthy-Saturdays folks want to spend the summer out of their cars, and the pro-cars folks have been demanding more data, which is exactly what the trial will provide. Everybody wins! Except for the handicapped, who will be permanently forbidden from leaving their homes.
And don't forget, there'll still be ample parking in the park, or at least, under it: even when the roads are opened to pedestrians, cars can still roar up to the gates of the museums and idle in the mostly-empty underground garage, where parking is always ample. It's not free, but then again, cars never are.
After the jump: details on the public hearing.
The city doesn't post notices like these on their website until the day of the hearing has nearly arrived, so it can be a little challenging to get the details. But here's a few scraps of info.
Note that the room is "unknown" -- that's because our tipster wasn't sure where it would be, and the info isn't available online. Even worse, neither of the "for more information" resources actually work; there's no information about this meeting on the SFGov website, and the clerk's office tells us that there won't be until late next week. And the guy who picked up the phone didn't know anything about it, either. Another triumph of information technology for the city and county of San Francisco.
Notice is hereby given to the general public that the Land Use and Economic Development will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 9, 2007, at 1:00pm, in an unknown room at City Hall, at 1 Dr Carton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, to consider the following:File (070269) Ordinance adding Section 6.12 to the San Francisco Park Code to prohibit, on a trial basis from Saturday May 5, 2007 and continuing for six months to Saturday November 3, 2007, motor vehicle traffic on Saturdays in Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive between Kezar Drive and Transverse Drive; Arguello Boulevard; Conservatory Drive East and Conservatory Drive West; 8th Avenue; Bowling Green Drive between John F. Kennedy Drive and Middle Drive East; and Stow Lake Drive between Stow Lake Drive East and John F. Kennedy Drive; to require reports from the Recreation and Park Department and Department of Parking and Traffic pertaining to the Saturday road closures; to require the Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority to share its own data and reports that are relevant to the Saturday road closures with the aforementioned departments; to require a hearing on the Saturday road closures before the Board of Supervisors or a Board committee; and making environmental findings.
For more details, go to www.sfgov.org/bdsupvrs or call (415) 554-5184
Gloria L Young, Clerk of the Board