Sunday Streets in the Mission on May 8
Sunday Streets 2011 Season continues the tradition of visiting diverse communities throughout the City with a variety of routes in different neighborhoods. While returning to popular areas along established routes, 2011 events will extend into new neighborhoods and include more diverse program elements that highlight each neighborhood’s unique character and often overlooked community attractions and institutions.
Sunday Streets takes place every second Sunday of the month. On Sunday, May 8th will be the Mission neighborhood from 11am to 4pm.
For more information, you can visit sundaystreetssf.com.
At our next meeting we’ll have a speaker from SAFE who will help us organize the neighborhood for the purposes of Neighborhood Watch, creating Block Captains, and incorporating NERT emergency preparedness.
This is great way to know your neighbors and learn what to do – and how you can help – in case of emergency.
The meeting will be held on Monday evening, 4/11 at 6pm at 20 Hill Street.
Mission Kids Fundraiser
Please come out and support one of our neighborhood organizations- Mission Kids- on Saturday, March 19 for their first annual fundraiser event.
They have extended an invitation for free admission to LHNA members. Please send Vaughn an email if you can make it. Click the flier for details and please come and help them out!
2011 LHNA Board Elected
Congratulations to the new LHNA Board members:
| Vaughn Shields | President |
| Peter Heinecke | Vice President |
| Sergei Varshavsky | Treasurer |
| Jake Barlow | Secretary |
| Kevin Cheng | Board Member at Large |
February Meeting – Officer Elections
Please note: with Valentine’s Day on a Monday this year, the next LHNA meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 15 at 6pm.
We will hold Officer Elections at the February meeting for the following positions:
- President
- Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Board Member at Large
You can email nominations to Vaughn Shields. Please plan to attend, get involved and vote on next year’s Board.
You can also click the orange JOIN button at the right to renew your membership for 2011.
Pre-Application Meeting Replay
A meeting was held on December 21 to review the development proposed for 1050 Valencia. 15 neighbors attended and found that none of their earlier concerns had been addressed in the plans presented by the architect, Steven Antonaros. The plans also failed to incorporate any of the suggestions made by the Historic Preservation Commission or the Planning Commission.
The proposed building will be 55′ tall plus a roof deck, including 15 units over a commercial space and 4 parking spaces. The plans also appeared to include rooms without windows and apartments without bathrooms.
Some of the neighbors’ concerns are the height and bulk of the building, lack of parking, having the service entrance on Hill Street, and the unit density.
A video recording of the entire meeting is available for viewing here:
There will be a neighborhood pre-application meeting to review and discuss the development proposal at 1050 Valencia. The proposal is to demolish the existing single-story building (currently Spork restaurant) and construct a new five-story mixed-use building with 15 units over commercial/retail space with parking for four cars and 15 bicycles.
Please plan to attend the meeting to make your opinion heard:
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 3:00pm
1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
LHNA Holiday Party
The Liberty Hill Neighborhood Association invites you, your family and neighbors to our annual celebration of the holidays at the fabulous Victorian home of one of our Liberty Hill Historic District founders, John Barbey. Come by and meet your neighbors, find out what’s happening in our local community, and learn how you can get involved.
We invite everyone in the neighborhood to come celebrate with us. Holiday beverages, wine and food will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!
PS. While the LHNA Holiday Party is free, please consider joining or renewing your membership, and contributing to our local non-profit outreach efforts.
Bring your ideas and suggestions!
The focus of the November LHNA meeting will be on our local community. We’re asking everyone to come to the meeting with ideas and suggestions on how we can help out in the neighborhood- both financially and/or with hands-on projects. If you know of a school or group who could use our help, or if there’s an activity where LHNA can take part, please come and talk about it. No idea too crazy..
The meeting will be on Monday, November 8, 6pm at 906 Guerrero Street.
Please check back soon for details on our December holiday party.
Update on LHNA’s appeal of the Preliminary Mitigated Negative Declaration for 1050 Valencia
On 9/30, the planning commission voted to uphold the Preliminary Mitigated Negative Declaration for 1050 Valencia based on the fact that the claims in LHNA’s appeal were primarily design issues. However, the commissioners were sympathetic to the issues raised in the appeal, and they were convinced by speaker arguments about the negative impact of the building on our historic neighborhood. Commissioner Antonini commented that even though the planning code allowed for the building to be 55 feet high did not mean that it had to extend to the maximum limit allowed by area zoning.
The neighborhood turnout for our appeal was very strong with about 20 speakers joined by many members of the Marsh Theater. Many powerful arguments were presented about the building’s inappropriateness in the historic neighborhood, about the effects of sound pollution from the roof deck, about the Marsh Theater’s need for parking for handicapped students in their after-school program, and about the general dearth of parking in the area.
The commissioners warned the project sponsor not to return to the planning department for the design phase with the same building and the same amount of neighborhood opposition. This is a win for the LHNA, and we are hopeful that the project sponsor will be encouraged to design a building better suited to our historic neighborhood.
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