Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) is organizing a tree planting in Glen Park on May 13. Apply by March 29. Planting costs a minimum of $135 and includes: A free site-inspection Tree species selection Concrete removal Tree and volunteers for tree planting 5 years of tree visits Interested? Contact FUF’s community outreach manager, Jasmine […]
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Huge boulder plummets down side of Glen Canyon into path
By Murray Schneider A huge chunk of Franciscan chert rock plummeted from the eastern slopes of Glen Canyon to Alms Road sometime between February 15 and February 22. The ominous-looking boulder greeted a group of volunteers from Friends of Glen Canyon Park as they made their way along the fire road, destined for thickets of […]
Rainbow over Glen Park
Marion Dalere, of Dalere’s Beauty Salon at 660 Chenery Street, caught this photo of a rainbow over Glen Park during her lunch break on Tuesday.
Glen Park’s up for a $100,000 grant to make our Greenway even greener.
By Murray Schneider As we walk through our neighborhood, the inordinate amount of work necessary to keep our streets and bits of greenery as lovely as they are isn’t always apparent. Take, for example, the Greenway that runs parallel to Bosworth Street. Casual strollers don’t see the many hours of work, both physical labor as […]
Notes from the Fairmount Heights Association Meeting
by Bonnee Waldstein With the uptick in vehicular crime in Glen Park, particularly breakins, many concerned residents are gathering together to brainstorm the issues and solutions. Captain McFadden of the Ingleside Station holds regular monthly community meetings that alternate between the Ingleside police station near Balboa Park, and neighborhoods within its jurisdiction. There are about […]
See a thief work his way down all the cars on Chenery Street.
A Glen Park neighbor caught this on their camera this past week. It shows a thief calmly walking past all the cars on the block and using a flashlight to see if anything was visible to steal. This occurred at 3:33 am. One of the cars in the block got broken by the thief, though it happens […]
Recology Rate Increase
Recology has applied to raise the rates for trash/recycling/compost pick-up. There will be a “Technical Hearing” February 28, from 4 to 6 p.m., Room 421 at City Hall, at which they will explain why they want to raise the fees, followed by a number of public hearings to receive feedback. Public hearing dates are listed below in […]
New Leadership in District 8 and Glen Park
Photos by Michael Waldstein In a coincidence of timing, Mayor Lee appointed a new District 8 Supervisor to replace Scott Wiener, who has moved on to the State Senate; and, in the January 26 meeting, Michael Rice capped his 12-year long run as president of the Glen Park Association. MICHAEL RICE: In the last of […]
DH Median Cleanup
Forwarded from Paul of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project: https://dhbmedian.wordpress.com/ Hello supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, I am pleased to share some good news. Our project has received a second grant from the City of San Francisco’s Community Challenge Grant program. I will share more details next week, but in […]
On-Street Car Share evaluated
Here is the final evaluation of the On-Street Car Share pilot program that started in August 2014. (Instead of being in parking lots and garages, these car-share pods take up a place on the city streets. There are about 200 of them.) Summary is that on-street car-share pods are well used, but it’s a nightmare […]
GPA Mtg Jan. 26: Meet the New Supe!
Quarterly Meeting January 26, 2017 – 7:00 pm St. John’s School 925 Chenery Street Agenda Meet Jeff Sheehy, our newly appointed District 8 Supervisor (and Glen Park resident). GPA Board elections Presentation on the expansion of the city’s Bike Share program to Glen Park. Adjournment
GP NERT mtg
Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]
Islais Creek tries to daylight itself
Friday, January 20, 2017 Harvey Steiman was talking through Glen Canyon Park on Friday when he saw this in the ball field facing Elk St. When he asked one of the workers what was going on, he was told “they had discovered a leak in ‘the sewer.’” Further questioning revealed that the culvert that Islais […]
O’Shaughnessy Re-Opened
According to the Department of Public Works, crews reopened O’Shaughnessy Boulevard shortly after 10 p.m Thursday after completing a “rockslide mitigation safety project” to shore up the crumbling hillside. They will finish tidying up today. A rock slide closed the road Wednesday.
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Hank Greenwald, long-time Giants announcer and Diamond Heights resident, discusses life, baseball and his connection to Glen Park
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Hank Greenwald sat at Destination Bakery, nursing a cup of hot chocolate, reminiscing about a broadcast career that witnessed him announce 2,798 consecutive San Francisco Giants games before he retired in […]
Bosworth Bike Lane (Update)
The SF Municipal Transportation Agency will not be asking neighbors to vote on alternatives presented at aNov. 30 community meeting. Instead, the agency decided to proceed with a modified version of proposal A, seen about halfway through this slide presentation. SFMTA has promised to publicize the final proposal and the date for a public hearing.
GPA Mtg Jan. 26: Meet the New Supe!
Quarterly Meeting January 26, 2017 – 7:00 pm St. John’s School 925 Chenery Street Agenda Meet Jeff Sheehy, our newly appointed District 8 Supervisor (and Glen Park resident). GPA Board elections Presentation on the expansion of the city’s Bike Share program to Glen Park. Adjournment
New Building Codes
Forwarded from SF DBI: As of January 1, 2017, new applicable Building, Existing Building, Historical Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electrical, Green Building and Energy Codes are in effect. Every three years, DBI updates its building code standards to follow California State Building Code standards. Through this process, DBI ensures the safe construction and alteration of San Francisco’s more than 200,000 […]
GP NERT meeting
Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]
GPer likely to lead D8
Word on the street is that this afternoon Mayor Lee will announce HIV/AIDS activist Jeff Sheehy to be our District 8 supervisor, vacated by Scott Wiener who has moved on to the state Senate. Sheehy, a Glen Park resident and public school parent, is the director of communications for the UCSF AIDS Research Institute. He […]
Come cleanup the Greenway January 14
The Greenway between Lippard and Chilton, 9 am to 12 pm. Meet on the Greenway between Lippard and Chilton streets (last time, we did the stretch between Brompton and Lippard). We’ll celebrate and get to know each other over a lunch time community potluck. You should bring: * A salad, dessert, casserole or finger food […]
Glen Park Hardware reopens under new ownership
Dec. 12, 2016. By Gail Bensinger After several weeks of cleaning, building and rearranging, Glen Park Hardware is once again open for business. New owner Aaron Esquivel and his hard-working crew are holding a “soft” opening as they wait for new stocks to arrive. They have opened up the back room, used as a storeroom by […]
Woolly Bear caterpillars in Glen Canyon
Story and photos by Murray Schneider Want to know if the winter will be mild or severe, or if the December rains will continue into April. You need go no farther then Glen Canyon’s boardwalk, which transverses a natural seep only a few yards north of Glenridge Nursery School. That’s what four Friends of Glen […]
GP History Project holiday meeting
Reminder from the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project: Ho, Ho, Ho, Neighborhood Historians! Don’t let the prediction of rain keep you at home this Saturday! Join the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project for a Special Holiday Meeting at the Sunnyside Conservatory on Saturday, December 10, 3pm to 5pm, followed by a holiday social and raffle until 6:15pm to kick the season off! We’ll learn about the […]
Proposed Bosworth Bike Lane
Click here to see the SFMTA proposal to extend and make safer the bike lane on westbound Bosworth Street. Staff met with about 30 neighbors at a Wednesday meeting organized by the Glen Park Association. Please read the proposal and get ready to express a preference—survey coming soon! (Estimated construction to begin spring, 2017)
Mtg with SFMTA: Bosworth bike lane
The SFMTA will be presenting a proposal for an Uphill Bike Lane on Bosworth between Hammerton and Elk this Wednesday November 30th at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Glen Park branch of the SF Public Library. The purpose of the meeting is to gather community feedback on two possible proposed configurations for […]
Tree down on Bosworth
Saturday night’s rainstorm appears to have snapped the trunk of a tree on Bosworth between Chilton & Burnside, on the right going toward the canyon. Neighbor Susan Sutton got these photos.
GP Rec Center Update
From SF Recreation and Parks Dept: A lot has been going on inside the Glen Park Rec Center! During the first few weeks of November the construction team has been busy installing new windows, insulation, and mechanical systems. The structural framing for the climbing wall is also complete while the restrooms are being prepared for […]
Diamond Hts Blvd Median News
From Paul Matalucci, steward of the Diamond Heights Boulevard Median Project: Hello supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, The October skies brought rain, and the timing could not have been better. Our 14 new Canary Island pines—carefully planted in September by more than 30 awesome volunteers under the expert supervision of Friends of […]
EIR for RecPark’s Natural Resource Management Plan
The Planning Department has released the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the Recreation and Park Department’s Natural Resources Management Plan. Click here to see it, listed under case #2005.0912E According to RecPark, “This plan outlines a progressive, comprehensive approach to managing our most sensitive habitats which include (in part) the forests of Mt. Davidson, […]
Wolf event for kids in Glen Park Sunday
Sunday, November 13th – 11 a.m.Kids’ Book & Craft Event! Bring your kids to Bird & Beckett for a wolf-themed craft and story time. Emma Bland Smith (author of San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights, Arcadia Publishing, 2007) will read her new picture book, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the […]
Meet the new owners of Glen Park hardware
Story and photo by Gail Bensinger Aaron and Simar Esquivel, the new owners of the Glen Park Hardware Store, hope to get the shop reopened in time for Christmas. Aaron, who grew up in Pacifica and Stockton, and Simar, originally from India, met when they were both studying at Humphreys College in Stockton. They are […]
Vehicular Crime In Glen Park Produces a Lot of Chatter
The Ingleside Station issues a list of criminal acts in Glen Park that are reported to police; it’s posted periodically on the Glen Park Bulletin Board Yahoo group site. A review of this report from January through September of this year indicates that vehicular crime is a major source of criminal activity in the neighborhood. […]
Clean Power SF info sessions
Help Us Spread the Word! Cleaner energy is coming to your neighborhood. CleanPowerSF is the City’s new Community Choice Aggregation program run by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and provides cleaner electricity generation for San Francisco customers at competitive rates. Want to learn more? Join us at one of our upcoming Welcome Events […]
SFMTA Hub Study Discussed
The SFMTA Board of Directors will consider a hub model for commuter shuttle buses at its regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 15., 1 p.m., City Hall, Room 100 The public is invited to comment. Click here and scroll down to Item 11 to see the final report of the hub model mid-term report on the existing […]
Good-bye Osha Thai, hello One Waan
By Gail Bensinger Glen Park’s newest restaurant, One Waan, is opening Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Diamond Street location where Osha Thai closed in mid-October. The new owner is Alex Prasertsith, a native of Bangkok who has worked in Thai restaurants since coming to San Francisco eight years ago to study industrial design at […]
Shoveling muck to keep the rare damselfly alive
By Murray Schneider The lovely, iridescent and exceedingly rare San Francisco forktailed damselfly once thrived in Glen Canyon before going extinct due to the buildup of Diamond Heights and the loss of much of the clear flowing water in Islais creek that the damsels require. Reintroduced in 2006, the graceful, endangered dragonfly-like creatures are clinging […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Capt. McFadden’s take on crime and safety in the Ingleside Station
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Story and photos by Bonnee Waldstein The monthly Ingleside Station Community Meeting found its way into St. John the Evangelist Elementary School in October. The two-dozen or so attendees seemed to […]
Despite the rain, a great Glen Park Halloween
Meeting about Bosworth bike lane
Community Meeting With the SFMTA SFMTA is proposing a green-striped bike lane for westbound Bosworth Street from Hamerton until just west of Elk streets. Come see the proposal and give feedback at a community meeting hosted by the Glen Park Association on Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the community meeting room […]
GPA Quarterly Meeting Oct. 27
Quarterly Meeting October 27, 2016 – 7:00 pm San Francisco Police Academy Community Room 350 Amber Drive Agenda Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center Construction Progress report from Park and Recreation staff on the construction. Pedestrian Safety Improvement Plans at Diamond Heights Boulevard/Sussex Street/Elk Street Status update from Kimberly Leung and Casey Hildreth of the SFMTA. […]
New owner found for Glen Park Hardware
Glen Park Hardware will live again! Things looked bleak for the continuation of a hardware store in Glen Park after Hal and Susan Tauber retired on August 31, 2016. They’d put their store up for sale but there had been no serious offers so after a massive sale they closed up shop. “Then, at the […]
Garbage Collection Rate Increase
Forwarded from SFDPW: DPW workshop: Tues, October 18, 4 – 6 p.m., SF City Hall, Room 418 Recology, the San Francisco refuse collection and processing company, has notified the City and County of San Francisco of its intention to submit an application for a rate increase. Public Works will be holding a workshop to ensure that […]
BART Track Repair Ends
In the “better late than never” category of news, this is forwarded from BART, which published the news on Sept. 20: Track repair project near Daly City wraps up weeks ahead of schedule Excellent news for weekend BART passengers—the trackway construction and repair project between Daly City and Balboa Park stations has been completed weeks […]
SFMTA RPP Update
Forwarded from the SFMTA: SFMTA is wrapping up its evaluation of the Residential Parking Permit program and wants your input. Based on our extensive research and the input we have received through our many meetings with residents, neighborhood and business groups, we have developed a set of proposed policy changes that will address the problems […]
Glen Park NERT Gets New Momentum
By Bonnee Waldstein You’ve heard the question a million times – “Are you ready for the Big One?” If your answer is no, you’re taking a big gamble. If you say yes, chances are you could be doing more – a lot more – to prepare for the next earthquake or other major disaster. Recent forecasts […]
Highland Bridge Fence
After much delay, the fencing is going up beneath the Highland Street Bridge to keep people from camping under the structure. Crews expect to finish work by Oct. 31. See pix and read more here: http://www.sfpublicworks.org/project/highland-avenue-bridge
BART elevator repair
Forwarded from BART. Contact info at the bottom of the post. Elevator Flooring Repair Work Glen Park 10/3 to 10/7/2016 We will begin work at Glen Park Station to replace the floor in the elevator that serves the platform for all trains Monday, October 3. The work will take approximately until Friday, October 7. We will be upgrading the […]
Free and Fun: The Jungle Book
Join Sutter Health-CPMC 2020 for an evening of family entertainment with a FREE outdoor movie screening of The Jungle Book. Grab your picnic blanket, pack some snacks and join us for a night of family night of fun! Movie begins at 7:00 p.m. or dusk Saturday, Sept. 24th The Jungle Book Glen Canyon Park At […]
NERT emergency training Wed. Sept. 21st
Please join us for our end-of-summer meeting Wed. Sep 21, 6:30-7:30pm at Glen Park Library. We will challenge you with how WE, Glen Park, should prepare and plan for the Big One. PLUS we need volunteers to assist with the creation of the Glen Park map. If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Susanna […]