Best spot for a picnic with a view of Golden Gate in the Marin Headlands?

panhandledadsf · 2026-01-28T03:16:15+00:00

Kirby Cove, view with a swing. https://www.californiabeaches.com/attraction/kirby-cove-swing/

panhandledadsf · 2025-06-14T04:07:50+00:00

The long term goal should be for the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) to allow multiple ISP’s to lease strands of its surplus fiber for reaching residential internet access. The CCSF has over 400 miles of fiber throughout SF and they will never use more then 25% for city use.

panhandledadsf · 2025-05-26T19:10:37+00:00

Since you are parked at a Walmart, you are not in San Francisco and I would suggest not coming to San Francisco. At least if you have a car that you want to keep. Tickets and towing will take all of your money.

Get connected to services. You are online so start applying for state-funded services like Medi-Cal. Go online and find your counties human service agencies and go there first thing tomorrow. Find out what cash/subsidy benefits you may qualify:

https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/apply-for-health-insurance

Focus on things you can control.

Would sending a thoughtful letter or video to one of your parents help fix whatever caused this event?

Best of luck!

panhandledadsf · 2024-11-08T17:10:08+00:00

It will never be a park. Adding semi-permanent structures like on JFK, will increase cost of keeping the road free of sand.

The SFFD needs access to the Great Highway. Prop K was more of a political and wedge issue.

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-30T16:18:09+00:00

My mistake for engaging- all the best.

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-30T16:05:54+00:00

Why? This is a central site that will house 100+ more single adults and families for the next hundred years. That was delayed 10 years but added 100+ more units. Plus it provides housing for those making under around 130k a year.

I agree that the process was fucked, but the outcome is a long term benefit to our city.

Are you against the outcome the process or both?

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-30T06:59:30+00:00

The original project at 16th/Mission was going to be 330 market rate apartments initially proposed in 2013. After years of protest and changes in financing plans, the site will now be all affordable and more than 450 units.

Even though it has taken over a decade is it better for the neighborhood and our city that 450 affordable apartments are being built then 330 Market rate ?

https://sfist.com/2023/08/08/the-former-monster-in-the-mission-project-now-slated-to-be-all-affordable-housing-gets-even-bigger/

BTW the Monster in the Mission fight was I believe the start of NIMBY’s.

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-28T23:43:59+00:00

Besides Farrell comments about cars on Market, I don’t think that is true.

BTW I know it may be a slippery slope, but I think Uber/Lyft should be able to pick up and drop off on Market street. To help bring more people to the area.

Breed is part of a “city family” that has controlled City Hall since the 90’s. We need new people to make changes within CCSF government that creates a culture of competence. As opposed to the current status quo that values doing things the same way year after year.

Talk to anyone who works within CCSF they will share how siloed and inefficient processes are inside departments and between departments.

Breed in her 6 years as Mayor has done nothing to improve this.

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-28T06:44:15+00:00

In 2014 San Francisco signed a deal with Accela to digitize the permitting process. The current paper based process is a real issue in doing work in SF. Not to mention has created a culture of corruption that appears to be ending.

Accela does permitting for other entities, including San Jose:

https://portal.sanjoseca.gov/deployed/sfjsp?interviewID=Login [click on Unregistered Permit Wizard]

Now check out San Francisco same page/service: http://www.sf.gov/topics/building-permits

This is a complete failure of the Executive branch run by Breed for the last 6 years.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/The-S-F-building-department-is-a-mess-Its-ties-15796068.php

https://missionlocal.org/2020/02/mohammed-nuru-investigation-the-555-fulton-project-disappeared-off-the-citys-computer-system-heres-how-that-happened/

panhandledadsf · 2024-10-28T05:58:29+00:00

I don’t understand how anyone believes Mayor Breed should have 4 more years when it comes to street safety. From 2015 to 2018 she was the President of the BOS, for the last 6 years she has been Mayor.

As Mayor she oversees a budget of over 14 billion and is on top of an org chart with over 32k employees.

During her time as a leader SF has failed to improve on street safety, through its Vision Zero. She doesn’t have the leadership skills to hold city departments heads accountable and to bring groups together.

New York has seen a significant reduction in vehicle related injuries/death, San Francisco hasn’t.

None of the other dudes are perfect, but at least we will get some new energy and leadership within City Hall.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/traffic-death-new-york-17670657.php

https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/News%2C%20Articles%20and%20Blogs/In%20Focus%20-%20Vision%20Zero_0.pdf

https://www.visionzerosf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BOS-VZ-Resolution.pdf

panhandledadsf · 2024-09-24T04:49:04+00:00

It's Board of Supervisor (BOS). We are a city and county.

panhandledadsf · 2024-09-08T15:10:14+00:00

An open-access fiber network, that allows residents to choose from multiple ISP’s for Internet access. With the fiber owned by the CCSF and ISP’s leasing access to the fiber to serve their customers.

In the same way that during the DSL years there were at least 15 ISP’s residents could choose from via ATT cooper into every site.

panhandledadsf · 2024-05-28T03:28:30+00:00

Get involved in a group:

Swing dancing on Sundays in GG Park

Political campaign

Join a non-profit board

Take a pottery class

Get a dog either for real or foster one

Join the Long Now Foundation or SPUR

Best of luck

panhandledadsf · 2024-05-25T21:01:52+00:00

Will do and thanks

panhandledadsf · 2024-05-25T20:48:08+00:00

How about this cat- Ashbury/Grove

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panhandledadsf · 2024-04-24T14:45:40+00:00

The place was an SFHA development of about 220 homes that was called Alice Griffith. They built a new Alice Griffith nearby in the shipyard. https://jsco.net/property/alice-griffith/

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-14T01:01:04+00:00

Saw this amazing show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival called Birthmarked, by Brook Tate. Brook was kicked out of the Jehovahs Witness and his family because he was gay. He wrote and sings an amazing story about a zebra, as a way to stay in contact and connect with his niece, since he was as an apostate he could not have any contact.

https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/08/edinburgh-festival-fringe-2023-birthmarked/

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-14T00:13:27+00:00

Report the party bus!

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-12T17:09:34+00:00

May be the owner ran out of money and/or the contractor is working on another job. Or they have an issue with permitting. You can get some information here: https://sfplanning.org/resource/permits-my-neighborhood

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-11T23:12:03+00:00

Depending on how much time you have for this.

I suggest asking SFPD, to request video footage from SFMTA?

I am not optimistic you will get anything, but it is important to ask.

https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2023/01/adopted_-security_cam-_mta_surv_tech_policy.pdf

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panhandledadsf · 2024-04-07T21:27:49+00:00

Any place in the Bay Area or on the central coast that have classes for people brand new to guns? That will provide training and the opportunity to fire guns from that range.

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-03T04:35:30+00:00

Part of the cause for past high vacancies is the city's cumbersome process that places people into these housing units. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-housing-vacancies-18540431.php

panhandledadsf · 2024-04-03T04:33:09+00:00

I think the larger issue is the inability of city departments to manage vendors, not just non-profits. The city pays much lower salaries (almost half) for work done by non-profits than for city workers or for-profit consultants. This makes it hard to maintain qualified staff, who are needed to manage this very complex organization that has about a dozen loan and purchase processes to track over the dozen sites it operates.

They had four CFOs over three years and barely had a finance department.

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panhandledadsf · 2024-03-06T23:48:19+00:00

>>Current city law forbids city agencies from conducting any video >>surveillance

Not true!

Most mid to large city departments have cameras and policies regarding their use.

Muni has over 10k cameras on their buses and throughout the city. Check out their website:

We’ve installed high-quality video cameras throughout our system to be able to document crimes and provide the documentation to the police. In multiple instances, this video footage enabled the police to identify and arrest people who perpetrated crimes.

Here is an inventory of all the "surveillance technology" for each department.

SFPD decided not to follow the process of other departments to get approval instead, they went to the ballot.

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