Streets to Serve as Parks

By Lisa Tehrani

While new zoning in the Showplace Square area permits housing, essential community amenities, like open space and transit have yet to be developed, with the amount of public funding available for this purpose likely to be scarce.  To help plan for green space, the San Francisco Planning Department is holding a series of meetings, beginning with a walking tour of Showplace Square scheduled for June 16th.  A June 24th workshop will focus on identifying the community’s needs and priorities, ...

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All in a Day’s Work: Potrero Hill’s Firehouse 37

By Deia de Brito

The firefighters at Station 37, at the top of Potrero Hill, typically get upwards of five calls during a given 24-hour period, usually in the middle of the night.  Between shopping and cooking, testing water pressure, conducting fire drills at neighborhood schools, and listening to a constant stream of dispatches, the possibility of an alarm always hangs in the air.  Similar to war, firefighters live in a state of suspenseful near-boredom, occasionally interrupted by a rip of potentially danger...

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Starr King Elects Board

By Sarah Marloff

Last month more than 50 Potrero Hill residents gathered at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House (Nabe) to elect a new board for Starr King Openspace.  Starr King is San Francisco’s only hilltop open space that’s not owned by the Department of Recreation and Parks’ Natural Areas Program.  Instead, it’s run by a nonprofit, which is managed by a board of directors.  Only three board members remained active from the last election, which was held in 2006 – Susanne S...

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