Extra steam clean request are extra from what we normally do. Every sidewalk in the neighborhood is steam cleaned once or twice a month, these are extra requests to that. Every sidewalk in the neighborhood is swept 2 to 3 times a day, these are extra requests on top of that already and we wanted to tell you how many graffiti tags we have removed as well as how many evidence of Illegal Dumping we have had. We have statistics out the wazoo, we just wanted to bring a few of those forward to you today. Just continuing on we have Community Guides and we have a bike patrol officer, a uniformed sfpd officer that works in the neighborhood, and these are some of their activities, again over the last 4 years of interactions with visitors, sleeper campers and aggressive panhandling. This last year we undertook a campaign to both increase awareness about our services. We have a lot of residents in our neighborhood that come and go a lot of businesses that change, et cetera, so its a constant educa
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good barely afternoon, commissioners. My name is Deborah Benedict and i live within a very close proximity to the victoria Manalo Draves park. I am a tenant representative for south of market soma residents council, which represents about 600 people in the south of market area. I also a member of senior and disability action and take my dog, lulu, to the park on a regular basis. Im also a former plot holder at victoria Manalo Draves, so i have a really intimate knowledge of this park. I can tell you from first hand experience that shadow is a huge problem. As a former plot holder i had to move my plot because of the shadow created by the very dense im guessing ficus trees that were growing. I have called numerous times to have trees trimmed because of the problem of shad i dont know. Anything that would create a problem with shadow in this park would be a huge problem. As a result im asking you to please not allow this project to go forward i
That i consider part of the community as well and they are my neighbors, too. I know it sounds like a small thing, but that shadow would block one of our few nice little sunny areas in the neighborhood. As everyone has said, we have hardly any open space . In soma and i ask you to vote no on this. We would like to preserve what little sun lit spaces we have during the day. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good barely afternoon, commissioners. My name is Deborah Benedict and i live within a very close proximity to the victoria Manalo Draves park. I am a tenant representative for south of market soma residents council, which represents about 600 people in the south of market area. I also a member of senior and disability action and take my dog, lulu, to the park on a regular basis. Im also a former plot holder at victoria Manalo Draves, so i have a really intimate knowledge of this park. I can tell you from first hand experience that shadow is a huge problem. As a former plot
Proximity to the victoria Manalo Draves park. I am a tenant representative for south of market soma residents council, which represents about 600 people in the south of market area. I also a member of senior and disability action and take my dog, lulu, to the park on a regular basis. Im also a former plot holder at victoria Manalo Draves, so i have a really intimate knowledge of this park. I can tell you from first hand experience that shadow is a huge problem. As a former plot holder i had to move my plot because of the shadow created by the very dense im guessing ficus trees that were growing. I have called numerous times to have trees trimmed because of the problem of shad i dont know. Anything that would create a problem with shadow in this park would be a huge problem. As a result im asking you to please not allow this project to go forward in its present form unless the builder is willing to install permanent and pay for permanent lighting of Broad Spectrum in the park and pay fo
Add is we have received support from target for i think the last 3 years for events that we have in the neighborhood that bring people into the neighborhood that ill talk about momentarily. I wanted to just give you a sense of the services that we do. This is just a highlight of some of the numbers of thing that is we do. Let me just start by saying that our services are an augment station of city services. This is in addition to that. When you look at the sweep request and the steam cleaning request yes. Yes. Please specify the time period of these service requests. Is this within a year . This is in that 4 year period that she was talking about. But the sweep request and the extra steam clean request are extra from what we normally do. Every sidewalk in the neighborhood is steam cleaned once or twice a month, these are extra requests to that. Every sidewalk in the neighborhood is swept 2 to 3 times a day, these are extra requests on top of that already and we wanted to tell you how m