hi. my name is michelle welsch, i m a resident of the haight-ashbury neighborhood, a regular volunteer at the hanc native plant nursery and i oppose the closure of the hanc recycling center and plant nursery. the rec and park department did not hold public hearings on its proposed repurposing and violated its own stated policy on community input. there are ten jobs at stake here. not to mention the eviction of a highly used public service and your department staff has forged ahead with a divisive and ill-conceived replacement project. i urge the commission to urge its department to start the process of open community hearings on this issue. thank you. thank you. about afternoon. my name is bruce will. i m a member and board member of hanc. and first i want to we ve heard a lot of things here today and a lot of things have been true. a lot of things are extremely specious. one of the things you haven t considered when it comes to the accusation and allegation around cr
her heavily subsidized by state and local funds, as you heard the preenchous speaker stalk about the price they pay for square foot. they should be paying $10,000 a month for that space, not $500. so there before you to try to get a bailout to stay in business in what is is a failed business model at this point, they never bothered to update or revise. i urge you to support the community garden as a better alternative use of the land. thank you. thank you. good evening. my name is rich. i have lived in the inner sunset for about 15 years. no one here is against recycling. but this facility is obsolete. it s not necessary anymore. there are supermarkets you can bring your recycling to and more important, there s curbside recycling all over the neighborhood. and all this industrial concern in a residential neighborhood does is act as a magnet to bring people into the neighborhood and raid our recycling every week. it s not just the noise, it s throwing our trash on the stre
it s not just the noise, it s throwing our trash on the street every week to get our bottles and cans. every week have i to go out in the morning and pick up my trash, pick up the trash of my neighbors, put it back in. the site is obsolete. it s a magnet for a nuisance in the neighborhood and it should be relocated. thank you. i m gilbert johnson. i was born in san francisco 1940. that was several years before it was popular to do so. i have lived in the inner sunset for 57 years. i remember when hanc came in. they were a modest operation that did good work. over the years they ve grown. at this time they have grown extremely large. i think i would like to see them move not because i m against hanc but because i think that they really need a new location that is more compatible with the scope of what they are doing. i work as a volunteer at the legion of honor as a gardener volunteer. i m very much in favor of community gardens and i am very much in favor of this one. but i
was popular to do so. i have lived in the inner sunset for 57 years. i remember when hanc came in. they were a modest operation that did good work. over the years they ve grown. at this time they have grown extremely large. i think i would like to see them move not because i m against hanc but because i think that they really need a new location that is more compatible with the scope of what they are doing. i work as a volunteer at the legion of honor as a gardener volunteer. i m very much in favor of community gardens and i am very much in favor of this one. but i think that the issue has been up a long time and i think it needs to be dealt with in an intelligent way, and i m seeing an issue that is being railroaded through and it upsets me greatly. thank you. thank you. hi. my name is michelle welsch, i m a resident of the haight-ashbury neighborhood, a regular volunteer at the hanc native plant nursery and i oppose the closure of the hanc recycling center and plant nur
once again, i do oppose the closure of the hanc recycling center. thank you. thank you. two more names, jude koskie, katherine howard. carmen raterra and mark brennan. my name is lori. i m a 21-year resident of the inner sun set. i m also a deuce paying member of the inner sunset park neighbors but ways never asked what my opinion is on the hanc recycling center. i am completely in favor of keeping the recycling center in its current location. clearly it s not obsolete based on so much of the continual you have heard here tonight. it s being used by homeowners. it s being used by poor people, elderly, homeless. it s being used by gardners. it s being used by a whole myriad of people in our community. so there s nothing obsolete about it. i also want to just add that i have heard that the rec and park commission is considering the installation of a water treatment plant in golden gate park, which sounds like an industrial use to me. maybe i m confused by that. but there