Park for a future investment with not just a set of projects right now, but also somewhat vetted set of projects that people can continue to develop if they want to seek additional philanthropy, if there is future geo bonds or general fund support. Our objective and principles that we use to evaluate the different projects we were proposing and developing were to, again, enhance Community Access into and through the park. To maintain the landscapes. To enhance views. I think thats one of the great hidden secretes of mclaren park, the views you cant get anywhere else and to create and build play opportunities. So this diagram i think gave us a general scheme, or framework for how to organize all the thinking about the different types of projects and how we wanted to think about this unique problem with circulation. Mclaren park has four distinct, 45 really, neighborhoods surrounding the park and the edges are actually one of the main challenges of the park. There are places, as ive said
Should not be picking up trash. Throughout the vision process, the community has been stone called and manipulated by a plan. The community does not want large areas of the park restored to arbitrary point in native plant history. We do not want pesticides, we do not want healthy trees cut down and trails closed and socalled natural areas closed off to the public. We want the money spent on repairing the asphalt path system. We want all, not some to be safe. When using a paved path, we expect it to be usable for the elderly, families with strollers and people with mobility issues. The trails in mclaren do need attention, but we dont want the bond money to go toward the natural areas plan, its not what we voted for and not what we discussed in the envision plan. 949 people have signed a change. Org petition supporting this view. They cant all be here today, but they signed onto that, so please, the whole plan is great except for the 3. 5 million. Next speaker. Ace, im here to speak on a
Change mclarens core character, but to figure out how to emphasize and enhance it. What are the distinguishing characteristics . One is that mclaren, like all of the parks, or most of them has a healthy set of assets which encourage active recognize yaks, whether its the jerry garcia theater and the many courts and playgrounds in the park. Its also distinguished by the natural landscape. Not just landscape, but San Francisco original landscape. Where Golden Gate Park is nature, mclaren is what San Francisco looked like and it reflects our natural habitat. I think one of the main challenges of mclaren park is really its circulation. By that we mean the safe and predictable movement of people, dogs, children, cars, bikes and other ways of transportation. And yet to be developed across the park and thats one of the things that has most been lacking in mclaren, certainly since ive been working in recreation and Park Department. That a clear set of policies and a real model for how to accom
Good morning, commissioners. Im sorry, im under the weather. Im shawn smith, native of San Francisco. Ive lived in the valley communities since 1993. I got started through this program for the don King Senior Center when the seniors operated the garden. But when they were too old to participate in it, i decided to volunteer and keep the grass cut for them and but they had moved from the center that was across the way, up to raymond street. As time went on, they aged on and they were unable to part pate in the gardens, so one of my main things was to find out who can help me and bring the Community Together and actually helping kids along with seniors to have an active Community Garden. Since it has been neglected for so long and now they have more beautification and renovations coming up. This is something that we would like to see in our Community Garden, we would like to actually ask you for the funding for the Community Garden and we thank the program, when youre talking about the v
What we wanted to do, we went through the process, not to change mclarens core character, but to figure out how to emphasize and enhance it. What are the distinguishing characteristics . One is that mclaren, like all of the parks, or most of them has a healthy set of assets which encourage active recognize yaks, whether its the jerry garcia theater and the many courts and playgrounds in the park. Its also distinguished by the natural landscape. Not just landscape, but San Francisco original landscape. Where Golden Gate Park is nature, mclaren is what San Francisco looked like and it reflects our natural habitat. I think one of the main challenges of mclaren park is really its circulation. By that we mean the safe and predictable movement of people, dogs, children, cars, bikes and other ways of transportation. And yet to be developed across the park and thats one of the things that has most been lacking in mclaren, certainly since ive been working in recreation and Park Department. That