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And this is incredibly detrimental to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13975608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Sister-Act-2-at-Dolores-Park-2022_1920-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of the many community groups that receive fiscal sponsorship from the alliance, in an effort to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all came together to try to work with the board of directors, the board of trustees of SFPA, to right the ship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the fiscally sponsored groups are volunteer-led, using the alliance to park their individual donations, although at least two others have employees who were also laid off on Monday, Polony said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups involved operate in every part of the city, performing an array of open-space improvement projects, she said, including litter cleanup in parks and maintaining public water fountains and stairways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really want people to understand is that while what’s happened with SFPA is unjust, egregious, unfair, possibly criminal and horribly negligent, they’ve [also] basically stolen our money,” added Polony, who said the Parks Alliance is still holding about $175,000 in funds raised by her organization that may now be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they had access to spend money that my group, as well as most of these other partner groups, had entrusted with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to misspending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-1020x664.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who the FBI arrested in January on public corruption charges. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “non-profit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downfall of the alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035871/sf-will-let-nonprofits-report-less-about-themselves-fears-political-attacks\">series of scandals\u003c/a> involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">arrested for allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not the first time the Parks Alliance, which operates independently from the parks department but is closely linked to it, has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million in donations \u003c/a>from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg']Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years in federal prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following news of the alliance’s imminent closure, the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee, co-led by Fielder, announced it would hold a hearing on Friday addressing allegations of financial mismanagement directed against the organization, while also introducing a motion to initiate an audit of the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offices of the city attorney and controller, which had already been reviewing the Parks Alliance’s finances, said in a statement on Tuesday that they sought to make sure that any closure or liquidation process “takes into account the needs of the City and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial mismanagement at the Parks Alliance has done real harm to San Francisco, which is why we are working on a joint public integrity review of the matter,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polony said that while the alliance has always been disorganized, it served a critical role in enabling groups like hers to do public service work that directly benefits the city and its residents. And she said it’s incumbent on the city to now step in and fix the mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city hasn’t been able to raise the revenue via taxes to support our public space,” she said. “And so, the function that SFPA provided needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other groups in her coalition, Polony is now rushing to find a new fiscal sponsor to access her funds so she can rehire her staff and continue the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had this been done smoothly, had the city worked with the Alliance to create a transition for all of these community partners, this could have been done with a lot less harm,” she said. “Their going under makes a bad problem even worse for us because now we’re left in the lurch with no one to catch us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The lone dissenter was Connie Chan, who cited concerns that the events would cause disruptions in the Richmond District where her constituents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday that would bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park the weekend after Outside Lands in addition to three free concerts scattered throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerts would be organized by Berkeley-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, the company that also produces the Outside Lands music festival every August, and would take place at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore\">the same location as Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Another Planet would pay the city of San Francisco up to $1.4 million for a two-day event, or $2.1 million for a three-day event, annually, during the duration of the permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the extra weekend of entertainment slated for Golden Gate Park, Another Planet has also committed to staging three free concerts in downtown San Francisco on the same summer weekend if the city approves the permit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Some San Francisco residents, however, are concerned about the noise that Outside Lands brings to their neighborhoods and said they dread another round of concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. I can’t even talk on the phone,” said Andrew Solow, who lives in the Inner Sunset neighborhood. “What they are doing is bad for people and it’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow said that he chose to leave San Francisco and live in a hotel during Outside Lands because he had detected noise levels of 70 decibels at his home during the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow and resident Stephen Somerstein filed an unsuccessful appeal to the San Francisco Planning Department in 2019 when the city extended the permit for Outside Lands for another 10 years. Solow said he spent $25,000 in legal fees and many hours looking at the legality of the festival’s noise levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these concerns, city departments argue these concerts will bring citywide benefits to San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for San Francisco Recreation and Parks, Tamara Aparton, said they came up with the plan for more concerts with Another Planet in response to a projected city budget deficit of $780 million over the next two years. Aparton said the extra funds are necessary to avoid cuts in park maintenance, classes and recreation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> She added that the new concerts would have the same support system for neighbors and the same infrastructure for attendees as Outside Lands, despite having smaller headliners. Attendance will be a third of the size of Outside Lands, which has a permit for 75,000 attendees per day during its duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those support systems for neighbors is a community hotline that will respond in real-time to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Montes, a Rec and Parks spokesperson, confirmed to KQED via email that there are no limits for noise levels in the contract that Another Planet has with the city. KQED reached out to Another Planet for a request for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the festival has never been held to an environmental study \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/environmental-review-documents?title=outside+lands&field_environmental_review_categ_target_id=All&items_per_page=10\">because state law considers it a temporary event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Inner Richmond resident Mark Ernest Pothier, the hotline is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no way you can have a concert on that scale comfortably in a densely populated neighborhood. One of the most densely populated places west of Chicago,” Pothier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Giuliana Salomone contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Plans years in the making to renovate a park and community square in San Francisco’s Chinatown appear to have again stalled, concerning neighborhood advocates for the redesign who say that it may now never be funded after the project was dropped from a multimillion-dollar city bond package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent saga over redesigning the historic Portsmouth Square involves an apparent holdup between city departments and private ownership of a pedestrian bridge over the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor who represents the district has raised more startling concerns, calling for the city attorney to investigate in light of public corruption charges leveled against former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I smell a rat,” District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said. “For almost two years, Mohammed refused to move on it, and then of course in January of this year, he was arrested by the FBI ... And now mysteriously the park is not being included in the current bond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as federal officials announced this week that restaurateur Nick Bovis, an alleged co-conspirator with Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818263/owner-of-lefty-odouls-restaurant-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-counts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony charges and agreed to cooperate with an ongoing federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Struggle to Renovate Portsmouth Square\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During a Tuesday meeting before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor London Breed presented a plan that had been months in the making: the multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://onesanfrancisco.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Agenda%20Item%205%20-%20November%202020%20Health%20and%20Recovery%20Bond%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Health and Recovery bond\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money was originally slated to be a parks bond, totaling $255 million. But in November 2019, Breed asked the city's Capital Planning Committee to explore replacing it with a “mental health bond.” If the new proposal is passed by the voters later this year, this bond would provide funding for housing and homelessness, infrastructure improvements and projects to improve open-air spaces and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one item that was absent from the bond for stakeholders and residents of Chinatown: Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the current city budget situation, we don’t know when the city will put another bond package together,” said Erika Gee with the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the city’s finances, it’s really important that this park is included in the bond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-1020x743.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown residents look over plans for the square renovations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chinatown’s 'Living Room'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square sits at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, on the eastern edge of Chinatown. It's home to several \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/893/Portsmouth-Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable moments in San Francisco history\u003c/a> — including the first raising of the American flag in the city in 1846. For decades, the park has served as an essential meeting place for the community and has been referred to as Chinatown’s “living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when plans began to coalesce around redesigning the park in 2017, the community had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were over five community design workshops, which is extraordinarily high in the park world,” said attorney Allan Low, who serves as vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission. “Over 100 people attended, which shows high community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After numerous neighborhood meetings, a design plan was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks, which then made it one of the department’s “core projects,” according to Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, so good, Low said: The community had decided on a design, the Parks Department approved it and things were moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the project hit a snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43209_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-e1589588548641.jpg\" alt=\"Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Bridge Too Far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The preferred design from the community required the removal of a pedestrian walkway over part of Portsmouth Square. The bridge extends across Kearny Street, connecting the park with the Chinese Cultural Center and the towering Financial District Hilton hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, the city Department of Public Works issued an encroachment permit to a company called Justice Investors, one of the companies that owns and manages the Hilton. This permit granted it “air rights” to the bridge, allowing the company to build and manage the walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, dozens of District 3 residents signed a petition to revoke the permit and submitted it to Public Works — and then-Director Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allan Low, vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission\"]'The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works.'[/pullquote]“The matter was fully heard, briefed, argued. Public testimony opened, public testimony closed, in October 2018,” Low said. “To date, there has been no decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works officials said “discretionary actions” — in this case keeping or revoking the permit — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Low said that explanation doesn’t make sense and questions why an environment review wasn’t started until a full year after the October 2018 hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works,” Low said. “If it is true that the decision wasn’t issued because of environmental review, they should have said so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There currently is an analysis underway as part of a larger environmental impact review of the site. City officials expect the review to be completed in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sarah Madland, director of policy and public affairs for the Recreation and Parks Department, said it’s impossible to know if revoking the bridge permit would have made the project move forward sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madland said that the timeline for Portsmouth Square, including a complex environmental review involving property not maintained by the city, is not atypical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happened with the permit in the past, the project is on track and all stakeholders are on board, Madland said. That includes Hilton, which Madland said has committed to the project through multiple conversations, and the hotel’s support is documented in the environmental review submission from late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he raised concerns with the city attorney’s office about Nuru’s involvement in the Portsmouth Square project shortly after the former Public Works director’s arrest. The city attorney’s office did not confirm if an investigation involving the park project is taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru was arrested by the FBI in late January under suspicion of fraud, including allegations that he and restaurant owner Nick Bovis attempted to bribe a San Francisco International Airport official. Since then, numerous reports have detailed the allegations against Nuru, including that he and Bovis used a series of charities to funnel funds to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/lefty-odouls-charity-used-city-contractor-donations-to-pay-for-public-works-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly finance\u003c/a> Public Works parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office currently has an investigation open into public corruption at City Hall and has issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2020/02/27/city-attorney-issues-14-more-subpoenas-in-widening-public-corruption-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple subpoenas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru's defense attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July, 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What's Next for Portsmouth Square?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After years of planning, an ongoing environmental review slated to end in 2021 and nearly $2 million racked up in consulting fees so far, according to both Peskin and Low, the future of Portsmouth Square feels murky — especially since the project has been left out of the 2020 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor's office said that the Board of Supervisors could theoretically add the Portsmouth Square project to the bond by either adding more money to the total bond package or changing the existing fund allocations to make space for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Portsmouth Square is essential to the quality of life for residents and visitors alike,” Peskin said. “And I am deeply committed to ensuring that the necessary funds for its redesign to bring it into the 21st century will be included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said on Friday that negotiations have begun to add the project to the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 14, the Hilton's owners still hold the permit to the bridge and there has been no ruling made by the Department of Public Works to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Plans years in the making to renovate a park and community square in San Francisco’s Chinatown appear to have again stalled, concerning neighborhood advocates for the redesign who say that it may now never be funded after the project was dropped from a multimillion-dollar city bond package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent saga over redesigning the historic Portsmouth Square involves an apparent holdup between city departments and private ownership of a pedestrian bridge over the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor who represents the district has raised more startling concerns, calling for the city attorney to investigate in light of public corruption charges leveled against former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I smell a rat,” District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said. “For almost two years, Mohammed refused to move on it, and then of course in January of this year, he was arrested by the FBI ... And now mysteriously the park is not being included in the current bond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as federal officials announced this week that restaurateur Nick Bovis, an alleged co-conspirator with Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818263/owner-of-lefty-odouls-restaurant-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-counts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony charges and agreed to cooperate with an ongoing federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Struggle to Renovate Portsmouth Square\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During a Tuesday meeting before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor London Breed presented a plan that had been months in the making: the multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://onesanfrancisco.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Agenda%20Item%205%20-%20November%202020%20Health%20and%20Recovery%20Bond%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Health and Recovery bond\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money was originally slated to be a parks bond, totaling $255 million. But in November 2019, Breed asked the city's Capital Planning Committee to explore replacing it with a “mental health bond.” If the new proposal is passed by the voters later this year, this bond would provide funding for housing and homelessness, infrastructure improvements and projects to improve open-air spaces and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one item that was absent from the bond for stakeholders and residents of Chinatown: Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the current city budget situation, we don’t know when the city will put another bond package together,” said Erika Gee with the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the city’s finances, it’s really important that this park is included in the bond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-1020x743.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown residents look over plans for the square renovations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chinatown’s 'Living Room'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square sits at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, on the eastern edge of Chinatown. It's home to several \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/893/Portsmouth-Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable moments in San Francisco history\u003c/a> — including the first raising of the American flag in the city in 1846. For decades, the park has served as an essential meeting place for the community and has been referred to as Chinatown’s “living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when plans began to coalesce around redesigning the park in 2017, the community had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were over five community design workshops, which is extraordinarily high in the park world,” said attorney Allan Low, who serves as vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission. “Over 100 people attended, which shows high community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After numerous neighborhood meetings, a design plan was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks, which then made it one of the department’s “core projects,” according to Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, so good, Low said: The community had decided on a design, the Parks Department approved it and things were moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the project hit a snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43209_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-e1589588548641.jpg\" alt=\"Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Bridge Too Far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The preferred design from the community required the removal of a pedestrian walkway over part of Portsmouth Square. 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This year’s brouhahas over both the runaway success of \u003ca href=\"http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/too-much-of-a-good-thing-ikes-place-faces-eviction/\">Ike’s Place\u003c/a> and the proposed opening of \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-11-10/business/24824091_1_parking-avalonbay-castro\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in the Castro, and the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/10/blue_bottle_kills_plans_for_ca.php\">aborted plan\u003c/a> to license a Blue Bottle coffee trailer in Dolores Park, have tested some longtime lefties’ tolerance and support for \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/columns/scott-james/ascendant-nimby-crowd-threatens-fun/\">neighborhood activism\u003c/a>. 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After two hours of public outcry both supporting and opposing the closure of the center next to Kezar Stadium to make way for community-garden plots and a pedestrian plaza, the Recreation and Park Commission unanimously voted in favor of the change Thursday.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cbr>\nThe proposal to build a garden and evict the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanc-sf.org/\">Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council\u003c/a> recycling center has been the subject of considerable \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/11/30/emergency-forum-tues-30-hanc-recycling-center-eviction\">debate\u003c/a> if not controversy.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nOn November 18, Gavin Newsom wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://citizen-media.s3.amazonaws.com/uploaded/documents/2010/12/gavin-newsom-letter-re-hanc/Newsom%20letter%20re%20HANC%20Recycling%20Center.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Rec and Park and other city officials requesting them to start the process of creating the garden, which by necessity would include the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/newsom-administration-can-evict-center/\">eviction of HANC\u003c/a>. An extract:\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nThe HANC center served an important purpose at the beginning of the recycling movement. Currently, however, the recycling tonnage collected at HANC accounts for only about one-tenth of one percent of San Francisco’s total landfull diversion. It is reasonable to expect that those dedicated recyclers that use the facility will take their material to another existing site for proper handling-whether that means bringing bottles and cans with California redemption value to to another redemption center, or using the city’s robust curbside collection program.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well, as you can imagine, the recycling center doesn’t exactly see it that way. On Wednesday, KQED’s Cy Musiker \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201012020705\">talked with\u003c/a> HANC Recycling Center head Ed Dunn, who claims that Newsom is targeting HANC because of its opposition to the mayor’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfappeal.com/news/2010/11/haight-voters-rejected-sitlie-but.php\">Sit/Lie proposal\u003c/a> as well as to other administration initiatives. Here is the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/12/HANCRecycling.mp3\">\u003cstrong>full interview with Dunn\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, whose father was involved in the founding of the center in 1974. 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It is a magnet for the down and out, some of whom use the can and bottle payout as an ATM for booze and drugs, and even raid the neighborhood bins to fill their carts. Not only has its day passed, but community gardens would be a much better use.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Even if Park and Rec had voted against the plan, the city attorney’s office had already found that the administration does not need \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/newsom-administration-can-evict-center/\">formal commission approval\u003c/a> to act on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related material:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/HANC-Recycling-Center-and-Native-Plant-Nursery/128881630495514?v=wall\">Facebook: HANC Recycling Center and Native Plant Nursery\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/documents/item12communitygarden120210.pdf\">Rec and Park agenda item and recommendation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/sfhaiasf/announcements/recyclingtransferstationtogo\">Recycling transfer station to go?\u003c/a> (Haight Ashbury Improvement Association)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/12/02/editorial-save-hanc-recycling-center\">Editorial: Save the HANC Recycling Center\u003c/a> (SF Bay Guardian)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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