SFLCV

SFLCV worked with Livable City and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to draft a Climate Change Goals and Action Plan ordinance. The ordinance was approved in committee on April 17th, 2008, and will go before the full board on April 29th, 2008.

This overall goals of the ordinance are to reduce greenhouse gases 25% below 1990 levels by 2017, 40% below 1990 levels by 2025, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The City would adopt specific reduction targets for each year. Every city department would create a departmental action plan to achieve its goals.

You can read more detail about the ordinance on the Livable City site, with information about what is already on San Francisco’s books, and what some other cities are doing.

Dear Chair Caballero:

The San Francisco waterfront is an important public trust asset of the people of California. 7.5 miles – representing most of the City’s bay waterfront – are under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Port Commission pursuant to the Burton Act.

Since the demolition of the Embarcadero freeway, the City has embarked on a planning process to reconnect with its Bay waterfront. Residents and visitors stroll along the new Embarcadero roadway along portions of the Bay Trail from the Bay Bridge to the historic Ferry Building and onward to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Unfortunately, major portions of the San Francisco waterfront are blighted by dangerous conditions, crumbling facilities and environment contamination from historic industrial activities. “Ghost” piles from former pile-supported structures dot the shoreline. Neighborhoods that were home to heavy industrial activities for much of the last century such as Mission Bay, Potrero, Dogpatch, Bayview and Hunters Point remain cut off from the Bay, even as the City rezones some of these areas to promote infill mixed use development.

The San Francisco League of Conservation Voters strongly supports the creation of major new waterfront open spaces and an extension of the Bay Trail through the Port’s southern waterfront. However, the costs of eliminating blight along the waterfront far exceed the Port’s revenues. AB 2646 will create an important new financing vehicle to pay for parks, access to the Bay, environmental remediation and removal of bay fill.

We strongly encourage you to approve AB 2646 to restore San Francisco’s Bay shoreline. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Amandeep Jawa, President
San Francisco League of Conservation Voters

Ballot Measures

Yes on E - Requiring Board of Supervisors’ Approval of Mayor’s Appointments to the PUC
Yes on F - Affordable Housing in Candlestick/Hunters Point development.
No on G - Mixed-Use Development Project for Candlestick Point And Hunters Point Shipyard

We are not endorsing on A, B, C, D or H.

Candidates

Green Party County Council

Razzu Engen

Democratic Party County Central Committee

12 A.D.

• Michael Bornstein
• Doug Chan
• Emily Drennen
• Eric Mar
• Jake McGoldrick
• Trevor McNeil
• Jane Morrison
• Melanie Nutter
• Connie O’Connor
• Matt Tuchow

13 A.D.

• Bill Barnes
• David Campos
• David Chiu
• Chris Daly
• Michael Goldstein
• Robert Haaland
• Joe Julian
• Leslie Katz
• Rafael Mandelman
• Aaron Peskin
• Holli Thier
• Debra Walker

Republican Party County Central Committee

We did not endorse any republicans for the county central committee. But we would like to thank Gene Dermody for submitting a questionnaire.

Questions

If you have any questions about our endorsements, please email adrian at sflcv.org

We have started our endorsement process for central committee: Greens, Democrats and Republicans should have gotten a questionnaire by email. But if you are looking, you can also find it here.

March 29th, 8pm to 9pm, the lights will be going out. Join thousands of your Bay Area friends, neighbors and businesses and millions of people around the world to make a bold statement about climate change. Find out more.

YES on A
YES on C
NO on H
YES on K

No endorsement for Mayor

Our 2nd annual fundraiser was a lot of fun, for which much thanks goes to all the wonderful artists who submitted work, and a great singer who performed. Here’s the top 3 winners of the contest:

More photos can be found here.

I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO: Celebrating our Urban Environment
a Fundraiser/ART CONTEST for the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007 at 111 Minna

DETAILS:
San Francisco is a wonderful combination of urban and natural beauty which we love. Help us celebrate life in our favorite city by joining the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters on TUESDAY JULY 31st at the 111 Minna art gallery for our Second Annual “I Love San Francisco” Art & Fundraiser. The theme will be “Celebrating Our Urban Environment.” In addition to the art contest (which you’ll help judge!), there will be food and drinks, and of course local environmental activists and politicians. Join us & support our work!

WHAT: I LOVE SF Art Contest/Fundraiser for the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters
WHEN: TUESDAY, July 31st, 2007 - 6:30-10:30PM
HOW MUCH: $10-$25 Sliding Scale OR BECOME A SPONSOR (free admission)
WHERE: 111 Minna Art Gallery (111 Minna Street btw Mission & Howard on 2nd St in SF)
WHO: You, the SFLCV Board, and many others!
BE A SPONSOR: Please consider sponsoring our fundraiser at the Street Steward ($100), Neighborhood Protector ($250), or City Champion levels ($500). Sponsors will be publicly thanked at the event & will be admitted free (+1).

CONTEST DETAILS:

• Any art, or writing or poetry that celebrates San Francisco, especially its urban AND natural environment (photography, multimedia, installation, etc etc)
• All contestants must inform the SFLCV of their INTENT to enter by FRIDAY JULY 20 at noon, via email or phone (deep AT sflcv DOT org/ 415 255 6257)
• All contest entries must be submitted to Amandeep Jawa (SFLCV President) by FRIDAY, JULY 27st, 2007
• There must be at least 5 contestants for the contest to occur. If there are less than 5 contestants by the JULY 20th deadline, there will be no contest & no prize will be awarded.
• Any contest entry must be displayable or presentable at the fundraiser event on TUESDAY, JULY 31st, 2007
• The prize will be an 8GB Apple iPod nano awarded at the fundraiser. Depending on the number of entries and the number of attendees, there may be additional prizes & the contest may be broken into multiple categories.
• For more details fee free to email Amandeep Jawa (deep AT sflcv DOT org)

We had a briefing tonight from Julie Kirschbaum of the MTA. The project aims to develop an action plan for SFMTA that will, amongst other things, improve performance, promote financial stability, provide faster more convenient service.

You can find interesting data and more thorough information on the Transit Effectiveness Project website. There is also an online survey to take, a mailing list, and information about public meetings and briefings like the one we received tonight.

The Better Streets Plan will create a unified set of standards, guidelines, and implementation strategies to govern how the City designs, builds, and maintains public streets and rights-of-way.

You can be part of the process. Public meetings being in April of 2007. For more details see the SF Better Streets website.