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Three San Francisco parks will be rebuilt in an $8 million project that begins this week, according to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land. Related Topics: SAN FRANCISCO
Yomi Agunbiade, the general manager of the Recreation and Park Department, will join Mayor Gavin Newsom, TPL representatives and officials from four of The City’s largest companies at Hayes Valley Playground on Thursday to help launch a San Francisco chapter of the nationwide Parks for People campaign.
According to the TPL, Hayes Valley Playground in Hayes Valley/Western Addition, Balboa Park in the Excelsior and Boeddeker Park in the Tenderloin are scheduled to be rebuilt with a $4 million challenge grant.
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Examiner Reader said:
Can we get just a few more high-end condos with trendy, expensive shops underneath them, too?
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Rational Thinker said:
Voters errantly passed a measure to landscape SFPORT when the money would have been better spent on neighborhood parks. BTW: This land is already officially considered to be open space, Ms. Puri is hyping the diversion of $$$$$$ to this SFPort property.
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King of the Dynasty said:
Parks are worse than ever. Fire parks GM Agunbiade.
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A.Goodman @ PRO said:
Amazing, as usual the money is put in a leaky sieve and disappears down the drain. Can you say "slush-fund" its sad that the bonds are played in such a manner, that parks are the victims, schools get sold off (see SF Business Times selling of 8 public sites proposal) and the infrastructure crumbles, such as water, waste, and transit. While towers of silver are spun in the city for the wealthy newcomers of the city. The parks are key, green space is key, the loss of this out-door ammenities, and the poorly worded bond measures placing these items on the renter's (see prior PROP-A that placed 50% on tenants, and just proposed 70% bond pass-through on water/infrastructure. Audits are required, common sense is that state funds and local funds are being swindled. Enough is enough, demand citywide accountability for the expenditures, so that a kids playground is maintained, and public open space, and facilities are adequately funded to their completion. A.Goodman @ PRO
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Examiner Reader said:
the resistance to volunteers working in the parks is simple- we don't want scab labor working next to us. it's bad enough that we have to babysit a bunch of martha stewart/politico wannabes with their "projects". the volunteers themselves have good intentions, but they're being mislead by a group of grant mongers who make money while the volunteers work for free. it's scab labor in the guise of advocacy. a parks gardener
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