Upper Noe Neighbors
January 15, 2025
Upper Noe Rec Center
Approx. 45 total in attendance

Agenda:
Introduction
Short-term Parking
District 8 and city-wide news – Board of Supervisors President Mandelman
2025 Neighborhood Goals

Short-term Parking –
This project looks at where it might be appropriate to have additional parking meters installed on and near Church Street. It was initiated by local businesses who need spaces to turn over more frequently near shops, the park and school. UNN requested that Hank Willson, SFMTA Policy Manager for Parking and Curb Management join us to offer expertise and help us in our community discussion. There is at this time no plan in place, just ideas.

Our community has shown strong support for a thriving commercial area. This is one way to prevent the loss of businesses and encourage filling empty storefronts Meters are the most effective way to open up parking spots for short-term usage. Reasonable additional short-term parking can be realized by installing parking meters in some, perhaps a third, of the angled parking on Day Street (5 of 15 spaces available) and on 29th Street (6 of 18 spaces available), and a handful of meters on the east side of Church Street: 5 in front of Laurel Realty and 2 in front of Lehr’s.
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Supervisor Mandelman –

• Recently elected as president of the board of Supervisors.
• Has two years remaining in his term.
• Safety Town Hall – Supervisor Rafael Mandelman hosted a town hall on Monday January 13 at Noe Valley Ministry with District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, SFPD Mission Station Captain Liza Johansen, Ingleside Station Captain Amy Hurwitz, and DEM Director of Street Response Coordination Sam Dodge to discuss public safety, and street conditions.
• 5 new supervisors on BOS, new Mayor
• The attitude in City Hall is more hopeful now amongst the supervisors and Mayor
• Lurie has reorganized the Mayor’s office, 4 new deputy mayors. Good people.
• City Attorney David Chiu is getting ready for unending lawsuits against the federal govt.
• Lurie has declared a Fentanyl emergency
• Budget situation is terrible, $800M+ deficit over next two years. Not great.
• Traffic enforcement has been very lacking recently. Mandelman continues to ask SFPD to step up enforcement. SFPD has responded with more pedestrian safety operations in Upper Noe.
• Prop 1, $6.5B statewide bond for homelessness and mental illness. Counties end up paying for this, it’s very expensive. Mandelman held hearings about this for the past year.

2024 Accomplishments

• Upper Noe Block Party 2024
• Increased membership to about 600
• Upper Noe Rec Center Auditorium acoustic panels
• Stop sign on Church St at 28th St.
• Banners on Church
• Decorative lighting on Church
• Progress on empty storefronts (Veteran’s and Pomelo under construction).
• High safety, low vandalism and graffiti

2025 Neighborhood Goals
These are brief descriptions of projects neighbors identified to enhance our neighborhood. Please view uppernoeneighbors.com/goals or email hello@uppernoeneighbors.com to learn more about these. Your participation is welcome.
1. Traffic signal at Cesar Chavez and Church
2. Upper Noe Traffic Plan to look at all modes of transportation in our neighborhood
3. Short term parking solutions for Church Street.
4. Lighting Project Phase 2, extending decorative lights north on Church Street
5. Inventory missing street trees
6. Church Street tree trimming
7. Rec Center audio-visual system
8. Replace the play surface in Upper Noe playground
9. Improve sidewalk lighting – LED porchlight distribution?
10. Conduct more emergency response preparation, (NERT)
11. Organize UNN forum for Neighborhood Watch Leaders
12. Automated membership/dues/newsletter system
13. A more formal/regular/inviting process for informing our community about land use issues

NEXT UNN MTG – March 19 at 7 pm contact: hello@uppernoeneighbors.com

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