Jon Moscone's Update
Dear Neighbors,
We held our first 2025 neighborhood meeting of the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association last Tuesday, February 11 at the Gazebo Room on the CPMC/Davies Campus. And I am happy to report we kicked the year off with a lot of positive energy and engagement.
Thank you to 50+ members who participated in the meeting, and several folks who signed up for membership after the meeting. For you and all of you who could not make the meeting, I want to share the event highlights, including some links I promised to send that I hope are informative and useful
After a lovely reception where neighbors (re)connected and engaged in color drawing on the hearts that board member Kimyn Braithwaite creates and decorates our neighborhood with, we began the meeting with a welcome to members, other neighbors, and some of our local businesses, notably Fisch & Flore, Chartreuse by Roje and The Academy.
I provided a few updates, including:
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The City has approved the implementation of the Duboce Slow Streets Study, to be run by the SFMTA, which includes a holistic traffic and circulation study and a budgeted robust community engagement process, where all our voices will be heard. Read more about it here.
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CMPC/Davies continues to green up its campus exterior and will continue to improve its visual relationship to the neighborhood. They are also promising to have a permanent fix to mitigate the HVAC sound no later than June 30, 2025.
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The Mayor has initiated a community affairs team to help track departmental progress in addressing resident and business needs throughout the city. When you have an issue, concern or question to one of the City departments, in addition to cc’ing our Supervisor’s office, you can also cc 2 members of the Community Affairs team, Moisés Garcia and Angelina Polselli. They will help track the responsiveness of the departments as part of the Mayor’s promise for more accountability. In addition, if you have a public safety concern, please reach out to D8’s public safety liaison from SFPD, Dave Burke. You can find their contact information here.
D8’s own Rafael Mandelman, the newly elected President of the Board of Supervisors, spoke about the new administration and shared updates around:
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The timeline for the coming GLBT History Museum in the Tower Records (Barry’s) building, which was bought by the City and will take some time for it to go through the bureaucratic process towards becoming a reality.
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The establishment of parts of the Castro as one of the City’s entertainment zones, which when permitted, will allow people enjoying events such as the Castro Night Market, to carry alcohol between venues.
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The need for psych beds to address the problem he has long been focused on – untreated mental illness on our streets.
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The timeline for the completion of the Harvey Milk Plaza on the corner of Market and Castro, which includes the need for more money beyond what the City and State have provided.
We then invited meeting participants to join breakout sessions to brainstorm ideas around the following four issues and opportunities:
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Vision 2030, including Transportation Issues and Slow Streets.
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Beautification
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Community Events
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Land Use
Our board will coalesce the brainstorm ideas and come back to the neighborhood at our April meeting with a game plan. For those who could not attend but want to engage in any of these topics, please contact info@dtna.org so that our board members leading these committees can reach out to you.
I have to say I am so inspired by the level of engagement and enthusiasm everyone showed at our meeting, and I hope more of you can attend on April 8 (click here for full meetings calendar).
The more we engage, the more we can get done to create an even more beautiful and safe neighborhood!
If you have any questions, reach out to me at president@dtna.org.
Warmly,
Jonathan Moscone
President of the Board
Jonathan Moscone
President of the Board
