China Basin Neighborhood Notice
Dear Residents,
Please see below the China Basin Street Neighborhood Notice including the latest community updates and information on construction activities.
Keep safe & healthy!
Manager’s Messages
Outer Sunset Farmers Market & Mercantile
Sunday, October 25, 2020 – 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Cost: FREE
37th and Ortega (SF) | 37th Ave and Ortega St, San Francisco, CA Sunset District San Francisco
Every Sunday at 9 am – 3 pm
37th Avenue at Ortega, SF
The Outer Sunset Farmers Market & Mercantile is a weekly market featuring farmers, ranchers, food artisans and vendors, makers, merchants, artists, and local organizations. OSFMM is proudly presented by Sunset Mercantile in collaboration with District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and People of Parkside Sunset.
Our open-air market will launch with a thoughtful and comprehensive COVID-19 safety plan. The plan will include guidelines, protocols, and a modified program of activities that will evolve along with this situation but will reflect at all times the goal of helping to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of the community, vendors, and staff.
Final Day of 12 Foot Social Distance “Suns” at Yerba Buena Gardens
Sunday, October 25, 2020 – All Day | Cost: FREE
Yerba Buena Gardens | Mission St. & 3rd St., San Francisco, CA
The expansive lawns of Yerba Buena Gardens, located in the cultural heart of downtown San Francisco, will showcase colorful social distancing spheres by local artists beginning Friday, September 25, 2020 with the bold, enveloping “Infinite Center, infinite sun” by Tosha Stimage.
“Infinite Sun” Lawn Art & Social Distancing Circles
September 25-October 25, 2020
Yerba Buena Gardens
But note that the art will slowly fade away
- Next art installation begins Friday, November 13th
Stimage’s images are the first in a series of installations of the Lawn Art Project by the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, the nonprofit organization that oversees operations of Yerba Buena Gardens. The two debut installations are curated by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and supported by a grant from the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, with artist fees co-supported by YBCA.
Subsequent installations will involve a diverse collection of artists, shapes and eclectic designs. Stimage’s installation will be in the Gardens through Sunday, October 25, and will slowly fade with the natural growth of the grass to make way for the next installation.
The work of artist, designer, and architect June Grant will be on display beginning Friday, November 13.
“The Lawn Art Project highlights the vitality and strength of the Bay Area arts scene. It also encourages people to safely enjoy art outdoors, and the Gardens’ greenscape,” said Scott Rowitz, executive director of the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy. “The Conservancy is excited about exploring ways for artists and visitors to interact with art in a safe, clean, and inspiring natural environment. We feel so fortunate to have this big, beautiful lawn to use as a canvas. Tosha’s social distance-inspired designs are purposely larger so visitors can be within them, or view them as a source of inspiration.“
Nineteen of Stimage’s designs will be stenciled on the Garden’s lawn, which serves a green centerpiece adjacent to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and Waterfall, YBCA, SFMOMA, METREON and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Stimage said each pattern, which will be created with grass-safe paint, is a “12-foot explosion of color” with a repeating pattern that expands outwards from a central point, row by row, into the grassy esplanade.
“The design can be interpreted a number of ways — that’s always the intention,” said Stimage. “Seeds parachuting from a dandelion, the pull of a magnet, a star exploding, even molecules colliding. The image is just a symbol, where there ceases to be a point. It is the suggestion of infinite love radiating from each center, in a mutually shared space.”
SF’s 150-Foot Ferris Wheel Opens October 21
After sitting silent and half-built for 6 months in Golden Gate Park, “Skystar” is set to open finally in “late October”
A huge observation wheel intended to be a centerpiece of Golden Gate Park’s 150th Anniversary celebrations on in April has sat dormant after being partially constructed at the beginning of COVID-19.
The 150-foot, illuminated Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park will be ready to ride starting Wednesday, October 21. The wheel, which provides riders with sweeping views from the ocean to downtown San Francisco, celebrates Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary.
Hours: Bookings for Skystar can be made in 1-hour time windows from Noon to 9pm Monday through Friday, and 10am to 9pm Saturdays and Sundays. There are 250 tickets available per hour.
Normally $18 for adults and $12 for kids, all tickets are $10 during opening week October 21 through 25. Buy Tickets
To prevent the spread of Covid-19, all reservations to ride must be made in advance. Riders must wear masks and practice social distancing. Each of the 36 fully enclosed, climate-controlled gondolas will be thoroughly cleaned between uses. Each gondola will be shared only by people in the same household.
The Observation Wheel is located in the Music Concourse, the outdoor plaza near the de Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Japanese Tea Garden.
Bay Area May Require Telecommuting, Even After COVID-19
To curb commuting emissions, large companies may be required to have employees work from home 3 days a week.
The goal of the proposed plan would be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from car commuting.
The plan to require telecommuting is part of a larger proposal on how transit should look in the Bay Area in 2050. The proposal was approved 11-1 last week.
The controversial proposal would ensure that large, office-based companies keep 60% of their workers at home on workdays in order to help curb climate change.
The plan is still in the early stages, and it’s not clear if it’s approved officially what kind of “teeth” the MTC will have.
Institute Telecommuting Mandates for Major Office-Based Employers
Strategy Objective
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, traffic congestion, and transit overcrowding by increasing the number of Bay Area workers that work from home one or more days per week.
Strategy Description
Build upon the significant shift to work from home during COVID-19 and mandate that large employers have at least 60
percent of their employees telecommute on any given workday. This requirement would be limited to large office-based employers whose workforce can work remotely. telecommuting target of 60 percent on a typical weekday.
This could enable an increase from the projected telecommute share of 14 percent in the Draft Blueprint to up to as high as 25 percent in the Final Blueprint, recognizing that half of the workforce has a job that must be completed in-person (not eligible for telecommuting).
The policy would require the employer to meet this target each workday. Employers could meet this target using anyvariety of alternative work options, such as compressedwork weeks, flexible work schedules, or remote workpolicies.
Changes Since Draft Blueprint
This strategy was not included in the Draft Blueprint and wasadded based upon public feedback this summer. Given the
changes in travel patterns during the coronavirus pandemic, there was strong support for bolder policies on this front in the Final Blueprint, including a mandate for office-based employers. To ensure this strategy achieves equity goals, a complementary strategy to expand internet access in underserved communities was added to the Economy Element as well.
Earn Rewards to Local Shops for Cleaning Up Dolores Park (Oct. 2-11)
Dolores Park needs your help! People are leaving litter all over the place. But, we have an idea to combat trash, support local businesses, and reward you all in one. From Oct 2 through Oct 11, we are running a cleanup effort. All you have to do is
- pick up 100 pieces of trash in Dolores Park in the Mission using the Rubbish app,
- screenshot your Rubbish Run map when done
- share your Rubbish map summary on Instagram and tag @rubbish.love.
Then, we’ll send you a gift card to a local shop Download the iOS app at www.rubbish.love
We’ll have litter picker uppers, t-shirts and stickers to hand out as well. Join us! This cleanup campaign is sponsored by Rob Levy, a Compass agent and neighbor. Local businesses include Tartine Bakery, Humphry Slocombe, Dynamo Donut, and more.
Cost: FREE*
*Pick up 100 pieces of trash in Dolores Park in the Mission using the Rubbish app, screenshot your Rubbish Run map when done share your Rubbish map summary on Instagram and tag @rubbish.loveCategories: *Top Pick*, Fun & Games, In Person, Outdoors
Venue: Mission Dolores Park
Address: Dolores St., and 19th St., San Francisco, CA
BART Getting More Trains Starting Sept. 14
Starting next Monday, September 14th, BART will run an updated schedule. The new schedule calls for more frequency during peak weekday commute hours on several lines, creating more hours with 15-minute frequencies.
Service hours remain the same: 5 am-9 pm weekdays, 8 am-9 pm weekends. Read the full article.
Commute trains at 15-minute frequencies will be added to most lines as well as other adjustments to the schedule including 30-minute frequencies on Saturday and Sunday to reflect current ridership levels.
Three lines will have 15-minute frequencies during the busiest commute hours on weekdays in the peak direction of travel: Antioch-SFO (Yellow); Richmond-Millbrae (Red); Berryessa-Daly City (Green). Dublin/Pleasanton-Daly City (Blue) and Richmond-Berryessa (Orange) Lines will not have added trains but riders can expect to benefit from the increased service and be able to spread out.
All other weekday times will continue to run 30-minute frequencies.
BART allows real-time train departures for riders to follow at https://bart.gov/schedules/eta or using the Official BART App on smartphones. Plan ahead your next ride using the BART Trip Planner at https://bart.gov/planner. PDF timetables are available at https://bart.gov/schedules/pdf