Commercialization of Dolores Park
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Stephen Elliott
Oct 4, 2010, 11:41:33 PM10/4/10
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Hey guys, they're trying to open a coffee stand in Dolores Park.
Here's the information on it. Hope you'll come to the meeting at City
Hall on Thursday.
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To: Recreation and Park Commission of San Francisco, Mayor of San
Francisco
McDonald's in Dolores Park?
Why not? Blue Bottle Coffee is a national chain store, and they are in
the queue to get a permit to open a "push cart" in OUR Park. Who knows
what’s next…
The facts are:
• With zero input from the community Rec and Parks is giving a company
from another city a sweetheart deal to operate a cart in Dolores Park
• This deal will make all other carts even more illegal
• The first we hear of it Rec and Parks are already steamrolling us
saying, “it’s too late to stop”
• There was not enough (or any) outreach done to the neighborhood and
community
So what does this mean?
It means that our park will no longer be a neutral green space and
will be subject to the pollution of advertising and marketing. We love
food, we love food carts and we love Blue Bottle, but we don’t want
them in our park. If there were a commercial entity that we could be
enthusiastic about that entity would be local. And to define local may
be something that is crucial at this point…
What do we want?
We want the process stopped. We do not want our park commercialized by
a private company. We don’t want noisy and polluting generators. We
want to respect the business’ that have been excellent stewards of the
area and we want future process’ more transparent.
We see this as corporate collusion and aggressive, predatory business
practices and have a sour opinion of how this situation eluded public
scrutiny. Now we are outraged that we are being told that it’s too
late to stop.
There is a meeting on Thursday, October 7, , 2010, 4:00 pm. City Hall,
Room 416. We hope that you will attend this meeting and use the public
comment device to voice your opinion on this topic.
Citizens against the commercialization of Dolores Park.
Online petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dp94110/petition.html
But really, signing a petition doesn't mean anywhere near as much as
getting to City Hall on Thursday.
Here's the information on it. Hope you'll come to the meeting at City
Hall on Thursday.
**
To: Recreation and Park Commission of San Francisco, Mayor of San
Francisco
McDonald's in Dolores Park?
Why not? Blue Bottle Coffee is a national chain store, and they are in
the queue to get a permit to open a "push cart" in OUR Park. Who knows
what’s next…
The facts are:
• With zero input from the community Rec and Parks is giving a company
from another city a sweetheart deal to operate a cart in Dolores Park
• This deal will make all other carts even more illegal
• The first we hear of it Rec and Parks are already steamrolling us
saying, “it’s too late to stop”
• There was not enough (or any) outreach done to the neighborhood and
community
So what does this mean?
It means that our park will no longer be a neutral green space and
will be subject to the pollution of advertising and marketing. We love
food, we love food carts and we love Blue Bottle, but we don’t want
them in our park. If there were a commercial entity that we could be
enthusiastic about that entity would be local. And to define local may
be something that is crucial at this point…
What do we want?
We want the process stopped. We do not want our park commercialized by
a private company. We don’t want noisy and polluting generators. We
want to respect the business’ that have been excellent stewards of the
area and we want future process’ more transparent.
We see this as corporate collusion and aggressive, predatory business
practices and have a sour opinion of how this situation eluded public
scrutiny. Now we are outraged that we are being told that it’s too
late to stop.
There is a meeting on Thursday, October 7, , 2010, 4:00 pm. City Hall,
Room 416. We hope that you will attend this meeting and use the public
comment device to voice your opinion on this topic.
Citizens against the commercialization of Dolores Park.
Online petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dp94110/petition.html
But really, signing a petition doesn't mean anywhere near as much as
getting to City Hall on Thursday.
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