I LIVE IN THE MISSION & WORK IN CHINATOWN.   I SEE THE ALLY'S CLEANED EVERY OTHER DAY  AS OPPOSED TO THE MISSION IT RARELY GET CLEANED.  BUT WHAT IRKS ME THE MOST IS ALMOST EVERYONE IN CHINATOWN HAS A HANDICAP STICKER--INCLUDING SOME CONSTRUCTION  TRUCKS...THEY PAY NOTHING HERE BUT GET ALL THE SERVICES......... Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I have lived at the corner of Bartlett and Cesar Chavez for 3 years.  Every day, 10-15 men sit on the corner, litter, get drunk, sell drugs, and urinate. The Board of Supervisors almost did not approve a development across the street which has been abandoned for over 1 year. The DPW comes by and routinely picks up couches, chairs, and miscellaneous trash when called.  They do a terrific job but my pet peeve is; Why does San Francisco never address the cause and spend so much money addressing the result?  I know it is political but downtown and high profile (Golden Gate Read This Posty »

It seems as though the escalators at the BART stations are never working, especially in the Mission. Are they designed to break down every other week?! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Last week my brother got mugged while walking home from work late at night (he's a waiter at a restaurant downtown and takes the BART back to the Mission after work). As a home owner/occupier in the city who grew up in the Midwestern suburbs it amazes me that, in spite of the incredible financial resources at the city's disposal, there is such a shortfall regarding basic quality of life issues like cleanliness and safety. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

San Francisco isn't greening as much as you appear to believe. Take a walk down San Jose around 23rd, or Bartlett St between 21st and... There have been what could well be toxic and/or flammable liquids sitting in containers for weeks at a time. I see city workers "cleaning up" quite often, but each day when I take my dog out, the trash is still there. Nothing is done about littering. Nothing is done about public urination. I doubt this takes place only in the Mission. I see people throw garbage on our Read This Posty »

I recently moved to the Mission and until recently I had been utterly confused as to how entire bags of clothing would end up on the street. The bags usually look as if they exploded, sending socks, sweaters, shoes and old jeans helter-skelter about the sidewalk. At first I thought people were dropping items on the way to the laundromat or a clothing line had been robbed. The items that don't get picked up (95% of them) remain on the street for weeks. The items get rained on, used as toilets by dogs, and blown into the street. I uncovered Read This Posty »

Please help clean this neighborhood up.There has been 3 shooting(that I know of) in the past 2 weeks. The parking lot next to my home is over run by crack heads & hookers. I don't know if you know that this area has become a really "hip" place to live. There are more law a bidding people with money in this area. It can only make San Francisco better. There needs to be more security camera's placed in the area.It is a cheap way to create safety in the community. Thank you, Stacy Read This Posty »

Rising crime, graffiti and streets only a 3rd world country could be proud of.   What is the plan, Gavin, for our streets?  Seems there are lots of initiatives for relatively small and needy (and deserving) sections of our city's populace...what about the bigger problems. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I take the 48 Quintara bus from Noe Valley down to the Mission everyday. No matter what time of day (except weekends, of course, you can never depend on the 48 on a weekend), I have no problem catching a nice, clear air 48 from my Noe Valley neighborhood. But on any given day, at 24th street and Mission, I have to wait up to one full hour to get a returning 48Quintara to take me back up the hill. More often than not, I just end up walking from Mission to the top of Noe Valley. This sucks when Read This Posty »

Now its been a month since lucky alley has been cleaned.  It's full of trash and other crap and filthy and stinks to high heaven. I guess folks in the mission just go with the luck of the draw.  I think i might just start throwing my garbage out the window along with the rest of  the trash out there. It also needs a power wash as the lovely homeless folks use it for a toilet. So goes life in the ghetto. Ron Norlin Read This Posty »

Over abundance of stores that sell cheap alcohol around 6th and Howard-Mission area!  It is all well and good to support alcohol and substance abuse reduction in an effort to help addicted homeless persons, but actions work better than words.  It is sad how so many of the small "mom and pop" stores sell little or no fresh food -  just cheap alcohol and a bit of snack or processed  foods.  Residents in the low income housing need more access to healthier food items, (fruit! veggies!) and far less access to the cheap alcohol that poisons them and further accelerates Read This Posty »

Create community-based solutions to address the large volume of trash that is dumped on the streets of the mission each day.  Delibrate dumping and casual lttering creates an environment of social neglect.  Yet, it would be a diservice to pose punitive action against dumpers/litterers as a "solution." That is why diplomatic solutions consisting of community action must be taken. As a college art teacher, artist and father of two young girls I want to feel relief from the predudice this neighborhood is subjected to.  Pacific Heights would never allow such condictions.  I know that I am the type of San Read This Posty »

Please explain how churches receive an exemption for parking in the left lanes and/or medians during church services? Does this not violate the basic spirit of separation of church and state? I know that businesses -- especially restaurants -- have clamored for the right to use these areas for their patrons, only to be rejected, in part because it supposedly poses a safety hazard to emergency vehicles. I live in the Mission, where parking is even more difficult than in the rest of this parking-challenged city.  I know many people abuse the church exemption whenever possible. And allowing cars there Read This Posty »

For the last two months street work has taken place at this address.  There are two large containers full of trash.  I would guess most comes from our lovely neighbors.  There is paper, clothing, food, etc. scattered all over the street and concentrated around sidewalk trees.  There are also two large buckets with standing "water" that have been there for a very long time.  Actually, one of the buckets has been knocked over releasing it's contents.  I tried calling the SF Public Health dept. and continued to get a message telling me to call back or go to the Internet.  Read This Posty »

What's with their flags on Church and Markets streets? How could the city provide them with a permit. Is it a culture or a nationality as in Chinese, Italian or Latin American. When did the Castro area become a city tourist attraction as in Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, La Mission ? Oh  Gavin remember the Mission District ? Not enough constituents? Gavin can you say "tolerate". Get to back to basics Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Hello, I'll get straight to the point.  I've lived in what's considered the Outer Mission district my entire life.  It's a part of San Francisco that's ignored, since it's on the border of Daly City.  De Long Street is a street plagued by people from all-over dumping all sorts of garbage right on the sidewalk.  I've seen furniture, mattresses, large appliances, and even a dead dog once stuffed in a plastic bag.  It's been a problem for decades now and just plain disgusting.  The neighborhood thought that maybe, just maybe this problem would subside with the new Habitat for Humanity Read This Posty »

Dear Mayor Newsom, I have several 'peeves' regarding traffic flow, signal light timing, and traffic control from the Potrero and Mission districts. 1.  About 15 years ago, (due to a city supervisor who apparently resided on or near 23rd St. between Church and Dolores), that block was suddenly closed to uphill traffic and became "one  way" down-hill.  Consequently, the East-West routes between the Mission and Noe Valley or Castro districts became severely limited to 24th St. or 18th Street only, as no other streets in between these two thoroughfares pass directly through the neighborhoods.  This is very inconvenient, and I wonder if Read This Posty »

I wish my mission neighborhood didn't smell like a toilet and that i wouldn't have to walk by people smoking and selling crack every time i walk home.  I find i hard to imagine 16th st should be so hard to clean up with a little effort. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Dear Gavin, Don't play games with the Mission crowd. Not worth it!!! I hate the Mission and most definitely Tenderloin politics. Stay away from them. It's not your job to solve all their issues. It's and endless battle. It's good that you care, but you must look out for yourself sometimes. You need more people under you doing the "dirty work". Marina, Russian Hill, and Potrero can get old and then where do you go? Not to the Mission... baby. Have someone tell Daly to stop auditing you. -Jon Read This Posty »

Why is this to only clean up Union Square?  It sounds to me like something to impress the "fat cats" that roll through town and only shop/stay at hotels in  that part of San Francisco.  The whole darn city is gosh darn filthy!   Try walking down Townsend Street, then Division Street, and through the Mission  District.  There is trash strewn everywhere, used hypodermic needles are all over, and ( though this would not be considered "trash" ) I have seen people walking Pit Bull Terriers without leashes.  Let me repeat, I have seen people with Pit Bulls that are not Read This Posty »