Homeless sleeping in parks, public areas. Loud motorcycles in residential areas. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Mr. Mayor,   I hope that you or one of your trusted staff can spare a little time to address an issue that affects most residents in the city.  A growing percentage of motorcycle riders that live in or frequent our beautiful city have, with malicious intent, installed straight pipes or non-baffled exhaust systems.  Loud mufflers seem to be more about boosting egos, setting off car alarms, and scarring our children as they sleep - than promoting safety with the moronic belief that “Loud pipes save lives”.  All of us I think are entitled to a reasonable level of quiet and Read This Posty »

Every year those of us living on Fulton St. have nowhere to park for three days.  This is becoming a major inconvenience... I work at SFGH on the weekends, get up at 5:00 a.m. and come home at 4:00; cars are parked bumper-to-bumper for blocks as well as the traffic along Fulton St. There is nowhere to park until 8:00 p.m., so no way to return home until then.  Bringing this to Supervisor McGoldrick's attention last year did zilch as a response, and it was ignored.  MOVE THE CONCERTS, EVENTS, ETC. TO ANOTHER PART OF THE PARK and have some Read This Posty »

Noise - I understand that there are certain services that need to be taken care of, and that collecting the garbage and recycling in our city is an important service.  What bothers me, is that I pay an obscene amount of money to live in this wonderful city, and yet - every morning before 6:00 am I'm awaken by the sound of the garbage collectors.  Why do they have to drive down my alley that early in the morning?  Is there not a noise ordinance?  There comes a point when it just doesn't seem fair.  I realize the garbage collectors Read This Posty »

I would like to see future Blue Angels shows (and practice) over residential areas of San Francisco cancelled.  As someone who suffers from a hearing ailment, my concern is health related.  I suffer a great deal of discomfort (and possible long term effects) whenever I am exposed to their noise.  Why can't they practice and perform away from residential areas? Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Universal health care sounds great. How do you feel about the Tenderloin crack problem? At least a dozen people openly smoke crack all hours of the day on Jones St. between O'Farrell  and Ellis. They are quite loud all hours of the night and make rude comments to woman of all ages. Open urination and defecation by these people are also major problems...I work and vote and unfortunately the Tenderloin is the only area I can barely afford to make rent. I'll keep voting for new officials till I notice real change around here. I did not vote for Chris Read This Posty »

They are devastating residents all hours of the day and night and into the wee hours of the morning. This could be stopped in two ways: by having the police enforce Article 29 of the Police Code after an announcement by the mayor and Police Chief Fong that this is going to happen; or, better yet, by enacting an ordinance against forced listening and strictly enforcing that ordinance. Burton Wolfe Read This Posty »

Why are the people using their cellphones allowed to ruin the ride for the rest of us? Even the bus drivers are yelling into the damn things while careening down the street with a bus full of passengers! People in San Francisco have no sense of social etiquette or basic manners for the most part. (Try this, say "excuse me" to 10 people in a crowded place. See how many of them just plain ignore you, and continue doing whatever they were doing. Or, they'll look at you like you're speaking in some tongue from another world)  The self-centered nature Read This Posty »

What can be done about the late night and early hours music loudly played at the 24th and Taraval police station? Sometimes it comes from the employee parking lot behind the station and sometimes from inside the station itself. I tried calling the station before to complain (that's ironic...) but I guess the music was so loud that they didn't even hear the phone - they never picked up anyways. Last night the music quit around 1am. Tonight, as I type this, it is 11pm and going strong... Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Still the motorcycles glide into town. Still they make more noise than is legal, much more noise. Still no one does anything about it. Still the noise is so loud that it vibrates the car alarms along Van Ness. Again I state, if these were automobiles they would be written up for violating the noise level restrictions. Why are motorcycles allowed to violate without consequences? I wish we could share the noise with all but as fortune should have it, most motorcycles come into town on 101 and pass through town on 101. Read This Posty »

I know that others have brought this issue up in this forum, but I have not seen any action from the city nor have I seen a lot of ideas of how to deal with the matter. I live near Valencia and 22nd, and the number and volume of cars blasting their music seems to be increasing inexorably. There is one guy who drives up and down Valenica regularly playing the theme music from the X-Files at full blast!! Even though my apartment is four buildings up from Valencia, my building and windows often shake because of the over-ampled base on some Read This Posty »

We bought a home on Green Street, near Buchanan.    Nearly every night there are a dozen very drunken bar-goers who use our bushes as a toilet and then *get in to their cars* and drive away very, very drunk.     Sometimes we look out the window to Green Street and can see that they have trouble even opening their car doors and getting in to the driver's seat.  And still they drive.      Is the Union Street Merchants Association so powerful that the City looks  the other way in order to maintain the local restaurant and bar business?   Are there noise ordinances Read This Posty »

I live in South Beach--industrial turned residential neighborhood.  Unfortunately, when it came time to schedule trash pick-ups, we got the very early mornings and very late nights (oftentimes BOTH).  I'm fairly certain this evolved from being an industrial/deserted neighborhood where it really didn't matter.  Anyway, at my apartment on Colin P Kelly the sounds of the trash pick-ups on Townsend come echoing up every night between 8pm (when we're lucky) and 10:30 or 11pm.  I know the back-up signals are necessary, but the majority of the noise comes from the loud banging of the metal lids on the dumpsters as Read This Posty »

Trash and recycling collection before 8am (which wakes us up as early as 6am!!); and the fact that there is something wrong with MUNI almost every single day (and that it's just filthy). Name Withheld Read This Posty »

A simple solution is to enforce the noise limit laws.  No one driving a car could get away with the noise that people riding motorcycles is allowed to get away with.  This isn't rocket science.  It is simply law enforcement.  While you are at it, enforce graffiti, panhandling, and bikes off the sidewalks. Name Withheld  Read This Posty »

These rolling boom boxes - cars with high-power bass amplifiers - rattle the pans hanging in my kitchen. I can't escape the pounding. - T.P. Wilson in Parade magazine cover story on "The Most Unwanted Inventions." *     *     * [T]hey [quality of life infractions] pack a cumulative punch on our city economically...and culturally. - Editorial, "Qualify of life must be a city priority," San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 2007. As everyone living in or being in San Francisco for any reason knows, unless that person is deaf, automobile boomboxes have become one of the most insidious aggravations in this city. They are growing Read This Posty »

We just returned from Tokyo and it is so quite on the streets.  For those of us who have bedroom windows facing busy streets, this would be a blessing. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

It is an eclectic venue for important music and events in SF. Do not close Club 6. Elise Collins Read This Posty »

Dear Mayor,   If you want to clean up the city, get the old dirty diesel buses of the streets!   We have new hyrids; use them on the lines where the oldest and dirtiest diesel buses run, like the 19 Polk.   Buy more cleaner, quieter buses, soon!   The diesel buses spew filthy particles into the air we breath.  The exhaust is so thick it blows through our  windows and coats our homes.   The noise pollution is also bad, especially as the diesel buses chug to try to make it up the steep hills.   Please do something about this and improve the quality of life in our city.   Thank you,   Ross Read This Posty »

June 2, 2007 Mr. Mayor, Imagine that after a long, tiring and stressful week you and your family, including your small children, are subjected to the unrelenting pounding and rumbling of trucks and heavy equipment, as well as the continual blaring of construction signals right on your doorstep. The noise begins on Friday evening around 9:00 pm and continues all night long for two full days. Come Sunday evening or early Monday morning, the incessant noise stops. It stops just in time for you to begin yet another work week, and for your children to begin their week at school. Mr. Mayor, I Read This Posty »