I sincerely hope you are still reading this site Mr. Mayor, and not ignoring it now that's you've won the reelection. In either event, I have made three recent phone calls to the non emergency police line in the past week to report serious harassment by crack-smoking thugs on the 500 block of Hyde street towards anyone passing by and interrupting their glorious and ever-protected cocaine smoking binge, only to have had the line ring, ring ring and ring...with NO answer!! On the third attempt, they took my info and said someone would be coming right over. 45 minutes later Read more »

I am incredibly disappointed that Gavin came out publicly AGAINST Prop H! We need more parking and the transit first policy is not realistic for a really livable city. As a homeowner with a family and no garage it is incredibly difficult - try going shopping for the week with 5 bags of groceries a stroller w/ 2 year old on muni.

There is a lot of talk about trying to keep families from moving out of the City ... further restricting parking doesn't help.

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CLEANNESS.

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Problem: The delivery trucks are constantly blocking the roads, and if not the trucks then the boxes and food shipments are on the roads and sidewalks, which means that pedestrians must walk on the roads to catch the buses. This is not only dangerous, it is against the law. Why are you not doing anything about this?

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I have heard through the grapevine that Gavin is considering a citywide ban on smoking. I find this to be greatly overstepping his or anyone elses bounds on this one. Regulating other peoples vices, whether they be religion or smoking, should never be voted on. Whatever happened to liberty? The argument that it is an issue of public health is ridiculous. Second hand smoke has never definitively been proven to have caused any case of cancer. Also, even if, as undoubtedly it does,  it has some ability to increase the odds of cancer what in real world terms is that Read more »

Have red zones painted by garage. Car parks I call DPT and wait-wait-wait or else they say that a ticket will be issued and no one comes.

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Kids have to pee on Sundays as much as any other day. 

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According to an October 31, 2006 article in the Chronicle, the city spent $108 million directly on the homeless in fiscal year 2004-05; and this amount represented increases of $20 and $9 million, respectively, over what was spent in the previous two fiscal years.  The spending for fiscal year 2004-05 represented $17,285.53 per homeless person (that is $108 million divided by 6248, which was the number of homeless counted in 2005).  Despite this grandiose spending, the number of homeless increased between 2005 and 2007, according to the city's homeless count report.  If the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Read more »

My wife's car was broken into in the parking lot at the Pottery Barn at Market and Castro three hours ago.  She's still waiting for the police to come and take a report.
 
I know the police are busy putting up "Yes on F" signs, but we live in the city and pay our taxes.  Somebody needs to step up and take responsibility for the criminals which this city fosters in it's low income housing.
 
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The $100 million per year being spent on the homeless by the Newsom administration is being squandered.  According to an Oct. 31, 2006 article in the Chronicle, the city spent $108 million directly on the homeless during fiscal year 2004-05 (not counting medical and police emergency services and DPH cleanup work).  This was an increase of $9 and 20 million, respectively, spent in the previous two fiscal years, and it amounts to $17,285.53 per homeless person being spent in 2005. (That is, 6,248 homeless people (as stated in the 2005 homeless count report) divided by $108 million).  Despite this grandiose Read more »

Gavin Newsom failed to keep his promise to reduce the number of murders in the city and he should resign. In Newsom's first year as mayor, he announced on KFOG radio that if he could not reduce the number of killings in the city, a recall petition should be initiated and he might even sign the petition.  Well, Mayor, the murders in the city have gone up, up, up during your administration, and are likely to reach triple digits for the first time in over ten years.  In Willie Brown's eight years as mayor, the highest murder rate was 84 Read more »

Men urinate on a daily (and nightly) basis in the trees across the street from my building. Taxi drivers, trunk drivers, motorcyclists, businessmen in suits -- they all think that our street is a toilet. I take my dog out there and am afraid to walk among the trees in case I run into a man with his pants down or step in something he left. Help!

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I heard today on the only network in America that seems to tell the unbiased truth----THE O REILLY FACTOR AND FOX NEWS---- what your mayor said about what  some homosexuals did in a Christian Church recently. It was very offensive!! He is wrong to say that no one objects except  O Reilly.  I very strongly object to an elected official in America not objecting to such behavior.

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On February 17, 2005, the San Francisco Examiner reported that that Mayor Newsom said that homeless women do not belong in the city's shelter system, and he promised to move 300 women out of the shelters into private housing.  This promise has been broken.  Two years after Newsom's promise, there were more women in the shelter system than when Newsom made his promise.  Specifically, according to city records, there were 523 women in the shelter system in the month of December 2004, and in January 2007, this number increased to 554.  Does Newsom believe that his promises have any meaning?
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First they built more classrooms in temporary buildings (increasing the numbers using the decreased yard.  Then they put in a large storage container (more space for exercise taken). All the while, the administration uses the same yard as a personal parking area...Wonder why there are fewer children in SF?

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On September 15, 2004, the Chronicle reported that Newsom promised to move 149 elderly homeless people from the shelters, which he described as "disgraceful," to permanent housing within six months, and, in general, to move the "most vulnerable ... out of the shelter system."  Two (plus) years later, city records show that there were 300 homeless seniors (age 60 and older) still in the shelters during January 2007.  This is an increase from the 295 homeless seniors in the shelters during December 2004, shortly after Newsom made his promise.  Does Newsom believe his promises have any meaning?
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The Newsom administration has no plan to remove homeless people from the streets.  When his administration began, there were over 1800 shelter beds; today there are 1212 shelter beds (according to city records). How do you move homeless people off the street if the number of shelter beds are being reduced.  Newsom may talk all he wants about his outreach programs, but there are 2771 homeless people on the streets (according to the 2007 homeless report) and most of the shelter space is filled every night.  The fact that there may be some available beds in the shelters because people Read more »

My pet peeves with SF are the unreliability of Muni (why does it take me 1 hour to travel 5 miles!)  and also the trash/graffiti/crime problem, especially in the southeast side of the City.

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People are buying, and PG&E is giving away, those energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs by the thousands, perhaps millions.  However, no one seems to be informing people that these bulbs have mercury in them and must be disposed of in hazardous waste sites, not in the regular garbage and landfills. I am concerned that when they do finally burn out, thousands, even millions, of these bulbs will end up in our landfills, spilling their mercury, because people probably won't know NOT to put them in the regular garbage disposal.  When I bought a box of these bulbs, I finally found Read more »

I often spend as much time driving around looking for parking as I do driving to my destination.  If people could drive straight to a parking garage near where they are going it would cut pollution in half.  Not to mention make it a lot less frustrating to live or visit SF, and enhance local businesses near the garages. 

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