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Dear Mayor Newsom, if I were mayor, I would continue with your valiant efforts to improve both San Francisco citizens’ quality of life and tourism by making San Francisco cleaner and more fun. The challenges are, of course, homelessness which is an eyesore, infrastructure maintenance, and better planning for a more "user friendly" city. For example, Golden Gate Park is very pretty to drive through, but seems to lack a center where people gather and sit and be social or people watch. I find this to be lacking in SF in general. Union Square doesn’t really capture it, nor does Market Street. There are pockets of businesses here and there sprinkled around the city where people gather, but they are relatively small and isolated. I guess I’d really like to see a huge wide open public square or park somewhere, where people sit and talk and roam and look at public art. This could even be incorporated into a business area so that it was a true plaza. This may be far fetched, but one idea would be to permanently close off an area downtown from traffic, like say the square from Kearny to Powell, Sutter to Post. This reminds me of Santa Monica Boulevard which is so much fun. I wish we had more places like that. This kind of addition would really make this City a lot more fun to live in and visit. There could be fountains perhaps, or large sculptures with seating. We cannot continue to allow the homelessness problem to dictate what kinds of public areas we build. The big park in front of City Hall for example, could be made a lot more fun and interesting by creating a larger, more comfortable seating area in it that is not grass. The grass is frequently moist and you don’t know what’s in it, so most people don’t want to sit in it for very long. I’m thinking of a place that would be nice for senior citizens to sit and read a book or drink tea over a conversation with friends. If it means that the area needs to be constantly monitored for vagrants, then so be it. Perhaps in some strange way, this type of direction could deter homelessness. It kind of seems like homelessness thrives in a depressed environment so perhaps in making the change to invest in making our public areas more fun, the homeless will not feel these areas will be as comfortable to become invisible in.
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