SOCIAL: Golden Gate Park NEEDS YOU

[Mary Brown]

Randall and all,

A couple of quick points:

1. The legislation IS substantially different: it's
for a 6-month trial period only, which will then be
evaulated by a variety of groups

2. There has been only one vote on the ballot -- about
six years ago, a totally grassroots, volunteer-driven,
low-money effort that was defeated, but not by a
significant margin, especially in light of the huge
amount of money the museums put into a
counter-campaign. Their alternative proposal (on the
same ballot) called for saturday road closures AFTER
the parking garage was built. This successfully split
the vote and neither proposal won. 

3. Finally, the parking garage was built! It's open
and largely empty. The primary arguement against the
road closures is now moot. 

As a fan of the democratic process (especialy one that
is untainted by excessive influence from the moneyed
class) and a fan of public space  I urge you all to
spend just a few hundred seconds to write quick emails
to the supervisors in favor of this long overdue vote
for saturday road closures. It's actually a close vote
on the board now due to unseemly machinations and
mistruths on part of the museums. 

xo
mary brown

--- Randall Isaac <randall at deadletter.com> wrote:

> Deep,
> 	I'm as in favor of a Saturday GG Park vehicle ban
> as much as the
> next SF liberal, but as I remember the Saturday
> vehicle ban has been
> recently rejected by the voters at least once, and I
> think twice.  Are we
> just throwing the same proposition against the wall
> over and over in hopes
> that one day it'll stick?  At some point you either
> believe in the
> democratic process or you don't.  The voters had
> their say on this issue and
> they said "no" by a comfortable margin.
> 	Now if the latest proposed Saturday vehicle ban has
> been
> substantially revamped to address earlier concerns
> then it might merit a
> revote. But if it's the same plan as before I think
> a revote is useless and
> in fact counterproductive as efforts could be better
> spent elsewhere.
> 
> Randall
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Amandeep Jawa
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> To: Social; occ at deeptrouble.com; SFLCV LCV;
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> Subject: SOCIAL: Golden Gate Park NEEDS YOU
> 
> 
> Hey folks -
> 
> As many of you know - a big push to make SATURDAYs
> in Golden Gate  
> Park as awesome as Sundays is afoot and it really
> could use your help!
> 
> Here is what we are talking about: Saturday vs.
> Sunday
> 
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