Fix Pacifica: Supervisor Avalos vs. Sharp Park

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Supervisor Avalos vs. Sharp Park

Fight for the Course: Defeat the Avalos Ordinance to Close Sharp Park; Write letters to Supervisors; Good News!: Planning Department determines Sharp Park Golf Course to be "an historical resource"

1.  Public Golf Alliance Responds:  Calls Avalos' Ordinance to Close Sharp misinformed, unrealistic and an attack on middle class, ethnically diverse, affordable public recreation, on jobs and small business, and on an historic landmark. To download the full press release, click here.

2. Avalos' give-away Ordinance: to download the full text of the draft ordinance introduced Sept. 6 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by Mr. Avalos, click here.

3.  Good News: S.F. Planning Department classifies Sharp Park Golf Course as Historical Resource, protected under the California Environmental Quality Act: this was made public as part of the Planning Department's Draft Environmental Impact Report, published Aug. 31, 2011.
    a. To read a copy of the Planning Department's Historic Resource Evaluation Response, click here (and turn to Exhibit C, pages 2-5, 10-37, and also 39-56).

4. S.F. Planning Department Releases Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Rec & Park Department's Significant Natural Resource Areas Management Plan (including the Department's plan to recover habitat for frogs and snakes at Sharp Park, while saving the historic 18-hole golf course). A public hearing will be held October 6, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. ; and public comments must be submitted not later than October 17, 2011. To read a copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Report, click here.

5.  Don't Forget to Write your letters to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors, raising your voice to keep Sharp Park Golf Course open for future generations. Say it in your own words. For a blank letter form addressed to the Mayor and Supervisors, click here.

And please send us a copy: info@sfpublicgolf.com.