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Ingleside Station's monthly Police Community Relations Meeting will be held in the station's Community Room on Tuesday, December 18th at 7 pm.

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Police Captain Denis F. O'Leary send us this warning:

Community Alert! Three residences in Bernal Heights suffered burglaries on December 11th. Two occurred on the 100 block of Elsie Street and one occurred on the 100 block of Precita Avenue.

All burglaries occurred during daylight hours when the residents were not home. No forced entry was found at any scene. A digital camera was taken in the Precita burglary and jewelry was taken in the Elsie Street burglaries. Please be aware of your surroundings and report suspicious people to the police.

Ingleside station has increased staffing in the Bernal Heights neighborhood in an effort to thwart these crimes.

Details:

6:26 pm 100 block of Elsie Street Residential Burglary (occurred between 11:30 am & 4:45 pm)
8:35 pm 100 block of Elsie Street Residential Burglary (occurred between 9:30 am & 7:30 pm)
8:53 pm 100 block of Precita Avenue Residential Burglary (occurred between 8:30 am & 8 pm)

Labels: crime, Neighborhood Watch, Precita Valley Neighbors

Please attend a Special Precita Valley/Mission Chavez Traffic Calming Update on Tuesday, December 11th, 7pm – 8:30pm at the Park Bench Cafe, 3214 Folsom Street (at Bessie/Precita)

AGENDA:

Traffic Calming Plan of Northwest Bernal Heights 7pm - 8pm

A. Balloting Precita for speed humps

B. Next phase of existing Traffic Calming Plan

C. Installing diamond yellow caution signs of children playing along specific Precita, Stoneman, and Manchester Streets as requested by neighbors. Mission neighbors have raised the same requests.

D. Cesear Chavez Traffic Calming updates and the possibility of forming a regional (Mission, Bernal, BVHP) Transportation Planning Committee which all groups (Si Si Puede, Precita Valley Neighbors, NWBA, Mission Neighbors, Rolph Park Neighbors all agree to form).

E. Any possibility of slowing down the ramp traffic on Caesar Chavez to 101/280 by any other federally funded means.

II. A. Mission Area traffic calming updates regarding 26th Street neighborhood group concerns 8pm –8:20

III. Precita Park Area Gang Activity 8:20 – 8:30

A. Gang and criminal activity along Precita/Alabama

Questions?

David Robinson (285-5957) and Demece Garepis (641-0507) Co-Chairs.

Labels: gangs, Precita Valley Neighbors, traffic calming

SF Chron article on the Greening Cesar Chavez Street:

The stretch of Cesar Chavez from Guerrero to the 101 interchange remains a stark landscape, six lanes wide and choked with traffic circulating in and out of the interchange. It presents a formidable barrier - some residents call it a "Berlin Wall" - dividing Bernal Heights from the Mission District. Surrounded by streets that are green and vibrant, Cesar Chavez remains unredeemingly blighted and monochromatic. Valencia Street, 24th Street, and Mission Street teem with foot traffic and small shops. Cesar Chavez is dominated by institutions - churches, schools, the Salvation Army and St. Luke's Hospital; day laborers waiting for work on curbs and street corners are the dominant human presence.

(Photo: SFGate)

Residents on the gentrified Bernal Heights side tend toward the same view as the traffic engineers, and worry that traffic taming on Cesar Chavez, especially any reduction in its traffic lanes, will cause a spillover to their quiet residential streets.


Much of the opposition to CC Puede's efforts has come from the Precita Valley Neighbors, a Bernal Heights neighborhood group. When Taylor and her cohorts began promoting their traffic-calming ideas and circulating their petitions two years ago, Precita Valley co-chair David Robinson expressed his firm opposition to any removal of traffic lanes on Cesar Chavez: "We'd all like to see Cesar Chavez not so ugly and not so fast, but that's not the practical reality," he told The Chronicle.

Labels: traffic calming