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1/Wondering why @DeanPreston is reexamining the @UCSF Parnassus expansion after years of community input? Look no further than @HANCSF, a Preston booster & opponent of the project.
Here's a 2019 article from their newsletter about the UCSF expansion plan. https://www.hanc-sf.org/24-home/510-ucsf-s-secret-okabs-to-expand-dramatically-in-parnassus-heights
Here's a 2019 article from their newsletter about the UCSF expansion plan. https://www.hanc-sf.org/24-home/510-ucsf-s-secret-okabs-to-expand-dramatically-in-parnassus-heights
2/HANC is lead by Calvin Welch, w/ @ChristinEvans as the heir apparent. They're mostly out-of-touch former hippies who became self-appointed stewards of the Haight decades ago. City officials call them "professional citizens" & they want SF frozen in the 1970s forever.
3/After 2010, HANC had been diminishing in relevancy & was mostly known for being obstructionists, such as opposing new housing, food/alcohol permits, bike share stations, pro soccer & the closure of the HANC recycling center (where they made decent $$). https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/HANC-finally-at-the-end-of-the-line-isn-t-it-3684759.php
4/But HANC saw a lifeline in @DeanPreston & has been a major booster of his since his first supervisor run in 2016. Shortly after being elected, Dean awarded the then-president of HANC a commendation from the city & added HANC members to various committees https://www.hanc-sf.org/24-home/543-tes-welborn-receives-commendation
5/That HANC article opposing @UCSF's expansion also appeared in @48hills, the outlet that coincidentally received a $$ donation from HANC in July & declared @DeanPreston Best Politician (2020) just in time for his re-election campaign a few months later. https://48hills.org/2020/10/best-of-the-bay-2020-city-living-winners/
6/HANC wants UCSF's space ceiling to stay at the 1976 level, which was agreed upon when neighbors sued to curtail UCSF's expansion efforts, saying UCSF is "a major contributor to the affordable housing crisis & [its plans] will only exacerbate the crisis." https://48hills.org/2019/10/ucsfs-secret-plans-to-expand-dramatically-in-parnassus-heights/
7/Despite blaming UCSF for the housing crisis, HANC opposed a housing project at 690 Stanyan & the height of an affordable housing project at 730 Stanyan, as well as fighting proposed developments along Divisadero (in a completely different neighborhood). https://sf.curbed.com/2008/10/24/10555816/approved-with-love-690-stanyans-mixed-use-whole-foods
8/So now we have a supervisor w/ 4 years before his next election (therefore free to take unpopular positions w/o consequence) who is indebted to NIMBYs who want SF frozen in the 1970s.
New hospital? Better transit? Affordable housing? That's too 2020. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-a-new-hospital-new-homes-and-new-transit-solutions-for-san-francisco
New hospital? Better transit? Affordable housing? That's too 2020. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-a-new-hospital-new-homes-and-new-transit-solutions-for-san-francisco
@SFyimby members like @theodore_gordon @samdman95 can probably share more about HANC and Welch's efforts to downzone San Francisco in the 1970s.
