Thursday, August 18, 2005

Chilly reception for Olympian's plan for ski jump in Pacific Heights

The Bay Area's own Olympic skiing gold medalist, Johnny Moseley, is having a little 30th birthday party for himself and a few thousand of his friends. The problem is that said party involves hundreds of tons of snow and a Pacific Heights street...

As one might imagine, there are plenty of people who will be inconvenienced by this, and none of them are very pleased about the publicity stunt.

As quoted from SF Gate, ""What the hell are you guys thinking?" said Bruce Miller, who lives in the area and, like most of the neighbors, just found out about the Aug. 27 event recently. "The arrogance of this organization is outrageous. This whole thing is unacceptable.""

"Despite what Miller and other objectors say, though, the company staging the event received city permits to close Fillmore Street from Broadway to Green, and Vallejo from Steiner to Webster, on Aug. 26 and 27. Residents will not be able to drive to or from their homes."

Even more bummed than the Monks who meditate on the street, "no one is more irate than Laurie Beijen and her fiance, Ben Tulchin, who are getting married at the historic Flood Mansion at Broadway and Fillmore the day of "Icer Air 2005.""

For those that might want to watch the mayhem, it's happening on August 26th and 27th. You know I'll be there...

1 Comments:

At August 21, 2005 8:44 AM, Blogger mike // potrero hill sf said...

The organizers should move the event over to Potrero Hill ... it's a much hipper neighborhood than Pacific Heights anyways.

I've got a couple of arguments for moving the event here:
http://www.potrerohillsf.com/2005/08/icer-air-2005.html

 

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