Don't Mess With Bernal…
Well, construction has begun on Bernal Park. And the neighborhood (as promised) is not one bit too happy about it.
From a post today on BernalSF.org (the reprint of a letter sent to the Parks and Rec Commission), “If you think this is the end, it is not. The moment the road gets blocked, pandemonium is going to set in. We don’t have to do anything, in fact I will be out of town. You will be setting the trap yourself. We have warned you. We have told you over and over this is a terrible idea and an unbelievable waste of tax payers money. You have stubbornly refused to listen and keep clinging to your flawed process as if this is the life raft that will save you when the project goes down. Which it will.”
“As a neighborhood, we have no idea who the people are who want this. Seriously, who is it? Because we do not know them. It’s like boxing with a ghost. Who has this much power to over-ride the concerns of so many people?”
“What I have to fight with is an amazing community of people who know right from wrong. You have done more to bring us together than any single act that has happened on Bernal Heights in decades. If we had come at this with lawyers it would cost $50k, $60k. Instead, we decided to spend our time and money to educate the court of public opinion. We are enrolling the public in taking ownership of our public space. It is not yours. What you are doing is a travesty and is more like the Balkans than the great and enlightened city of San Francisco. We will not forget. We are sick of being pushed around.”
Note to self: don’t ever piss off Bernal Heights…
blah blah blah… Someone might care if Bernal Heights was of interest to the general SF populace.
Anonymous at April 3rd, 2006 at 5:34 pm ( )hmmm… looks like we have someone here who was either born and raised in the Marina or someone who just moved to San Francisco and lives North of California Street… Because those of us who live in the other half of San Francisco think good things about Bernal, whether we live there or not (and I don’t live anywhere near Bernal)…
Matt Lanning at April 3rd, 2006 at 7:07 pm ( )Guess again? Its actually a few neighbors living next to the new gate predicting the beginning of the end of life. They have stirred everyone who will listen (and most of SF listens well) -to sympathy. Mostly because people believe them when they say they imply they will lose their god given driveways. (NOT). When the dust settles they will actaully wake up and notice they live next to an improved park instead of a rocky dusty former parking lot. The people parking up there to go for a walk have an extra hundred yards of walking which is what they came to do. Life will be better. These people’s houses will increase in value and no one will even remember the Bernal Height Parking Lot Association. Hopefully it will be redirected to coalesce around other improvements and preservation of the park.
Anonymous at June 11th, 2006 at 4:40 am ( )i grew up there,
Anonymous at February 23rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm ( )and my heart goes out
to the people that live there,
and use too,
i lived there 30 years ago,
and my childhood is all over
there,rich or poor,
whatever yuppy duche,
snot bag, builders,
want is money,
and there using any, excuse
to exploit, any reason,maby?
to build and over price,
the landscape,
i would protest, peacefully,
of course,
i think iam contacting
the attourney general,
this is wrong,
i live in seattle now,
so piss off builders!.
60s child, banks street,
native.
first its a driveway,or
Anonymous at February 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm ( )a little tree,
or picky old road,”fuss”
then an fn,
condo,then
the whole place is an overstaked
housing meca , like next
to a boat landing,
allright maby iam jumping
the gun, and way off, woops,
how about improving
education,
and then get picky,
leave bernal alone,
quit making it impossible,
for affordable living,
like poor folks?
stinky .