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emails to save Haight St.
Message Don't Mall the Haight! Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Call/write/fax the planning commissioners, and come to the Planning Department meeting on January 15! Picket from 12:30 to 1:30, meeting at 1:30. City Hall Polk @ Grove sf.indymedia.org/news/2004...671318.php
Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Urban Outfitters is attempting to get an exemption from the Planning Commission to build a huge, 8700 foot store at 1728 Haight Street (across from Amoeba). This store will endanger independent neighborhood businesses, by undercutting them in sales and driving up rents, as well as leading the way for more chain stores in the neighborhood.
The opening of an Urban Outfitters would also go against the neighborhood master plan.
In addition, Urban Outfitters, despite it's "alternative" image, is owned by Dick Hayne, a conservative Rebuplican from Pennsylvania who is a financial supporter of Sen. Rick Santorum, whose recent comments about homosexuals equated gay sex with incest and bestiality.
Urban Outfitters also relies on sweatshop labor for its overpriced, "alternative" clothing.
Email addy's for the planning commission
I left out the most important part:
Michael J. Antonini
wordweaver21@aol.com
Rev. Edgar E. Boyd
bethelamec@aol.com
Shelley Bradford Bell
sbbpr@pacbell.net
Lisa M. Feldstein
commissioner@lisafeldstein.com
Kevin Hughes - NO EMAIL ADDY - Should we call him?
San Francisco Planning Department
1660 Mission Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 558-6615 x 4
Fax: (415) 558-6409
Sue Lee
msuelee@yahoo.com
William L. Lee
bill.lee@sfgov.org
Message Don't Mall the Haight! Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Call/write/fax the planning commissioners, and come to the Planning Department meeting on January 15! Picket from 12:30 to 1:30, meeting at 1:30. City Hall Polk @ Grove sf.indymedia.org/news/2004...671318.php
Help stop Urban Outfitters plan for a giant store on Haight Street! Urban Outfitters is attempting to get an exemption from the Planning Commission to build a huge, 8700 foot store at 1728 Haight Street (across from Amoeba). This store will endanger independent neighborhood businesses, by undercutting them in sales and driving up rents, as well as leading the way for more chain stores in the neighborhood.
The opening of an Urban Outfitters would also go against the neighborhood master plan.
In addition, Urban Outfitters, despite it's "alternative" image, is owned by Dick Hayne, a conservative Rebuplican from Pennsylvania who is a financial supporter of Sen. Rick Santorum, whose recent comments about homosexuals equated gay sex with incest and bestiality.
Urban Outfitters also relies on sweatshop labor for its overpriced, "alternative" clothing.
Email addy's for the planning commission
I left out the most important part:
Michael J. Antonini
wordweaver21@aol.com
Rev. Edgar E. Boyd
bethelamec@aol.com
Shelley Bradford Bell
sbbpr@pacbell.net
Lisa M. Feldstein
commissioner@lisafeldstein.com
Kevin Hughes - NO EMAIL ADDY - Should we call him?
San Francisco Planning Department
1660 Mission Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 558-6615 x 4
Fax: (415) 558-6409
Sue Lee
msuelee@yahoo.com
William L. Lee
bill.lee@sfgov.org
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Re: emails to save Haight St.
Mon, January 19, 2004 - 3:38 PMWhat's happened on the OU front?
It would be sad to see Haight go the way of the Castro, with Pottery Barn, Diesel, Starbucks and L'Occitane. Its starting to look like Palo Alto with leather bears.
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Or even worse, the BigBox shizzle they are throwing up under the central freeway. Best Buy? Sheesh. Even worse than corporate presence is suburban layout of huge parking lots between it and Office Depot. At least Costco had to build a somewhat urbanesque parking garage on top.
How much can the planning commission do? As with Pottery Barn on Castro and Market, it was mostly up to the land owner, who'd rather get some easy bucks from a chain outlet and not have to put up anything, rather than commit to the investment in building urban scale development appropriate to being *on top of a fucking metro stop* for crying out loud.
Its a little NIMBY and unrealistic to suggest everything be mom and pop, but as with Fulton Market, there's options to build housing + retail that looks like a City rather than big box parking lots off yet another expressway. Where there's already a downtown, there should be some effort to maintain urban scale and appropriate to its surroundings.
As long as I'm flipping out, what the FUCK was up with the development at Haight and Cole? Who passed the 7 colors of tin bullshit? Thats some scary shit. It looks like someone went to Home Depot and randomly picked out metal scraps from a discount heap. TACKY! -
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Re: emails to save Haight St.
Wed, June 1, 2005 - 4:11 PMAt least it's under the freeway.
I pay silly sums for my rent, all so I can walk to Mom and Pops. Hopefully we'll all keep buying from the little guy and Plant Trees will keep posting!
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