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Valencia Status Update Meeting Notes from 8/26/08

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Last week, Kris Opbroek & other City staffers working on the Valencia Streetscape Improvements gave 2 project update talks at the Mission Police Station at 630 Valencia St.
I (Amandeep Jawa), Tom Radulovich & Amy Tanner attended the second of these two meetings & here are some notes I took:
The street designs were the same [...]

Valencia Status Update Meetings: 8/26/08 & 8/28/08

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Kris Opbroek & other from the City staff working on the Valencia Streetscape Improvements will be giving 2 project update talks this month! They’ll be briefing the community on where things stand and where they are headed. I hope you all can come, one meeting is scheduled for the morning & the other [...]

January 2007 Update: Funded for 15th to 18th, hoping for more, construction plans…

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Here is the latest update from Dan Provence, of the Municipal Transportaion Agency’s Traffic Calming Program:
In a nutshell, it seems that we have received funding for 15th through 18th, and will find out in February if an additional grant comes through that will add 18th through 19th. Construction will either begin September 2008 (next [...]

“Complete” Valencia project receives partial funding

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

From the Livable City newsletter of 9/20/06. Big thanks to City Staff for all their hard work on this funding application (Marshall Foster, Manito Velasco, Kris Opbroek, Dan Provence, anyone I missed). This is excellent news & means that the funding is in place to begin implementing the plan from 15th through 19th!!! [...]

Community Plan Unveiled

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

On Tuesday, June 13, 2006 the City unveiled the plan that grew from the community workshop meetings held this year. We’re pretty excited about it - see the details here.

Whoops! I broke it.

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Hey folks - due to a mistake on my part, we lost much of the original website. My sincere (and embarassed) apologies. I’ll try to resurrect as much of it as I can, any posts dated before this one are resurrected.
‘deep

3/1/2006 City Planning Meeting #5

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

This is a summary email Amandeep Jawa sent to the Better Valencia email list after the 5th City Planning Meeting in March 2006:
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Hi everyone -
Thanks to everyone who carved out time from their lives to come to Wednesday’s City-sponsored Community Meeting about Valencia. After talking to various Better Valencia Project folks who were there [...]

9/30/2005 Letter to the Mayor After Community Meeting #4

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

This is a version of a letter Amandeep Jawa sent to the Mayor and various other City officials at the end of September 2005, after the fourth community meeting.
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Mr. Mayor -
As a homeowner on Valencia Street, longtime Mission-dweller & President of the SF League of Conservation Voters, I share your concern for making the city [...]