Twenty Eight year community street fair and music festival put on hold by neighboring home owners group.
Pablo Heisny, founder and director of the very popular Haight Ashbury Street Fair's for almost thirty years is battling a Cole Valley Home Owners group to save his neighborhood's faire. It seems that newer home owners in Cole Valley, about 6 blocks up the road, are miffed about the excess and type of foot traffic one day year. Ironically Pablo Heisny trained the administrators and managers of the Cole Valley street fair.
It would seem logical for the Cole Valley street faire and Haight Ashbury Street Faire to join forces and have both festivals on the same day to spread out the traffic. But Pablo says that the Cole Valley street fair folk are turning up their noses at the thought.
This to me seems rather un community spirited and is a very real form of cultural genocide. One community is actively attempting to deprive the freedom of speech of another community. Yes some folks do piss in doorways, but that happens all year round in both neighborhoods, not just one day a year. And by the way, have you every been to India?
Is there a connection between real estate ownership and the disconnection from one's community and neighbors?
Deborah Paulino
(Haight Ashbury renter)
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A special section has been set aside on www.Gigdirectory.net for comments about this article and issue.
Info about how to help save the Haight Ashbury Street Faire follows...
STREET FAIR PERMIT ON HOLD
JOIN PRO-FAIR E-MAIL CAMPAIGN
SFPD Captain John Ehrlich from Park Station has requested that the 2006 Haight Street Fair permit application be put on hold because of his sense of community concerns after holding private meetings that excluded any input from the Haight Street Fair.
We also feel that this move is related to our efforts for calling attention to a proposed doubling of Police Service Fees that did not include significant public opinion and how it would adversely affect street fairs across the City. In July, 2005, the Finance Committee tabled the fee increases and directed the SFPD to hold city-wide meetings with the street fairs to discuss the pertinent issues. This has never happened despite our repeated requests for such meetings.
We are asking you to voice your support for the Haight Street Fair and its 2006 permit application and to request that any fee increases for San Francisco street fairs should have a public forum.
Please see the Haight Ashbury Street Fair's web site for more details and history of the festival.
www.haightstreetfair.org/
Pablo Heisny, founder and director of the very popular Haight Ashbury Street Fair's for almost thirty years is battling a Cole Valley Home Owners group to save his neighborhood's faire. It seems that newer home owners in Cole Valley, about 6 blocks up the road, are miffed about the excess and type of foot traffic one day year. Ironically Pablo Heisny trained the administrators and managers of the Cole Valley street fair.
It would seem logical for the Cole Valley street faire and Haight Ashbury Street Faire to join forces and have both festivals on the same day to spread out the traffic. But Pablo says that the Cole Valley street fair folk are turning up their noses at the thought.
This to me seems rather un community spirited and is a very real form of cultural genocide. One community is actively attempting to deprive the freedom of speech of another community. Yes some folks do piss in doorways, but that happens all year round in both neighborhoods, not just one day a year. And by the way, have you every been to India?
Is there a connection between real estate ownership and the disconnection from one's community and neighbors?
Deborah Paulino
(Haight Ashbury renter)
www.gigdirectory.net
A special section has been set aside on www.Gigdirectory.net for comments about this article and issue.
Info about how to help save the Haight Ashbury Street Faire follows...
STREET FAIR PERMIT ON HOLD
JOIN PRO-FAIR E-MAIL CAMPAIGN
SFPD Captain John Ehrlich from Park Station has requested that the 2006 Haight Street Fair permit application be put on hold because of his sense of community concerns after holding private meetings that excluded any input from the Haight Street Fair.
We also feel that this move is related to our efforts for calling attention to a proposed doubling of Police Service Fees that did not include significant public opinion and how it would adversely affect street fairs across the City. In July, 2005, the Finance Committee tabled the fee increases and directed the SFPD to hold city-wide meetings with the street fairs to discuss the pertinent issues. This has never happened despite our repeated requests for such meetings.
We are asking you to voice your support for the Haight Street Fair and its 2006 permit application and to request that any fee increases for San Francisco street fairs should have a public forum.
Please see the Haight Ashbury Street Fair's web site for more details and history of the festival.
www.haightstreetfair.org/
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Re: Yuppees Put Haight Ashbury Street Fair On Hold
Fri, November 18, 2005 - 9:12 PMwe could make this controversy a focal point for the hippie tvshow idea. im coming up with all kinds of ideas. (evil grin)
