Hold Our Public Officials Accountable / 让我们的公职人员负责任

Dear Neighbors, Below is a response one of our volunteers, who wishes to remain anonymous, received from Sylvia Jimenez at SF Planning. It will take another 12 weeks before they can assign a planner to the proposed cannabis site at 18th Ave & Taraval St.

Dear Supporters, Thank you to everyone who signed our online petition and helped us meet this important milestone. Please continue to share our message with your neighbors and other concerned residents. We continue to meet in-person on Mondays at 6pm at Happy Days Preschool on 809 Taraval Street. Please join us! We'd like to share the following comment from an area code 94122 resident who signed our petition. "We moved into the neighborhood in 2018. Since then we have witnessed the ebb a flow of the area, most of which has been positive but, some of which that has turned out to be negative. I am also a consumer of THC products. My personal belief is that adding a cannabis dispensary into the community at this time would have detrimental effects to the safety and security of our streets. Our current District Attorney and the powers that be are not prioritizing most ongoing incidences of crime which has caused a significant increase of confident criminal activity over the past ...

Dear Neighbor, If you are concerned about the effects of cannabis on the safety of our neighborhood and welfare of our children, please go to the link below and sign our online petition. https://chng.it/PvjtcsxZ Also, please leave your comment and tell us why you would like to stop the cannabis dispensary from opening. Thank you for your support! Sincerely, FOPSWP fopswp@gmail.com

Dear Supervisors and San Francisco Office of Cannabis, I live at ­­­­__________and have serious concerns with regards to the proposed cannabis dispensary opening at 18th Avenue & Taraval Street by the owners of The Gold Mirror Restaurant.  The intersection at 18th & Taraval Street is a busy, traffic congested one used by families and children who walk to and from nearby schools, afterschool programs, and child-centric businesses as well as individuals who patronize a Safeway market and other surrounding businesses.  I am concerned about the following:  1) dispensary clientele causing motor vehicle accidents while driving in our neighborhood under the influence of marijuana and hurting our children and neighborhood residents, 2) violent crime being brought to our neighborhood by a marijuana dispensary,  3) exposure and normalization of marijuana products to neighborhood children, and 4)  the illegal location of the dispensary opening up less than 30...