Dumping prevention campaign launches

“Don’t Leave it on the Sidewalk,” a community education campaign of the SF Department of Public Works, was launched in the Bayview neighborhood on November 17th as phase one of what will become a citywide effort.

The new campaign highlights property-owners' responsibility for removing items that have been illegally dumped on sidewalks. Failure to do so could result in a $1,000 fine.

Marginalized communities are especially vulnerable to commercial and other dumping on streets and open spaces. Bayview's proximity to the area's largest legal dumping facility means that the neighborhood has the dubious distinction of being the last stop before a fee is required to drop-off waste where it should go.

fresh and easy's store opening...not so easy

John Gavin, fresh & easy's community liaison, met with Bayview Hunters Point food advocates at November's Southeast Sector Food Access working group (SEFA) meeting. He said the store opening, at 5800 Third Street, is now estimated to happen early in the summer of next year.

That estimate is one of several in recent years as the project stalled with the economic downturn and changes to both 5800 Third Street project developers and fresh & easy's own store roll-out strategy. This blog first reported about the new food retailer in December of 2007.

When it opens, the new supermarket will join FoodsCo and SuperSave Market as the neighborhood's only major food retailers.

Gavin also told SEFA that the new Bayview store would employ twenty to thirty people, and that local hiring will be prioritized.

For more:

Food, Health and Safety in Bayview Hunters Point.

2007 Bayview Hunters Point Food Preferences survey (used to communicate the community's need and willingness to support new food options in the neighborhood).