Art History on 18th Street

Peter Linenthal Potrero Hill Archives Project

Many Potrero Hill and Dogpatch apartment complexes are products of a 1990s building boom. Between 1988 and 2000, 3000 live-work lofts, intended to provide artists with housing and workspace, were built. However, the spaces were generally too expensive for the creative class, instead nicknamed ‘lawyer lofts’.

An exception is 1695 18th Street, an innovative structure built after years of disputes over open space, affordable housing, and live-work lofts.

For many years, the southern opening of a railroad tunnel emerged on the half-block site. The tunnel was filled-in in 1962, for good reason, as can be seen on Youtube: ‘Potrero Hill tunnel fire and cave-in’. In 1990, a developer proposed building there. Neighbors, including this reporter, organized to preserve the site as open space. Anchor Brewery created ‘Potrero Commons Ale’ as a fundraiser for the effort. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors rejected the idea in 1991, preferring to construct housing for artists evicted by the Redevelopment Agency in 1983 from the Goodman Building, a huge, ramshackle, 1860 edifice located at 1117 Geary Boulevard.

The Goodman Building had for decades been a communal living, performance and education space with shared bathrooms and kitchens. During different periods residents included Janis Joplin, psychedelic poster designer Wes Wilson, and about thirty other artists, including a mad concert pianist. A paint-spattered attic featured pigeons flying in and out of jagged holes.

The Goodman artists organized as Artsdeco and joined with other displaced San Francisco creatives. With municipal funding, help from San Francisco Heritage, and a National Education Association grant, in 1996 Artsdeco partnered with developers and found a new home at architect David Baker’s artist loft building on 18th Street. The edifice, known as Goodman 2 Arts Complex, has 30 livework studios – five of them along with a theater space owned by Artsdeco – a three-story atrium, garden, with part of the old tunnel serving as a garage. Goodman 2 has won best landscaping, best mixed-use project, and American Institute of Architects awards.

Goodman 2 mixes market- and below-market-rate owners with belowmarket-rate renters. Residents include filmmakers, writers, musicians, and visual, metal, ceramic, fabric, commercial artists,. Vacancies are rare, with applications chosen by lottery.

Artsdeco member Martha Senger described Goodman 2 as ‘the reincarnation of a grassroots cultural institution’.

SHORT CUTS from page 2 make that trigger work it’s facing them and that’s the only way they can pull the trigger,” said Ruth Borenstein, of Brady, at last month’s St. Teresa’s Gun Safety Committee meeting. Borenstein pointed to a newly adopted federal law, “Safer Community Act,” which includes a mandate to securely store guns, including with a trigger lock, unloaded and in an inaccessible case with ammunition stored elsewhere. The rule emerged, in part, because when parents with a weapon were asked whether their chil- dren knew its location they’d respond, “no,” but when their kids were queried they’d often say, “it’s in the closet”.

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A 75,000-square-foot warehouse purchased by Amazon in 2021 is being offered for lease. The Seattle-based e.commerce behemoth acquired 435 23rd Street with plans to turn it into a distribution center. The site was renovated, with a fresh coat of Amazon’s trademark blue lining the property. But the company exited the space last fall. Amazon indicates that its other facilities in the area, most notably a warehouse in Showplace Square purchased from Recology in 2020, will remain operational. As reported in the June 2021 View, Amazon has been wrangling with t he San Francisco Planning Department over its proposal to develop a last-mile parcel delivery facility at the location. The planned 900 Seventh Street facility would be three stories and 650,000 square feet, according to Amazon’s Preliminary Project Application.

Music Immersion

Have you every sprawled on a sofa, or bean bag chair – yours or at a friend’s – listening to music emanating from a high-fidelity source, carried away by the communal act of tuning into tunes? Nonprofit arts organization, Envelop, offers such an experience, hosting multiple weekly sound happenings at The Midway, on Marin Street. Cofounder Roddy Lindsay has lived with his family in Dogpatch since 2015. “A n entrepreneur and software developer by trade, we moved to Dogpatch because of the great community here and to be near the venue which was under construction at the time,” he said. Envelop offers live performances, immersive album listenings, sound baths, soundscapes, and educational workshops. Lend it your ear.

Women Architects

Potrero Hill resident Julie Jackson and her Dogpatch-based Jackson Liles Architecture, was profiled as part of “Architecture projects from female-led firms in the American West,” in Architect. The feature focuses on design of the Mission Kids Preschool. Jackson Liles Architecture led community workshops with the Mission Kids community to identify project priorities and worked with preschool directors to plan a spacious, bright, and functional campus under tight budget constraints. The new Mission Kids Preschool serves 80 to 100 preschool children and infants in a two-story structure with 5,700 square feet of interior space and a 2,500 square feet outdoor roof deck play area.

PSYCHIATRIC CARE from front page hopeless; more than one in four seriously considered suicide. Nearly a quarter of teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ+) had attempted self-destruction.

Deteriorating mental health statistics coincides with the rise of social media. In 2020 Johns Hopkins University researchers found a positive association between the frequency of social media use and depression however, causality remains unclear.

While the role of social media may be unclear, the impact of the pandemic is not. A systematic review of survey studies completed in 2022 by Olaf University and the Mayo Clinic researchers concluded that “mental health issues among children and adolescents are closely related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to various mitigating strategies,” such as social distancing, quarantine, and school closure.”

Dr Fortuna postulates that the pandemic was “…sort of a perfect storm, where we were already seeing these increases and then the world got even more stressful, and kids got even more isolated, and kids got even more loss in their social supports and systems and healthy things for them to do to help kids thrive.”

Declining mental health is manifesting with an increased need for hospital treatment. CDC nationwide data from March to October 2020 showed an uptick in emergency room visits for children ages five to 11, and 11 to 17, of 24 percent and 31 percent, respectively, over the same period in 2019.

Rising demand falls on a fragmented psychiatric care system that’s long been overburdened. The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) projects a nationwide shortfall of 3,400 psychiatrists by 2032 due to increasing needs and aging professionals. According to AAMC, 60 percent of psychiatrists are more than 60 years old. In California, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) estimates that there are just 15 child and adolescent psychiatrists for every 100,000 children and that as many as one out of five children experience mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.

One outcome is a significant delay between the onset of mental health symptoms and treatment. Research by Philip Wang, Harvard Medical School professor, estimates an average postponement of five to 11 years between the start of a mental disorder and psychiatric care.

“At that point you are looking at specialty services when it could have been intermittent prevention.” said Dr Fortuna.

AACAP estimates that half of mental illnesses start by the age of 14; 75 percent by the age of 24. Adequate care is essential to prevent hardship on patients and their families, and to mitigate social impacts. Homelessness and incarceration are direct consequences of inadequate care for mental illness.

Psychiatric patients are now commonly boarded at hospital Emergency Departments (ED) while they wait to be admitted into inpatient care. Stays can range from a few hours to several days. ED environments are often loud, chaotic, and poorly suited for those in acute mental distress.

Currently, the McAuley Institute at St Mary’s Medical Center on Hayes Street adjacent to Golden Gate Park is the only San Francisco hospital that provides inpatient psychiatric care for pediatric patients. It offers an inpatient Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) for adolescent patients, as well as an intensive outpatient Counseling Enriched Educational Program (CEEP) for 11- to 18-year-old students that’s administered in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and SFDPH.

According to Lanea T. Jueco, RN, MSN, and Director of Nursing at the BHU and the CEEP units, both programs are highly utilized. The 12 bed BHU cared for 669 patients in 2022, with from two to 48 hours wait times. The CEEP attends to an average of 25 students a month, who make their way to the facility through SFUSD and SFDPH referrals. Staff availability is a limiting factor for inpatient and outpatient services; UCSF psychiatry faculty sometimes assist.

BHU accepts Medi-Cal and uninsured patients. Once it reaches capacity, psychiatric patients need to find services outside the county. Private hospitals, such as St. Mary’s, can also reject patients, which more frequently occurs for children within the juvenile justice or foster care systems.

“Those kids are particularly hard to place, because they are often in very complicated psychosocial situations with mental health needs that a lot of units do not feel comfortable with, especially if they are under-staffed,” Dr Fortuna explained.

The ZSFGH units are being built with this underserved population in mind. SFDPH estimates that the new 12-bed inpatient bed facility will care for up to 450 adolescents annually, with an expanded outpatient program able to serve as many as 900 clients a year.

As a public hospital, ZSFGH will care for San Franciscans covered by Medi-Cal and without insurance. SFDPH

PSYCHIATRIC CARE continues on next page was unable to provide the View with a timeline for when the new facilities will open; funding to support operations is still being worked out.

Under the California Welfare and Institution Code, minors undergoing mental health crises who are deemed at risk to themselves or others may be held for up to 72 hours under a “5585 hold.” The inpatient psychiatric hospital will care for these adolescents. Safety protocols are one reason why psychiatric hospitals have traditionally been at separate facilities or sectioned-off from other medical care services.

Outpatient services will include a partial hospital program and intensive outpatient care, oriented towards those released from inpatient care who still have significant mental health care needs, or those experiencing a mental health crises but who don’t meet inpatient admittance criteria.

“The intensive outpatient program would provide a higher level of care seen in a typical outpatient program,” Dr. Farahmand explained. “For example, instead of attending therapy once a week for an hour, a patient in an intensive program may attend therapy more frequently and in varying settings, but never for a full day. Alternatively, the partial hospital program would be structured as a five-day-a-week program that is short term and intensive in nature. These programs serve as a bridge between intensive services and inpatient level of care.”

“The need is so tremendous and to be able to have those levels of care is critical right now because otherwise kids do not have a chance in San Francisco to receive these services adequately, and often were having to go to other parts of the state and elsewhere where often they are disconnected from their social supports and families, which is not helpful,” said Dr. Fortuna

PARKS from page 3 needs, and neighborhood density.”

“The initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic saw much heavier park use than in 2019,” said Drew Becher, Chief Executive Officer of San Francisco Parks Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for parks. “Many parks saw wear and tear. RPD is still hiring and performing maintenance to recover from that period, as well as the continuation of relatively heavy use. There’s always room for improvement. It is an achievement that so many more parks are high achieving than eight years ago.”

McKinley Square Park and Potrero Hill Recreation are in Board of Supervisors District 10, which includes Dogpatch and Potrero Hill. Franklin Square Park and Potrero del Sol Park are in District 9, which contains the Mission and Bernal Heights.

McKinley Square Park concerns include pathways and lawn, both of which were rated 20 points below the City average, as well as children’s and dog play areas.

“We’d like to see the children’s play area receive an upgrade, including fresh sand, as well as better maintenance for the trails and paths in the park,” said Joyce Book, founder and president of Friends of McKinley Square Park.

According to Book, Friends of McKinley Square Park raised thousands of dollars roughly a decade ago to facilitate park design and advocacy to secure RPD’s approval of a $5 million improvement plan.

“(It) provided substantial upgrades, including a new children’s play area, dedicated off-leash dog areas, and installation of much-needed safety measures, such as an emergency fire road to be located along the lower path areas of the western hillside. Unfortunately, there continues to be a lack of followthrough by supporting agencies, such as the Eastern Neighborhoods Community Advisory Committee, to provide funding. Of the three designated parks located in Potrero Hill, McKinley Square Park has continued to be denied muchneeded park improvements for over 30 years,” said Book. “It’s becoming quite normal to see wind gusts of between 50 and 70 miles per hour…weaken branches and damage the beautiful ornamental gardens below during periods of high wind. On the plus side, our new gardener is excellent! He has managed to resurrect the upper turf areas and provides consistent care. The ornamental beds are currently receiving repairs.”

Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park’s concerns included tree maintenance, rated more than 15 points below the City average, mostly because of weeds around beds, buildings, bathrooms, and landscaping.

According to Jennifer Serwer, Friends of Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park co-director, the recreation building should be renovated.

“It needs to be painted and could use a complete remodel. There’s an enormous potential for this recreation center building and the whole site. We have so much more land than other recreation centers. The site has many beautiful areas that can be improved,” said Serwer.

Serwer said dog play areas, which were approximately three points lower than the City average, can be hard to maintain because the building shades grassy areas, leading to drainage issues.

“The grass gets muddy and damaged over time. It can become patchy. Staff fences in some of the areas at different points to allow the grass to grow back. As to the ornamental beds, they need time to fill out and grow in. It’s just a matter of time,” said Serwer.

Aparton stated that the dog play areas earned a perfect score on the previous three evaluations.

“They got dinged most recently for issues with fencing and signage. That didn’t have anything to do with shading or drainage,” asserted Aparton. “As to ornamental beds, an evaluator noted something was improperly pruned at one evaluation. There was also a cleanliness issue at one of the evaluations. This is usually due to someone littering.”

Potrero del Sol Park concerns included the children’s play area, scored more than 20 points below the City average, restrooms, 24 points under average, and tennis and pickleball courts.

Gail Meadows, principal of the Meadows-Livingstone School, a private school on Potrero del Sol Park’s southern edge, said the children’s play area and courts are in good condition.

“We regularly take the children to play on the equipment in the park. The tennis courts recently had the nets and surfaces repaired. They are used more than they have been in the past. We are frustrated that RPD took the women’s bathroom from the park and gave it to a daycare center. We have the students use bathrooms at our school rather than the park, due to safety issues,” said Meadows.

Issues at Franklin Square Park include children’s play areas, which was scored almost 25 points below the City average, buildings, close to 30 points under average, and hardscape, 19 points below average.

Jolene Yee, a Friends of Franklin Square Park board member, said the children’s play equipment could use an upgrade, given that it’s about 15 years old and “pretty shabby.” Her primary concerns are the absence of bathrooms and that the park has a single trash can.

“Franklin Square Park has a soccer field that is heavily visited, but no public bathroom. There’s nowhere for kids or adults to go to the bathroom. There’s not even businesses close by. The amount of biohazards left at the park is a problem,” said Yee.

Mark Evans, a Financial District resident who used to play regularly at the park said the lack of bathrooms was one of the reasons he changed fields.

“Even one or a few Porta Potties would help. It’s not a good situation for child or adult leagues to have people going to the bathroom near the gate of the park,” said Evans.

Santiago Lerma, legislative aide for Supervisor Ronen, said Ronen agreed that Franklin Square Park should have bathrooms.

“It may cost upwards of $2.5 million to build a single permanent bathroom. We’re talking to RPD about how that could happen. We want RPD to look at ways to bring the cost down. We’ve also requested that RPD install Porta Potties by April. In addition, we’ve asked RPD to add more trash cans,” said Lerma.

A permanent bathroom for park users could be developed at the Potrero Bus Yard, Bryant and Mariposa streets. According to Stephen Chun, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency deputy spokesperson, the Potrero Neighborhood Collective, LLC (PNC), lead developer of the Potrero Yard Modernization Project, is preparing designs to submit to the City Planning Department as part of the project’s Environmental Impact Report and entitlement process. The PNC team may include proposals for a public restroom on the corner of Bryant and 17th streets and a café with restrooms open to the public on the corner of 17th and New Hampshire streets as community benefits.

Yee said that Friends of Franklin Square Park wants park users to have access to a safe and clean bathroom during park hours.

“This is a small park, which attracts users from all over the City because of its soccer field. The Friends of Franklin Square supports the park in many ways, with biannual clean-ups and advocacy. Since the park isn’t large, it doesn’t get the resources needed to keep it clean. That’s why we’re raising awareness about the issues. We want residents and other users of the park to be able to enjoy the park safely,” said Yee.

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behavior; litter; schools that don’t, or can’t, rise to meet students’ needs; smash and grab crime, or worse; high taxes that seem poorly spent; municipal corruption – have intermittently flared or lingered for a long time. Some have worsened, others gotten better, but all now seem beyond government’s ability to solve. This, as Moritz points out, is a political failure. Eskenazi is right that it’s as much an institutional breakdown, with municipal bureaucracies chronically underperforming. It’s also due to the fraying of cultural and social ties and norms that fostered productive, occasionally polite, informed civic engagement.

Traditional remedies are available to address some of our challenges. Chicago recently demonstrated that if an incumbent mayor isn’t performing well she can be replaced. Others merit structural reform, as encouraged by Moritz, such as full or partial return to citywide supervisorial elections. We may need to accept that some problems can’t be entirely solved, but just better managed, while others – anything related to children – need persistent, coordinated, effective, efforts across institutions.

Mostly, though, we need to stop whining, and do the work necessary to create the place we want to live in. If we’re all “fed up” – bored, annoyed, or disappointed over a San Francisco that hasn’t been what we wanted it to be for too long – then let's find ways to make things better. Bayview, Dogpatch and Potrero Hill have repeatedly demonstrated that communities can flourish even in the face of government neglect or incompetence. Citizen-activists, far more than politicians and bureaucrats, closed filthy power plants, nurtured the emergence of parks and open spaces, improved elementary schools, cre -

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“The application was submitted in June 2017, it has been approved by all City agencies, but needs final approval by the Board of Supervisors,” Marsh wrote. “I am hoping this will be soon. Once the permit is issued, we will complete the work.”

In November 2022, Doumani notified Marsh that DNA had been informed that the Serpentine Stair encroachment permit had been approved. Doumani requested that Align share the schedule to complete the project. Align didn’t respond. Align also didn’t reply to an interview request.

In 2015, Little also promised $1 million for community open space projects. The staircase from Missouri to Connecticut streets would’ve been an obvious use of these funds. Little later asserted that this liability had been transferred to Align as part of its purchase of the project.

“Align commented that they were surprised by the $1 million that they acquired along with the project. Yet when Align assumed control of the project in 2015, it communicated with Friends of the Potrero Hill Recreation

Center Park. Align stated it would help the Friends of the Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park with funding the second staircase,” said Serwer.

In 2017, the University of California, San Francisco became aware of a lapse in communication between Align and Friends of Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park and provided a $500,000 construction grant for the staircase. UCSF will release the funds once the project is started.

In 2018, MOHCD awarded $100,000 to Friends of Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park to draft staircase construction documents. In 2021, the nonprofit issued a request-for-proposal for a staircase between Missouri and Connecticut streets. Bids for a concrete stairway were submitted by Plant Construction and Yerba Buena Engineering.

“The cost for a new concrete staircase is about $2.5 million. We are now considering building a trail staircase with the $500,000 we have from UCSF. This would consist of a series of steps edged with wood material and filled with gravel and permeable pavers,” said Serwer.

Julie Christensen, DogpatchNorthwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) executive director, favors using the UCSF funding to construct a trail stair between Missouri and Connecticut streets.

“This would be a huge improvement over current conditions,” said Christensen.

According to Shah, in 2021, Friends of Potrero Hill Recreation Center Park reached out to RPD and DPW in the context of applying for grants.

“Some…could have been used for the staircase from Missouri Street to Connecticut Street. The grant requires a government agency to apply for the grant. We had follow-up emails and calls with them in January 2022. But RPD and DPW both declined to take responsibility, so we missed the opportunity,” said

Shah. “We have no plans to currently apply” for the 2023 Clean California grant cycle. “We need RPD or DPW to submit the application. Until they commit, there isn’t anything we can do.” at 5:00 p.m.

Last month, as this article was being developed, Friends of Potrero Hill Recreation Center re-engaged with RPD.

“The next step would be finalizing a plan and securing more funding, if necessary,” said Tamara Aparton, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department spokesperson.

Christensen said San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods haven’t benefitted from bursts of civic infrastructure construction over the past 100 years.

“Our area has a disproportionately high number of unaccepted streets and neglected rights-of-way, places where there should be City-engineered streets and stairways. The dirt path along 22nd Street could connect Potrero Hill to the waterfront and SFMTA’s T Third Street Line and Dogpatch to the Potrero Hill Recreation Center. Though neighbors on the Hill pay their taxes like everyone else, they get less. The City won’t take responsibility for bringing these car and pedestrian links up to code. They put insurmountable hurdles in the path of neighbors who try to do it themselves,” said Christensen.

Doumani said community groups shouldn’t be continually asked to fundraise for neighborhood improvements, relieving the City of its obligations.

“The City isn’t funding community amenities like the staircases. It encourages the community to do it. After the community raises funds, the City does not act. As the project stalls, the costs shoot up. Later, when the community tries to fundraise again, donors express frustration. They feel projects go nowhere. City agencies need to work together to solve problems so projects get completed,” said Doumani.

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