Open Spaces

Our Vision: San Francisco's natural beauty deserves to be matched by its manmade beauty. Dirty streets are a safety hazard, hurt small businesses and tourism, and degrade our community's quality of life. Both our street space and open space deserve to be shining examples of how our city takes care of itself and its people. 

Our committee is working to improve this by:

  • Holding quarterly "Adopt-a-Street" Street Cleanup days. During one recent event, our volunteers collected 3 dozen bags of trash in just 2 hours.

  • Supporting North Beach Citizen's model of empowering those on the streets with the dignity of work in their Street Cleanup program.

  • Researching Big Belly trash cans, a model that has consistently proven to reduce waste and save costs across our city and country.

  • Partnering with Parks & Rec to inform our community of important updates to Washington Square Park and working to make sure the impending 2019 closure is well thought out with thorough mitigation efforts attached.

Open Spaces Updates

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Petition - Protect our Children at Washington Sq. Park
Petition - Protect our Children at Washington Sq. Park

Sign our petition if you agree that Washington Square Playground needs a child safety gate to prevent our babies and toddlers from being seriously hurt.

Introducing Sundays in the PARKing Lot
Introducing Sundays in the PARKing Lot

A new community space for neighbors to gather weekly while Washington Square Park is closed.

Starting this Sunday, join us each week at noon at 699 Columbus Ave (at Filbert). In partnership with Piazza Pellegrini, we're transforming a parking lot into a community space with weekly programs. From recreational classes to social events, we're hoping to give the neighborhood back some of the open space it is losing with the closure of Washington Square Park.

Welcoming 5 Big Belly Trash Cans to North Beach
Welcoming 5 Big Belly Trash Cans to North Beach

5 Bigbelly Trash Cans are now installed in North Beach!

We're all looking forward to learning about how these units perform in our neighborhood and growing any and all efforts to make our streets and sidewalks clean.