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November 14, 2023, SF Chronicle, Sam Whiting
PLAN TO TURN SF'S WEST MARINA HARBOR INTO CITY PARK HITS MAJOR SNAG
SF Supervisor Safai will introduce legislation in an attempt to slow down or circumvent a unanimous RPD Commission vote to advance the project to environmental review…
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November 2023, Marina Times, Erin Roach
WHAT NEXT FOR THE MARINA REMEDIATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT?
Residents argue that it neither remediates nor improves the Marina; instead, it transforms a beloved and historic city park into what some consider a yacht...
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October 23, 2023, Westside Observer, Laurent Philonenko, Erin Roach, Evelyn Graham
BAIT AND SWITCH ON THE BAY
The best part is that hardly anyone knows about this plan because it’s quietly sneaking through various approvals. Who needs transparency and public input when...
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October 23, 2023, SF Examiner, Natalia Gurevich
FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS, ONE WOMAN HAS MANNED THE BOAT FUEL STATION
Chrissy Kaplan didn’t think she’d find her calling at 19. But in 1973, she stumbled upon a life on the water and a profession that would allow her to spend...
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October 21, 2023, ABC7 News, Suzanne Phan
SF MARINA GREEN REDESIGN PROPOSAL RAISES OBJECTIONS AS COMMISSION APPROVES EIR
The Marina Green -- 74 acres that so many people love and cherish. "That openness is a treasure that we have today," said Dan Clarke, a concerned neighbor. But…
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October 20, 2023, San Francisco Standard, Noah Baustin
YACHTS COULD BLOCK AN ICONIC MARINA DISTRICT VIEW. RESIDENTS ARE NOT HAPPY
San Francisco just moved one step closer to a controversial redesign of a Marina District harbor that would...clean up only some of the pollution the project was initially...
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October 20, 2023, San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting
DESPITE PROTEST, S. F. GASHOUSE COVE RENOVATION PLAN GETS FIRST APPROVAL
In the face of overwhelming public dissent, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission voted Thursday to advance a controversial plan to...
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October 17, 2023, NBC Bay Area, Jaxon Van Derbeken
SAN FRANCISCO’S ICONIC MARINA WATERFRONT NEIGHBORS FIGHT TO PRESERVE VIEW
A plan in the works to clean up some of the waste from that plant has neighbors outraged. They say it will not clean up all the waste in the cove, and will force relocation of...
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October 12, 2023, San Francisco Examiner,
SUPES TAKE UP COMMUNITY MOVEMENT AGAINST NEW HARBOR IN MARINA
City leaders are joining the Marina district’s ongoing fight against a plan to build a new harbor in front of San Francisco’s iconic Marina Green. “On behalf of...
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October 7, 2023, Press Release
SAN FRANCISCANS SHOWCASE CREATIVE PROTESTS TO SAFEGUARD BELOVED WATERFRONT
Marina resident Erin Roach drew inspiration from the renowned artist Christo to create a powerful and thought-provoking statement. Roach and several members of the grassroots...
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September-October 2023, NBC News Bay Area, Jason Van Derbeken
SAN FRANCISCO'S ICONIC MARINA WATERFRONT NEIGHBORS FIGHT TO PRESERVE VIEW

From the 74-acre expanse of Marina Green, visitors can enjoy what some consider San Francisco’s last unspoiled waterfront vista. Not far from the greensward, lies the polluted...

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August 24, 2023, San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting
PROTESTS ERUPT OVER HARBOR RELOCATION PLAN IN 'USUALLY QUIET' S.F. NEIGHBORHOOD

A summer of simmering San Francisco neighborhood resistance to a plan to build a new small boat harbor in front of the Marina Green boiled over into a protest outside a...

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July 2023, Vol 553, Latitude38, Tim Henry

THE REDESIGN OF SAN FRANCISCO MARINA SEEMS TO APPEAL TO NO ONE

San Francisco Marina, which consists of West and East Harbors, will soon be permanently transformed. The City of San Francisco has proposed...

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July 29, 2023, San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting 

‘A CALAMITY’: WHY LONGTIME SF SMALL BUSINESS OWNER OPPOSES RELOCATION OF FUEL DOCK

Kaplan is being permanently relocated from her location across from the Marina Safeway to make way for a basin remediation project that will require removal of her dock and...

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June 20, 2023, San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting

NEW WATERFRONT PARK NEAR MARINA GREEN WOULD FOREVER CHANGE ICONIC VIEWS 

Gashouse Cove, the boat landing that has been part of the San Francisco Marina Small Craft Harbor since the 1960s, will cease to exist in its current form in order for...

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