Protest Hastings' Tenderloin parking garage: Thursday (6/2) at noon @ 200 McAllister

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**** Protest Hastings' proposed 7-story, 500-space, mega parking garage in
the Tenderloin *****

Thursday, 6/2 noon to 1 pm
Meet at 200 McAllister

TAKE ACTION: Join the AIDS Housing Alliance, residents of the Rainbow Flag
Apartments (right next door to the proposed garage site), TLC, and other
groups to protest Hastings' attempts to build a parking garage that will
induce more vehicle trips to the Tenderloin thereby spewing more pollution
into this low-income neighborhood and which will especially impact the many
catastrophically-ill people living at the Rainbow Flag apartments right next
door to the garage. Contact Brian Basinger at 864-2566 or Jeremy at
425-9848 for more info about this protest, or how you can get involved in
the ongoing campaign to oppose this project.

BACKGROUND: The proposal for a UC Hastings garage at the corner of Golden
Gate and Larkin is rearing its ugly head once again, and while it's being
sold as a "kindler, gentler" version of the garage proposal that
neighborhood residents and community groups were successful in killing
several years back, it actually still a 500 space mega-garage, 7-stories
tall, all above ground, with very little retail, and NO HOUSING!

There is no need for this much parking on a campus where 40% of the
students, faculty and staff commute to campus without a car and there are
2,900 parking spaces within walking distance with an average occupancy of
87%, meaning at least 400 parking spaces are available even during the
highest demand, but unless you get involved now the Hastings Board will
likely vote at the end of the summer on whether to approve this garage.


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Jeremy Nelson
Policy Director
Transportation for a Livable City (TLC)
NOTE NEW ADDRESS & OFFICE PHONE:
995 Market St., Suite 1550
San Francisco, CA 94103
office: 415.344.0489
cell: 415.425.9848
fax: 775.540.9813
e-mail: jeremy [at] livablecity.org
web: http://www.livablecity.org