The District 5 meeting, hosted by Community Partners United, will be
held on February 18th from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Ella Hill Hutch
Community Center (1050 McAllister Street.)

The Fillmore/Western Addition neighborhood meeting, hosted by the
Friends of Kimbell Park, will be held on March 11th from 6-8 PM, at
the Western Addition Branch Library (1550 Scott Street). Please note,
meeting details are subject to change. Be sure to check the calendar
at http://openspacesf.org/event for updates.

Attention park people! The City wants to hear from you about open
space. Do you have ideas for improving your local parks? Can you
imagine creative ways to build new open space in your neighborhood?
In the upcoming months, more than a dozen meetings will take place
throughout San Francisco, hosted by the Neighborhood Parks Council
(NPC) as the community partner for the Mayor's Office of Greening,
the Planning Department, and the Recreation and Park Department. The
Council is working with neighborhood groups across the city to
solicit the public's vision and priorities about the future of public
open space through a series of community workshops in January,
February, and March.

The workshop series is the second phase of the Mayor's Open Space
Task Force, a two-year process begun in November, 2007, to delve into
the issues and opportunities that will shape San Francisco's open
space system in the 21st century. Three key outcomes from the two-
year effort will be the development of a long-range Vision Plan, an
updated Open Space Element in the General Plan (ROSE- Recreation and
Open Space Element), and an Action Plan for the decade with specific
strategies and ideas that can be implemented in the short-term. This
package of vision, policy, and specific plans is being called the
Open Space Framework.

Input gathered at the neighborhood workshops will help to inform the
Open Space Framework, to be managed by the Mayor's Office of
Greening. Those unable to attend a scheduled meeting are also
encouraged to participate by either hosting their own meeting with
neighbors at their convenience, or by completing a brief survey at
http://www.openspacesf.org.

A `Meeting in a Box' is available for all those who chose to conduct
their own meeting, providing a guide for the host to easily lead a
conversation with friends and colleagues, and to garner important
feedback about open space needs, challenges and ideas.

Results from all public feedback will be incorporated into the Action
Plan for Open Space. In addition, a collective, ranked priority list
on open space issues will be created and presented to the Mayor,
Board of Supervisors, and relevant Departments and their
Commissions.

The District 5 meeting, hosted by Community Partners United, will be
held on February 18th from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Ella Hill Hutch
Community Center (1050 McAllister Street.) To RSVP, please contact
Mike Kritzman, Open Space Program Assistant, mkritzman@..., 415-
621-3260. More information and the complete meeting schedule can
also be found at http://openspacesf.org/meetingpacket.