Great Highway

Another listener question.

Does the mayor support turning Sunset Dunes back into the Great Highway?

I stood my ground three years ago when I was running for office.

I've said Once again, this is up to the voters.

Okay, last one.

Let's just go around the horn really fast.

What do you think is going to happen with Prop G? Great Highway again.

What do you think?

So first story, we're going to follow up on, follow up, that's all we do here, on a story that just keeps coming back, just keeps coming back.

Folks will remember the Great Highway, the park that was created out of the Great Highway on the west side of San Francisco that the voters approved.

But then there was a whole... backlash from the neighborhood and a recall of the supervisor that supported it.

And now the same folks that were opposed to turning a road into a park that everyone seemed to like are now back and have gotten on the ballot a reversal of that decision.

And we're going to learn about that from NBC Bay Area.

Something of a deja vu for San Francisco voters.

For the second time, they'll be asked to weigh in on the future of the Great Highway and the new Sunset Dunes Park.

NBC Bay Area's Joe Rosato Jr. shows us what's at stake for both sides with Prop G.

That would raise some $160 million annually for muni.

And then you can see another big significant circle is the Great Highway.

This is against this measure, so this is a lot of also tech donors giving to ensure that Prop G fails and that the Sunset Dunes Park remains a park instead of being converted to a weekday road.

You know, here you can also see that only two measures really face that significant opposition money.

So Great Highway measure Prop G, as I said, and then Proposition I, which is an affordable housing measure, a social housing measure really to be more accurate, that would create social housing for the first time in San Francisco.

Kind of a different way of funding affordable housing and different, yeah, different kind of tenancy requirements and internal rules for that kind of housing.

It has a lot of opposition that doesn't really, you know, the mayor has called it a slush fund, which, you know, our columnist thought was very funny because it would be his office ultimately that controls that money.

So if you've never checked out the channel before, it's time to see what's going on here at johnnydontlike.com.

Here with an update on the Great Highway to San Francisco, Mr. Randy Wang.

You know, it sure seems that there's a lot of deja vu when we have elections.

There's always a kidney bill on the ballot, and there is another one this year on Prop 44.

You can learn about that on The Accountability Podcast.

And yet again, residents of San Francisco will vote on the issue of the Great Highway, where a year and a half ago, voters decided to turn the Great Highway into a park, except the people who actually live in that neighborhood got so pissed off that they recalled their supervisor over it, and this issue has never been settled because some people love the park and some people hate the traffic.

So San Francisco voters get to vote on the Great Highway yet again.

For more on this, here is NBC In The Bay.

He is very popular, but he's very polarizing as well.

His stands on closing the Great Highway, for example, to make it a park don't sit well with the people that live out in that area.

And a lot of them are predominantly Asian-Americans.

His support for denser housing in the city has drawn the wrath of communities around the city, too.

mayor.In San Francisco, I'm Lyla Schmidt Permana.

Proposition G asks San Francisco voters to reconsider the three-year-old decision that turned the Upper Great Highway into a park.

Rosie Bultman has more.

The former Great Highway along Ocean Beach has been completely closed to vehicles since the passage of Proposition K in twenty twenty-four.

Since then, the roadbed has been transformed into a full-time park that sees around ten thousand visitors each week.

Proposition G would once again allow cars to drive along the Upper Great Highway during weekdays, while closing the area off to vehicles during weekends and holidays.

Proponents say the measure is necessary to alleviate nearby traffic congestion, but opponents argue that it will destroy Sunset Dunes Park.

Support for the measure comes largely from residents living nearby, who say the closure of the roadway has made it harder to get around the west side of the city.

Connie Chan, more progressive, close with labor, uh, has been a representative of her district, the Richmond, uh, in ways that don't necessarily help her citywide.

For example, posing closure of the Great Highway, uh, to make way for, you know, Sunset Dunes Park, a very popular in her district, maybe less so citywide in this, you know, congressional district.

Mm.

But it's, you know, these are two very distinctive people and personalities.