We Do Not Need an Office Building in Golden Gate Park!
Golden Gate Park founder and Arboretum designer John McLaren and benefactor Helene Strybing must really be rolling in their graves now! McLaren, who had envisioned the park as a vehicle- and building-free oasis, would be aghast at the high ticket prices and corporate commercialism of our museums, the ugly gashes marking the entrance to the underground parking garages, the Segway "tours," and the very idea of astroturfing playing fields at Ocean Beach. Likewise, Helene intended the Arboretum, whose creation she funded in her will, as a sanctuary which would remain free for all. And so it had been since Strybing Arboretum opened in 1940 until Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee got their way.
Earlier this year, despite clear warnings from auditor Harvey Rose that revenue projections were "very optimistic," supplemented with irrefutable testimony and evidence that the fees are a disaster, our craven Board of Supervisors extended the fees for another two years, eliminating financial reporting and setting the stage for permanent fees.
Shortly afterwards, the ugly new ticket booths were installed (at a cost of $56,000 plus $8,000 for installation); the old booths are stored on the grounds. A formerly lovely flower bed in the Demonstration Garden is now a gravel pit and an enormous new redwood structure now sells plants to benefit the Botanical Garden Society.
But even worse things are planned. The Society has been granted a "Preliminary Mitigated Negative Declaration," which will allow the destruction of 46 stately trees to make space for the construction of an $11-million, 28-foot-high office building, dubbed in greenspeak as a "Center for Sustainable Gardening." A 20-foot-wide access road, the length of a football field, would run between the fortress and Lincoln Way at 15th Avenue. It is to be secured by walls and a towering fence. The year-and-a-half timeline projected for construction will asphyxiate gophers, send traumatized families of quail fleeing and affect crucial habitat for the endangered red legged frog.
During this period, the Arboretum will be engulfed by construction noise. While the project would cover 2.5 acres, only 714 square feet of greenhouse space will be added, while 3,117 square feet of roads and pathways are to be asphalted and another 2,780 square feet are to be covered with gravel. To obtain a copy of the PMND report, phone Chelsea Fordham at (415) 575-9071. (Appeals must be lodged by Sept. 16). Online version of the declaration,
Remember that the supervisors will vote on this, as will the rubber-stamp Recreation and Park Commission. Let them hear your voice loud and clear! We need to halt this destructive project and substitute a new greenhouse with no fence and no Baghdad-style "Green Zone" in Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens!
Misisipi Mike
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