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Supervisors demand Rec & Park explain UN Plaza activation after Heart of the City farmers market moved
Summary
The committee unanimously voted to forward a resolution urging Recreation & Park to disclose the UN Plaza pilot’s duration, costs, metrics and mitigation for the displaced Heart of the City farmers market, after widespread public comment from vendors and Tenderloin advocates who said the Fulton Plaza move has harmed sales, accessibility and logistics.
San Francisco supervisors on Sept. 21 pressed the Recreation and Park Department to justify a pilot activation of United Nations Plaza that relocated the long‑running Heart of the City farmers market to Fulton Plaza, and voted to send a resolution to the full Board demanding transparency and mitigation.
Supervisor Dean Preston, who authored the resolution, told the Government Audit & Oversight Committee that Rec & Park had refused repeated requests to convene community meetings before moving the market. "This would never happen in any other neighborhood," Preston said, arguing the Tenderloin community was not given a meaningful opportunity to weigh in on a plan that market leaders…
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