by Sam Whiting : sfchronicle – excerpt
A summer of simmering San Francisco neighborhood resistance to a plan to build a new small boat harbor in front of the Marina Green boiled over into a protest outside a community meeting on Wednesday.
Members of the recently organized citizen group Keep the Waterfront Open gathered outside the meeting hosted by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department at Moscone Rec Center.
The plan was to carry signs, march and chant at the entrance to the meeting in the old gymnasium on Chestnut Street. Around 75-100 energized people showed up, some with signs in hand — though they forwent the march, and the chanting was done mainly by two 8-year-old girls, Siobhan Butler and Carolyn Wong, president and vice president of the Earth Club at their school.
“Save the cove!” they chanted loudly, alternating with, “Clean the cove!”…
Some of the more adamant protesters are still fighting a $190 million settlement reached in 2021 between the city attorney and PG&E to pay for the cleanup. Homeowners along Marina Boulevard claim that the cleanup plan is insufficient for remediating both the boat harbor and the property beneath their homes…(more)