By Adam Klaus, neighbor and Director of Operations at QuitCarbon who is presenting at the June 13th DTNA Community Meeting

Noe Street neighbors Sabina Brown and Casey Golliher knew they wanted to do something about climate change. When their family moved into a 3-unit building on Noe, they had the opportunity to do something. They decided to make it fully electric, eliminating the burning of natural gas in the home – a major source of global warming emissions and local air pollution in San Francisco.

Today, the home is heated – and cooled – with efficient and comfortable heat pumps. Their water heat also comes from a heat pump, their clothes dryers are electric, and they cook on a powerful and precise induction range. Much of the electricity to run the home is generated by the solar array on their roof. Soon they can be free of the PG&E grid with a shut-off switch. The hope is to be as green as possible, and to inspire others to have a greener home.

“We’ve never looked back,” said Brown. “An all-electric home is, simply, better. The heat from our central heat pumps is more comfortable than a gas furnace. We love the magic of induction cooking, and we’re proud to be doing our part to get to net-zero emissions, which the whole planet needs to do in the coming years.”

According to San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan, gas use in buildings contributes a full 35% of the city’s carbon emissions, and must be phased out rapidly. Local agencies are responding accordingly. Earlier this year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District passed rules that will phase out gas water heaters starting in 2027, and furnaces in 2029.

Another Duboce Triangle neighbor, Adam Klaus of Sanchez Street, worked with his HOA to switch an aging gas water heater serving four units to an efficient heat pump last summer. With applicable rebates, the project came in at less than it would have cost to put in a new gas water heater, and Klaus estimates operating electricity costs at about $50 per month.

“Not only did we do the right thing for the climate, but we have an extremely efficient and reliable water heater that is saving us about 30% on our monthly PG&E bills,” said Klaus.

Klaus has also helped found QuitCarbon, a company that helps homeowners create free, whole-home electrification plans, and connects them with contractors to get the work done. Other resources for people looking to make the switch include BayREN.org and SwitchIsOn.org. Check out these resources, and see how you can contribute to a greener future. 

Membership Renewals

Thank you to everyone who has renewed their membership via the dtna.org website.  Members can still renew by check mailed to: DTNA, Attn. Treasurer, 2261 Market St., PMB 301, San Francisco, CA 94114.

Newsletter Posting and News Updates

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DTNA Website Search

The search engine at the bottom of each webpage has been enhanced by embedding Google Search that will search all public content, including pdf’s which Wild Apricot Search did not. Newsletters are now included in the search.

DTNA Social Media

DTNA is now on Instagram: dubocetriangleneighborhood

Member Messaging

We want to remind our members of recent and upcoming changes to our online Membership Directory.  As of January 1, 2023, the online Membership Directory began allowing member names to be viewable – only names (no other identifying information) and only viewable by other active members when logged in.  Members can increase the amount of information viewable to other members (phone, email, address), as well as make all of their information private (no name or other listing) by changing their privacy settings (see FAQs on dtna.org).  This allows active members to message other members and build community.  Please note that while you can email another member through the dtna.org website Directory, the recipient’s email address remains private and is not seen by the sender. 

Membership Bundles

We’d also like to remind all members that household, patron, angel and superstar membership levels are bundle memberships that allow a second household member 13 years or older to be added as a voting member at no additional cost .  The bundle member has all the same membership perks, with no additional membership fee. 

Please reach out to membership@dtna.org with any questions or concerns.

Here is your opportunity to share your feedback on the Expanding Housing Choice in San Francisco. SF Planning is conducting two Community two community Open Houses where you will learn about existing zoning and land use rules and how SAn Francisco can make changes to better meet San Francisco’s housing needs, increase affordability for low- and middle-income households, and help advance racial and social equity.

Where: SF LGBTQ Center, 1800 Market St., San Francisco

When: Tuesday, June 22, 2023, 5:30PM-7:30PM

Register here for June 22

and

Where: San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Ave., San Francisco

When: Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, 5:30PM-7:30PM

Register here for July 11

There will be a short presentation followed by opportunities to meet with various City departments on the collective effort to pair new housing with critical infrastructure, services, and resources to support communities.

Visit Housing for All webpage for information on how the City is working to implement the vision and actions of the Housing Element.

SF Planning will launch additional community engagement events in the coming weeks. Want to hear more? Please sign up to receive announcements and information about our events here.

DPW's tentative Duboce Triangle tree planting timeline includes two 2023 tree plantings over three months: April/May/June.

DTNA needs to document who can care for a tree before DPW will commit to planting a tree in any specific empty tree well.

There are 28 empty tree wells to fill. Addresses near empty tree wells still in need of a volunteer include: 

14th St: 751-753, 831; 15th St: 2174, 2262-2264; (Belcher St: 45, 46: Construction coming); Beaver St: 87; Church St: 126, 130, 160, 178; Duboce Ave: 460; Hermann St: 152-154; Potomac St: 77; Sanchez St: 90, 151-153; Scott St: Corner Waller/Scott

If  you or someone  you know can care for a new tree, please let Frank Tizedes know and provide contact information.

Member Messaging

This allows active members to message other members and build community by selecting a member in the Membership Directory.  Please note that while you can email another member through the dtna.org website Directory, the recipient’s email address remains private and is not seen by the sender. 

We want to remind our members of changes to our online Membership Directory.  As of January 1, 2023, the online Membership Directory began allowing member names to be viewable – only names (no other identifying information) and only viewable by other active members when logged in.  Members can increase the amount of information viewable to other members (phone, email, address), as well as make all of their information private (no name or other listing) by changing their privacy settings (see FAQs on dtna.org). 

Membership Bundles

We’d also like to remind all members that household, patron, angel and superstar membership levels are bundle memberships that allow a second household member 13 years or older to be added as a voting member at no additional cost .  The bundle member has all the same membership perks, with no additional membership fee. 

Thank you to everyone who has renewed their membership via the dtna.org website. 

Please reach out to membership@dtna.org with any questions or concerns.

Bob Bush, DTNA Vice President, Web Manager

Paige Rausser Grey, DTNA Board Member, Membership Manager

DPW Duboce Triangle tree planting tentative timeline for two 2023 tree plantings over three months: April/May/June.

DTNA needs to document who can care for a tree for DPW to commit to planting a tree in any specific empty tree well.

We now have 28 empty tree wells to fill. Please look at the chart below to see where there are empty tree wells in need of a volunteer (Blue = there is a volunteer, Green = blocks with no empty tree wells, Red = blocks with construction deferring any tree planting).

If  you or someone  you know near a tree can care for a new tree, please let Frank Tizedes know and provide contact information.

Tree Well Location

Sanchez St: 90	1	needed
Sanchez St: 151-153	1	needed
Belcher St: 45				construction coming to area
Belcher St: 46				construction coming to area
Church St, 126	1	needed
Church St, 130	1	needed
Church St, 160	1	needed
Church St, 178	1	needed
Scott St: Corner Waller/Scott	1	needed		Was blown down by wind
Carmelita St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
Pierce St: 75	RemoveStump
Potomac St: 77	1	needed		House on Waller but the Unit 77 is on Potomac
Steiner St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
Fillmore St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
Webster St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
Buchanan St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
STREETS RUNNING EAST / WEST
16th St: 3635	1	Christina
Beaver St: 87	1	needed
15th St: 2164	1	Mary/Michael
15th St: 2174	1	needed
15th St: 2262-2264	1	needed
Henry St: 122	1	Larry Bates
14th St: 751-753	2	needed		mgt company: 415-621-2700
14th St: 831	1	needed
Duboce Ave: 460	1	needed
Hermann St: 152-154	1	needed
Germania St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
Waller St: NO EMPTY TREE WELLS
TTL Trees to Plant	28

Youth Engagement with SFUSD and the Exploratorium  The Port teamed with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Exploratorium to develop new youth engagement for high school students. The team developed 5 “in-classroom” sessions with Abraham Lincoln High School and The Academy High School to teach students about climate change, sea-level-rise, flooding, and adaptation strategies for the San Francisco waterfront. On January 20, students met at the Port and Exploratorium, for a co-hosted field trip, in celebration of the king tides happening that day.  The field trip started with a walking tour of the Embarcadero Waterfront; then students used stencils to map locations throughout the downtown to mark the extent of potential flooding and expected height of projected sea level rise for the years of 2040 and 2090. Working in small groups, students brainstormed ways to reimagine and adapt the northern waterfront. Exhibits and special activities at the Exploratorium wrapped up the day. For a more detailed account of the experience, take a look at the on the ground coverage from SFUSD News  On February 16, the Port teamed with teachers and students from Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School to have a similar field trip to map locations throughout the downtown to mark the extent of potential flooding from sea level rise. Students also played the Game of Hazards to better understand the earthquake and flood risks to the waterfront. For youth-focused resources for learning about resilience and family-friendly activities, visit sfport.com/wrp/family. Resilience in the News  Resilience has been in the news this winter, from the King Tides of December 22-23, 2022, and January 21-22, 2023, to the storms that brought record rainfall to the state causing flooding around the Bay Area. The Port joined the Exploratorium for its January King Tides walking tours and led its own waterfront walking tours, with one in Islais Creek Bayview on January 21 and one in Embarcadero on February 4. These events are opportunities to witness the potential flood effects to the waterfront from sea level rise and climate change. King Tides are the highest tides of the year and are considered an indicator of the future shoreline. For more on the January King Tides, read the San Francisco Chronicle article.   We Hear You: Draft Waterfront Adaptation Strategies   In October 2022, the Port, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and San Francisco city agencies shared Draft Waterfront Adaptation Strategies. Based on over five years of community feedback, the Draft Waterfront Adaptation Strategies are different ways for the City to create a resilient, sustainable and equitable waterfront for the next 100 years. Feedback on the Draft Strategies gathered from the 16 public in-person and online events hosted by the Port between October and December 2022 is available in the following engagement summary. Learn more by reading the Community Engagement Summary.  Comments are informing development of the Draft Waterfront Adaptation Plan (Tentatively Selected Plan), which is under development through Summer 2023. The Port will continue to engage and seek community input on this important work for the City of San Francisco. Media Corner: Living Seawall Pilot Explainer Video View the new Living Seawall Pilot explainer video to learn more about this innovative two-year study. Led by the Port and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), the Living Seawall Pilot was launched in Spring 2022. The Pilot is testing and evaluating engineering with nature concepts from around the world — from Seattle to Sydney — to learn how we can make San Francisco's seawall more ecologically friendly in the future. The video was produced with BAYCAT Studios, a nonprofit media organization for young women and people of color whose work highlights social impact projects.  Honoring Black History Month The Port celebrates Black History Month, an annual celebration of African Americans' achievements and significant contributions to U.S. history.  The Port aspires to make equity, diversity, and inclusion a part of all WRP work — not just for a month but throughout the year — as we build a waterfront that is inviting for all. That's why the WRP planning team is working with an Equity Working Group made up of public agency equity practitioners to ensure that planning for the waterfront engages residents, addresses their concerns, and puts forward ideas that prioritize benefits for the communities along the waterfront. The WRP is also developing a program-wide Equity Implementation Plan that will look across multiple areas such as workforce development, as well as monitoring and outreach to help track how the WRP is responding to and working with communities. Honoring Lunar New Year The Port honors and embraces Lunar New Year, held this year January 22 to February 1, as deeply rooted in history and celebratory tradition, symbolizing a new start or a refresh in one's life with hope for prosperity, wealth, and happiness. In this Year of the Rabbit, known as the "luckiest of all animals in China," we reflect on its symbolism of peace, elegance, and contemplation. Special Lunar New Year events on the waterfront included personalized red paper scroll creation and lion dance performances. Visit the Port's Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for stories and highlights shared throughout the month. sfport.com/wrp

The online Election Runner voting results are available at:

https://vote.electionrunner.com/election/yqRL4/results

There was one additional paper ballot that added a write-in for vote Cathy Liu for the 6th Director seat.

Frank Tizedes was re-elected President with 42 votes. David Trump received a total of 28 votes for President, and was elected Secretary with 50 votes. All other candidates listed on the ballot were elected to the Board.

There were 8 write-in candidates for the 6th Director seat: Dennis Richards (4 votes), Karen Schwartz (2 votes) and Terrance Alan, David Troup, Kevin Riley, Frank Tizedes, Miles Cooper, Cathy Liu (all with 1 vote each).

Voter turnout was 52% (72 voters out of 138 eligible voters) compared to 2022 49% (55 voters out of 119 eligible voters).

This devastating fire destroyed the Victorian at 51 Camelita, displacing two neighbors who lost their home and all its contents on February 14, 2023. A Go Fund Me has been organized by Fiona Friedland to support our friend and neighbor Andra.

Hello, neighbors!

I got involved in DTNA over two years ago. As a long-time reader of the Duboce Triangle News, when I saw that a volunteer was needed for the Editor role I signed up in a heartbeat. I’d been a fan of this little slice of San Francisco since long before I ever moved here, and once I started calling Noe St. home, I couldn’t get enough history of this place. The News was, for me, a point of a geographical, social, and cultural connection. I was honored to join the decades-long effort to inform and organize neighbors.

When I first took on this role, we were in the early days of a years-long pandemic leading up to a major Presidential election. Everything felt impossibly large and abstract. I wanted to do something positive; to work with others toward constructive change.

It’s been an amazing learning experience. I’ve met more of my neighbors in 2 years than I did in the previous 8. I’ve gotten to know folks from various City departments, local businesses, and nonprofit organizations. I ’ve seen how much hard work goes into bringing a neighborhood together to address the issues that affect our lives. These days, it’s rare for me to take a walk in the neighborhood without running into at least one neighbor I know by name.

This may be my last issue at the helm, at least for the near-term, but it’s not the end. Though my life is calling me in other directions, I’ll continue to contribute articles on everything that captures my imagination about living in this magical place—its hidden gems, natural wonders, beautiful humans, and unique culture.

If you see me, say hi! I’ll continue to participate in our neighborhood events whenever I can. I hope you’ll join me.