Thank you.

Community and Culture

We had the vision to create the Sunset Chinese Cultural District, the City’s first cultural heritage district on the west side, and the first focused on the cultural and economic vitality of San Francisco’s Chinese American community. I’m excited to see this new institution continue to grow and develop in the years to come, and foster more community connections, events, and opportunities for our entire neighborhood.

I’m proud that we had the imagination to envision and create the Great Highway Park at the beginning of the pandemic, and transform our western waterfront for community building, public art, civic action, and active transportation. This was a deeply divisive issue, and it’s one we never shied away from, but worked to broker compromises and find common ground, without losing sight of the long term realities of climate change and its impacts on our waterfront. I’m proud that one of the final legislative accomplishments our office delivered was passing the Great Highway Pilot Ordinance , keeping in place the promenade on weekends and holidays for the next three years, and requiring City Departments to conduct broad public outreach, extensive traffic planning, regular data collection, and to finally create a comprehensive sand management plan. The long term future of the Great Highway is still yet to be determined, and I look forward to seeing what’s on the road ahead – thanks to our work with the community to find creative solutions, and create new possibilities. 

I’m also incredibly proud of our partnership with Sunset Mercantile to create and launch the Outer Sunset Farmers Market and Mercantile . This was an idea that came up during our 2018 campaign, and we made it an early priority when we entered office. It would have been easier to bring in an existing farmers market – some bigger, less local business that could’ve quickly set up shop. But with Sunset Mercantile, we took the bolder and more difficult path of building a wholly independent market from scratch, and the result is a unique neighborhood gem that was truly built by and for the Sunset. It’s been an immense joy to watch this market grow and flourish, and see how broadly and deeply it’s been embraced by the neighborhood. 

Each of these new neighborhood institutions – the Sunset Chinese Cultural District, Great Highway Park, and Outer Sunset Farmers Market — started as ideas on how to meet long held needs of our community. They took vision and courage and commitment to create, and each has transformed our neighborhood in unique ways, and highlighted the core common thread of my time as Supervisor: a sincere effort to bring people together.