“Fast forward to the 1970’s when the Mission Planning Council, the Mission Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) and the Open Space Committee were working together to identify possible sites for neighborhood parks. “It was a long gestation period,” says Toby Levine, unofficial neighborhood historian who lives across the street from Juri Commons. The MHDC in its 1974 report noted, “a park would serve that section of the Mission which has no park at all.” Securing funding for open space acquisition was a challenge, however, even with the support of Cesar Chavez who led a march to promote the open space ballot measure with the banner “SI on C.” Despite the nifty slogan, it failed. Two years later its replacement, Proposition J, passed and the old train yard became a park.”
Juri Commons | San Francisco Neighborhood Parks Council
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