In the Works - Community Newsletter August 2017 | Page 49

The Richmond District operation
– concentrated along Geary
Boulevard between 17th and
26th avenues – is the fourth in a
series of the special Giant Sweep
neighborhood outreach and
enforcement operations. It builds
on earlier successes in Chinatown,
the Excelsior District and the
Mission District. weeding medians and sprucing up
tree basins.
We have inspectors on the ground
day and night to make sure
that businesses have the proper
permits to display merchandise on
the sidewalk and to put out tables
and chairs for outdoor dining.
Our cleaning crews have jumped
into action steam cleaning gritty
sidewalks, removing graffiti, This multi-agency Giant Sweep
neighborhood campaign is led
by Public Works’ Outreach and
Enforcement (OnE) Team,
with support from our Bureau
of Street Use and Mapping,
Bureau of Street Environmental
Services and Bureau of Urban
Forestry. Other City agencies
The five-week initiative began
in mid-August and includes
outreach in Russian, since many
residents and shopkeepers in the
neighborhood known as “Little
Russia” speak Russian as their first
language.
involved include the Department
of the Environment and the
Department of Public Health. We
also work closely with Recology,
the refuse-collection company in
San Francisco.
Giant Sweep will land in more
neighborhoods over the next
year. Keep an eye out for more
information.
August 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter