Excelsior Giant Sweep :
Problems Found , Problems Fixed
Ain ’ t nobody gonna break this team ’ s momentum .
During the pouring rains that drenched the City in December and January , our Outreach and Enforcement ( OnE ) Team hit the pavement in the Excelsior District to educate property and business owners about City codes , and our operations crews were out in force there , too , doing a deep clean of the neighborhood .
This was all part of the Excelsior Giant Sweep campaign , a fourweek initiative in the Excelsior that focused largely on commercial corridors . Those areas included Mission Street from Avalon to Ottawa streets , Alemany Boulevard from Ocean Avenue to Naglee Street , and Geneva Avenue from Paris to Gloria streets . We also created a multi-lingual newspaper for this program that explains City codes that Public Works enforces , covering such areas as sidewalk cleanliness and proper garbage storage .
We sent out three teams that included representatives from our street cleaning , urban forestry , street repair , graffiti and permitting units . Recology , the refuse collection company , accompanied us . The OnE Team also had staff on the streets and coordinated the operation .
Together , they addressed myriad issues , among them illegal dumping , dirty or broken garbage cans , improperly pruned trees , litter , graffiti tags , hazardous sidewalks and impeded paths of travel . They pruned , painted , steam cleaned , made repairs and much more .
Public Works crews removed 128 graffiti tags marring poles , signs and parking meters , and 12 property owners abated graffiti on their properties after being warned . Recology found 42 addresses that did not have garbage service or insufficient service – a problem that can lead to illegal dumping . Half of the property and business owners who were put on notice started service right away .
The OnE team will continue to monitor the area .
The special Giant Sweep neighborhood improvement campaign will move to the Mission District in March .
February 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter