Sunset-Parkside Education and Action Committee (SPEAK) records

box 1

Series 1 Organizational Records 1968-2015

Scope and Contents

Includes incorporation papers, by-laws, tax returns, and newsletters and reports published by the organization. Minutes are not included.

Arrangement

Roughly chronologically organized.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes a CD and a computer diskette.

Establishment of Organization

Founding 1968-1977

Incorporation Papers 1970-1974

By-laws and Amendments 1981-2013

Financial Records

Tax Papers and Returns 1970-1977

Physical Description: 7 folders

Property Tax 1984-1990

Treasurer's Reports 1928-2012

Related Materials

Quarterly and annual financial statements can be found in the Chronological Files series.

Board of Directors 1993-2012

Community Organizing Background Papers 1968-1977

Citizen Participation Thesis by Inge Horton 1968-1977

Citizen Participation in a Voluntary Community Organization 1979

Grants:

1971-1974

Agreements 1991-1974

Neighborhood Beautification Projects 1991-1993

Facilities Rentals 2000-2003

Membership Lists 2004-2006

Digital Files:

Membership Database 2003

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

1 computer diskette, Access 2000.

Minutes and Newsletters 2003-2015

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

1 CD.

Publications

SPEAK News Letter 1969-1975

SPEAK Up Date 1990-2015

Physical Description: 2 folders

Housing in the Sunset, A Community in Transition 1974

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, Sixteen Notable Buildings [2005]

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, The Oceanside Neighborhood 2007

Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside, A Neighborhood of the Sunset District San Francisco 2007

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, The Oceanside Neighborhood, Final Report of the Oceanside Survey 2012

Series 2 Chronological Files 1971-2020

Scope and Contents

Contains board minutes, correspondence, and some financial reports. There are only a few minutes from 1971-1976; these are called "results." Documentation of board minutes begins in 1995 and are incomplete. Early topics include organizational goals, a housing survey, illegal parking of commercial vehicles, and a retirement plan for employees. The agency sponsored an annual summer festival featuring art, music and dance, as well as a candidates' night. Sample topics from 1996 include an art program held in several Sunset schools administered by SPEAK; cellular antennae, a Neighborhood Special Use District, illegal dwelling units, and a liquor license moratorium. Later topics include garbage rate increase, architectural surveys, open space, and loss of non-profit status. Includes newsletters of Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, of which SPEAK has been a long-term member. Includes a 1991 college internship paper, "An Architectural Analysis: The Richmond and Sunset Districts."

There are no documents from 1977 to 1985. SPEAK is trying to locate early files, especially of its Sunset Parkside Education Committee, SPEC, and the Safety Committee called the SAC.

Arrangement

Roughly chronologically arranged.

box 1

Chronology 1968-1978

Note

Compiled by Inge Horton.

Files,

box 1

1971-2003

box 2

2004-2020

box 2

Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods 1997-2013

Series 3 Special Projects 1971-2014

Scope and Contents

Documents SPEAK's efforts on new buildings, building alterations, and permits pending at the Planning Department. Includes correspondence, notes, newsclippings, petitions, and a few photographs. Has a project review of various neighborhood cases, and files on landmarking work, art workshops, a transit study, and challenges to a proposed development at 1900 Sloat Boulevard. The organization managed art teachers in San Francisco public schools. The Oceanside Survey was a years-long special project that was administered by a SPEAK sub-committee. That work is documented in Series 4.

Arrangement

Roughly chronologically arranged.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes audiocassettes and CDs.

box 2

Project Review-Projects: Residential Code Agreements

Project Review 1989-2010

Physical Description: 2 folders

Related Materials

1 photograph removed to Box 6, Folder 1.

Projects:

MUNI Streetcars on Sunset Boulevard 1971

Physical Description: 5 folders

Separated Materials

3 photographs removed to Box 6, Folder 1.

Housing in the Sunset Report 1974

Art Workshops and Festival 1989-2014

Physical Description: 2 folders

Residential Code Amendments 1993-1995

Physical Description: 2 folders

box 4

Projects: 2900 Sloat Boulevard 1994-2006

Separated Materials

Photographs removed to Box 6, Folder 2.

Correspondence

Physical Description: 5 folders

Board of Supervisors

Physical Description: 2 folders

Planning Commission Hearing Feb. 23, 1995

Physical Description: 3 folders

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes 2 audiocassettes.

Planning Commission

Notes

Owners Signed Appeal Forms

Chevron

Statements of Opposition

Physical Description: 2 folders

Petitions

Letters, Originals for Reproduction

Vivian and Joel Materials

Newspaper Ad and Articles

Alternative Drawings and Model

Neighbors and Associations

Physical Description: 3 folders

Accidents

Legal Advice

Association Newsletters

Plot Maps and Radius List

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Projects: Architectural Survey-Tourism Improvement District

Architectural Survey of Sunset 1998-1999

Shriners Hospital Rehabilitation 1997-1999

Physical Description: 2 folders

Sullivan House Landmarking 1998-2000

Golden Gate Park Master Plan 1999-2000

Ocean Beach Task Force 1999-2000

Doggie Diner Dog Landmarking 2000

19th Avenue Revitalization Project 2001-2002

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes 1 CD.

Conservatory of Music Landmarking 2003

Parkside School Demolition 2007

Tourism Improvement District 2008

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Projects: Housing Element-19th Avenue Transit Study

Housing Element of the San Francisco Master Plan, Revisions 2008-2009

Parkmerced Redevelopment 2008-2010

Recreation and Open Space Element of San Francisco General Plan 2009

Ortega Library, Demolition Appeal 2009

Golden Gate Park/Beach Chalet Soccer Fields 2009-2014

Physical Description: 2 folders

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes 1 CD of Beach Chalet Athletic Fields Renovation, Draft Environmental Impact Report, SF Planning Department, 2011

Golden Gate Park Legal Defense Fund 2012

19th Avenue Transit Study 2013-2014

Series 4 Sunset Architectural and Historical Resource Inventory Committee (SAHRIC) 2004-2014

Historical Note

In 2004, SPEAK formed the Sunset Architectural and Historical Resource Inventory Committee, SAHRIC, to initiate a comprehensive assessment of the Sunset's historic resources, and "to protect them from demolition and insensitive alterations and additions."

SPEAK commissioned the Oceanside Survey to assemble historic information about the buildings in the beachside community that developed at the turn of the (19th) century, in the area roughly bounded by Golden Gate Park, 37th Avenue, and Sloat Boulevard. This distinct neighborhood of small houses and beach cottages was referred to as the Oceanside from approximately 1900 into the 1920s. Fewer than ten percent of the dwellings have survived relatively intact. By the 1930s, the area was considered part of the larger Sunset District. In addition to inventorying the buildings, SAHRIC explored whether the subjects qualified as an historic district or as historic resources.

Approximately twenty residential buildings were studied in Phase 1 which included publication of the Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside in 2007. In 2008, SPEAK initiated Phase 2 of the architectural study of surviving Oceanside buildings. On May 2, 2012, the San Francisco Planning Department's Historic Preservation Commission adopted Phase 2 of the Oceanside Historic Resources Survey.

SPEAK/SAHRIC published the following booklets:

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, Sixteen Notable Buildings, [2005]

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, The Oceanside Neighborhood, 2007

Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside, A Neighborhood of the Sunset District San Francisco, 2007

Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District, The Oceanside Neighborhood, Final Report of the Oceanside Survey, 2012

Separated Materials

Photographs have been removed to Box 6.

Scope and Contents

Includes committee minutes and notes, and documentation of the Oceanside Survey including correspondence, photographs, results of Phase 1 and 2 surveys,* and state historic district and resource forms known as Department of Parks and Recreation forms, or DPRs. Published reports are mainly found in Series 1. *The survey phases were alternatively called Parts 1 and 2.

Arrangement

Organized into three subseries: Subseries 4A. Committee Records; Subseries 4B. Oceanside Survey: Phase 1; and Subseries 4C. Oceanside Survey: Phase 2. Arranged roughly chronologically.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Includes CDs and computer diskettes.

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Subseries 4A Committee Records 2004-2014

Agendas 2006-2007

Minutes 2004-2010

Physical Description: 2 folders

Minutes 2004-2010

Correspondence and Notes 2008-2010

Grant Applications 2005-2010

Accounting 2005-2009

Physical Description: 2 folders

Incorporation and Tax-Exempt Documents 1974-2014

Published Reports [2005]-2012

Physical Description: 2 folders

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Subseries 4B Oceanside Survey: Phase 1 2004-2007

Correspondence 2004-2007

Separated Materials

1 photograph removed to Box 6, Folder 3. Photographs by Lorri Ungaretti, 2004, removed to Box 6, Folder 4. Photographs, negatives and 2 CDs removed to Box 6, Folders 5-6.

Gerbode Foundation Grant 2005

Expenses 2006-2007

Bill Kostura Submittals 2004-2006

Contract 2005-2006

Photographs 2007

Separated Materials

4 negatives removed to Box 6, Folder 7.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

3 CDs included.

Research:

Initial Reconnaissance Survey 2004-2005

St. John of God Catholic Church 2004

Background Articles

Block Maps no date

Physical Description: 2 folders

Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Forms, Superseded 2005-2006

Historic Preservation Fund Committee 2005-2006

Publicity 2005-2007

Oceanside Historic Context Statement 2005-2007

Oceanside Booklet 2006

Separated Materials

1 photo removed to Box 6, Folder 8.

Planning Department Survey Advisors Group Peer Review Response 2006

Reports 2007

Letters to Affected Property Owners 2007

Material for Display Boards 2007

Annual Meeting Presentation May 2007

Digital Files of Reports, Minutes, Photographs, DPRs 2006-2007

Physical Description: 2 folders

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Consists of 13 CDs and 2 computer diskettes.

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Subseries 4C Oceanside Survey: Phase 2 2004-2012

General

Nominations for California Historic Landmarks and Points of Interest are prepared on Department of Parks and Recreation forms known as DPRs.

Pinehurst Lodge 2004-2011

Separated Materials

23 photos removed to Box 6, Folder 10.

Historic Preservation Fund Application 2005-2009

Grant Application to San Francisco Beautiful 2008-2013

Expenses 2008-2012

Potential Historic Districts 2009

Letters to Affected Property Owners 2010

Public Meetings 2010

Publicity 2010

Results 2010

Notes 2010-2012

Physical Description: 2 folders

Historic Buildings List

Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Form Corrections 2012

Letters to Affected Property Owners and Tenants 2012

Survey Adoption June 2012

Property Information Map Findings November 2012

Final Booklet 2012

Community Meeting and Planning Code Amendments 2012

Distribution List of Final Report 2013

Integrity of a Property

Mailing Labels

Historic Resource Nomination Documentation 2005-2012

General

Nominations for California Historic Landmarks and Points of Interest are prepared on Department of Parks and Recreation forms known as DPRs.

Oceanside Neighborhood Historic Resources Inventory of Individual Houses, Phase One, March 2007 2005-2006

Oceanside Survey, Phase Two:

Eligible Properties, DPR 523A Forms 2008-2009

Physical Description: 3 folders

Note

Contains DPR 523 Form A of all properties developed 1925 and earlier in the survey area, and a few outstanding modern properties.

Eligible Historic Resources, DPR 523 Form A, B, C or D 2008-2009

Physical Description: 2 folders

Not Eligible Properties, DPR 523 Forms A, B, C or D 2008-2012

Eligible Historic Districts, DPR 523 Forms A, B and 5D Forms 2008-2012

Digital Files of Publications and Survey 2005-2012

Physical Description: 4 folders

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Contains 24 CDs.

Note

Includes Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside, 2010; Final Report of the Oceanside Survey, 2012; DPR forms and photos, and presentation by Inge Horton, 2005-2012. Also includes Oceanside Survey: Adopted Survey Forms, Case Report, and Motion, San Francisco Planning Department, May 2012, which has 508 completed DPR 523-series forms for inclusion in the California Historical Resources Information System database.

Existence and Location of Copies

The Oceanside Survey (May 2012) forms are also available online at http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=3071. However, the Planning Department's website does not include motion for adoption, nor letter to State Office of Historic Preservation.