MENUCrocker Amazon is for everyone. Let’s keep it open, accessible and real.
San Francisco Recreation and Park Department is planning to convert Crocker Amazon to a suburban-style baseball complex. Trees will be cut down and the lawns will be replaced with fake, toxic plastic grass, surrounded by metal fencing and blaring night lighting with limited access for the neighbors.
Let's keep it real.
Our vision is a natural setting for picnickers, Tai Chi, walkers, music, cricket, football, baseball, soccer, movie nights, birdwatching and kickball games. In other words a park for everyone — all ages and abilities.
Our demands are:
1) start over with community input from the beginning
2) keep public lands in public hands — no to any privatizing
3) fund real investment in community needs
Upcoming Events
Recreation and Park Commission Meeting
We don't know when Rec Park will bring their park demolition plan to the Commission for rubber stamp approval. We'll need to show up every month to remind them that the opposition to their baseball complex - tree massacre - open space removal project gets stronger every day.
Thursday, September 17
10:00 AM
City Hall, Room 416
Each person will have the opportunity to make a public comments (Agenda Item #4) when you can speak about anything that's not on the agenda. If Rec Park presents their renovation project, the public can comment on that agenda item, too. Comments are limited to two minutes. If you cannot come in person to the meeting, you can comment remotely. We'll post the call-in instructions when they become available.
Dialogue: Keeping Crocker Real!
Saturday, September 26
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Excelsior Library, 4400 Mission Street
What will you miss about Crocker Amazon Park?
Explore the past, present, and future of Crocker Amazon Park through the Youth Lens Photo Exhibit and community discussion presented by Poder Youth and Keep Crocker Real. Learn about the city’s plans for the park and hear an alternative vision for its future.
Details
Our Letter to Protect Crocker Amazon Park under CEQA
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exists because we deserve to know what a project will actually do to our air, water, health, and quality of life before the trees and grass come out and the plastic goes in.
Keep Crocker Real submitted these formal public comments to the Planning Commission asking them to recognize Crocker Amazon Park is eligible for protection under CEQA and require a full Environmental Impact Report for the Baseball and Softball Renovation Project. A thorough Environmental Impact Report (EIR) will document this project's harms to our health and the environment. The Recreation & Parks Commission, the Planning Department, the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor may still approve the demolition of Crocker Amazon Park followed by the installation of a plastic-based baseball complex, but everyone's letters to decision-makers are creating a paper trail in case this fight ends up in court.
• Keep Crocker Real's CEQA Letter to the Planning Department
Speak Up
Tell the SF Rec & Park Commission and your Supervisor about the kind of park you want.
Sign Petition
Sign our petition: Stop the Plastic Turf Takeover! We Want Natural Grass!
Flyers & Posters
We have flyers and window signs in English, Spanish and Chinese.
hello@keepcrockerreal.com