Protecting Golden Gate Park

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The park in New York City is of course Central Park. The park for San Francisco Bay area residents is Golden Gate Park, which at three miles long and 1/2-mile wide is bigger than Central Park.

The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission will be discussing developing plans with the S.F. Recreation and Park Department to make all 1,017 acres of Golden Gate Park a historic district. Such a distinction would mean any substantial changes to the park would have to be reviewed both by Rec and Park and Historic Preservation commissions.

Such an additional layer of review, the impetus for the proposal, would check the power of the park department to sell off sections of the park to the highest bidder to make up for budget shortfalls.

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