Happy Monday morning, Mission! It’s 7:40 a.m., 49° and headed for a high of 54°. See the weather for the week here.
Who doesn’t like a map? Especially when it shows everything you’re looking for, places to go and see and the deals those places offer. That’s what CityMaps is setting out to do with its new online mapping tool and app. It recently launched in New York City and will be available soon in San Francisco. The Chronicle reports that “it shows all the storefronts — restaurants, coffee shops, ATMs, shoe stores and dry cleaners — block by block. It also displays the latest tweets, daily deals, check-ins, reviews, menus and other social media information in the neighborhood.”
And in parks news, we recently reported that residents at a Recreation and Park Department meeting in the Mission suggested hosting more special events in parks to raise funds. People who live near Golden Gate Park don’t seem to agree.
The Examiner reports that although concerts bring in money, residents don’t appreciate what comes with the events:
… a newly released San Francisco State University study found concertgoers spent more than $60 million in The City attending the latest Outside Lands. About $1.45 million of that money went to the coffers of the Recreation and Park Department, partly to be used for upkeep of parks and plazas.
Despite the report’s findings, some residents who live near the park say they don’t want their concerns about traffic, noise and unruly fans to be outweighed by big bucks.
For years, neighbors have griped about the massive influx of revelers at large events such as Outside Lands and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.
