SoMa ParksA residents’ initiative
Current campaign: Victoria Manalo Draves Park
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SoMa Parks · A residents’ initiative

Let the dogs play.

Fix what’s actually broken.

Victoria Manalo Draves Park · SoMa San Francisco

For years, neighbors have used the unbooked corners of Victoria Manalo Draves Park for off-leash dog play. They pick up after their animals. They pick up other people’s trash. They work around the baseball field’s schedule. Quiet, cooperative, harmless.

In recent weeks, park rangers have begun citing those dog owners — while open drug use continues fifty feet from the Bessie Carmichael Elementary School playground. When one ranger was asked about the drug use, his response was to ask whether 311 had been called. It has. Repeatedly.

We’re asking the City for two things.

  1. Permit off-leash use of the fenced ballfield during unbooked hours. The field is enclosed. The community already self-coordinates around bookings. Formalize what’s already working.
  2. Redirect ranger enforcement to actual public-safety conditions. Drug use within fifty feet of a schoolyard is not a 311 problem to be shrugged off — it is exactly what park rangers exist to address.