Sunset Dunes supporters face a District 4 election with no clear candidate

"A lot of them seemed focused on getting back to what they had, rather than working with the reality we have right now. The minority that voted for the park is a big and motivated voting bloc, and it feels like all the candidates are just very casually ignoring that."

"Out of five candidates, only Jeremy Greco, a campus administrator at Presidio Hill School, supports keeping the park as is. But he is relatively unknown and has not yet raised any money even as rivals have amassed scores of thousands of dollars."

"The current slate of candidates probably consider it a political reality that this position is needed to win. Instead, the top-tier candidates go to great lengths to point out their support for returning cars to the oceanfront road."

District 4 residents voted 64-36 against converting the Great Highway into a park in November 2024. Supervisor Joel Engardio, who supported the park, was ousted 10 months later despite the measure's broader city popularity. In the June special election for his replacement, four of five candidates now support reopening the road to cars on weekdays, while only Jeremy Greco, a relatively unknown campus administrator, supports maintaining the park. Community advocates like Alice Duesdieker and Heidi Moseson express disappointment that candidates ignore the motivated minority supporting the park, instead focusing on the mathematically dominant anti-park position.

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