#environmental-cleanup

#environmental-cleanup

San Francisco's historic Bayview district, tucked between a freeway and the bay, is a sprawling commercial, residential, and light-industrial corridor on the city's southeastern edge. It is the least photographed neighborhood in one of the world's most photogenic cities. It contains a toxic cleanup site at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Tour buses don't stop here except to refuel overnight.

The Gowanus as an ecosystem and as a neighborhood is so interesting because it is being remade at a systemic level in so many different ways over a relatively short period of time for an urban area.

The Gowanus Green project, which aims to provide 950 all-affordable apartments, has been stalled since 2024 due to disputes over the cleanup of the toxic Public Place site.

Earlier this year, San Jose politicians announced they were targeting the thousands of abandoned shopping carts clogging creeks and blighting streets. Now the first data on a pilot program aimed at curbing the problem is in, and the city must decide whether the results justify the financial cost of expanding it. San Jose had long struggled to rein in the abandoned shopping cart problem, due in part to antiquated state rules and ineffective city code.

Organizers are also looking for a few extra hands, claws, paws, tentacles or whatever appendages volunteers have for the occasion to help with the event. To volunteer, visit https://www.downtowncampbell.com/creepycrawly Tricks for Treats Pets and their people are invited to pregame before the Creepy Crawly Halloween event on Oct. 26 at Woofboard, 389 E Campbell Ave., where they'll be serving spooky pup cups and dogs in costume will receive 10% off in-store purchases from 2-4 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.woofboard.co.