Prep school wants popular Outer Sunset Farmers Market to give up Sundays

SAN FRANCISCO – The most current in ongoing series of “shared spaces” fights in San Francisco just isn’t concentrated on the Excellent Freeway or Golden Gate Park, but more than a farmers industry. 

The Outer Sunset Farmers Marketplace sprung up in the course of the pandemic bringing food stuff, audio, even roller skating to sleepy 37th Avenue. For the duration of that time, 37th Avenue neighbor St. Ignatius Large College wasn’t keeping in-man or woman lessons or massive occasions because of to considerations about the coronavirus. 

On the other hand, with issues now reopened, that has modified. 

“They want the allow for the farmers marketplace to be able to accommodate their wants for parking and obtain to St. Ignatius. It really is definitely ten days — 10 Sundays — in the coming 12 months that they are heading to have huge gatherings,” explained District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar. 

The permit for the farmers market expires on August 13th. 

Angie Petitt is the director and founder of Sunset Mercantile, which runs the farmers current market. The school’s requesting some Sunday closures of the industry as properly as some lessened single-block market times because of to crowds of 1,200 people today envisioned on the Jesuit campus. 

Angie states that will not get the job done. 

“If we shut the farmers market on any supplied day…farmers marketplaces you should not near. They are reliable for the farmers. They want consistency,” she explained to KPIX. 

It’s not just the farmers searching for consistency, but the dining establishments that have come to depend on the company they get at the farmers marketplace. Daniel Ramirez is grilling up brisket pupusas nowadays and whole-on Texas barbecue on Sundays. 

“We will not have a brick and mortar, so this is our pop-up spot wherever we are at each individual Sunday. This is your business. This is our company right below,” he advised KPIX. 

At issue is parking for both marketgoers and the St. Ignatius crowds. 

“For decades, they’ve had no obstruction to this region and it is just been them right here. We are the new neighbor, but we are a neighbor that expert services thousands of persons, supports hundreds of small company,” explained Petitt. 

In a telephone connect with, the communications director for the university explained to KPIX they never want the marketplace to shut and provided this statement on their internet site: 

“With OSFMM occupying two blocks adjoining our university, this substantial amount of readers, in addition to the OSFMM attendees, will be pressured to park in the surrounding neighborhood. While this new permit will gain Ms. Petitt, it would come at a price tag to the St. Ignatius local community and we fret about the impression on our bordering neighbors.”

Supervisor Mar has arranged yet another conference amongst St. Ignatius officers and the farmers market’s organizers on Monday and hopes a compromise can be struck.