Supe blasts move to store RVs at Dogpatch's Pier 68

"The former Union Iron Works shipyard, now a historic district occasionally used for workforce training, is a swath of largely unoccupied land dotted with a few remaining abandoned industrial buildings. A large-scale redevelopment project encompassing Pier 68 and Pier 70 has been in progress for years, adding retail, restaurant, and office space to the waterfront. But in the meantime, the pier may be used to store RVs towed by the city."

"But he learned during a meeting with the Port of San Francisco on Monday morning that the pier would be used to store RVs indefinitely. "The Mayor's Office, the Department of Emergency Management, the Port and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing are once again strong-arming and treating District 10 as a dumping ground for the city's hardest challenges," said Walton in a statement and post to his Instagram."

"That means potentially hundreds of mobile homes will need to be stored somewhere - and that somewhere, says District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton, is Dogpatch's Pier 68. "As families move, empty RVs will be held temporarily at a city-owned lot with available space and then dismantled," said spokesperson Charles Lutvak, in a statement. "Government has spent years failing to address this issue - we are doing what i"

San Francisco will begin towing vehicles under a new ban on RVs parked over two hours on public streets, creating a need to store potentially hundreds of mobile homes. Dogpatch's Pier 68, part of the former Union Iron Works shipyard and a largely unoccupied historic district, is slated to hold towed RVs. District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton and residents say they were not consulted and oppose using the pier, citing limited capacity and alternative priorities like a trucking training program. The mayor's office calls the move temporary and says empty RVs will be held and then dismantled.

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