Like all San Francisco neighborhoods, Cathedral Hill faces various challenges, including keeping its streets safe and grafitti-free, beautifying nearby parks and green spaces, and making sure new developments fall within existing zoning requirements.

The Cathedral Hill Neighbors Association (CHNA) was formed in 2005 to help give a voice to Cathedral Hill residents with respect to these issues. Membership in CHNA is open to residents of Cathedral Hill and adjacent communities, as well as business operators in the neighborhood.

CHNA supports sustainable urban development while improving the quality of San Francisco’s renowned physical and philosophical environment.

• We support all efforts to improve air quality and reduce hazardous wastes in air, water and on city streets.
• We support the use of public transport, rapid transit corridors, natural gas buses, appropriate parking and pedestrian safety.
• We support retaining and expanding parks, open spaces and tree plantings.
• We support San Francisco fire, police and other public employees in their efforts to provide clean, safe, violence-free neighborhoods.
• We support the SF Emergency Response Plan and the NERT earthquake safety program.

CHNA Position on other Development on Cathedral Hill

CHNA is monitoring all applications for development in our 36 block area. We have established the following guidelines:

• We believe the SF Planning Department should enforce all current planning requirements, which include height limits, curb set backs and density containment.
• We believe the citizens of San Francisco deserve the best enforcement efforts of the Planning Department, rather than variances being granted to developers without regard to health and safety of residents and employees.
• We believe San Francisco functions best on a human scale. Our neighborhoods needs services such as grocery stores that are both pedestrian and handicapped accessible, rather than chain stores or corporate headquarters.

The CHNA Board of Directors meets on the first and third Thursday of every month, at 8:00 a.m., at the Daniel Burnham Court conference room (at One Daniel Burnham Court), and their meetings are open to CHNA members.