newsletter A homeless sweep of the area was done on July 31.“It just turned our stomachs that this sweep happened because of this petition,” Adamme said. After three years in Hayes Valley, popular champagne bar The Riddler is closing permanently. One retail store’s name is included and it displays the name of a store manager who doesn’t work for the business anymore.The tent-free petition was sent to city officials on July 22. I don’t know what the intent was.”LIST of Hayes Valley businesses targeting homeless during a fucking pandemic While Silverstein acknowledged there were many problems brought on by the increase in tent encampments since the pandemic began in March, the petition HVNA had discussed creating involved a more humanitarian approach to moving homeless residents. The association is still collecting signatures on its Silverstein’s name and store have since been removed from the tent-free petition at his request, but he said the damage has already been done. That said, I don’t presume that the other petition was crafted with bad intent towards the unhoused, and therefore I’d encourage the authors to clarify their position on safe sleeping sites, humane relocation and the like, so your readers can determine for themselves. ""We are at a point [in society] where any random person can post or say anything, with no research or conversation and start a thread of mistruths with no thought of the consequences that this would bring to small (women) owned business who have been employing people throughout this entire SIP, paying their employees' health insurance while not taking paychecks for ourselves, cooking for the food insecure communities and in our spare time we have been doing charity work, whether it is for bakers against racism or fighting to feed immigrants," Alter said in an email to SFGATE. Lloyd Silverstein was helping a customer in his Hayes Valley store Optical Underground when he was approached by someone asking him to sign a neighborhood petition. Also launching on Sunday is a major closure in Hayes Valley, SF Weekly reports. "And this one tweet storm can break down months of work that multiple individuals have been putting forth to find solutions to the homeless issue we have been facing in Hayes Valley. Photo: Amy Graff newsletter — continues.It goes without saying that you might want to forgo outdoor dining if “Nineteen businesses have already closed during this time. I think everybody has been frustrated with the lack of response to people being taken out of shelters and ending up in the streets and the conditions in the streets,” Laska said. San Francisco Shouldn’t Expect Indoor Dining Until ‘Mid October,’ Maybe LaterDining rooms have reopened in Santa Cruz and Napa, but remain shut in the rest of the Bay AreaLa Boulangerie de San Francisco Shutters in Oakland, and More Bay Area Restaurant ClosingsA running list of notable Bay Area bars and restaurants that have announced permanent closuresDowntown SF’s IKEA Mall Will Serve Up Restaurant Fare Beyond Bargain Hot DogsAlso: An Oakland sports bar reopens with a 3,000-square-foot garden space adorned with outdoor TVs Hayes Street will close to cars from 4–10 p.m. on Fridays, and 10 … He’s received two emails and one Instagram message from customers letting him know they would no longer be supporting his business. “Making sweeps is inhumane and unsafe and incredibly short-sighted.”The organizers of the tent-free petition reached out after this article was published, stating that they believe "multiple civic engagement efforts had an impact on the outcome on 7.31" and alleged there was also a third petition going around the neighborhood. MaryMar Keenan of MM Clay, who has since gotten her name removed from the petition and signed the HVNA one, said, "I should have read the fine print, as they say. I wrongly assumed the petition had the support of the HVNA, which was circulating a more thoughtfully worded petition focused on the same fundamental problem.