San Francisco Neighborhoods - Potrero Hill Real Estate
On Potrero Hill, you can relax in brilliant sunshine
while watching fog engulf the rest of the city. Bounded roughly by 16th,
Third and Cesar Chavez streets and Potrero Avenue, the neighborhood
is relatively isolated by freeways and large tracts of industrial landscape,
giving Potrero Hill its own pace and a feeling of distance from "San
Francisco." The residential streets are unusually clean for San Francisco,
and every house seems to have a small garden, flower box or tree planted
out front. This tradition goes back a ways; witness a September 1963
Sunset magazine article in which Hill denizens, clad in jeans and Jackie
Kennedy clam-diggers, landscape the twistiest stretch of Vermont Street.
They hope against hope that the growing leptosporum will "one day hide
the nearby freeway and its eight lanes of around-the-clock traffic."
The city donated irrigation water, a neighborhood group coughed up labor
and cash for two new water meters and someone threaded all the irrigation
pipe in his own machine shop -- evidence of a level of neighborly cooperation
that continues today.
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