SAN FRANCISCO
Hearing set for plan to ski-jump on street
Carolyn Jones
Thursday, September 22, 2005
City officials will decide today whether to give approve a controversial plan to put 200 tons of snow and a ski jump on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights.
The Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation, which issues permits for street closures, is scheduled to vote on the ski-jump plan at 10:30 a.m. in Room 330A of City Hall, 25 Van Ness Ave. Expecting a large turnout, the committee is moving from its regular room to a larger room to hear public comment.
Organizers of Icer Air 2005 have applied for a permit to close Fillmore Street between Broadway and Green Street and Vallejo Street between Steiner and Webster streets from noon Sept. 28 to 8 p.m. Sept. 29. People who live on those blocks would not be able to drive to or from their homes during that time.
The event, which would be filmed for MTV, would feature Olympic skier Jonny Moseley and 20 other professional skiers and snowboarders flying off the ski jump, performing mid-air acrobatics and landing near Green Street.
Icer Air 2005 originally was scheduled for Aug. 27, but the city canceled it three days in advance because of concerns about the safety of the ski jump scaffolding, snow removal, security, crowd control, trash, insurance and other complaints from neighbors.
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