Danny Sauter

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors · BOS Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting - Jan 13, 2026 · 13 Jan 2026 meeting

He saw it as a reference to San Francisco's 34-year freeway battle to save its waterfront.

Now, 50 years later, Reckon Park looked but could only see their neglected fountain rather than the one that had once joyfully ridiculed a joyless, universally despised 40-foot-high double-decker freeway that walled off the city from its gorgeous northern waterfront.

Vaillancourt had made an astounding conceptual design leap, reimagining the freeway's elephantine pillars as hollow, precast concrete beads strung together to spout rambunctious bursts of water into a shallow pool.

I've practiced architecture here in San Francisco for 50 years and taught architecture design at Berkeley for 20 years.

That's the perspective I bring to the topic.

I know that the key to affording any construction budget is attitude.

When there's a will to get a project done, the budget can be pushed and pulled until it works.

If there's no will, the funds will forever be out of reach.

I'm not here to speak about its validity or why it should remain, because as I understand it, what you are being asked to decide is whether I will ever get a chance to speak in favor of the fountain and its value.

committed on this fountain over the decades when it's no longer accessible and certainly is no more fun to enjoy and feel and get inside.

And then they want to make this neglect be an emergency that requires them to skip an opportunity to hear how the public actually feels about their decision.

The public will have its chance to speak and I will be happy to return at that time and explain to you why I think the fountain should indeed be preserved.

Thank you.

So I would encourage the board to have it taken away so we can proceed with the beautification of the plaza.

Thank you very much.

Um, I'm one of many people in our area who have been actively participating in the planning for the renovation and merger of Sioux-Bearman Park and Embarcadero Plaza.

And in my earlier days, I actually created the city's CEQA process and was its environmental review officer for six years.

So I understand the process we are going through now.

This last phase of the Vinecart Fountain is its most troubling.

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