Stop and smell the roses ($7, please!)
The $7 fee levied by the Rec and Parks Department for non-residents at the Botanical Gardens will stick around for at least a couple years. The Board of Supervisors vote on the matter ended in a 6-5 split (those are always more fun to watch than the 11-0 snoozers, fight fans), after discussion, finger-pointing and kerfluffle.
- Officials won’t prune San Francisco Botanical Garden fees for nonresidents (Examiner) 04/13/11
- Botanical Garden Fee Takes Root (Bay Citizen) 04/13/11
- S.F. keeps admission fee for Botanical Garden (Chronicle) 04/13/11
- Editorial: Botanical Garden fee should apply to residents too (Chronicle) 04/12/11
- Opinion: San Francisco Recreation and Park Department trying to build its own revenues (Examiner) 04/12/11
- SF Botanical Garden revenue below projections (Chronicle) 04/05/11
- Fee increases at Golden Gate Park move ahead (Chronicle) 06/25/09
- The City’s landmark gardens may start charging visitors (Examiner) 04/06/09
- S.F. proposes Botanical Garden entrance fee (Chronicle) 03/25/09
Katie Kincaid