Fair Oaks Beautification Association (FOBA)
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The Fair Oaks Beautification Association (FOBA) is an all-volunteer, non-profit community organization. FOBA was established in 1996 as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) group. FOBA’s mission is to improve the quality of life for residents for the North Fair Oaks neighborhood. Our community volunteer efforts have included planting and caring for over 400 street trees, installing traffic calming devices to make our streets safer, building and maintaining the playground and open space area, organizing an annual neighborhood wide garage sale event and social gatherings, producing Avenues, a neighborhood newsletter, and coordinating a community gardening project.
As of Fall 2012, FOBA has two new project in the works:
Pocket Park:
FOBA has begun a new project, the design and construction of a pocket park on the Hetch Hetchy right-of-way parcel at the corner of Bay Road and 18th Avenue. We plan a more welcoming Marsh/Bay road entrance to the neighborhood with a simple, low-maintenance landscape plan filled with native, drought-resistant plants. This parcel has been a weed-filled lot for years but through the efforts of a committed group of neighbors we hope to have the project completed this fall.
Playground:
The Playground has now reopened! The long-anticipated improvement has finally happened. SFPUC installed a large new pipe to carry drinking water from Hetch Hetchy near Yosemite to Bay Area residents. Please join us for our Playground Fun Day and Fundraiser on Sunday October 7 at the playground, Fair Oaks at 10th and Edison from 11 am to 3 pm. There will be food, drinks, and fun.
For more information email us at info@FOBAneighbors.org.
Or check out our FaceBook page at www.facebook.com/FOBA.Neighbors
Our playground and park are not supported or maintained by any government entity.
Your support can help maintain the playground and make the pocket park a reality.
A rendering of the pocket part on the corner of Bay Road and 18th Avenue.
