Monday, July 13, 2020

Ron Miguel, longtime San Francisco civic watchdog, dies at 88

Blog note: This is the second article we have posted about our beloved colleague, Ron Miguel. We will chronicle his CGJA experience in the next Grand Jurors’ Journal

Ron Miguel, a onetime florist who became one of San Francisco’s most respected civic watchdogs, died on June 28 of heart problems. He was 88.

His time in public service included five years on city’s powerful Planning Commission, but his interests extended far beyond that — serving on numerous advisory committees such as the one that helped steer the transformation of the Central Freeway into Octavia Boulevard, and neighborhood groups not only in the Richmond District, where he and his wife owned a floral shop for 25 years, but in Potrero Hill, where they lived for more than 40 years.

As late as last month, even as he endured health treatments, Miguel was taking part via Zoom in interview panels to help the Port of San Francisco select a developer to restore Piers 38 and 40 along the Embarcadero.

San Francisco Chronicle
John King
July 8, 2020


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