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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateSan Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Monday that the city may close Dolores Park in the Mission in the coming days should the public continue to not comply with social-distancing orders.Breed said she traveled to multiple parts of San Francisco over the weekend and was disappointed to see crowds overwhelming the park while the weather was sunny. As a result, she says she is considering closing it off completely.Breed mentioned the park rangers and police officers "really had their work cut out for them.""We're all adults here," she continued. "There’s no reason we should have to send in any of our law enforcement to tell people what they should be already doing."Breed added that officers would be out near the park Monday observing visitors."If we see that behavior has not changed, we will close the park," she said.Dolores Park is known to attract large crowds on the weekend due to its central location and typically sunny weather. The recent onslaught of locals hitting the park, however, has become "problematic" amidst orders for city residents to socially distance by staying six feet apart.SFPD Chief Bill Scott said Monday that more officers and volunteers were deployed to Dolores Park and other popular parks over the weekend and made similar observations."It is OK to go to the park and be with members of your own family," Scott said, mentioning visitors should have their masks with them. "What's not OK is to be in large gatherings of groups with people outside your household. That is still not OK. What we're seeing in Dolores and other parks is people are having picnics in large groups and some of those go outside of the household. We're not at a point where we're relaxed to that level yet."Scott reiterated Breed's comments, adding, "We need to stay the course. We have to do what's being asked of us by medical professionals and what data is telling us."MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE:Sign up for 'The Daily' newsletter for the latest on coronavirus .Alyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor. Email: | Twitter:

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateSan Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Monday that the city may close Dolores Park in the Mission in the coming days should the public continue to not comply with social-distancing orders.Breed said she traveled to multiple parts of San Francisco over the weekend and was disappointed to see crowds overwhelming the park while the weather was sunny. As a result, she says she is considering closing it off completely.Breed mentioned the park rangers and police officers "really had their work cut out for them.""We're all adults...

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