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Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

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Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Zelda Bronstein - October 22, 2016

San Francisco’s artists, small blue-collar businesses, and community-serving nonprofits are being forced out of the city by soaring rents; outright evictions; and, in many...

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The Eastern Neighborhoods Plan is a bust

Tim Redmond - September 22, 2016

The Planning Commission heard a report on the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, which has guided development in a huge swath of the city, and from...

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The Agenda: Rose Pak, the devastation of the Eastern Neighborhoods ….

Tim Redmond - September 18, 2016

Gordon Chin, a founder and former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, notes in his book Building Community, Chinatown Style, that for Rose...

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The Agenda, Sept. 12-18: A plea for political honesty

Tim Redmond - September 11, 2016

(THIS STORY INCLUDES AN UPDATE TO CORRECT AN EARLIER ERROR) The hits just keep on coming, and they are going to continue into the fall....

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Supes vote to protect arts space after some disingenuous whining

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2016

The Board of Supes put a measure to protect artist workspace and blue-collar jobs on the ballot yesterday after a long discussion about why...

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The Agenda, July 31-Aug. 6: The attack on blue collar jobs continues …

Tim Redmond - August 1, 2016

I’ve often wondered how much housing San Francisco is building for international criminals. And now it appears the feds are asking the same question. A...

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The Agenda, August 1-8: The attack on blue-collar jobs continues …

Tim Redmond - July 1, 2016

I’ve often wondered how much housing San Francisco is building for international criminals. And now it appears the feds are asking the same question. A...

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What we won — and lost — with the Beast on Bryant

John Elberling - June 5, 2016

Almost 14 months ago, on Saturday April 18th, 2015, more than 100 of the Central City’s many arts communities and advocates met at Cell...

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The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2016

The local news media made a big deal of the legal thrashing that Federal Judge Charles Breyer gave to an SF police officer who,...

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Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

The Eastern Neighborhoods Plan is a bust

The Agenda: Rose Pak, the devastation of the Eastern Neighborhoods ….

The Agenda, Sept. 12-18: A plea for political honesty

Supes vote to protect arts space after some disingenuous whining

The Agenda, July 31-Aug. 6: The attack on blue collar jobs continues …

The Agenda, August 1-8: The attack on blue-collar jobs continues …

What we won — and lost — with the Beast on Bryant

The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

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