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News + Politics

BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

Zelda Bronstein -
On March 8, the BART Board voted 5-4 to support SB 827 – state Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bill -- with undetermined amendments that...
News + Politics

Hearing on Wiener housing bill points to the roots of this crisis

Tim Redmond -
Most of the time, when San Francisco supervisors ask the board to weigh in on a state or federal issue, it’s just an agenda...
The Agenda

Supes to vote on Wiener upzoning bill, Police Commission to vote on Taser initiative …

Tim Redmond -
THE AGENDA There is good news every once in a while. The Planning Commission last week rejected, on a 7-0 vote, an application to...
News + Politics

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

David Levitus -
The sense of housing crisis is nearly everywhere. Debates about housing policy are heating up, turning once arcane fields into the subject of fevered...
News + Politics

Newsom’s agency folds on waterfront case

Michael Toren -
The proposed settlement agreement announced Wednesday in the State Lands Commission’s lawsuit to overturn Proposition B represents a near-total concession by the state. It also...
News + Politics

Ethics Commission blows up over controversial reform law

Tim Redmond -
The SF Ethics Commission blew up last week as President Peter Keane abruptly announced his resignation after failing to get the four votes to...
News + Politics

SF planners blast Wiener housing bill that would upzone entire city

Tim Redmond -
The San Francisco Planning Department – which is not known for its anti-development tendencies – has issued a blistering critique of state Sen. Scott...
Exclusive

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Zelda Bronstein -
On January 19, I attended UCLA Extension’s 2018 Land Use Law and Planning Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Seated in...
Exclusive

Protecting tenants from ‘renoviction’

Jennifer Fieber and Mary Gallagher -
As if there weren’t already enough ways to evict tenants, unscrupulous owners now have a new weapon in their arsenal: temporary moveouts justified by...
News + Politics

The big winner in the mayoral vote …

Tim Redmond -
The New York Times, which has local reporters and ought to know better, ran a headline last week stating that the progressives had “ousted”...
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