Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Open Space

A pricey palace, huge losses in risky investments, a busted bridge — and now the agency responsible wants more power

  OCTOBER 11, 2015 -- It now looks as if the open power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation...

The Agenda, Sept. 21 – Sept 27: A big, odd, garbage battle at City Hall …

... Pits the Sierra Club and a giant landfill operator against our local  trash monopoly. Plus: An insane transportation fee goes to the supes,...

Fifth and Mission adds affordable housing — but nowhere near enough

Let's take a look at the numbers -- which show that even 33 percent on a big commercial project doesn't mitigate the damage By Tim...

Opinion: The Giants are playing a numbers game with affordable housing

The waterfront proposal doesn't do as much for housing as the team would like you to think By Peter Cohen and Fernando Martí MAY 12,2015 --...

At 16th and Mission, collective housing must go — but tech offices can stay?

Mission landlord wants to evict Station 40 -- but he's got a tech office in the same building, which is not zoned for office...

Flipcharts, planners — and the ongoing attack on blue-collar jobs in Soma

By Zelda Bronstein NOVEMBER 21, 2014 -- On Tuesday, November 18, from 6-8 pm, the San Francisco Planning Department held an open house on the...

Scenes from the Plaza Party

By Tim Redmond JUNE 14, 2014 -- A festive crew took over the 16th and Mission BART plaza this afternoon, making a statement that a...

The other waterfront monstrosity: SF Giants get even sweeter deal than Warriors

By Tim Redmond The Warriors arena – that giant spaceship on the Bay – is getting most if the attention in the fight over the...

Mayor Lee’s latest plaza-privatization plan is based on a troubling New York model

By Tim Redmond The Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development is pushing a plan that would allow private entities to "sponsor" public plazas –...

Citywide tenant convention: “This is the start of a movement”

By Tim Redmond FEB.10, 2014 -- Among the old-timers at the San Francisco tenants convention Saturday, the same question kept coming up: When was the...