Stories about Planning
Court to hear arguments on police raid of reporters house
Search that embarrassed the city goes before a judge, leaving City Attorney Dennis Herrera to defend the cops in a pretty indefensible case. Plus: Harvey Milk's birthday events, UCSF and Dignity Health -- and 'politicizing' the Rent Board. That's The Agenda for May 20-26
New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing
Eminent economic geographers say that deregulation and upzoning will make gentrification in cities like SF much worse.
Uber’s plans include attacking public transit
Documents filed for IPO reveal plans to privatize transportation, getting riders off public buses and trains and onto "Uber buses."
Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit
More cars, more trucks, more private tech shuttles -- but not a penny for Muni in SB 50.
Tech IPOS will radically increase housing costs and inequality, report shows
Tech gets big tax breaks, small businesses have to pay more -- and Sup. Gordon Mar's IPO tax plan will be a defining issue in city politics this year.
The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF
Two new books on the bizarre chapter in local history ignore the important political outcome.
Should the tech boom pay the costs of the tech boom?
The IPOs will make the housing market even worse. Should we use the budget surplus to build affordable housing? That's The Agenda for April 21-28.
BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns
Facing a possible rejection at the Board of Supes, Reese Isbell steps down and the mayor appoints a respected tenant lawyer to the job.
Supes reject plan that would shadow Soma park
In direct rebuke to mayor, board says that a developer can't buy off the city when it comes to blocking sunshine in a crowded neighborhood.
The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill
Sup. Vallie Brown tries to make the convoluted case for letting the private market solve our housing crisis.