Sunday, May 5, 2024

Tagged with: Zoning

Who sent the mayor to Brazil? A group that wants to turn the Mission into tech offices

So we haven’t seen much of Mayor Ed Lee for a while, partly because he doesn’t seem to want to hear protesters go after...

Mayor faces challenge replacing labor-standards chief

When the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement was established in 1996, it had a relatively limited mandate, watching to make sure that...

Yes, gentrification will hit the Tenderloin

  In an admirable burst of optimism, a current BeyondChron post concludes that, unlike the rapidly gentrifying Mission District, the Tenderloin is not “... transforming...

The deep roots of SF’s housing crisis

The most interesting and insightful analysis of the local housing crisis that I’ve read in quite a while appeared today – not in the...

The Academy of Art compliance hearing: We should live so long

More than 20 years after the Academy of Art University began gobbling up San Francisco real estate and violating planning codes all over the...

The Agenda, March 14-March 20: A mad rush to run the Democratic Party …

The filing deadline passed Friday for people who want to be on the Democratic County Central Committee, and it was wild: The real-estate interests...

Five myths about the homeless problem in San Francisco

There is so much misinformation about homeless people and the problem of homelessness in San Francisco that I almost don’t know where to start....

Why C.W. Nevius is wrong about the Google buses

I keep having to correct Chuck Nevius, and this time, he’s going on about the glories of the Google buses, quoting Sup. Scott Wiener,...

Planning commissioners are dubious about affordable housing bonus plan

The Planning Commission is ready to move forward on a potentially dramatic rezoning of some 30,000 building lots, many of them with housing already...

Mayor’s housing plan: Developers get nice juicy benefit; city gets little or nothing

Affordable housing and tenant groups that are opposed to the mayor’s plans to upzone much of the city to allow more residential development will...