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Not necessary. No one has actually seen an open parking spot near Alamo Square since 2009.
The Crissy Field rally is canceled, now a press conf in Alamo Sq. Maybe
@Bob_Gunderson
can send his fleet of cars to fill up the parking.
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NEW 🧵:
#SF
has salty water on 3 sides, but our fresh creeks and springs have been covered, diverted, and dried up for centuries. A movement to restore them has taken hold in the Presidio, and in the next few years, two different SF neighborhoods could get a taste too /1
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On the motion: Supervisors vote 11-0 to affirm the proposal and deny the CEQA appeal. Only Ronen made substantial comment and so this saga ends. The Creamery project will move forward.
Thanks for following everyone!
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The
@deyoungmuseum
has also refused to provide attendance data that would back up its claims. Remember,
#JFKDrive
was also closed on Sunday to cars for the five decades before
#COVID
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To fight
#SB50
,
#housing
opponents in SF and beyond weaponized a high-profile paper from
@yfreemark
on zoning changes in Chicago. Now Yonah pushes back. Exclusive in The Frisc.
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📝 NEW STORY:
#VisionZero
? Not even close.
Instead of moving toward zero traffic deaths by 2024,
#SF
just saw its deadliest year since that pledge was made a decade ago. There should be a citywide sense of urgency. Residents near Balboa Park are certainly feeling it /1
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Good morning
#SF
! Today is about one of two things, keeping cars off a 1.5-mile stretch of road in
#GoldenGatePark
, or letting commuters buzz through or park for free in the city's green gem because they want to. Live coverage starts at 9 am:
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NEW, GAME OF 🐔: Housing regulator
@California_HCD
gave
#SF
until Nov. 24 to start changing our convoluted development process. City Hall is almost certain to blow past that. With just 3
@sfbos
meetings planned, the clock is ticking, writes
@AdamLBrinklow
.
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NEW, ELECTRIC MUNI: A funny thing just happened on the way to 100% emission-free buses in
#SF
.
@sfmta_muni
changed lanes, now says trolleys (which are zero-emission) shouldn't be phased out after all. And what about plug-in buses? 🔌
@unazurda
explains /1
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But the institutions just steps away from the de Young's front door are well on their way to recovery. Even the
@calacademy
, which is mostly indoors. (Maybe it's the penguins?) /2
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Or maybe it's something else, said
@myrnamelgar
in the hearing, and threw a little shade on the
#JFK
blame: “The closure of JFK to cars has not been the greatest negative." It's not the first public pushback against the museum's claims /3
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NEW: The
@sfbos
wanted an update yesterday on the recovery of Golden Gate Park institutions. They got a very interesting one. Thomas Campbell, director of FAMSF, said that the
#JFKDrive
closure is to blame for
@deyoungmuseum
attendance still 45% of pre-COVID levels /1
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UPDATE:
@sunrisebayarea
's Megan Nguyen confirms that the movement's chapter “is firm in being disappointed and upset” at
@conniechansf
. Yet “amends can be made” if the supervisor reevaluates. As things stand now, though, Sunrise Bay Area won’t be supporting Sup. Chan.
Now that
@LondonBreed
@conniechansf
and other leaders have come to a "compromise" on reopening the Great Highway to cars,
@sunrisemvmt
says "Seeing them consistently compromise and choose cars over communities, choose convenience over resilience, it’s very disappointing." 3/
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In our last installment, we're revisiting
@AaronPeskin
's rent control amendment. When The Frisc looked deeper, we found that the Supervisors mischaracterized, misquoted, and just plain misunderstood the studies they cited about rent control....
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@VladSF
That low stone wall isn't just any wall. It's The Wall, the famed hangout for generations of SF bike messengers like our own art director
@J_LaCroix
back in the day
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Blatant misinformation from
@48hills
today about the GGP garage. There is no access from 8th/Fulton. There *is* easy access at 10th/Fulton, which does not require entering the park. (It’s also 8th Ave, not St.) Reopening 8th/Fulton to cars has no bearing on garage access
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@jeffreytumlin
@suldrew
@TequilaTommys
@LukeBornheimer
@SFMTA_Muni
@joesicecreamsf
@lizonthebus
@manny_yekutiel
@sfbos
@californiapuc
VOTING: The full Geary improvement motion passes unanimously.
It's been a long, strange trip for adding bus lanes, but like
@manny_yekutiel
just said, there has been lots of histrionics, and in our view, a real disservice to what once were 52,000 riders (now 37,000).
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NEW STORY and lots of 📽️: Since '08
#sanfrancisco
has >3x its bike network. But many of the 466 miles are still on
#SF
's most dangerous streets. Next year, a big test: planners will redesign the infamous Hairball intersection. What are the options for the bike lanes? /1
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🚴🏾 🚗 🚶🏾♀️ NEW STORY: After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake,
#SF
tore down roughly six miles of elevated freeway and allowed the Embarcadero, Ferry Building, and Hayes Valley to flourish. Now comes the idea of removing the 1.5 mile Central Freeway /1
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Now
@samdman95
calls in to say that "this really isn't the way to run the city," where someone can file an appeal to block a business from opening. "No other city in the world is run like this," and we need to spend more of this CEQA appeal time talking about
#housing
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"I don't understand how we get housing built in this city if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good," says
@SupStefani
. There are 3 ayes and 8 nos to
@MattHaneySF
's motion.
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Meanwhile, the museum's longtime former chair Dede Wilsey is funding a measure for the fall that asks voters to reopen the drive (and the rest of GGP's car-free streets). Maybe the museum will provide some evidence as we get closer to November /5
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@sfplanning
@SFGovTV
@alexlash
@Radtourrider
@sfbos
@AdamLBrinklow
@TheCoalitionSF
@JoelEngardio
@LondonBreed
@anniefryman
says today's hearing is "theater" because today's vote is procedural, a vote "that we have to take to stay in compliance with state housing law" -- which she wrote as a top staffer to
@Scott_Wiener
in Sacramento.
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NEW: The recall election of three
@SFUnified
board members is tomorrow. We don’t know how it’ll turn out. We definitely don’t know who
@LondonBreed
has lined up as replacements. But we do know that after the vote, the seven-member body will have major decisions to make. 1/
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To borrow a phrase, our problems are not technical but political. FYI
@VisionZeroSF
Any way you look at it, multi-modal street design is simply MUCH more efficient. It moves, holds & serves more people within the same space. More trips with less space and public cost, better public health, and lower emissions/pollution per trip. Via
@NACTO
#citymakingmath
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Fourteen years, the tragedy of
#SF
Muni riders complaining about how idiotic and deadly the traffic engineering at 4th & King was 14 years ago, where now a 4 year old was killed and her father injured this week. Of course nothing was done in the end because that's how San Francisco city government rolls.
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@AaronPeskin
has a motion that's opposite to
@MattHaneySF
's and this one, to approve the appeal and reject the EIR for 469 Stevenson, passes 8 to 3 (Haney, Safaí and Stefani in dissent). This project to add housing on a parking lot is now stalled.
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NEW: Say hello to Alice Kim. She and her husband own Joe’s Ice Cream, a Geary Boulevard favorite for 63 years. They love their parklet, which has hosted comic book pop-ups, graduations, and school fundraisers. Not to mention countless cones 😋 /1
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Now that
@LondonBreed
@conniechansf
and other leaders have come to a "compromise" on reopening the Great Highway to cars,
@sunrisemvmt
says "Seeing them consistently compromise and choose cars over communities, choose convenience over resilience, it’s very disappointing." 3/
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NEW 🚲 STORY: The Valencia bike lanes should be open soon, and the clock on the 1-year pilot project will start ticking. So, who’s excited? “I hope to God that three years from now this is not the design,” SFMTA director
@jeffreytumlin
said yesterday during a ride-through /1
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“Unique among California cities,
#SF
’s charter subjects every permit issued by the city to discretionary review.” In other words, our crisis is self-inflicted and driven by cynicism h/t
@CSElmendorf
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The owner of the cafe has signed a lease and has been paying rent, caller in support says. There's also thousands of vacant square feet nearby. "When did coffee and bagels become high end?"
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While we wait, we can report with near-100% accuracy that
@Sk8GodFather
is in the
@sfbos
chamber today.
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@SFMTA_Muni
Hinze is concerned about waiving some kind of compliance that I didn't catch the name of. Hake says they will not be waived, and Hinze says "great."
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NEW, GRIEVING:
#SF
is on pace for its deadliest traffic year in the
@VisionZeroSF
era. People who aren't in cars are bearing the brunt, including a family killed last weekend and another man in January. Signs at vigils show the range of emotion /1
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FLASH:
@sfbos
votes 8-3 to add density controls in northeast
#SF
, essentially a carve-out for a high-resource area that isn't a priority equity community.
@AaronPeskin
warned of Fontana-style towers near the Embarcadero, and that we don't have to "destroy the city to save it." 1/
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We're not going play by play on comments, but we will note: Several callers have already emphasized they're native or longtime San Franciscans. Does that give you extra knowledge power? We know plenty of natives and longtimers who have their heads up their asses
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NEW: Two decades ago,
#SF
dreamed of BRT on Geary from downtown to the beach, separating buses from autos, double-parkers, right-turners, livery vehicles, the whole knot of traffic. Then came the meetings, studies, designs, and lawsuits. But the plan kept plodding along ... 1/
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As long as
#SF
's planning process empowers such discretion, we'll have housing fights. And when housing proposals get nixed, we exacerbate the decades-long shortage — in turn creating displacement, as the folks supervisors pledge to support eventually get priced out.
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@markasaurus
says his 4-year-old can now do a 5-mile bike ride on
#JFKDrive
, and also because
#SF
will need to add some 82,000 housing units this decade, "they can't all be drivers."
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NEW: Two years ago TODAY,
@sfbos
upheld a cynical appeal against housing on a valet parking lot downtown. It cited environmental impacts, without citing actual environmental impacts like air, water, flora, or fauna. We provided real-time coverage. 1/
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There's more: Saying a plan to move JFK Drive’s disabled parking spots to Fulton Street would be dangerous since Fulton is on
@VisionZeroSF
's “high injury network” skips the fact that JFK Drive, when open to cars, *was also on the high injury network.* 4/
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NEW STORY: With the
@SafeParksForAll
victory Tues night,
#JFKDrive
is now permanently
@JFKPromenade
. No one's had a bigger hand in it than
@Sk8GodFather
, building a skate community, fighting for more space, and pumping jams for decades. He was nervous Tuesday night /1
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There was an act of street-safety civil disobedience this morning on one-way Franklin Street. The group
@SafeStreetRebel
installed a ‘road diet’ - cutting one lane from the block next to Sherman Elementary /1
Earlier today, members of the community came out and installed a one-block road diet on Franklin Street between Green and Union in front of Sherman Elementary School. This is where Andrew Zieman was killed in 2021 and where the city has reneged on its promise to narrow the road.
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It’s important, though, to realize the seriousness of the scene. A big sliver of SF’s shoreline is going to suffer more and more flooding because of
#climatechange
and sea level rise. It’s inevitable, folks (courtesy
@sfplanning
) /2
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@Jello_Biafra_
says the
@Castro_Theatre
is not a music venue or a disco. There's a reason film festivals host their events there ... "it is an atmostpheric magical place," where the audience dresses as Joan Crawford and yells "No wire hangers ever!"
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“Some of our members, you have to pull that car from their cold dead hands. We understand, but that’s not where reality is. If Rec and Park is serious, we can provide that accessibility outside of cars.” Tune in for the rest of our conversation!
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UPDATE: ICYM last week, our editor in chief
@alexlash
exposed the
@deyoungmuseum
website "" as rife with egregious omissions and half-truths, all in the name of lobbying to return cars to JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park (1/2)
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@Sk8GodFather
says he's skated for decades for good causes and justice. "I'm there, I'm interacting with the people."
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Haney also appreciates the support from the community, but reiterates that the only issue is the CEQA question.
@MattHaneySF
says he shares concerns about gentrification, but we need more housing to meet the demand for jobs and moves to support and table the appeal.
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Ask anyone in
#SF
, and they'll say *of course* they support diversity, equity, and inclusion. Does that mean they support more
#housing
? Far from it, and
@hknightsf
points to landmark legislation in Sacramento to prove our local hypocrisy
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NEW COMMENTARY: What we know about
#SF
: We're a "transit-first" city, and have been for a long, long time:
It also takes a long, long time to make transit improvements here. We first wrote about the Geary project 6! years! ago: 1/
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80% of the park is available to cars, with 1000s of parking spots. And then there's the 800-spot garage. Taking Muni is also an option for everyone in the city.
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BOO! NEW: Remember this thing, this 50-story Temple of Doom that was proposed near the
#SF
Zoo? We all had our fun, because it was never going to happen. But that didn't stop NIMBYs and antigrowth advocates from organizing against it and other state housing rules. 1/
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NEW 🚲 🦽 🛴 STORY
#SF
last updated its bicycle plan in 2009. This time, it could be more of an overhaul. COVID gave the city a chance to make good on ambitious pledges to prioritize safety, climate, and transit. The recent vote for a handful of Slow Streets was a small step /1
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NEW STORY: Getting ready for the
@SFMTA_Muni
Slow Streets debate in a couple hours? Two days ago, dozens of
#SF
bike riders did a slow ride down several streets, including some slated to revert back to "normal" /1
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At the Ro Cafe, Havin Gavgasi makes Kurdish-inflected salads, sandwiches & pastries. If only more people lived nearby who could walk in. But the Richmond has always resisted density. Might that change? And how much housing could be built along Geary?
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@sfplanning
@sfbos
@wafoli
@HACdotorg
@MikeChenSF
@AaronPeskin
VOTE: There are 10 ayes and 1 nay, with Sup. Peskin in the dissent.
Instead of the project going back to the drawing board, this housing will move forward, and the NIMBY and antigrowth advocates will have to fight another day.
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NEW:
#SF
has 3 years to get to 0 traffic deaths, according to
@VisionZeroSF
goals. But it's made no discernible progress, and has received little support from state lawmakers who hold sway over the city’s street rules. It's not for lack of trying — just ask
@DavidChiu
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Same caller: "if this is a city that cares about workers, let small businesses thrive!"
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NEW: Amid a global pandemic, housing shortage, and racial reckonings, many in
#SF
's Outer Sunset seem to be most enraged about 2.5 miles of asphalt being closed to traffic. You'd think there would be no other north-south routes on the edge of America
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UPDATE:
@sbjinsfo
has updated her commentary with a response to the alternative
#JFKDrive
proposal introduced today by
@conniechansf
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Supervisor
@shamannwalton
, with respect, are you saying that your point isn’t based on data? More like an opinion?
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Meanwhile, on the third day that cars were back, zooming up and down the Great Highway, the sun rose red due to wildfire smoke. Read the latest from
@low___impact
6/6
@GreatWalkway
@greathwypark
@openthegreathwy
@SlowStreetsSF
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⛺️ ➡️ 🏘️ NEW STORY: With no public notice,
#SF
has begun a program to move people on the streets straight into permanent homes. It skips a waiting list and prioritizes units that have been hard to fill - just as political pressure to fill them ramps up.
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Preston now touts the resolution to lobby
@HCD
.
Editor's note:
#SF
hasn't overproduced anything. In fact it's failed to provide enough of any housing.
there is no reason to keep listening to the antigrowth and antidevelopment advocates that screwed up
#SF
housing for so many years.
$3000/month rents and $1 million home prices is irrefutable evidence of failure
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Commenter says that we hear a lot about disability, but not about people who become disabled after being hit by cars in
#GoldenGatePark
. Another speaker, below, says she's a physician who doesn't own a car, and makes basically the same point.
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NEW: After 5 years of work for
#SF
, mostly as the city's top homelessness official,
@JeffKositsky
has moved on. (His Twitter bio: "Now I can say whatever I want!") He's landed at
@UrbanAlchemyUA
, the nonprofit that got its big break 4 years ago managing public toilets. 1/
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PROTEST: It's only Tuesday in
#SF
, but supporters of car-free JFK Drive in
#GoldenGatePark
have laid out 1000s of signed postcards to
@sfbos
on the steps of City Hall. The rally is by
@walksf
with
@sfbike
@KidSafeSF
@Sk8GodFather
and others. Here's a FAQ:
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Caller making comment to Golden Gate Park working group says JFK was safe before. There were 104 injuries in the park in 5 years, 30 along JFK east of Traverse according to presentation
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@AaronPeskin
@sfbos
@HACdotorg
@wafoli
@sfplanning
So the carve-out for Peskin's favorite place, which happens to be his neighborhood, will be taken up by the Board of Supervisors.
It's effectively a microcosm of the downzoning
#SF
did back in the late 1970s, which led us into the world we live in now:
9/19/78 Downzonings "cut out low & moderate income" "saved the whales, fishes, birds, & bees, but forgot its people"
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🗣️ NEW CONVERSATION: Upset with the decade-old
@sfunified
policy of not offering algebra to middle schoolers, a parent group is suing the school district. It’s not just that the policy violates state law, they say... /1
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@hcd
VOTE to table item 32, the duplicate ordinance: There are 11 ayes, unanimous.
#SF
has done it! It has passed constraints reductions with amendments. Now
@California_HCD
will evaluate the changes, as it's expressed issues before.
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Basically the Creamery rep is asking appellant for proof that the 1,700-square-foot cafe will have substantial impact on the environment, saying that the argument that the cafe will lead to decay is spurious.
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UPDATE:
@sfbos
just voted 7-4 to let
@SF_HSH
bypass competitive bidding for contracts til 2029.
@mattdorsey
@conniechansf
@Ahsha_Safai
@AaronPeskin
voted against. (Chan tried unsuccessfully to add restrictions in committee) /1
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In response to remarks by
@shamannwalton
and
@conniechansf
, a commenter says she'd love to see more, more car-free spaces in McLaren Park, India Basin, and in more places in
#SF
.
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The thing about CEQA is that it sucks up city resources, just like the very agenda item before
@sfbos
right now. See how
@sfplanning
talks about environmental vs. socioeconomic impact
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@sfbos
@SF_CCHO
@REPCOALITIONSF
Among the blinkered whopper claims you'll hear today is that there are 60,000 units just sitting vacant in
#SF
. That is a falsehood. Those repeating this are spreading nonsense.
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NEW 🏘️ STORY: Remember the Monster in the Mission? A nearby 11-story tower with nearly 200 “micro” units – studios with shared kitchens – might have become Monster 2.0. Instead, it got
@sfplanning
approval last month, and a round of applause to boot /1
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NEW: Members and friends of the
@deyoungmuseum
might have noticed an email, with the subject line "You May Have Noticed," about JFK Drive in
#GoldenGatePark
. It points to a website that says "
#SF
needs access to Golden Gate Park." 1/
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The school board meeting just adjourned. They screwed up posting the agenda for this week, and have to reconvene Thursday. This isn't the first time they've messed up public notice. Perhaps you remember...
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Taking every project on a case-by-case basis is part of how
#SF
got into crisis in the first place
I understand there are many people who would like to have no new market rate development at all, and there are many who would like us to approve every project no matter how flawed it may be. I am committed to analyzing each project on its merits, as my record demonstrates. (14)
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Our buddy
@BrockKeeling
lays out the travesty that is Palo Alto’s antigrowth ethos, with parking rules and height limits dating back 50-70 years
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That was fast. After the 8:45pm release, the
@sfchronicle
is calling these races:
❌ Prop B (SFPD staffing)
✅ Prop D (ethics rules)
✅ Prop E (loosening SFPD rules on surveillance, chases, etc)
✅ Prop F (drug screens for welfare recipients)
✅ Prop G (urging 8th algebra)
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