The Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council just gave the Whole Foods/(unaffordable) condo project - which would have nested at Haight and Stanyan streets, where the world's scariest Cala Foods used to reside - a thumbs down. Have the NIMBYs won? According to Curbed's Sarah Hromack, maybe so. No one, including the city as well as Supe Ross Mirkarimi, really got on-board with the idea. Oh noes! Read more about how you might not ever be able to......

We live just up the street from Haight and Stanyan, and the other day someone dropped off a flyer about how Whole Foods is eager to transform the former Cala Foods (now a vacant lot and boarded-up deathtrap) into a pleasant, overpriced gourmet food store with apartments on top. The design of the flyer reminded us of some incomprehensible posters that appeared briefly in the neighborhood two years ago -- could D.B.H. be back?......