Owner of Nob Hill and issuer of valuable art school degrees, Academy of Art University, is reportedly in big trouble with the City of San Francisco. It would appear that over the last several years, the Academy of Art has illegally converted buildings to academic uses, thrown down unauthorized signage all over the place, and, at various times, has enjoyed a passel of building code violations in 30 of its 32 buildings. This has seriously annoyed the city's Planning Commission and today they will be meeting behind closed doors with the city attorneys office to consider suing the pants off the alleged art school scofflaws.

Unfortunately, if annoying the Planning Commission weren't bad enough, the Board of Supervisors is also holding the Academy of Art suspect in diminution of the city's cheap housing stock. As anyone who has ever traipsed through the Tender Nob can attest, the Academy of Art owns over a dozen residential properties which have been converted to housing for suckers students. If all those fine buildings are going to house the city's future ink studs, where will all the poors live? The Mission District? Horrors! The BOS's land use committee will hold a hearing on Monday to investigate the Academy of Art University's impact to city housing. Good luck, Academy of Art University...