- State Bird Provisions executive chef/owner Stuart Brioza spoke to San Francisco Magazine to offer a few words of advice to AL's Place, given that he has some experience with being named Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurant. [SF Mag]
- A small fire broke out over the weekend at a building on Fulton Street right off of Alamo Square. [Hoodline]
- 193 trees are slated for removal to make way for the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit line, and neighbors are pretty pissed about it. [Chron]
- 348 Precita, on Precita Park, which houses the Precita Eyes Mural Studio, is on the market and activists want to discourage potential market-rate buyers so that it can be bought by the Mission Economeic Development Agency. [Bernalwood]
- Sausalito has already banned Airbnb and VRBO, and now other Marin County cities are following short on their own short-term rental restrictions. [CBS 5]
- An elderly property owner, who owns some land in Diamond Heights, wants to donate it to a non-profit to build affordable housing, but he can't find any takers. [Chron]
- San Francisco’s Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse, which was saved from demolition a decade ago and which has been vacant ever since being damaged in the Loma Prieta quake, still sits empty because of lack of funding. [Chron]