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- Famed local socialite Pat Montandon one of the central figures in Sean Wilsey's memoir, Oh, The Glory of It All, because she's his mom is selling her "soaring" Cole Valley home, which is quite lovely. [Curbed SF]
- A BART communications intern offers "A (courteous) biker's guide to BART." [BART]
- There was a big annual test today for disaster preparedness in SF simulating 72 hours after a major earthquake, "coupled with a cyber-attack on local government." [KRON 4]
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Here are more details on the razing of the Mission Homeless Nav Center and the housing to be built in its place. [Socketsite]
- San Francisco's Controller, who already issued a report saying that the 25-percent affordability requirement is going to be damaging for housing development, recommended on Wednesday that the city lower the requirement and then raise it over time.
- Someone with a pipe broke windows and a glass door at San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center in August while “shouting homophobic slurs,” and it's being investigated as a hate crime. [Bay Area Reporter]
- With California’s new smoking law requiring that people be 21 to purchase tobacco and medical marijuana, young medical cannabis patients are prevented from seeking “treatment.” [Golden Gate Express]
- The UC Berkeley law professor accused of sexual harassment penned an open letter on why he should be allowed back on campus. [Chronicle]
- Colin Kaepernick gave a lengthy video interview to [ABC 7].
- A man accused in the May 30 murder of a woman in the Mission worked as security guard, has priors involving an attack on a woman. [Examiner]
- Now Nevius is urging tech companies to get hip to local politics, claiming that they aren't yet. [Chronicle]
- Naturally, a controversy is ensuing over a 500-foot-tall hotel and condominium tower proposed at 1 Montgomery St., above the historic Wells Fargo bank building there. [Chronicle]
- A 46-year-old San Jose man died Wednesday after crashing his rented Ferrari into a tree near Woodside. [KRON 4]
- SF’s new “Big Bell” is already broken, and it won’t ring on 9/11. [Chronicle]
- Planning isn’t nuts about the proposed Flower Mart redevelopment plans, and wants there to be less parking. [Socketsite]
