SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News Millennium Tower Drama Heats Up As Building Inspectors Called To Testify, Transbay Authority Issues New Denial Tuesday's press conference by Supervisor Aaron Peskin in which he vaguely pointed fingers and said that "political interference" of some kind may have been a factor in the approvals for the sinking Millennium
SF News Peskin Says 'Political Interference' Contributed To Millennium Tower Construction Decision The plot thickens. In a press conference this afternoon picked up by the Business Times, Supervisor Aaron Peskin spoke to the ongoing controversy surrounding the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower and suggested that
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
SF News Supes Poised To Open Door For 30,000 More SF Apartments...If Landlords Bother To Build Though much ink has been spilled on the increasingly-divided nature of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, two of the Supes who are in frequent opposition came together late Monday, agreeing on legislation that,
SF News Kim Proposes Yet Another Measure To Deal With Homeless Encampments Supervisor Jane Kim yesterday introduced a measure that would set terms by which the city engages with tent encampments and the homeless residents who call them home. This, reports the Chronicle, is the
SF News Supes Seek To Ban Grass Rentals In All SF Parks Following Dolores Park Dustup Responding to an outpouring of condemnation from the general public, five members of the Board of Supervisors have put forth a resolution that would effectively kill the Recreation and Parks Department's program of
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Not Above My Backyard' Says Avalos To Blue Angels Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Supervisor Aaron Peskin John Avalos, who has slammed the
SF News Rival Density Bonus Plans Vie For Support Correction: This post originally stated that Supervisor Peskin's proposal had been killed. It has not been, and this post has been corrected to reflect that. SF Supervisor Katy Tang and Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Half Of City Hall, Gavin Newsom, And Academy Of Art's Elisa Stephens Show Up To Celebrate Rose Pak's Return As noted Monday, the scheduled return of Rose Pak to San Francisco following an extended medical stay in China was expected to draw a crowd of at least 100 well-wishers and a bus
SF News City Suing Academy Of Art Over Their Problematic Real Estate Empire Perhaps spurred to action by last summer's exhaustive reporting by Forbes on the for-profit school's allegedly shady real estate dealings, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a lawsuit against the Academy
SF News Campos Proposes Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered SF Listings The relationship between Airbnb and San Francisco is something like the one between a difficult host and a defiant houseguest. It's... well, it's not great. In what might have signaled a détente earlier
SF News SF Might Ban Styrofoam Coolers, Packing Materials, And Beach Toys It's been nearly nine years since San Francisco banned Styrofoam coffee cups, to-go containers, after then Board of Supervisors President Aaron "I'm back" Peskin pushed forward legislation banning the use of such products
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
SF News Shadowy Group With Alleged Lee Ties Seeks To Scare Progressives With Term Limit Amendment When once and again San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced his run to reclaim his Board seat last spring, some asked how he could do that, given that he's already served the legally-allowed
SF News Supervisors Pen Op-Ed Slamming SF Super Bowl Deal Meanwhile, in San Francisco... pic.twitter.com/55b5XptnUB— Uel Aramchek (@ThePatanoiac) January 26, 2016 Following on last Tuesday's press conference lambasting San Francisco's Super Bowl City arrangement with the Host Committee and the
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Lee And Aaron Peskin Are Pals Now? Lee, Peskin put bitter election behind them. via @matierandross https://t.co/vLc01gP3kh pic.twitter.com/K9MgayQML0— The Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 27, 2015 Ed Lee and newly reelected Supervisor Aaron Peskin are hanging
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF News Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News [UPDATE] Supervisors Set To Tank New Jail Project With Vote Today It looks like we might not be getting that bright and shiny new jail after all. With a crucial Board of Supervisors vote on the project set for today, six Supervisors have officially
SF News Mayor Will Allow Peskin To Start His Supervisor Term On December 8th So now Supervisor-elect Aaron Peskin has an official start date. The District 3 leader was voted back into his old job last month, and today we learn that he'll return to work on
SF News Mayor Lee Could Delay Start Of Peskin's Term In Order To Push Through New Jail Project With Aaron Peskin's November election to the District 3 seat, the Board of Supervisors is set to make a shift to the left. However, what day he officially begins his job is ultimately
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
