SF News High Towing Fees Could Come Down Following Supervisors' Scrutiny Towing fees in San Francisco are some of the most wildly expensive in the nation, standing at two to three times what you might pay in any other major US city. If one
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News So NOW We Have A Homelessness Crisis, Supervisor Campos Decides After seven years on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos woke up this morning and decided that San Francisco had entered a homelessness crisis. Campos' team was up early, too, calling SFist before
SF News Cigarette Buying No Longer An All-Ages Event in SF, As Supes Vote To Raise Tobacco Purchase Age To 21 We warned you back in November, and now it's official: After an unanimous vote at the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, San Francisco will soon raise the age one is allowed to purchase tobacco
SF News Supervisors Not Happy About Proposed Restrictions On Dogs In Parks #SF supervisors rally w/dog owners before presenting resolution against dog restrictions at Ocean Beach & GGNRA land pic.twitter.com/vIXchNXCrO— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) March 1, 2016 It looks like Nancy
SF News New Evidence Emerges In SFPD Shootings As Complaints Office Seeks More Authority A proposal authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen to give the Office of Citizen Complaints complete authority to investigate all police shootings is moving forward, the Examiner reports, with the Board's Rules Committee sending
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 Former Figure Of Progressive Fear Trades SF For Las Vegas Call it Daly's Law: Every time something outrageous happens in San Francisco's City Hall, you can basically count the seconds until a member of the local commentariat mentions controversial former Supervisor Chris Daly's
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 Police Officers Association Spreading Petition To Repeal 'Mario Woods Day' A petition created by an anonymous individual seeks to challenge the Board of Supervisors' recent decision to declare July 22 a day in honor of Mario Woods. The petition calls the Supervisors to
SF News Handshake Deal: How SF Scored The Super Bowl With No Written Agreement Sup Bro. #SB50 pic.twitter.com/ao8ImxugZ1— shanan (@shanand) January 28, 2016 To win the Super Bowl, the City of San Francisco played ball. An independent office of the Budget and Legislative Analysis
SF News Uproar Begins As Supervisor Wiener Tries To Enforce Tent Ban On Homeless Postcards from SF: Our homeless camp stretching 0.8 mile, both sides of the street from 13th/Otis to 13th/San Bruno. pic.twitter.com/JIMGn7L7Fi— Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) January 22, 2016 Three
SF News SF May Limit Chain-Store Subsidiaries, Too San Francisco's formula retail rules, est. 2004, don't themselves adhere to any one strict formula. For example, while Hayes Valley, Chinatown's tourist corridor, and North Beach ban chains entirely, other parts of town
SF News Supervisors Seek Day Of Remembrance For Mario Woods, DOJ Investigation Into His Killing By SFPD An apology. A day of remembrance. And hopefully a Department of Justice Investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's use-of-force, training, and tactics. That's all the Board of Supervisors were able to offer
SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News Supervisor Wiener Thwarts 'Not A Very Well-Thought-Out' Phone Theft Snatching Supervisor Scott Wiener's phone at 16th and Valencia was "not a very well-thought-out crime," or so the politician told San Francisco magazine. Indeed, the suspiciously tall Castro Supervisor was able to recover
SF News Idaho Stop Legislation Passes First Vote, Barely; Bike Coalition Tweets At Supervisors Throughout Vote As we noted on Monday, the contentious issue of legalizing the rolling "Idaho stop" for cyclists came for a vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, and as predicted it came up
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
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Already Annoyed About Super Bowl, Still Don't Know What It Will Cost City Echoing some of the back-and-forth that happened leading up to the 2013 America's Cup, several of SF's Board of Supervisors are continuing to voice concerns about how much of the bill for the
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 Campos: Leave Your Unsecured Gun In The Car, Go To Jail If San Francisco Supervisor David Campos has his way, private citizens as well as this California Highway Patrol officer could face jail time and hefty fines for the crime of leaving an unsecured
SF News Under 21? Then Forget About Buying Smokes In SF, Says Supe Though an effort to raise California's smoking age to 21 stalled last month in the state Assembly, that won't stop a couple San Francisco lawmakers from trying to impose tighter regulations for young
SF News Current Apartment Fire Alarms Found Inadequate By New Study An inter-agency group studying issues of fire safety met today for the final time in order to present their findings to the Board of Supervisors. The Emergency Interagency Fire Safety Task Force, consisting
