SF News Adding Roommates Made Easier, Evictions Made Harder After Board Of Supervisors Vote The Board of Supervisors took an extra step in tenant protections at Tuesday's meeting, voting to approve new legislation that makes it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants for minor violations, or
SF News SF Bicyclists To Be Allowed Rolling Or 'Idaho' Stops San Francisco bicyclists can soon come to a roll through stop signs when appropriate, you know, just like they always have. The difference now, as KQED and Streetsblog report, is that the Board
SF News Fate Of Biergarten Not Guaranteed As City Officials Argue Over Need For Housing On The Property Two years ago, and as recently as last month, we were under the impression that the popularity of 2011-built Hayes Valley "cargo-tecture" complex collectively known as Proxy guaranteed its existence through 2021. But
SF News Supervisor Wiener Really Set On Subway Construction, Introduces 'Master Plan' Legislation Supervisor Scott Wiener prides himself on having his finger to the pulse of San Francisco public transit. But that pulse, he notes, can sometimes be faint. We aren't doing enough, Wiener says, to
SF News SF's Last Remaining Gun Shop May Close Over Supervisor's Proposal Take a good look at that “Guns Gunsmith” sign above, because it may not be a gun or gunsmith shop much longer. That sign sits above High Bridge Arms, the last remaining gun
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
SF News Will The Sunset Finally Get Housing Density? The Board of Supervisors is set to debate and potentially pass some new legislation this fall that would allow for so-called "density bonuses" in neighborhoods where not a lot of housing density currently
SF News Osaka Mayor Continues Feud With SF, Objects To Proposed 'Comfort Women' Memorial Last year, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors fought back against the mayor of an SF sister city in Japan who appeared to excuse wartime atrocities. Now that fight is entering another round. In
SF News David Chiu Wore A Wire To Talk To Shrimp Boy Because He Feared For His Life Another detail to come out of the release yesterday of a court filing in the case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is that former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who's now a
SF News Does San Francisco Need A New Jail? The Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to go after $80 million in state funding for the construction of a new county jail facility to replace the seismically unsound one we
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Announces Bid For State Senate Setting the political stage for a contest more than a year and a half away, Muni-loving, nudity-banning District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has announced his candidacy for State Senate. The Democrat just unveiled
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF News Halfway Through The 22-Day Muni-Riding Challenge, The Mayor May Have Only Ridden Muni Once Challenged by the SF Transit Riders Union (SFTRU) to hop on Muni as much as possible for 22 days this month, the Mayor and Board of Supervisors are being carefully watched by that
SF News [Updated] Supes Approve Soda Ad Warnings; Will Iconic SoMa Coca-Cola Billboard Get One? The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve warning labels on all print and billboard ads for sodas and sugary drinks in the city, akin to the warnings seen on tobacco
SF News Supervisors Help Kick Off 22-Day Muni Challenge With Rally At City Hall Fun times at our rally to kick off the 22-day #MuniChallenge. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/1XPqpAg1yU— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 1, 2015 Back in April the SF Transit Riders Union challenged the
SF News A Mission Development Moratorium Would Stall 1,100 Housing Units A temporary moratorium measure on market-rate development in the Mission District that Supervisor David Campos introduced to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday would, according to the Business Times, stall around 1,100
Arts & Entertainment Nightclubs And Music Venues Can't Be Sued Over Noise Complaints, Say Supervisors In a victory for SF nightlife, that proposal we talked about back in March to legislate protections for music venues and nightclubs against complaints by new neighbors and condo owners passed at yesterday's
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
SF News Day Around The Bay: Which Supes Agreed To Ride Muni? You know how the Transit Riders Union issued that challenge to the Supervisors and the Mayor to ride Muni to work at least 22 days in June? Well, seven of them signed on,
SF News Big Names Throw Their Weight Behind Julie Christensen, Against Aaron Peskin Less than a month after former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin announced his intention to reclaim his old seat on the board, some of San Francisco's biggest names are out
SF News Mayor And Supervisors Challenged To Ride Muni Themselves Much like the citizenry did almost ten years ago with then mayor Gavin Newsom, a citizens' group is challenging the current mayor and Board of Supervisors to ride Muni themselves for 22 days
SF News Black Lives Matter Protesters Disrupt Traffic, Shout 'Shame On You' At Malia Cohen And London Breed; Campos Compares SF Inequality With Rwanda There were multiple coordinated protests Tuesday around the country in order to keep attention on the problem of racial injustice and police shootings, including a large one in New York City that resulted
SF News Is 16 Hours Of Training Enough For Muni's Gun-Wielding Security Guards? A vote to approve a controversial agreement to employ handgun-equipped private security guards at Muni yards was postponed Tuesday over concerns that the guards would not receive a sufficient amount of firearms training.
SF News Veteran Progressive Aaron Peskin Wants His Board Of Supervisors Seat Back In a move that was fully expected within politico circles, longtime supervisor of the last decade, Aaron Peskin, will be vying to return to his seat as supervisor of District 3. The move
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
