SF Politics Peskin, Chan Making Noise About Suing the State Over Mandatory Housing Goals The latest drama over SF’s state-mandated goal to build more than 82,000 new housing units comes from Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, who want to blow up that mandate with a lawsuit, though City Attorney David Chiu may be unwilling to throw that bomb.
SF News Long-Shuttered, Dilapidated Eyesore Alexandria Theater Finally Inching Toward Becoming Housing The Richmond District’s long-vacant and decrepit Alexandria Theater could finally find new life as a 76-unit housing development, as the district’s supervisor Connie Chan and the building’s owner are finally on the same page.
SF Politics In-Fighting Over Affordable Housing at City Hall Escalates With New Lawsuit; Meanwhile Newsom's Office Launches Unprecedented Review of SF Policy A housing nonprofit aligned with Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, has now filed suit in what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep a competing charter amendment about affordable housing off the November ballot.
SF Politics Supervisor Chan (Again) Bucks Consensus Plan for Car-Free JFK Drive, Goes Her Own Way With Dueling Proposal In what is becoming a pattern in the debate over a car-free JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, District 1 supervisor Connie Chan introduces a rival plan to the plan around which consensus is otherwise forming.
SF Politics YIMBY/Tech PAC Going After Supervisors Mar and Chan, Hopes to Raise $300k to Recall Boudin Hoping to make the school board recall an ongoing wedge issue for progressive supervisors, a new PAC is targeting two supes who opposed it, and announced an ambitious fundraising goal for the Boudin recall.
SF Politics Audit Finds $3.5 Million In Anonymous Donations to SF Parks Alliance, Calls Out 'Potential Conflicts of Interest' Supervisor Connie Chan is not done snooping into the finances of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, with an audit she ordered finding millions in anonymous donations, but no smoking gun.
SF Politics Parks Alliance Pushes Back On Accusations, Tells Supervisor Chan to Kiss Richmond Playground Goodbye The drama! A wealthy San Francisco nonprofit that helps support the city's Rec and Parks Department is having none of Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan's insinuations.
SF Politics Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar Join SF Board of Supervisors Representing Districts 1 and 7 With a narrow ranked-choice victory declared Sunday for incoming District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has two new faces representing the Westside beginning in the new year.
