SF News After Hours And Hours Of Public Comment, Board Of Supes OKs 5M Development In SoMa The somewhat controversial (for some) 5M development in the heart of SoMa, at Fifth and Mission, is the kind of dense in-fill development the city is going need to build over the next
SF News Super Bowl 50 Committee Wants Us To Calm Down About Muni Wire Removal, Says They'll Pay For It Less than a week after the news broke that the Super Bowl 50 Committee is seeking to pull down the Muni wires on or near Market Street, the public outcry over the plan
SF News Tour Bus Crash Exposes Inspection, Permitting Failure On Part Of Tour Company The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which oversees all vehicles in California with capacities greater than 11 people, says that based on a preliminary review of its records, the tour bus that crashed
SF News Brake Failure Possibly To Blame In Union Square Tour Bus Crash Friday's tour bus crash in Union Square, which has left six people still hospitalized and four of those in critical condition, may have been the result of substandard maintenance and a mechanical failure
SF News Landlords Try To Gut Roommate Provision In New Tenant Law Via The Rent Board, Fail The somewhat controversial provision in a new tenant-protection ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors and sponsored by Jane Kim that allows tenants to add roommates in a unit up to those set
SF News Huge 5M Development In SoMa Gets Jane Kim's Blessing After Adding 40 Percent Affordability The massive mixed-use development slated for the block surrounding the Chronicle building at 5th and Mission, dubbed 5M, appears to be moving forward despite some controversy, and today we get word that Jane
SF News Jane Kim Takes On Scott Wiener In State Senate Race The otherwise sedate race to fill the soon-to-be empty 11th District state Senate seat of Mark Leno (in 2016) just got a little more interesting, with word coming that San Francisco Supervisor Jane
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
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 Jane Kim Wants To Fence Off McCoppin Plaza After Complaints About The Homeless Hangout As you're well aware if you've strolled or biked by the intersection of McCoppin and Valencia Streets on the cusp of Market Street, McCoppin Plaza rarely resembles the above promotional photo. Instead, the
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 [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 SF Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Jailed On Child Porn Charges Enrique Pearce, the man who successfully ran Jane Kim's election campaign to the Board of Supervisors, and the Run, Ed, Run campaign, was arrested last night on charges that he was in possession
SF News The Latest Chapter In The 1049 Market Saga: New Eviction Notices, Subpeona For Jane Kim The landlord of 1049 Market Street, the building filled with low-rent live-work units that some tenants have lived in over 15 years, appears to be getting desperate, and is going on the offensive
SF News Exclusive: How City Hall Actually Thinks It Can Get More Affordable Housing Built Those of you who voted earlier this month approved Prop K, a housing "ordinance" accurately described by the League of Pissed-Off Voters as a “non-binding pinky swear" of a ballot measure. The proposition
SF News Mild Intrigue Surrounds Mayor's Possible Appointment To David Chiu's Board Seat, Board President Vote Those who follow every moderate-liberal-vs-progressive chess move in S.F.'s political landscape should probably find themselves a more compelling hobby. But if you are one of those people, the coming weeks should
SF News Jane Kim's Shoes Win Everything: Observations From My Tour Of Election Victory Parties Last Night I've never been to any Election Night parties in S.F., so when a politically connected friend invited me along for a four-party tour last night to kiss a few rings, I figured
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF News Developers Attempting To Skip Out On Paying For Downtown High Speed Rail Extension Remember how Supervisors Scott Wiener and Jane Kim were expressing some concern a couple months ago about the Mayor's Office's assurances that the rooftop park at the new Transbay Transit Center would be
SF News San Francisco Candidates' War Chests, By The Numbers Hey, maybe you heard that we have an election in San Francisco this November? With all the sturm und drang over ballot measures on taxing sodas, raising the minimum wage and protecting drivers,
SF News Affordable Housing Compromise Reached For November Ballot The battle that had been predicted on the November ballot between competing proposals by Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee on the affordable-housing question has been averted. And it sounds like Kim made
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
SF News Jane Kim Proposing 30% Affordable Housing In New Developments Supervisor Jane Kim, while open to compromises, is proposing that the city mandate a threshold of 30% below-market-rate housing in all new developments starting next year. The proposal, which we first heard about
Arts & Entertainment Zoning Rule Holds Up New SoMa Nightclub From Heklina, Of Trannyshack Fame Drag show impresario Heklina, a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko, amidst the recent controversy over the rebranding of her iconic party Trannyshack, is trying to buy the building on the northwest corner of Folsom
