SF Politics One NIMBY Neighbor Has Held Up 24-Unit Development In Pacific Heights For Two Years An adaptive reuse project involving a historic building in Pacific Heights, which will add 24 units of housing to the neighborhood, is looking at a 20-percent uptick in construction costs and a two-year delay because of legal challenges from a single next-door neighbor.
SF News Housing Moves Forward at People's Park After State Supreme Court Rejects 'People as Pollution' Argument The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of UC Berkeley and against a neighborhood group in a lawsuit that was testing the boundaries of the state's environmental review laws for new developments.
SF News State Supreme Court Set to Hear Berkeley People's Park Development Case, Rule on 'People as Pollution' The California Supreme Court has now set a date to hear arguments in an appeal that has been holding up development of the People's Park site in Berkeley for over a year.
Bay Area Sports SF Pickleball Fans Delight In Irony of Presidio Heights NIMBY Trying to Shut Down a Public Court While Owning One Herself A petition circulated last weekend by a Presidio Heights resident has been a source of much hilarity after pickleball players linked it to a real estate listing for a home with its own backyard pickleball court.
SF Politics Sunset NIMBYs Once Again Appealing 90-Unit Affordable Housing Project at Irving Street and 28th Avenue After losing a court battle as well as a previous government appeal, the “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is back with another appeal of an affordable housing project, this time claiming concerns over “soil vapor.”
SF News The New, Big Bissap Boabab Has Big Problems With Condo Neighbors’ Noise Complaints The condo-dwelling neighbors of the new Bissap Baobab are now trying to get the Senegalese restaurant and dance club’s alcohol license revoked, with complaints over the club’s fully legal and permitted live entertainment.
SF News Power NIMBY Move: Marin Residents Give Selves Hefty Tax Hike to Block Housing Development Would you pay $335 a year, every year for 30 years, to block 43 lots of single-family homes? Some Marin County residents just did that by a decisive margin, rejecting a proposed large-scale development and instead voting make it a 110-acre public park.
SF News UC Berkeley Loses Court Fight, Will Have to Cap Enrollment at 2020 Level The University of California just lost one of its appeals to the state Supreme Court, which means it will have to withhold around 5,000 acceptance letters that it was intending to send out to incoming first-year students in the next few weeks.
SF News Battle Between Berkeley Group and UC Berkeley Over Student Population Size Heads to State Supreme Court Depending on what happens at the California Supreme Court, 3,050 fewer students might get acceptance letters from UC Berkeley this spring, because a Berkeley citizens' group is irritated with the pace of the school's growth.
SF Politics Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center May Open By December After an appeals court judge ruled against the neighborhood group that has been fighting the new Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, the mayor says it could open for its first homeless guests sometime next month.
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Neighbor Is Sick And Tired Of All The 'Events' In The Park Watch out #dolorespark Carmen wants her parking spot back! #LessLitterMoreFliers pic.twitter.com/PX53B4UlrS— Justin Bigelow (@jdbig) July 28, 2015 This is funny: A woman named Carmen who lives near Dolores Park has
SF News Gorgeous Residential High-Rise Project Designed By Jeanne Gang Threatened By Art Agnos, Waterfront NIMBYs This fantastic high-rise development proposed for one of the last remaining Transbay District sites at Folsom and Spear is facing some major opposition from former mayor and frequent anti-waterfront-development activist Art Agnos, and
SF News Judge Halts 1050 Valencia Development Mid-Construction A Superior Court Judge has called for a halt to the five-story development currently under construction at 1050 Valencia Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, at Hill Street. And this is triggering a
