SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle May Finally Reopen On Telegraph Hill, Despite NIMBY Objections The historic restaurant on the cliffs of Telegraph Hill, Julius' Castle, in operation from 1924 until a decade ago, may finally be reborn as a restaurant with the help of a development team
SF News NIMBY Watch: Glen Park Neighbors Upset Over Alleged Billionaire's Bachelor Pad Plan With Indoor Basketball Court A plan to transform a six-bedroom house into a one-bedroom bachelor pad complete with its own indoor basketball court has upset at least a few neighbors on a cul de sac in the
SF News Mission Activists Oppose 'Tea Art' Cafe In Vacant Storefront As 'Destabilizing To Working-Class Communities' A cafe with designs to open for "tea, coffee, and snacks" in a Mission Street storefront near 24th Street that's been empty since 2015 is now in the crosshairs of at least one
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News New Lower Haight Medical Pot Dispensary Has Local Merchants Bickering, Possibly Lobbing Threats When local medical cannabis dispensary SPARC opened its elegant glass doors in SoMa six years ago, it was greeted with design awards and a flattering nickname for its chic aesthetic and professional atmosphere:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ritz Residents Turn NIMBY Over Relocation Of DaDa Bar Even from the rarefied, double-paned-glass heights of the Ritz-Carlton Residences at 695 Market Street, the NIMBY spirit of San Francisco is alive and well as a determined group of some 35 residents there
SF News Atherton Wealthy Will Still Maybe Try To Block High-Speed Rail NIMBYs throughout the state of California have been crying foul for years about the gigantic and decades-long high-speed rail project that will, someday, connect Los Angeles and San Francisco and ultimately San Diego
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri Winery Plan Killed By Sonoma NIMBYs Sometimes NIMBYs are a force of good, ladies and gentlemen! Case in point: At least 30 people showed up to speak in opposition of a plan for a new tasting room for Guy
Arts & Entertainment Elderly NIMBY And Her Cats Enraged By Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Angry old people can be so funny sometimes. Please enjoy this letter from an enraged older woman, writing on behalf of herself, her husband, her three cats, and her "85-year old neighbor JF
SF News NIMBY Watch: Angry 'Full House' Neighbors Edition If you moved in front of, say, Lombard Street or the Powerhouse, you'd except some sort of tourist-related melee, yes? Well, don't tell that to the neighbors in Alamo Square who have had
SF News The War On The Waterfront: Development Foes Propose New Height-Limit Restrictions Enemies of new development along the bayside waterfront won their first big battle with the defeat of propositions B and C in November's local election. Bolstered by that victory, they just brought a
SF News Marsh Theater Wages Final Battle Over Next Door Condo Project Tonight At the Board of Appeals meeting tonight at 5 p.m., the final round of arguments to impose restrictions on a building set to go up at 1050 Valencia Street will be heard.
SF News Berkeley Neighbors Upset Over Micro-Apartment Development You think it's difficult to build things in San Francisco? You should get a load of Berkeley sometime. A developer is trying to build a five-story, 67-unit building on Shattuck Avenue near Derby,
SF News Chinatown Upset About Something With the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit We're having a tough time wrapping our heads around this one, but apparently there has been some heated discussion, and a public meeting, regarding the impact on Chinatown of the planned Van Ness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Restaurant Causes Mini-Uproar Over Beer Garden, Bocce Court The owners of Rustic, a new pizza spot on 24th Street, were a little quick to publicize the fact that they wanted to open an outdoor area in back with a bocce court
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nevius Chimes In On Bacon Bacon Controversy He's a little late to this party, but C.W. Nevius weighs in on the Bacon Bacon controversy, following SNL acknowledging that it is, in fact, quite funny. Nevius, ever quick to point
Arts & Entertainment Proposed Gant Store Has Hayes Valleyans Decrying 'Corporate America' Armed with many scare quotes, some merchants and neighbors in Hayes are none too pleased about the possibility of East Coast-based shirtmaker Gant taking over the former Into Video space at 552 Hayes
SF News Rec & Parks Commission Approves Controversial Union Square Subway Station As progress on the Central Subway moves forward underneath Stockton Street, up a couple blocks in Union Square the new line's most visible station looks to be heading for its inevitable day in
SF News Port Of S.F. Sinks Local Man's Dream To Build Dumpy Waterfront Restaurant Vincent Lackey, the owner of a rotting houseboat that has been stuck in the mud in India Basin for months, is about to see his dreams of opening a waterfront restaurant come to
SF News High-Speed Rail Not in the Clear Yet Though the California legislature has given the green-light for the long-awaited, long-debated high-speed rail connecting L.A. to S.F., there still remain five persnickety lawsuits to be settled or litigated in the
SF News Opponents of Central Subway Have New Delay Tactic: Union Square Station Deemed Illegal Another day, another challenge to the Central Subway project, which is literally minutes from getting back underway along the Stockton corridor and up by Union Square. Earlier this week we heard about North
SF News NIMBY Watch: North Beach Folks Want to Stop/Stall Central Subway Construction It wouldn't be Monday in San Francisco without a tale of a construction project that someone, somewhere is going to fight tooth and nail to stop. Work is beginning on the North Beach
SF News A Houseboat Stuck In The Mud Is Our New Favorite NIMBY Problem A local man who has spent the past 20 years building a houseboat that he hopes will become Pier 1's next great restaurant has suddenly found his plans literally stuck in the mud.
