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.
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 Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News Appellate Court Might Expand CEQA's Powers In Berkeley Case, and May Stymie People's Park Development Plan In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.
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 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 News Group Of Neighbors In Less Dense SF Neighborhood Sues to Block High-Density Housing Project Another week, another NIMBY effort in San Francisco — despite all the groundswell of support for the idea that the city needs more housing, not more hemming and hawing over it.
SF News Judge Lets Embarcadero Navigation Center Move Forward, Denying Homeowners' Restraining Order So far the legal maneuvers of that group of Embarcadero residents who really don't want more homeless people in their midst have not gotten them anywhere.
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 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 Reporters Disturb Mark Zuckberg's Neighbors To Report That Mark Zuckerberg Disturbs His Neighbors ABC7 alerts us to the fact that the Zuckerberg renovation disruption we told you about yesterday is one of NINE residential construction projects going on in the Facebook founder's Dolores Heights neighborhood, which
SF News State Commission Led By Gavin Newsom Suing S.F. Over Waterfront Height Limit Measure Prop B the local ballot measure that will force a public vote for all waterfront height-limit exemptions which passed in the June election that no one voted in might just be illegal under
SF News Earthquake Disaster Flick Starring The Rock Shoots This Month, Everyone Freaking Out A movie called San Andreas starring Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson, Kylie Minogue (!), and Alexandra Daddario is set to begin shooting in San Francisco later this month, and already some neighbors in tony Russian
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
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 Four Seasons Residents Threaten Ballot Initiative Against Tall Buildings You may know this already, but we here at SFist like tall buildings. And we think that people who bitch about tall buildings are aesthetically-challenged, provincially-minded sticks in the mud who should, perhaps,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Porc De Triomphe: Bacon Bacon To Reopen Back in May, noted pork purveyor Bacon Bacon was forced to close the doors of its Upper Haight/Cole Valley outpost due in part to neighbor's complaints about the "obnoxious" and "acrid" smell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Urges Customers To Attend City Hall Hearing Bacon Bacon fights back against bacon-aroma haters in the hood with this revamped window at their Cole Valley location. Eater notes: "Bacon Bacon's day of reckoning with the Planning Commission is coming up
SF News San Francisco Orders First Parklet Removal Sure, people were using the parklet outside Martin Macks gastropub on Haight Street. But not the right kind of people, darling. The Department of Public Works issued the order last week for one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chipotle's Bid To Move Into The Castro Gets A No From Planners Things aren't looking good for Chipotle, which wants to open its tenth S.F. location in the former Home restaurant space at Church and Market. Yesterday afternoon the Planning Department issued its weekly
Arts & Entertainment Crissy Field NIMBYs Not Fans Of Fabulous, Large Metal Objects Last week, eight massive steel beam sculptures went up in Crissy Field. The 50-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide pieces represent decades of work for local artist Mark di Suvero and a very visible piece of SFMOMA's
