SF News Frustrated With Gospel-Blasting Neighbors, Man Fights Back With Ad Hoc Porno Theater In the sleepy backwoods town of Twain Harte, California on the edge of the Stanislaus National Forest, one man has had it with his neighbor's constant, 12-hour Gospel music sessions. The music was
SF News They're Having Trouble Washing Anti-Yuppie Graffiti Away at 299 Valencia Remember how those scrappy, and some might say misguided anarchists went about defacing the lobby windows and sidewalk outside the new condo complex 299 Valencia with phrases like "Fuck Off Yuppies"? Well, the
SF News Voters Will Decide Fate Of 8 Washington's Boxy Condo Complex At yesterday's board meeting, the Supervisors upheld their decision to approve the 136-foot-tall and strikingly bland 8 Washington project. The vote broke down to the same 8-3 split that initially approved the height
Arts & Entertainment The Problem With 299 Valencia Mission Mission has done an excellent job of keeping us abreast of the hand-wringing graffiti at 299 Valencia. While nothing new to the city's elite yet gritty neighborhood of choice, the condo complex
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Tosca Cafe Faces Eviction From Strip Club Magnate In terms of drinking holes going down the drain in San Francisco, the city has managed to band together long enough to save the Tonga Room, and maybe even make some improvements on
Arts & Entertainment Should the Public Vote On Boxy 8 Washington Condo Complex? A minor debate is percolating over the 8 Washington condo complex set to rise at the waterfront. Said complex will renovation the existing Pacific Sports Resorts at the Gateway facilities and "transformation of
SF News Planning Commission Says Yes to Tall Buildings!! We've made no secret here at SFist of our support for actual tall buildings in our fair city, where some dumb ordinance from the 80s created by people scared of shadows has kept
SF News Walnut Creek Begs George Lucas to Build Studio There The other week told you about how George Lucas, finally fed up with the rich Marin NIMBYs bitching about his LucasArts expansion plans in Lucas Valley, gave up on his plans to build
SF News After 15 Years, George Lucas Caves to NIMBYs in Lucas Valley Project Filmmaker and billionaire George Lucas has withdrawn plans to build a 263,700-square-foot digital production studio in Marin for which he originally got approval in 1996 due to the ongoing resistance from neighbors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drama Continues Among Richmond Anti-Jack in the Box NIMBYs We thought the story was over, but no! A group of neighborhood activists in the Richmond who were all part of a police advisory board that was instrumental in making the case to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Inner Richmond Jack In The Box To Remain Open 24 Hours Residents in the Inner Richmond, concerned about late-night violence in the area, lost their appeal to overturn the Geary Boulevard Jack in the Box's after-hours permit, which allows the crud-food chain to remain
SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own property.
SF News NIMBY Watch: Peninsula Denizens Win Small Victory in High-Speed Rail Battle The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it was caught by surprise this week with a letter from the Bay Area Council and regional transportation agencies calling for a revised high-speed rail plan on
SF News Nob Hill Denizens Think Concertgoers Are All on Heroin Live Nation, well-known for their evil ticketing practices, have been trying to do something decent by giving the Nob Hill Masonic Center a proper rock venue upgrade ever since the event promoting company
SF News Treasure Island Opponents Get New Derogatory Acronym: NIMLOS As the Treasure Island development plan continues to move forward, a new variation on the NIMBY has emerged. The Examiner's Ken Garcia gives us: NIMLOS. Unpacking that leads us to: "Not in My
SF News Board of Appeals Finds Divisadero NIMBYs to be the Most Civil Last night, SFist attended a Board of Appeals meeting at City Hall with the intention of checking out some hot NIMBY-on-Neighbor action. The agenda was literally chock-full of territorial battles in progress, so
SF News Supervisor Campos Introduces Plan for Citywide Historic Sign Preservation While this is technically a late addition to our Board of Supervisors Agenda Items of Interest post, we thought this one was interesting enough to warrant it's own breakdown: Down in Bernal Heights
SF News Bernal Coke Sign Will Be Saved Supervisor David Campos has done an about-face as only a politician can, and according to the Examiner he's now declared that the vintage Coca-Cola sign that was causing that NIMBY-generated stir is, indeed,
SF News NIMBY WATCH: Sidewalk Gardens Under Fire on Sanchez, Mission Brewery Goes Forward Sanchez and 16th: Poor little Sanchez Street just wants to be as cool and pretty as Noe Street between Duboce and Market, and one homeowner's been making a go of it, putting some
SF News NIMBY WATCH: Dolores Park Battle Goes Down Tonight We here at SFist are ever the fans of civilized disagreement, and we shun all public meetings that devolve into crazy rantings by over-loud complainants, and/or shouting matches. But we just might
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's Still Fighting, Pelosi on Ground Zero Mosque, and More There's an update on Ike's Place and owner Ike Shehadeh's fight to stay put despite upstairs neighbors trying to force him out and the recent revelation that he never really had the right
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's Gets a Reprieve, 7-11 Facing Hurdles in Outer Mission Perhaps you heard, but as the Bay Citizen and SFoodie report, Ike's got a reprieve yesterday from a sympathetic judge, and therefore the uber-popular sandwich shop won't be evicted without a trial, in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBY Watch: Ike's May Have to Close Tomorrow We've reported earlier on the fate of the apotheosis of all sandwich places, Ike's Place, which is facing eviction following on the lengthy complaining of some upstairs neighbors. The neighbors are upset about
SF News NIMBY Watch: Noe Valley Merchants Want to Be YIMBYs; Ike's Neighbors Willing to Settle... for $1M! There's a roaring battle afoot between the Noe Valley Merchants and Professionals Association who came out in support of the Pavements to Parks initiative to create a trial parklet at 24th and Noe
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's May Be Forced to Close, Café Du Soleil Wins Music Permit Some of you may have heard the news, via the Chron's Inside Scoop yesterday, that Ike Shehadeh, owner of the ever-popular Ike's Place, has been served with an eviction notice. The owner of
