SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Bar Casements Can Continue Rocking Live Music on Back Patio After City Hall Gives OK Mission Street bar Casements had to get new approval for live music on their back patio, despite that they’ve had live music on that patio since 2020. They did get their City Hall approval, but now their live music has a 10 p.m. cut-off time.
SF News SFMTA Board Member Admits to Illegally Lobbying City Hall Colleagues To Get Permits for Italian Restaurant Vice chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors Gwyneth Borden took an undisclosed $12,500 to help a Sunset District Italian restaurant, and worked the Planning Commission she used to be a member of to help the restaurant get permits for a roof deck.
SF Politics This Winter and Spring Could Be a Chaotic Free-for-All For Developers If SF Can't Get Its Housing Element Approved A local housing activist just called San Francisco out on a rather alarming error — city officials and planners thought they had until May 31 to get the all-important revision to the general plan's Housing Element approved by the state, but the deadline is actually January 31.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eight-Story Condo Development With Replacement Grubstake Diner on Ground Floor Wins Planning Approval The Planning Commission took up the project at 1525 Pine Street on Thursday, six years after it was first proposed, and the vote was 4-2 in favor of approval. Meanwhile, the beloved Grubstake lives on.
SF Politics Richards Formally Resigns From Planning Commission As He Pursues Lawsuit Against Another City Department Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has, following a leave of absence from his post, just submitted his letter of resignation from the commission.
SF News SF Planning Commissioner With Revoked Permits Tells Inspectors to ‘Go F*** Themselves’ Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has had nine permits revoked at a property he co-owns, but claims there’s a vendetta against him, and describes it in some very colorful language.
SF News SF Planning Commissioners' Homes Targeted By Pro-Life Activists Last week, the San Francisco Planning Commission voted to allow Planned Parenthood to expand into a "flagship" location on Bush Street at Van Ness Avenue. This week, a bunch of chalk-wielding activists went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Blocked From Opening In The Lower Haight Amid Neighborhood Revolt We saw this coming last summer as soon as news broke that Blue Bottle Coffee had set its sights on a corner spot in the Lower Haight that was for two decades the
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Possibly Winning Fight Over Neighboring Development's Potential Shadow A planned five-story condo development at 198 Valencia Street has been delayed after the Planning Commission found reason to sympathize with popular beer garden Zeitgeist, which sits across the street and which could
SF News [Update] Supposed Escape Tunnel Under Historic Market Street Gay Bars Fails To Delay Large Development We learned last month of a skirmish occurring as a massive condo and hotel development at 950 Market Street is heading for its final approvals, due to the presence of several buildings that
SF News Revised Plans Released For 39-Story Housing Development At SoMa Goodwill Site Some refined designs for two connected buildings on a highly visible parcel at 1500 Mission, the intersection of Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue where Goodwill currently sits, are going to be
SF News Huge 16th And Mission Project Moves Forward, Again The 380-unit project dubbed by critics and affordable housing activists the "Monster in the Mission" arrived again on the docket at the Planning Commission Thursday, setting off what will likely be a renewed
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Planning Commission Crushes Sticky-Icky Dreams, Rejects Fisherman's Wharf Pot Dispensary The stoney dreams of bad seafood pungently mixed with the aroma of medical cannabis wafting from the SF-branded fleeces of confused tourists may have died a less-than-glamorous death last week, as the Planning
SF News Planning Commissioner Being Compared To Donald Trump For Calling Prop I 'Reverse Racism' A petition campaign has been launched to remove sole Republican Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini following some statements he made in a voting guide for friends and family about Proposition I, the Mission moratorium.
SF News SoMa Community Groups File Appeal Against Big 5M Development Claiming that developers and the city have teamed up to fast-track a massive, improperly zoned SoMa development on 5th and Mission Street, a group of protesters gathered this morning at the San Francisco
SF News Planning Department Confirms 75 Percent Of Academy Of Art Buildings Are Illegal Following on Forbes Magazine's recent takedown of the Academy of Art University and their fast-and-looseness with real estate zoning, and in anticipation of their long-delayed Environmental Impact Report, the Planning Department has issued
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It's only
SF News Will The Sunset Finally Get Housing Density? The Board of Supervisors is set to debate and potentially pass some new legislation this fall that would allow for so-called "density bonuses" in neighborhoods where not a lot of housing density currently
SF News Planning Study: SF Is Losing Affordable Housing Almost As Fast As We're Building It Last week the San Francisco Planning department gave us what the Business Times called a "report card" on affordable housing in its "Housing Balance Report," and if it was indeed that, it was
SF News Planning Commission Says It May Halt Some Mission Development Although a proposed moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District died before the Board of Supervisors last month when it failed to garner a nine vote majority, another body capable of exerting
SF News Building Trades Council Takes Stand Against Mission Developer Over Lack Of Affordability A group representing various construction trade unions has taken a surprising stand against one large market-rate rental development slated for 2000 Bryant Street in the Mission, stating in a resolution submitted to the
Arts & Entertainment Local Nightclub Owners Make Noise At City Hall Over Shutdown Threats From New Condos Lucky 13 and the Elbo Room are currently endangered. Cafe Du Nord, The Lexington, Club Cocomo and others are already gone or counting down the days. Nightclub owners aren’t laying down anymore,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's And SoulCycle Are Both Coming To The Castro Clearing the final major hurdle of the Planning Commission, both the proposed Hamburger Mary's in the former Patio Cafe space (531 Castro) and a proposed location of popular spin class church (or whatever)
