SF News Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
SF Politics Sup. Mandelman’s Fourplex Legislation Clears Major Hurdle By Passing Planning Commission A plan that could turn 110,000 single-family homes into fourplexes passed the Planning Commission after hours of testimony, but is still likely to face contentious debate in committees and before the Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Sup. Rafael Mandelman Introduces Legislation to Protect Renters' Amenities Imagine living in an apartment with a garage parking space for 20 years and then being told that the garage is being converted into a new unit and you'll have to park elsewhere. That's the sort of the landlord move that some new proposed legislation at the SF Board of Supervisors hopes to prevent.
SF News Castro Merchants Have Filed Restraining Orders Against Two Harassing Individuals Two presumably homeless individuals who frequent the Castro neighborhood have been ordered to stay away from two area businesses in the last several months, and those orders last for four years.
SF News Here Comes The Gayborhood: Castro May Be Designated As An LGBTQ Cultural District It’s no accident that Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s proposal to honor the Castro as an LGBTQ Cultural District goes before the Board on Tuesday of Pride Week.
SF News Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
SF News Rafael Mandelman Once Again Throws His Hat In The District 8 Supervisor Ring For those constituents of District 8, encompassing the Castro, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Duboce Triangle, and a piece of the Mission District, and for those who just enjoy local political intrigues,
