SF Politics Rafael Mandelman Is Your New SF Board of Supervisors President, Because No One Ran Against Him District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is now a heartbeat away from being mayor, as he was just elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors, and somehow extinguished an expected challenge from Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
SF News SF Bathhouses Could Be Back, After Supes Remove Onerous Regulations From Law Only one gay bathhouse remains in San Francisco, as requirements mandating unlocked doors and registries of patrons have thrown cold water on the bathhouse scene generally. But Supervisor Rafael Mandelman just got those restrictions stripped away.
SF Politics SF Supe Floats Sweeping Charter Amendment to Enhance Some Mayoral Powers, and Curb Ballot-Box Governance San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed an amendment to the city charter that would bolster the power of the mayor while also discouraging some of the ballot-measure battles that have gone on in recent years between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.
SF Politics Gay Shame Pillories London Breed, Gay SF Supervisors in Pride Month Installation at ATA The queer activist collective Gay Shame is at it again, this time with a Pride Month installation at Valencia Street’s ATA that delivers satirical mockeries of Mayor Breed, and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey.
SF News Fourplex Legislation Finally Passes Board of Supervisors on Mandelman’s Third Try The third time was the charm for fourplexes, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s third attempt to densify as many as four units onto all residential lots citywide, and six units on corner lots, overwhelmingly passed the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
SF Politics Special Hearing on Mental Health Emergency Care In SF Brings Proposal for New Long-Term Care Hospital San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman held a special hearing Thursday on the mental health crisis in the city, discussing ways it might be addressed with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the police, and others.
SF Politics Despite Impassioned Speech By Mandelman, Board Upholds Breed's Veto of Fourplex Legislation — By Just One Vote Supervisor Rafael Mandelman gave a barnburner of a speech Tuesday criticizing the mayor’s veto and YIMBY darling law SB 9, and almost overrode the mayor’s veto of his fourplex legislation, but still fell one vote short.
SF Politics Breed Vetoes Fourplex Legislation, Says It Would ‘Set Back Housing Production’ Single-family zoning in San Francisco lives on, for now at least, as Mayor Breed vetoes Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation, saying it would "make it even less likely for new housing to be built."
SF News Mandelman’s Shelter-for-All Plan Passes Board Unanimously, Though Many Are Skeptical It Will Do Anything Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his freshly passed “Place for All Program” is “maniacally focused” on ending homelessness in San Francisco, but the city has seen these slogan-driven plans have had little effect in the past.
SF News Bathhouses and ‘Adult Sex Venues’ May Get It On Again, As New Zoning Rules Allow Them Move Forward Bathhouses were ordered closed at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, but they’re on the way back, as the SF Planning Commission just approved “adult sex venue” zoning legislation.
SF Politics Latest Proposed SF Redistricting Map Still Drawing Ire of LGBTQ Activists Supervisor Mandelman would be drawn out of his own district, while the Leather/LGBTQ and Transgender Cultural Districts would be split into different supervisor districts, under the latest revised supervisor district map that’s still creating controversy.
SF Politics Mandelman Reintroduces Shelter-for-All Proposal at Board of Supervisors, Hopes to Get It to a Vote This Time Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is reviving, for a second time, proposed legislation that would require the city of San Francisco to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — something that has been established law in New York City for decades.
SF Politics Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
SF News In More Fourplex Legislation Drama, SF May Un-Streamline the New Streamlined Approval Process Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation is not a done deal yet, and the expedited review process could still be yanked from the recent SB-9 legislation
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,
