SF News Fighting Rising Sea Levels In Mission Bay Will Require Levees, Sea Walls Imagine walking around AT&T Park in the year 2100. Things might be different: For one, you might be protected from a greatly risen ocean by glass barriers of 3-4 feet. That's
Arts & Entertainment CCA Students Picture A City With 100,000 More Units Literally drawing on the housing crisis, California College of the Arts students have a new exhibition of somewhat fanciful and often preposterous but visually intriguing designs that would add housing units to San
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
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 Twitter IPO, Among Other Things, To Spur 'Hyper Gentrification' Many San Franciscans who did not used to be millionaires, who perhaps even couch-surfed in your living room once in the last decade, are going to become suddenly wealthy if they happen to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Adapt/Transform/Reuse Photo Exhibit At SPUR Tonight at SPUR's headquarters on Mission Street in SoMa, the noted urban planning thinktank will host a gallery show of local photography highlighting the ever-changing layers of San Francisco architecture. Although the city's
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Learn The Business Of Growing Cannabis In S.F. The wildly successful Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts and Dialogue series gets stoney on Thursday with a panel discussion devoted to the business of growing cannabis in San Francisco. What are
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Re-Imagine Bikes & Public Space at SPUR Tonight, urban development think tank SPUR and (ahem) "slow bike movement" leaders PUBLIC Bikes will host the opening of Public Works, a new exhibition that looks to re-examine "the meaning and value of
SF News SPUR Planning Genius Cautions Against San Francisco's Boulder, CO Future In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal this morning, SPUR's executive director Gabriel Metcalf goes on the record to describe the biggest issues he see facing development in the city. Metcalf
SF News How The City Can Get The Most Bang For America's Cup Buck SPUR came out with a report today outlining how S.F. can use the large influx of money that the upcoming America's Cup will undoubtedly generate as an impetus to make major, much
SF News SPUR and La Cocina Look at the Economics of Street Food It's been a big year for food trucks, nonstaurants, and street food in general. In addition to the buzz around things like the Crème Brûlée Cart and the Chez Spencer truck, this summer
misc Let's Dream of a Non-Wretched Fisherman's Wharf Oh, sure, you've seen all the coverage of Jan Gehl's plan to turn Fisherman's Wharf into something tolerable. But wouldn't you like to know more? The excellent SPUR is holding a forum TODAY
