SF Politics Big-Money SF Tech Groups Hoping To Steer Friendlier Policy Toward Big Money and Tech Groups with generic and interchangeable-sounding names like GrowSF, TogetherSF Action, and Abundant SF are trying to exert more moderate influence on SF politics, with few actual members, but large amounts of campaign donation cash.
SF Politics YIMBY Law Set to Sue Sausalito Over Allegedly Out-of-Compliance Housing Element The YIMBY crowd is unleashing their lawsuits on cities whose housing elements are not yet approved by the state, and in the case of an impending Marin County lawsuit, claiming that some proposed housing sites are literally “in the water.”
SF Politics Dozens of Bay Area Cities Are Late In Getting Housing Elements Certified, and YIMBY Groups Plan to Sue Today, February 1, is the state's deadline for cities to have their Housing Elements — the planning documents that dictate overall housing construction goals which serve as contracts with the state — certified. And guess what! Hundreds of towns and cities have blown the deadline.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF Politics Judge Pretty Much Shoots Down YIMBY Lawsuit Against SF Over Rejected High-Rise at Nordstrom Parking Lot A year after the Board of Supervisors forced a proposed 27-story residential tower back to the drawing board, a YIMBY lawsuit against the city has also been forced back to the drawing board, with most of its charges tossed out.
SF Politics Wiener Wages Rhetorical War on Cupertino’s Plan B For Giant ‘Dead Mall’ Cupertino’s enormous and empty Vallco shopping mall has seen a zigzag of fortunes in the quest to turn it into a large housing development, and state Senator Scott Wiener is furious over the latest compromise.
SF News Pro-Development 'YIMBYtown' Conference Kicks Off In Oakland The YIMBY movement is not just a San Francisco thing, and this weekend in Oakland, self-described YIMBYs are gathering in Oakland for the second annual YIMBYtown conference, sharing ideas about how to get
SF News 'YIMBY' Candidate Amy Farah Weiss Is Pissed The Chronicle Endorsed Ed Lee Without Interviewing All Candidates One of the few people who has chosen to take on incumbent Mayor Ed Lee in this year's election, Amy Farah Weiss, has written an open letter today denouncing the Chronicle's Editorial Board
SF News Writer Broke-Ass Stuart Running For Mayor In 'Journalistic Experiment' Stuart Schuffman, best known by his writing moniker and eponoymous website Broke-Ass Stuart, formally announced today via his column for the San Francisco Examiner that he is running for Mayor, challenging Ed Lee
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
