Capitol investment It was a regular who’s who last Friday at Sunnydale’s HOPE SF project: There was Rep. Nancy Pelosi seated next to Mayor London Breed. State Sen. Scott Wiener […]
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Developments in Development: Garages double as polling places, vandalism fund, parking changes
Uribe’s unassuming house on Bryant Street near 21st has opened its garage in 22 elections since 2005.
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Developments in Development: ‘monster homes’ and a more visible Mayan community
Beware! According to Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, “monster homes” are encroaching Dolores Heights. Hide the kids!
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Developments in Development: What do state affairs and bills mean for SF?
The bill probably targets developers and fresh, vacant lots. But “frankly, how many empty lots” are there? He wondered. “I’m guessing not that many,” Todd David said.
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Developments in Development: A camera program controversy
The Castro Upper Market Community Benefit District, a collective of residents and business owners, held a meeting Tuesday night to gather input on a proposed camera program. If enacted, the […]
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Developments in Development: housing replaces church, a new preschool, and ADU rules
He loved it even more after discovering the building’s history through a librarian friend. It once was a mattress store, and serviced rail car parts for the nearby railway. While he’s not 100 percent sure about this, Lamason heard the building was a former car stereo warehouse back in the ‘80s and a bottling plant in the Prohibition era.
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Developments in Developments: a string of new Valencia businesses, and which pandemic programs stay
Valencia business: the new kids on the block Sister, sister Aww, sisters. They’ve got traveling pants. Perpetual indulgence. And now, on Valencia Street, coffee. Sisters Coffee Shop debuts today, Aug. […]
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Developments in Development: A stoner spot, Avanza advances, thoughts on Valencia’s closure
“The city took some grief because they paid a lot. But in hindsight it was a pretty good deal,” Brad Wiblin said.
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Developments in Development: affordable housing on 24th, from pizza to housing, and housing service protections
Mamma Mia! That old pizza place might become four homes!
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Developments in Development: taquiza to come, cannabis lounge underway, old Muddy’s Coffee spot occupied
“There’s so many taquerias in the city, and they all do burritos,” Jose Mendoza said. “No one really focuses on the taco thing.”
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To get more affordable housing, what are we willing to give up?
There’s been a murder! A murder of a charter amendment to streamline affordable and mixed-income housing, that is. Consequently, there’s been a mixed response from politicos and housing advocates; some […]
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Developments in Development: Hummingbird Valencia, DIY Shotwell signs, and ‘Queeroes’
Apparently, May is Affordable Housing Month. (It has a hashtag and everything!) Maybe that’s why all of a sudden several cheap housing options are making progress lately. Here are two projects that are trending this week.
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Developments in Development: The Marvel and Stevenson are more complicated than the good and evil twins of SF’s housing debate
Days after the Stevenson vote, news of the Marvel in the Mission, a hard-fought 100 percent affordable housing building, surfaced. Suddenly, berated supervisors embraced it as the antithesis of Stevenson.
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The state tests its housing muscle
The proposed legislation is just one of several examples in recent months of how state legislators and litigators are successfully fighting back on what they perceive as local officials slow walking the addition of new housing — and they’re just warming up.
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Developments in Development: A six-story group housing building on 18th, updates on Shotwell and Shared Spaces
If you’re dialing into a San Francisco planning commission meeting from sunny, gorgeous Greece — well past 11 p.m. island time, by the way — it’s fair to say you care a lot about what’s on the docket.
