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The Sunset
The Sunset is a residential neighborhood known for neat rows of single-family homes, striking ocean views and vibrant family-owned small businesses.
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Future low-income senior housing at 1234 Great Highway still a Motel 6 for now
Preliminary project permits for 1234 Great Highway in the Sunset were resubmitted. But the project is still “on hiatus.”
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Sunset Buzz
Sunset Buzz: A nonprofit launches pilot grant program for Inner Sunset small businesses
A new program, launched this Wednesday, is offering grants to new and existing storefronts located in the Inner Sunset.
People We Meet
People We Meet: The Sunset’s Khalid Zakzouk gives them something to chalk about
Khalid Zakzouk walks to Irving Street, two large tubs of Crayola chalk sticks in tow. Hours later, a new drawing emerges on the sidewalk.
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Re-opening Great Highway to cars could cost $14 million, city says
Estimates suggest the proposal to re-open the Great Highway to weekday car traffic, which is headed to the ballot, could cost millions.
Great Highway measure to reopen coastal road set to qualify for November ballot
Volunteers gathered 15,626 signatures for a measure that would reopen the Great Highway on weekdays and leave the park open on weekends.
Great Highway redux: Pro-park group sues to stop pro-road ballot measure
Supporters of Sunset Dunes park filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge the legality of a new ballot petition seeking to convert the park back into a road during weekdays.
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Neighborhood Focus
Election 2026
San Francisco supervisors put public-bank measure on ballot
The ballot measure will create the governance structure for a public bank if voters pass it in November.
Mayor Lurie’s charter-reform effort gets $1.5M boost from tech execs, philanthropist
Mayor Lurie’s efforts to increase mayoral power got $500K from the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ group, among others.
Connie Chan’s new campaign boss has deep S.F. labor roots and a direct line to Pelosi
The pick of Rudy Gonzalez as campaign manager, one said, is a “leveling up” in Connie Chan’s campaign for Congress.
Saikat Chakrabarti had grassroots potential and more money than God. Why did he lose?
Chakrabarti’s campaign had been expecting an endorsement from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Failing to obtain it was a blow.
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