Tag: department of public works

Ribbons go up on 24th Street trees in protest of ficus removal

May 24, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

This Carnaval weekend you may notice highlighter-yellow ribbons affixed to 24th Street’s ficus...

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VIDEO: Mayor Breed, who keeps our streets clean?

Jul 21, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Video

Who cleans up our streets? from Mission Local on Vimeo. A Mission resident who lives on Albion...

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SF Mission’s historic library will get an update

May 24, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Sitting beneath the high concrete ceiling in the historic Carnegie reading room at Mission Branch...

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Neighbors bristle at plan to remove trees on SF Mission’s 24th Street

Jan 12, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

For Luis Gutiérrez, the owner of La Reyna Bakery on 24th Street near Folsom Street, the...

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Defensive boulders arrive at a cleared SF homeless encampment

Dec 20, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The Department of Public Works has installed $8,700 worth of boulders as a defense against...

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SF’s sidewalk “chop shops” will be swept away

Oct 3, 2017 | Bikes, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved an ordinance that prohibits so-called...

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Police out, Public Works in, with revised chop shop proposal

Jul 25, 2017 | Bikes, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Transportation

Public Works crews, not police officers, would be the public servants issuing tickets to bike chop...

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Signs placed in McCoppin Hub as fence goes up

Jun 13, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Contractors began installing a permanent fence around the perimeter of McCoppin Hub last week,...

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The Sweep Report: San Bruno Avenue

May 24, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The removal of a homeless stronghold underneath the 101 Freeway that divides the northeastern...

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City confounds some of its workers as it sweeps an encampment early

Apr 14, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

Police, outreach workers and the homeless residents of an encampment that had been targeted for...

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SF residents train to monitor homeless sweeps

Mar 31, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In response to a surge of complaint-driven sweeps of homeless encampments by city officials in...

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City Cleans Up SF Encampment, but Allows Tents to Stay

Mar 8, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

When the city arrives at an encampment, it often means the homeless residents will be moved on....

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After Division St. Clearing of Tents, Many Return to Erie St.

Mar 5, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In a case of musical tents, evicted inhabitants of a 20-person encampment on Erie Street settled a...

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How the Mission Fared in the Annual Street Cleanliness Report

Nov 2, 2016 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The amount of “litter and grime” observed citywide dropped year to year, possibly due...

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Homeless Residents Near Police Shooting Site Moved to Navigation Center

Apr 9, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

On Friday night in the pouring rain, Department of Public Works trucks cleared out trash near the...

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Sweeps Move SF Mission Homeless Block to Block

Mar 23, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Clenching his dog’s leash in one hand, Ortega Flowers’ voice trembled with frustration as he...

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