Board of Supervisors candidate Sonja Trauss escorted off by sheriff’s deputy after wading into crowd of opposing protesters Following dueling press conferences, protests and counter-protests, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday went on record about SB 827, Sen. Scott Weiner’s bill in the California legislature that would reduce restrictions on height and density for residential developments near transit lines. They...
Shotwell Improvements The 21st and Shotwell intersection will be getting new streetlights and crosswalks in the next few months, according to Sandra Zuniga of the city’s “Fix-It” team. PG&E will be installing four new streetlights at the corner of 20th and Shotwell, and the SFMTA is recommending the installation of more prominent crosswalks. Zuniga said she also requested more street...
StormMiguel Florez is a filmmaker and artist who wrote this open letter to State Senator Mark Leno in response to the Senator’s remarks at Friday’s Trans March, where he and other politicians were shouted off stage. Dear Senator Mark Leno, I am writing to you as a trans Latinx person who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for...
In response to last week’s somewhat sharply worded, at times condescending opinion piece by Supervisor Scott Wiener criticizing the possible moratorium on new construction, Supervisor David Campos has responded with his own sharply-worded, at times condescending opinion piece criticizing Wiener. In both articles, it’s about the economy, stupid. Wiener says progressives, like Campos who offered some initial support for a...
After a rally today outside of City Hall to support a budget appropriation to increase funds for greater accessibility to PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection), Supervisor Scott Wiener acknowledged he had been slightly anxious leading up to today. Yesterday, in a post on the Huffington Post , Wiener had “come out” as the first elected official to use the drug. “I...
We’ve got another item to add to our already lengthy list of current housing legislation in the works. The Board of Supervisors plans to vote today on a legislation sponsored by Supervisor Scott Wiener that would give a developer a density limit exemption if at least 20 percent of the units in a project are on-site affordable ones. Currently, projects...
The 1050 Valencia condo debate hit an interesting crossroads on Wednesday night, dividing two San Francisco factions whose interests oftentimes align. On one side of the debate, there are those against modern condos changing the historic character of a neighborhood. On the other side, there are those pushing for affordable housing. And to further complicate things — the affordable housing...
Putting themselves in the shoes – and sleeping quarters – of the homeless who spend their nights in San Francisco parks, a group of some 50 people camped out in Dolores Park Monday night to protest legislation that will create a new curfew at all of the city’s parks. District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener proposed the legislation, which the Board...
The Board of Supervisors will vote today on District Supervisor Scott Wiener’s resolution to oppose the National Park Service’s new restrictions on dogs at federal parklands. Although largely symbolic, the resolution is one that has plenty of support from dog owners who rallied to Wiener’s support at a recent hearing and agreed with his vision of a dog-eat-dog world if...
The ever-contentious discussion over where dogs can roam freely within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) in and around San Francisco continues, as Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce a resolution today that opposes the GGNRA’s controversial dog management plan. Concerned that the overhaul on dog use — introduced in 2011 and re-released last month by the GGNRA —will...
“Many people who are supporting the band of nudists who have made their beachhead here clearly believe that encouraging this behavior will somehow help keep the neighborhood gay. Now I don’t understand this equation between naked and gay.” The New York Times writes again about the San Francisco nudity ban, and this time, Supervisor Scott Wiener (quoted above) is their...
The Roxie Theater on 16th Street is one step closer to serving beer during film screenings now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has adopted a resolution supporting the move. After the theater had spent more than a year jumping through bureaucratic hoops, supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend that the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control grant...
Los vándalos del Parque Dolores y Potrero Del Sol han adquirido un nuevo y poderoso enemigo: el alcalde Ed Lee. Durante la sesión de preguntas del alcalde en la reunión de la Junta de Supervisores, Lee prometió que tomaría medidas para disminuir el vandalismo que hace poco ha afectado a los parques de la ciudad. El área de juegos Helen...
Earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle reported about the vandalism at Dolores Park and other recreation areas. “It took vandals just one day to mark the new playground with graffiti, and only a few weeks more for instruments in the whimsical music garden there to be damaged, most notably with the removal of six of the 14 metal keys from...
