Archive for the ‘SFT News’ Category

About the Drought

April 28th, 2015 No Comments »

Despite clear evidence of a massive insufficiency of future water supply, City Planners and Administration are proposing a population increase of 300,000 persons in San Francisco by 2020.  The Governor’s administrative directive to 40 water agencies to cut water usage […]

Labor is not Honored

April 27th, 2015 No Comments »

Now with reformulated ownership, Parkmerced management has fired its maintenance staff. On Tuesday, April 14, they faced a union demonstration of their fired former maintenance and janitorial workers.  These union workers, who have in many cases spent a working lifetime […]

Bruce Balshone Obituary

April 26th, 2015 2 Comments »

From the Chronicle: 1947 – 2015 Bruce Lee BalshoneBalshone, Bruce Lee (67), passed away peacefully on April 7, 2015. Bruce was a fifth generation, native San Franciscan and long-time resident of the Bernal Heights neighborhood. He was born on August […]

‘Earthquake Shack’ Under Threat of Demolition

April 26th, 2015 1 Comment »

The current owner of a historic Earthquake Shack at 369 Valley Street is attempting to overturn its ‘historic resource’ status to that the building can be leveled and replaced with a new, multi-unit construction.  Such a demolition would violate not […]

”Carrying Capacity”: What Does It Mean?

April 25th, 2015 No Comments »

The concept of “carrying capacity” means that there are limits on available infrastructure to sustainably support future population increases and activities.  With regard to water, because of the Congressional Raker Act, San Francisco has access to the Tuolumne River without […]

Parkmerced Will Never Be the Same

April 23rd, 2015 No Comments »

Last August, the First District Court of Appeals issued its decision in favor of Parkmerced development interests in the case San Francisco Tomorrow et al. vs. the City and County of San Francisco et al. Now, that decision has been […]

The Governor’s Drought Order

April 21st, 2015 No Comments »

Governor Brown’s April announcement that California is in a severe drought was far from a surprise. No spring rains are coming to rescue us this year as we embark on the 4th year of drought – according to tree ring […]

Superior Court judge to hear Prop B arguments

March 19th, 2015 2 Comments »

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 2:00 pm, in San Francisco Superior Court, 400 McAllister Street, in Department 504, Judge Suzanne Bolanos will hear legal arguments in the case of California State Lands Commission vs. City And County of San […]

New DISCLOSE Act Unveiled at NorCal CaClean Conference

March 5th, 2015 No Comments »

Assemblyman Mark Levine On February 28, the California Clean Money Campaign held its northern California Grassroots Summit in Palo Alto. In attendance at the all-day event were about 130 volunteers from every part of northern CA. A seminal moment came […]

Happy Chinese New Year!

February 19th, 2015 No Comments »

Year of the Ram [Goat, Sheep]:  Good Year for Good Resolutions  “A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”—Confucius TIME FOR CLARITY OF MIND:  DISPELLING MYTHS TO MOVE TRANSIT FORWARD While cars, traffic, gridlock, greenhouse gas emissions, expenditures […]