NEWS BITS: INSPIRED PERCEPTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 1. NorthBeachCLEAN 2. Celebrating Urbanologist Jane Jacobs’ Birthday 3. Muni Transit = Hospitality Industry 4. Public Transit: Electioneering vs. Reality 5. Commuter Buses: Muni and Neighborhoods 6. Whistleblower Awarded by Journalists 7. Affordable City: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
