Category: Update

by Will Jarrett and Eleni Balakrishnan : missionlocal – excerpt (include auto track)

Politicians and advocates today rallied at City Hall ahead of a vote that – if approved tonight – will prevent the police from pulling people over for certain kinds of traffic violations…

San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said that banning pretext stops would not only reduce racial discrimination in stops, but could make the city safer.

“Right now,” said Raju, “you end up with police spending their time on stops and searches that the data shows are not leading to something.” By eliminating these stops, he said, they could dedicate more time to dangerous violations such as running through red lights.

What is the policy exactly?

A version of this policy has been on the table since last summer. In its first iteration, it proposed that 18 types of stop be banned, but that list has since been chopped down to nine. Should the policy pass, people could no longer be pulled over for these reasons:

1. Failure to properly display or mount license plates when the rear plate is still legible.
2. Failure to display registration tags, or driving with a registration that expired over a year ago.
3. Failure to illuminate license plates.
4. Driving without one tail light, or driving without tail lights during the day.
5. Driving with a missing or broken brake light.
6. Affixing objects to windows or hanging objects from a rearview mirror.
7. Failure to signal while turning or changing lanes.
8. Sleeping in a car.
9. All pedestrian stops, unless there is an immediate danger of a crash.

This newest iteration of the policy brings some substantive changes to the version that was tabled and discussed last month…(more)

No helpful link other than this is the new sfgovtv.org page that should have the link by date.

By Mike Ege :sfstandard – excerpt

Twenty-twenty-two was a challenging year for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

In addition to the usual tug-of-war for power between the board and Mayor London Breed, supervisors had to weather a massive election cycle while addressing exigent problems such as the drug overdose crisis and economic shocks from the Covid pandemic.

While there will be no marathon of elections in 2023, the board will continue to face hurdles in both policy and politics. Here’s a look at the key issues that will shape next year’s board politics, some familiar and some new…(more)

By Josh Koehn : sfstandard – excerpt

San Francisco found itself deeply under water on New Year’s Eve to the surprise of Mayor London Breed and other city officials, who said they were expecting less than an inch of rain.

But a day after parts of the Mission, SoMa and other neighborhoods flooded with several feet of water, Breed flew to Las Vegas to watch the San Francisco 49ers play the Raiders from a private luxury box with rapper E-40. Two days later, Breed blamed the National Weather Service for the city’s failure to adequately prepare for the storm.

E-40, the celebrated Bay Area hip-hop entertainer and entrepreneur, posted an Instagram reel Tuesday that shows Breed with him and others in a midfield luxury box at the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada…(more)

RELATED:

Mayor Breed Claimed SF Wasn’t Warned About Last Week’s Big Storm. The National Weather Service Says Otherwise

What kind of a mayor does San Francisco want?

By kevin Truong :sfstandard – excerpt

Preliminary plans have been filed to transform a portion of the historic Warfield Building in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood into 34 apartments—in what would be the first office-to-residential conversion since the pandemic.

The plans to transform the building at 988 Market St. were filed by San Francisco developer Group i, which aims to turn around 25,000 square feet in the building into 27 market-rate apartments and seven listed as affordable…(more)

These renovations are not nearly as costly as we were being told they would be. And such and historic property should be well worth preserving. Early results of efforts to up zone this neighborhood with tax breaks brought in the money for a while, but, that goose got cooked and is no longer producing those golden eggs. It remains to seen how many of the corporate tax breaks will fulfill their long term promises too the city and the citizens they displaced.

People who are concerned about preserving historically significant buildings, should be aware of this statement sent out by the Planning Department.
Hello,

To increase outreach for the San Francisco Citywide Cultural Resources Survey (SF Survey), we are sending this email as a courtesy to interested parties on our notification list at the San Francisco Planning Department. The following SF Survey items will be shared at the January 18th Historic Preservation Commission Hearing:

SF Survey Update

Progressive Era & Early Revival Styles (c.1890-c.1915) Historic Context Statement

Flats & Small Apartments (1915-1978) Historic Context Statement

If you are interested in receiving notifications about similar types of topics, as well as upcoming hearing dates in the future, please subscribe here: CPC.Survey or leaving a voicemail at (628) 652-7573 if you have further questions.

Thank you.

Best,

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Northern Team/Current Planning Division

San Francisco Planning

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Direct: 628.652.7399 | www.sfplanning.org

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by Jesse Rogala : sfstandard – excerpt (includes video)

As the Bay Area heads into winter and prepares to face down the “tripledemic” of Covid, the flu and RSV, our reporting shows that patients are having to deal with longer and longer response times after calling an ambulance for medical emergencies.

In the video above, data reporter Noah Baustin breaks down exactly why those response times are increasing…(more)

RELATED:

Ambulance Response Times Are Increasing Dramatically—Here’s Why

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldApril 12, 2019 : housingisahumanright – excerpt

Before Scott Wiener became a state senator in 2016, he served as a San Francisco supervisor for six years. Known as a “corporate Democrat,” he aggressively pushed policies that benefited his campaigns contributors in the real estate industry — and left behind an appalling legacy. Today, he’s advancing the trickle-down housing bill SB 50, which will generate billions for his political patrons, but will fuel gentrification and displacement throughout California. The following is an excerpt from the Housing Is A Human Right investigation “Selling Out California: Scott Wiener’s Money Ties to Big Real Estate.”

An Appalling Legacy

When Scott Wiener ran, in 2010, for San Francisco supervisor in District 8, he was hardly a candidate to get excited about — unless you were a real estate hotshot. It was a time when African Americans were getting shoved out of San Francisco at a disproportionately greater rate than other ethnicities; a six-year, upward trend of evictions started slamming the city’s renters (from 1,372 in 2010 to 2,304 in 2015); and San Francisco was ranked the fifth most expensive metropolis in the entire nation. But Wiener, a 40-year-old deputy city attorney who ran as an openly gay candidate in a heavily LGBT district, didn’t showcase gentrification, tenant protections, or affordability issues on the campaign trail. Instead, he talked about the “basics” of government…(more)

One of the most important things we can do is to pick new representatives for California to send to Washington.

by Josh Koehn : sfstandard – excerpt

San Francisco is giving $1.4 billion to more than 600 nonprofits this year to help tackle some of its biggest crises, from housing and homelessness to helping people find jobs.

But a new report released Tuesday by city officials suggests quite a few organizations getting city funding were not complying with the terms set out in their contracts, and two bad actors, in particular, were tagged with “red flag status.”

The Controller’s Office released its annual report detailing the financial and operational health of 192 organizations that were tabbed for monitoring. Of this group, 21 were found to not be “in conformance with all standards.” After a period where organizations were able to resolve their issues, a total of nine were found to still be out of compliance, according to the Controller’s Office.

The two contractors placed on “red flag status,” which indicates severe challenges that not only need to be more closely monitored but also rectified, are PRC/Baker Places and the United Council of Human Services…(more)

By Annika Hom : missionlocal – excerpt

Sixty ‘tiny homes’ for the homeless could go up next to 16th St. BART — if the community abides.

Supervisor Hillary Ronen told Mission Local that she is considering 1979 Mission St. as a potential destination for city-funded “tiny homes,” shed-like structures with a bed, locks, and heat intended for homeless individuals. Tiny homes are meant to be lived in temporarily, with the hope that residents eventually move into permanent housing.

“I don’t want anybody sleeping on the streets of the Mission,” Ronen said. “The bottom line is, there are not enough spaces for all the people experiencing homelessness in the city. So we have to create more.”

The 16th Street tiny homes could take care of 60 of the 664 unhoused residents tallied in District 9 during the 2022 Point-In-Time count.

Tiny homes could be a win-win solution, the supervisor said, and she and the city are negotiating guarantees that the Mission’s unhoused gets first dibs. “The whole point is we are providing these life-changing services for [the homeless], but also improving street conditions.”

Plenty of characteristics made 1979 Mission St., known colloquially as the Monster/Marvel in the Mission, a favorable site: It’s large, vacant, and thanks to a 2021 development deal, owned by the city. …(more)