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Will the Board of Supervisors Betray the Market/Octavia Plan on Tuesday?
By Matthew Roth |
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will hear an appeal against more parking in Market/Octavia area. After nearly ten years of community planning and a rigorous review process that resulted in a model community plan encouraging transit-oriented development, density, and strategic parking limits, a developer in the Market and Octavia Neighborhood Plan (PDF) area has […]
299 Valencia Appeal Fails As Swing Vote Dufty Sides with Developer
By Matthew Roth |
The future home of 299 Valencia will have more parking than the neighborhood plan allows of right The Board of Supervisors, in one the first tests of the new progressive bloc, failed to muster a supermajority vote to support an appeal that would have overturned the Planning Commission’s approval of a conditional use (CU) permit, […]
MTA Board Approves Budget But Caves on Stronger Parking Enforcement
By Susan Vaughan |
MTA Directors James McCray, Chair Tom Nolan and Shirley Breyer Black. Photo by Michael Rhodes. Despite the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s daunting deficit — $128.9 million – members of the MTA Board of Directors voted six to one yesterday for a surprise amendment to the budget to eliminate a proposed extension of parking meter […]
This Week: Van Ness BRT Plan Unveiled and Final TEP Workshops
By Robert Prinz |
Lots of agency action on important items this week: SFCTA staff will present the selected design for the Van Ness BRT project; the SFMTA Board of Directors could approve major new debt to finance the construction of the Central Subway; the Board of Supervisors holds a public hearing on the parking-rich 8 Washington project; and […]
Supervisor Dufty Argues 299 Valencia Vote Sets No Precedent
By Matthew Roth |
Supervisor Bevan Dufty The San Francisco Bay Guardian has suggested that Supervisor Bevan Dufty swung to the right with his votes not to override the Mayor’s veto on legislation that would have required conditional use (CU) permits and hearings when housing units are being eliminated and his refusal to support an appeal of the 299 […]
Muni Releases List of Service Enhancements As Supes Near Rejection Vote
By Bryan Goebel |
Service on the 14 Limited would be expanded from mid days to 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Flickr photo by Octoferret. MTA Executive Director Nat Ford has released a list of proposed service enhancements on 14 lines that run parallel or near lines that are being eliminated or scaled back in this year’s budget. The […]