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Will the Board of Supervisors Betray the Market/Octavia Plan on Tuesday?
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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 […]
This Week: Van Ness BRT Plan Unveiled and Final TEP Workshops
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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 […]
This Week: Polk Open House, Sunday Streets in the Mission
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The final plan for Polk Street will be presented at an open house, where you can give your feedback on the proposal, which calls for protected bike lanes on only 11 blocks in one direction. Also this week: Ask the SFMTA about the Muni Transit Effectiveness Project at a forum with the SF Transit Riders Union, […]
This Week: No Bike Ban on BART This Friday
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This Friday, BART begins its test removal of bike blackout periods through each Friday in August. SPUR also tours the alleyways of downtown, the SF Bike Party heads to Twin Peaks, and Sunday Streets returns to the Mission one last time this year. Here are all the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SF Board of Supervisors […]
Valencia Vote Looms as SFBC Readies for 2019
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At its annual Winterfest, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition takes stock and vows to continue the fight for protected bike lanes on Valencia, Howard, Townsend, Embarcadero and the Oakland Bay Bridge
299 Valencia Appeal Fails As Swing Vote Dufty Sides with Developer
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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, […]