News Briefs

Presidio rejects Fort Scott plan

Fort Scott back to the drawing board

By John Zipperer

After 17 months of proposals, submissions, refinements, and public input, the Presidio Trust’s board of directors in June went back to square one, rejecting a proposal submitted ... Read More

Facial recognition software nixed

By John Zipperer

With former prosecutor and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani the only dissenting vote, San Francisco supervisors overwhelmingly approved a bill to ban the use of facial recog... Read More

Cleaning up

By John Zipperer

In her two-year budget proposal, Mayor London Breed added $11.9 million to efforts to clean San Francisco’s streets. The money would fund seven new staffed Pit Stop public toilet... Read More

Polk summer Saturdays

By John Zipperer

The Discover Polk Community Benefit District launched monthly Only on Polk Summer Saturdays, with participating shops flying an “Only on Polk” flag and offering discounts and s... Read More

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

One-third: Percentage of U.S. pets that are overweight, according to Banfield Pet Hospital . . . 430: Number of burglaries year-to-date in Northern Station’s part of the city .... Read More

Rose Pak Subway Station?

An attempt to bestow the name of Rose Pak on the Central Subway’s Chinatown station has hit some bumps in recent months. District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin has proposed the namin... Read More

Grocer Eyeing Union Street

Union Street could soon get a new grocery. Luke’s Local, which operates a store in Cole Valley, is in talks to take over the former Osha Thai location at 2033 Union Street. Distr... Read More

Lyft Bike Stations

Car ride-hailing company Lyft is expanding into the shared biking business, and it has proposed putting docks for dozens of electric and nonelectric bikes in the Marina. The compan... Read More

Power Shopping

Plans for the city of San Francisco to purchase PG&E assets look like they took a step further with the release of a report from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (... Read More

Earthquake Bond Vote

Supervisors Catherine Stefani and Sandra Fewer cosponsored a push by Mayor London Breed to put before city voters a $628.5 million bond to fund earthquake safety and critical servi... Read More

Facts and Figures

Third: the Bay Area has the nation’s third largest homeless population in the United States . . . Second: If Silicon Valley were a country, it would be the second-richest nation ... Read More

End of an era

The longest-running musical revue on Earth conquered the entertainment world from its home at North Beach’s Club Fugazi. Some of the show’s performers and crew have been with i... Read More

Polk streetscape project unveiled

In early April, the city celebrated the end of the Polk Streetscape project, the two-year, $26.8 million effort to improve safety on the busy street. The city reports that on aver... Read More

Quid pro quo

Under a new plan unveiled last month, in return for agreeing not to demand a refund if November 2018’s Proposition C gross receipts tax is overruled by the courts, businesses wou... Read More

Drive on

The city of San Francisco teamed up with the San Francisco Superior Court to clear up to 88,000 outstanding holds that had been placed on drivers’ licenses due to missed traffic ... Read More

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