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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Facts and figures

25 million: number of visitors to San Francisco annually . . . 118,352: number of reported instances of human feces on San Francisco streets since 2011 . . . 407: number of square ... Read More
Crime Beat

Bad reputation

San Francisco’s crime problem is making it famous
By John Zipperer

To steal from Joan Jett’s “victim of Circumstance,” San Francisco is “Just a victim of a bad reputation / I [got] no chance of shakin’.” The reputation in question is t... Read More
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Shelter crisis declared

On March 19, the Board of Supervisors passed legislation introduced by Mayor London Breed declaring a shelter crisis in the city. The legislation, which is scheduled for a second v... Read More
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Campus for change plan

The Presidio trust board of directors is preparing to evaluate a “Campus for Change” proposal by six organizations to redevelop Fort Winfield Scott, a historic 30-acre site in ... Read More
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Top recreation spot

In 2018, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area drew 15,223,697 visits, earning it the honor of being the most-visited national park site in the country. The 86,000 acres covered... Read More
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Crime snapshot

As of March 17, there were 940 auto burglaries in the Northside, compared to 1,191 for the same period last  year. Burglaries were also down slightly, from 198 to 184. Robberies d... Read More
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Transit housing redo

State Senator Scott Wiener failed last year in his attempt to get SB 827 passed; that bill would have allowed increased density and height in and around mass transit locations in t... Read More

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