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Bayview Redevelopment Decision Postponed After more than two hours of passionate public testimony, the Board of Supervisors put off a decision on the controversial Bayview-Hunter’s Point Redevelopment Plan for one week at Tuesday’s meeting. The postponement will allow supervisors to consider several late amendments to the plan and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to respond to community concerns....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 6:23am PDT
Supervisors, Mayor Reach Agreement On Eviction Prevention The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed landmark legislation yesterday aimed at stemming the tide of speculator evictions sweeping the city. Mayor Gavin Newsom has announced he will sign the measure into law. The proposal, to take effect May 1, will prevent any building where Ellis Act evictions or the eviction of senior, disabled or catastrophically ill people occurs from ever becoming a condominium. In addition, any building where two or more no-fault evictions occur will be barred fr...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 6:21am PDT
Newsom’s Eviction Protection Veto Will Undermine his Political Credibility San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has recently been touring the country touting himself as a fighting Democrat who stands up for the Party’s ideals. Newsom argues that Democrats must “make voters enthusiastic again," and promotes social justice, “green” policies, and workers rights. But in San Francisco, Mayor Newsom’s alliance with the real estate industry has led him to consistently oppose measures that protect core Democratic Party constituencies. After vetoing two tenant protection bi...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 8:23am PDT
Parking Lot Panic at City Council Tuesday May 9th The Fifteen Minute Trespass Law has its final reading as item #17 on the afternoon agenda at Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday May 9th. A protest with food and frolicking will precede the Council rubberstamp at 2:30 PM. Item #17 on the City Council agenda will come up sometime after 3 PM (anywhere from half an hour to several hours)....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 9:42pm PDT
Democracy, Redevelopment-Style: 63 people vote in 6th Street PAC Election As the Board of Supervisors votes Tuesday on creating a Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Area, scant attention has been paid to how this action restricts the democratic rights of neighborhood residents and businesses. Redevelopment Areas transfer power over land use decisions from elected officials to mayoral appointees and Agency staff, and ultimately suppress rather than enhance public involvement. Last week on 6th Street, we saw how this Redevelopment process plays out. In the election ...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 7:34am PDT
Supes. to Disabled: Wait for Access, Disabled to Supes.: Wait for lawsuits The Supes. still act as if SF is in a separate island universe, at least as far as compliance with the American with Disabilities Act is concerned. Awareness of the law of the land somehow hasn't reached into the hearts and minds of the Supes. Last week, for the 2nd year in a row, the Supes. Budget Committee killed legislation that would have set a formal timeline for completing all the required curb ramps....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 7:20am PDT
How San Francisco is Changing, Block by Block As the Board of Supervisors prepares to take up legislation that would dramatically alter the current debate over Ellis Act evictions, a small block in San Francisco's Mission District is undergoing some major changes of its own. A real estate speculator recently purchased five buildings on a one-block stretch of Woodward Street,between Duboce and 14th Street, and quickly invoked the Ellis Act on every one. All the affected sites have between 6 and 12 units, and four of the five buildings hav...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 7:18am PDT
5/9: Stop the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan! let's pack the steps
of City Hall on Tuesday, May 9, at 1:00 for a rally, then go
upstairs at 2:00 for the Board meeting in Room 250!...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 10:55pm PDT
The Transfer of Parcel A at Hunters Point and related issues The transfer of Parcel A on Hunters Point under the direction of former Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. and Sophie Maxwell has come to haunt San Francisco. One must remember that the constituents of San Francisco voted by over 87% to clean up the entire Hunters Point Shipyard to residential standards. That has not happened. The SF Board of Supervisors, the SF Planning Department, the SF Redevelopment Agency, and of course Lennar Bayview Hunters Point LLC all have agreed to build 1600 homes in the m...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 8:23am PDT
They cut the heart from San Francisco: Open letter to the SF Board of Supervisors Why would San Franciscans care about Bayview Hunters Point? In this small city, SOMA, Haight and Mission dwellers alike know what’s done in the Bayview will happen in all San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 8:43am PDT
The murder of Marcus Law, 17, rocks Hunters Point Candlelight vigil Friday 8pm...
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 8:29am PDT
Black Out: The City Sponsored Gentrification of Bayview Hunters Point An interview with Longtime resident and Greenaction organizer Marie Harrison....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 7:04pm PDT
New State Law Threatens Relationship Between Doctor and AIDS Patients Dr. Marcus Conant, one of America's most respected AIDS care physicians, angrily denounced a new California law forcing him to break a basic confidence between himself and patients who are people with AIDS. The new law, signed on April 17 by Governor Schwarzenegger, requires, for the first time, that names of people infected with AIDS be reported to local, state and Federal health care agencies....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:48am PDT
Transit Advocates Agree: MUNI Needs More Revenue A broad coalition of almost every transit advocacy group in San Francisco, along with a variety of social justice advocacy groups and environmentalists, declared their unified support yesterday for a platform calling on Muni to immediately seek new sources of revenue to avoid future fare hikes and service cuts. The platform, called ‘San Franciscans for a Better Muni,’ commended the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) for avoiding hikes and cuts this year. However, it also pointed out that d...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:47am PDT
On the waterfront -- Oak to Ninth Oaklanders decided to turn Oak to Ninth into a waterfront park, but in a backroom deal, the land was sold to a developer....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 2:36pm PDT
How Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Project to foster the 49er City Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Public Housing Project to further his ploy to develop the proposed 49er City and fool the constituents or so he thinks. Dwayne Jones and other have been using second hand computers and The WiFi technology with the help of Google to cheat poor folks and deceive them. The Alice Griffith Project was protected under the South Bayshore Plan but an amendment as seen to it that vast areas including Alice Griffith can now come under the Project Plan and ...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 5:39pm PDT
Oakland Housing Authority Blames Tenants, For Crimes Committed By Staff In the topsy turvy world of the Oakland Housing Authority, the tenants are being blamed for the crimes of the Housing Authority staff members!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 7:29pm PDT
Arcata Anti-Homeless Ordinance Is Unconstitutional "federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that arresting homeless people for sleeping, sitting or lying on sidewalks and other public property when other shelter is not available was cruel and unusual punishment."
Arcata Municipal Code
TITLE X - PUBLIC PROPERTYCHAPTER 1 - PARKS AND GROUNDS
SEC. 10004. Overnight use prohibited. (Amended by Ord. No. 1205)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 2:02pm PDT
DOES SAN FRANCISCO NEED ANOTHER PLAYGROUND FOR THE WEALTHY? An open meeting to think of ways to confront the gentrification of the Polk....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 11:11am PDT
BVHP Redevelopment Plan: ‘a land grab for the rich’ Today the Finance Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear the people of Bayview Hunters Point tell them to vote NO on the BVHP Redevelopment Plan. The meeting begins at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, in the Board Chamber, Room 250, City Hall....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:12am PDT
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