Architecture wanderings, transit & planning, San Francisco and beyond. The joy that can be found in the everyday.
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When people tell you there is no more space to build new housing - here is Paris overlaid on San Francisco.
SF is slightly larger, despite having 808,000 people compared to 2.3m in Paris.
Senior living housing and downzoning in Marin, a tale as old as time.
That said, I think the 24 story proposal was always a smokescreen for the current 8 story version they always intended to pursue.
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My sincere wishes that this man gets his license permanently revoked and a very extensive time behind bars but more importantly I hope the two 6 year olds make a complete recovery.
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Vladimir Vlad retweeted
DSA hates winning case 9,756. In order to govern effectively or to win elections, you have to 1) moderate on some things 2) work with people who agree with you maybe 80% of the time and 3) compromise.
The minute a DSA candidate does any of these things they’re labeled a heretic.
Tweets like these get traction because they're zippy, resonate, and strike a nerve.
Everyone has their own theory and diagnosis, like doctors hovering over a patient, pointing to one thing as the cause when the reality is that SF has never been static or defined by one culture.
Probably one of San Francisco's most complex projects as it involves the undergrounding of Caltrain before any construction can even begin. Oh and it needs to be timed with economic cycles to make it feasible.
Hope to see it completed.
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Vladimir Vlad retweeted
A sign of weather change coming. Fog at the lighthouse in Point Reyes on the web cam.
'Golden Gate Fields in an alternate timeline.'
Go check out the Syd Mead exhibition at the Transamerica Pyramid gallery space.
My introduction to his work, like many, was through his moody world-building and art direction of Blade Runner.
At the Eureka Valley meeting for Prop H. & RTM (Transit Funding) which my nabe, Hayes Valley, amongst other neighborhood groups, co-sponsored.
Vote Yes on both if you don't want to kneecap the Bay Area.
Also this Chai Cyder is pretty tasty!
Is it kosher to drink in a church?
I always think about the demolition of the Fox Theater on Market St. and how much richer we collectively would've been if the city had purchased the building rather than letting it go to the wrecking ball.
foundsf.org/Fox_Theater
A $500,000 pilot will subsidize arts tenants who lease vacant storefronts on Market Street’s 900 block. The goal: revive the Tenderloin’s theater district.
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More people living on Van Ness in dense towers would be a good thing.
sfyimby.com/2026/10/36-story…
What was once 2 garages in the heart of Hayes Valley will now be 3 units of housing and neighborhood serving retail on Octavia & Ivy, one block away from Patricia's Green.
sfyimby.com/2023/05/plan-for…
