Two teams of city family representatives will join us at next week’s meeting on Wednesday, February 15 at 6:00. Planning Department staff from what they call the “Central Corridor” project are making their second appearance at the SoMa Leadership Council as part of their public outreach efforts and representatives from the Department of Public Works would like to talk about the status of the Better Market Street project. Continue reading
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180 unit residential project proposed for Twitterland
SmartSpace® Mission, a green infill projected located at 9th and Mission Streets, will provide 180 units of studios and suites.
Panoramic Interests of Berkeley has proposed an 11 story residential tower at 1321 Mission Street within a block of the new Twitter headquarters on Market Street. The 9th and Mission Street development will be discussed at the March 21 meeting of the SoMa Leadership Council. Continue reading
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St. Joseph’s renovation faces Historic Preservation hearing on February 1
Chris Foley and the Polaris Group will be going before the Historic Preservation Commission on February 1 to present their plans for the renovation and adaptive reuse of St. Joseph’s Church. The landmark South of Market structure at 10th and Howard Street has sat empty since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and Foley bought it from the Archdiocese for a dollar after assuming all the seismic obligations attached to the beautiful old building. Continue reading
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First draft of new D6 nixes Kim, Walker, Daly … and the poor
The first map released by the Redistricting Task Force cuts off the Hayes Valley and north Mission portions of District 6, which coincidentally includes the homes of Debra Walker, Chris Daly and our current Supervisor Jane Kim.
The Redistricting Task Force released their first draft of a redesigned District 6 last week. The newly drawn boundaries shed 29% of excess population by eliminating Hayes Valley and the north Mission. Continue reading
Politicians, nonprofits and special interests are maneuvering to determine the future of District 6
A call to action sent out by the Filipina Women’s Network underscores the intense political maneuvering underway as the city moves rapidly towards the April 15, 2012 deadline to redraw the lines separating the Board of Supervisors districts in San Francisco. Continue reading
8 Reasons why an entertainment zone won’t help 11th Street
The Western SoMa Task Force worked long and hard on its Arts and Entertainment element and overall I think we produced some very positive changes for the entertainment industry. But some people are not satisfied with what we achieved and are arguing, once again, for the establishment of an entertainment zone (a so-called “special use district”) to be established along the 11th Street corridor.
There’s gonna be a little meeting to plot strategy on Wednesday night at the Beat Box, and guess what? The neighbors aren’t invited. How ironic. Gavin Newsom did the very same thing to us about fifteen years ago, for the very same reason, at the very same location. Continue reading
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Speculation abounds in the Transbay “neighborhood”
The $400 million Transbay Transit Center
The developer of one of the five “modest sized” towers planned for the area surrounding the new Transbay Transit Center is holding a community meeting on Wednesday night, November 30 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Courtyard Marriott, 299 Second St. (at Folsom Street). 41 Tehama Street is expected to rise 32 stories, scaled back from the original proposal to build 54 floors, on the block bounded by 1st and 2nd Streets between Mission and Howard Streets.
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No SoMa Leadership Council meeting this month
Thanksgiving is coming and everybody has a ton of things to do in preparation for the holidays so there will not be a meeting this month. In the meantime, send in your suggestions for future agenda items. Continue reading
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District 6 redistricting meeting set
The first District 6 community meeting to discuss next year’s redistricting process will be held on Saturday, November 19 at 10:00 a.m. at the Tenderloin Community School, 627 Turk Street.
Because the 2010 Census found that population growth was uneven across the city’s Board of Supervisor districts, the boundaries must be redrawn based upon the City Charter. The majority of population growth has occurred in the southeastern portion of the city, leaving little room for District 6 to adjust boundaries in that direction. Treasure Island, Hayes Valley, South Beach and the Tenderloin are more likely to fall into the crosshairs of the bureaucrats. Continue reading
Revisiting entertainment: new nightclubs, okay … new housing, not?
At this afternoon’s Planning Commission presentation of the Western SoMa Community Plan, it was suggested during public comment that the light industrial zoning south of Harrison Street be extended into the 11th Street area because, under that new zoning category, entertainment would become a permitted use. The Task Force liberalized the zoning because new housing in the SALI (Service, Arts and Light Industrial) district would not be allowed.
That would be an interesting switcheroo. Housing, currently as-of-right, would suddenly find itself a non-permitted use and entertainment, grandfathered in as a legal, nonconforming use, would become a fully permitted use. The Planning Commissioners, often sympathetic to fun sounding notions — particularly if they are not personally impacted — might very well consider making the swap. Continue reading
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