Category Archives: Zoning

Excessive Parking Creeps Up Folsom Street

7 July 2008 – 7:37 am

900 Folsom and 260 Fifth, two mixed-use projects that are currently up for consideration, would occupy adjacent parcels South of Market, at the corner of 5th and Folsom Streets, with the northern edge of the project just one-half block south of the new Intercontinental Hotel. Together, they promise 466 homes and 10,396 square feet of [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Eastern Neighborhoods, Parking, Project Proposals, Rincon Hill / Transbay / South of Market, San Francisco | Comments (2)

Thumbs Up For Market-Octavia and 55 Laguna

14 April 2008 – 12:58 pm

A busy week prevented me from posting about this earlier, but better late than never: as you may have already read in the Chronicle, there have been favorable updates at the Board of Supervisors concerning the Market & Octavia Plan, which I addressed in a post a couple weeks ago. Supervisors Mirkarimi and McGoldrick had [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Affordable Housing, Better Neighborhoods, Historic Preservation, Market-Octavia / Hayes Valley, NIMBY, Parking, Public Spaces / Parks, San Francisco, Streetscape | Comments (0)

Market-Octavia: Building a Vibrant Hub

31 March 2008 – 8:09 am

Courtesy Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects, Inc.

For several years, the City of San Francisco has worked to develop the Market & Octavia Neighborhood Plan, studying neighborhoods centered on the pivotal intersection of Market and Octavia, bookended by Church Street on the west and Van Ness Avenue on the east. The plan was one part of [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Affordable Housing, Architecture / Design, Better Neighborhoods, Market-Octavia / Hayes Valley, NIMBY, Parking, San Francisco, Streetscape | Comments (5)

Berkeley NIMBY Ordinance Holds the Elmwood District Hostage

15 September 2007 – 7:03 pm

Bolfing’s Elmwood Hardware, the famous hardware store which opened in 1923 and has since come to be a key fixture of the Elmwood District in South Berkeley, is in danger of closing its doors — and this only months after Telegraph Avenue lost Cody’s Books, a venerable Berkeley institution of 50 years. Why is Elmwood [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Berkeley, East Bay, NIMBY | Comments (3)