Ballot Measure To Restrict Airbnb Activity In San Francisco Filed
With the battle over how to regulate short-term rentals and Airbnb activity in San Francisco heating up, the text for the threatened ballot measure to amend the law which legalized…
Challenge Of Waterfront Height Limit Measure Survives First Ruling
The State’s legal challenge of San Francisco’s Proposition B, the voter-approved “No Wall on the Waterfront” measure which maintains existing height limits for waterfront property under the control of the…
Measure To Block Flower Mart Redevelopment Looms
While Kilroy Realty has reached an agreement with the operators of the San Francisco Flower Mart to build a new underground market for the mart’s wholesale business in exchange for…
Anti-Speculation Tax (Prop G) Failing, Pier 70 Redevelopment A Lock
With 100 percent of San Francisco’s precincts reporting but provisional and hand-delivered mail-in ballots yet to be counted, Proposition G, the so-called “anti-speculation tax,” would appear to have failed with…
Inventory Slips In San Francisco, With One Notable Exception
With a little over 100 homes listed for sale in San Francisco last week, more or less matching the number of homes sold, the overall inventory of homes for sale…
All The Way From A to L: San Francisco’s Ballot Measure Rundown
Twelve local measures are set to appear on the November ballot in San Francisco, measures which have just been lettered from A to L. The full rundown and summaries from…
Affordable Housing Goals Replace Balance On November Ballot
Supervisor Jane Kim’s watered-down ballot measure “to affirm the City’s commitment” to a set of Affordable Housing Goals, a non-binding Declaration of Policy, has been approved by San Francisco’s Board…
Kim Guts Housing Balance Initiative, Lee To Cancel Competing Plan
Supervisor Kim has gutted her “Housing Balance” ballot initiative, turning it into a non-binding vote on public policy versus a measure which would have created major hurdles for housing developers…
Golden Gate Park Turf Battle Headed To The Ballot Box
The proposed ordinance which would block the renovation of the Beach Chalet Athletic Fields in Golden Gate Park and has qualified for the November ballot and will go head-to-head with…
Measure To Increase Heights For Pier 70 Project Qualifies For Ballot
The proposed ballot measure to increase Pier 70’s building height limits from 40 feet to 90 feet and help clear the way for Forest City’s development of up to 1,000…