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City Agency Hearings – Mural Edition!

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The SF Board of Supervisors is on break until September 2, but the Historic Preservation Commission is jumping into the fray over the mural at Washington High School by starting landmark designation for the school. If you’ve missed the battle over the mural there, you’ve missed an interesting conversation about race and censorship. The SFMTA […]

Candidates for District Attorney forum: Save the date

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The DHCA is delighted that all four candidates running for District Attorney on Nov. 5 will present at a community meeting on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2 – 4 pm at St. Aidan’s Church. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will give an update on neighborhood issues. The DA candidates are Chesa Boudin, Leif Dautch, Suzy Loftus and Nancy Tung. 

We’re swimming in change in San Francisco

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San Francisco is constantly reinventing itself. Gold Rush seekers giving way to Comstock silver barons. Merchantman brigs surrendering to coal powered steamships, then complemented by coal-powered railroads. The latter engineered by entrepreneurs with names such as Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker. Which got me thinking about how, less than a century later, the outer Sunset […]

City Agency Hearings

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The Board of Supervisors are on summer break. The SFMTA Operations and Customer Service Committee will meet Tuesday, August 13, 3:30 p.m., at 1 S. Van Ness Ave., 7th fl. Agenda and supporting docs The SFMTA Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, August 13, 6 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda The SFMTA […]

DHB Median Cleanup Aug 10

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Hello friends and supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, Please join us on Saturday, Aug 10 to collect trash and weed our median islands. (A previous email listed this Saturday, Aug 3, but we needed to move the date.) A big thank you to our regular volunteers and new ones who come to […]

City Agency Hearings

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(The Board of Supervisors are on vacation until September 2) The Park, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, August 6, 6:30 p.m., at McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan St. Agenda The Historic Preservation Commission will meet Wednesday, August 7, 12:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda and supporting docs The Recreation and […]