Agenda On the agenda: Public Hearing on Western SOMA Community Plan Draft EIR

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From SFBC: BART has announced that it will conduct a pilot program that will eliminate restrictions on bringing bicycles on board trains Fridays in August, 2012. The SF Bicycle Coalition and our partners, including the East Bay Bicycle Coalition and the Bikes on Board volunteer committee, have long advocated for BART to make it easier […]

From SFBC: The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is recruiting volunteers to work alongside BART, to monitor this pilot program and assess its effects on customer comfort, satisfaction and train operations. We will have a chance to win full access for bikes on BART by making this pilot as successful as possible. This training will prepare […]

From SPUR: Image credit: Flickr user The City Project How can cities incentivize the reuse of historic structures? Los Angeles has been extremely successful in preserving historic properties throughout the basin while allowing those properties to be reused in new ways, so what can the Bay Area learn from Los Angeles’ experience? How can these lessons […]

From SPUR: Image Credit: Flickr user paalia Pay a visit to the back alleys of San Francisco’s industrial, ecological and social history with representatives from CMG Landscape Architecture, a design firm well-versed in planning for and around the city’s alleys. They will lead a meandering walk through the alleys of downtown and South of Market and […]

From SPUR: Image Credit: Flickr user neighborhoods.org The Fruitvale BART neighborhood represents Oakland’s effort to concentrate transit investments around commercial and housing development, and the city’s comprehensive strategy has produced a successfully bustling and vibrant community along Fruitvale Avenue. Join Maurilio León, executive vice president of the Unity Council, for a walking tour of the Fruitvale community, […]

Agenda [pdf] On the agenda: Increasing application fee for commercial parking permits; update permit/license fees to reflect cost of living adjustments; increase license fees to include cost recovery for the Tax Collector’s Office Zoning and planning code amendments for the Transit Center District Plan Affirming commitment to ensuring the long term viability and operation of St. Luke’s Hospital    

Agenda On the agenda: Planning Code amendments to 1) expand the applicability of bicycle parking requirements; 2) exempt bicycle parking from Floor-Area ratio calculations; 3) permit conversion of Auto Service Stations located on Transit and Pedestrian Network Streets to another use without Conditional Use authorization

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