Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Francisco

Take Two Peaks and Call Me in the Morning!

By Chris Carlsson | Nov 23, 2009 | 6 Comments

View from top of south peak in February 2008. With the rain falling in late November, and soggy unemployment statistics haunting our lives too, the idea of Depression lurks just below the surface. Depression has multiple meanings like so many concepts in the English language; in this case, I’m taking two of them: 1) mental […]

Some Bay Area Developers Ditch the Extra Parking Spaces for More Units

By Matthew Roth | Nov 11, 2009 | 14 Comments

When it comes to building new developments in the Bay Area, especially in San Francisco, the battle over limiting the construction of new parking spaces is pitched. Parking reform advocacy organizations like Livable City, which maintains a listserv populated by car-free and livable-city advocates keeping a keen watch on planning commission parking exemptions, have long […]

CA Poised to Reform Auto-Centric Level of Service Environmental Rules

By Matthew Roth | Oct 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old Automobile Level of Service (LOS) threshold for impacts of new projects and has led to the construction of excess off-street parking. Photo: pbo31 The state’s […]

Streetfilms: Walk to School Day in San Francisco

By John Hamilton | Oct 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

A generation ago, nearly half of all U.S. kids walked or bicycled to school. Today, less than fifteen percent do, with the majority arriving at school in private automobiles. It’s no coincidence, then, that studies show more than a quarter of San Francisco’s children are overweight. But a new program hopes to change that trend, […]

Nature’s Unsung Helper

By Chris Carlsson | Oct 8, 2009 | 9 Comments

Stephen O’Brien, gardener at Transbay Terminal since 1958. Stephen O’Brien has been coaxing an oasis out of a most unlikely environment for a long time: the small green patches at either end of the ground level Mission Street frontage of the Transbay Terminal. He started back in 1958, when the old Key System train tracks […]

A Vision For Transforming San Francisco’s “Unaccepted Streets”

By Matthew Roth | Sep 24, 2009 | 7 Comments

A proposed design for an unaccepted street, from Local Code, courtesy Nicholas de Monchaux Throughout San Francisco’s history, from the early street grid to the more recent expansion of freeways, slivers of land that don’t fit into the master plans of architects and designers have been cast aside, lumped into a category the Department of […]

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