Recent Streetsblog SF posts about The Mission

Potrero Ave. Safety Redesign Limps Toward the Finish Line

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 13, 2013 | 36 Comments

Updated 11/14, 2:34 p.m. with response from Supervisor David Campos below. Design options for the embattled plan to improve safety Potrero Avenue have come down to the two blocks between 22nd and 24th Streets in front of SF General Hospital. According to a vote via stickers placed on a board, most attendees at a public […]

Tonight: Balance Out Pro-Parking Extremism and Support a Safer Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 7, 2013 | 3 Comments

Tonight’s open house meeting at SF General Hospital is your chance to show support for wider sidewalks and safer walking on Potrero Avenue. City planners, swayed by parking-obsessed extremists who are fighting wider sidewalks and disseminating misinformation about the project, will present new, heavily-watered down options that cut out sidewalk expansions to preserve car storage. Whereas […]

Supes Narrowly Reject EIR Appeal Against Car-Free Condos at 1050 Valencia

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 7, 2013 | 134 Comments

The proposed parking-free, 12-unit condo and retail development at 1050 Valencia Street narrowly cleared a hurdle Tuesday after a 6-5 vote by the Board of Supervisors, which rejected an appeal that contended the project should be required to have a full environmental impact report. The project, approved by the Planning Commission more than a year […]

ENUF Delays Mission Parking Meters by Protesting the Wrong Ordinance

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 6, 2013 | 7 Comments

The Eastern Neighborhoods United Front, a group publicly represented by resident Mari Eliza, apparently turned out enough speakers and letters to postpone the approval of parking meters requested by merchants in the Mission at a hearing Friday. But in what appears to be a misinterpretation of the hearing notice, Eliza called on residents to protest […]

Parking-Obsessed Extremists Threaten Plan for Safer Walking on Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 29, 2013 | 58 Comments

Update: A petition in support of wider sidewalks on Potrero has been created. In what may be a new low for selfish opposition to street safety measures, flyers and a petition full of misinformation are being circulated against wider sidewalks on Potrero Avenue. Believe it or not, this one’s not a joke, and the city may water down its pedestrian […]

Han Cheng Li, 62, Killed by Driver at 16th and Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 28, 2013 | 16 Comments

Han Cheng Li, 62, was struck and killed by a driver on 16th Street at Potrero Avenue in the Mission at about 11:38 p.m. Saturday night, according to reports. Police have not released details about how the crash occurred or the name of the driver, but he has been identified as a 54-year-old man. Li […]

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