Residents: City should get Ingersoll Rand to sell landVisitacion Valley residents are hopeful that city planners can pressure a big industrial manufacturing company to sell off a key piece of property to open the way for a major housing and retail development.Residents and city officials say New Jersey-based Ingersoll Rand Co. is dragging its feet when it comes to cleaning up the contaminated 12-acre site and unwilling to sell the property.
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One of The City’s largest landlords, CitiApartments, allegedly employs armed men to intimidate renters, a series of lawsuits filed against the company claims.On several occasions, according to the City Attorney’s Office, armed "agents" of CitiApartments arrived at the doors of tenants to harass them.
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When Merced Heights residents living near Brooks Park installed artwork to improve the park, they did not realize they would be under threat of being fined.
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San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brazen killing of a 22-year-old Western Addition community center employee who was gunned down at work in a crowded gymnasium.The fatal shooting occurred shortly after 5 p.m. April 27 inside the Ella Hill Hutch Recreation Center at 1050 McAllister St. The victim, Donte White, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brazen killing of a 22-year-old Western Addition community center employee who was gunned down at work in a crowded gymnasium.The fatal shooting occurred shortly after 5 p.m. April 27 inside the Ella Hill Hutch Recreation Center at 1050 McAllister St. The victim, Donte White, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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After years of planning, The City is welcoming a new hospital specializing in the treatment of debilitating muscular diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig’s disease.California Pacific Medical Center has been working with neighbors for four years to finalize plans for a new four-story 46,000-square-foot building, located on the corner of Noe Street and Duboce Avenue, next to the campus of the Davies Medical Center.
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The first debate of the election season in Pacifica will not include any of the seven candidates running for City Council seats.Instead, R. Don Peebles, the property owner and developer hoping to bring mixed-use rights to 83 acres of the Rockaway Quarry, and Peter Loeb, who served two years as Pacifica’s mayor during his tenure on the council from 1982-1990, will square off in a debate on the ballot initiative facing the coastside town.On Nov. 7, voters will not only choose three City Council members but also vote on whether to allow residential development in the quarry.
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The San Bruno Park School District is seeking a new board member to replace President Charles Zelnik, who is stepping down after nearly six years on the board, officials announced Thursday.Board members voted Wednesday night to make a provisional appointment to serve the remainder of Zelnik’s term, which would have ended in November 2007.Zelnik, a stay-at-home father of two with a background in construction and the automotive industry, said he decided to resign Aug. 9 in order to re-enter the work force now that his daughter is heading to college.
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Some elected officials are rushing to create new rules that would restrict subdivisions on hillsides, but critics say those officials are upsetting an important public process in order to adopt laws that won’t effectively protect against erosion and landslides. Councilmember Coralin Feierbach is worried a clause in Proposition 90, the statewide eminent-domain measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, will take away cities’ power to control subdivision zoning.
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Summit Preparatory High School Director Diane Tavenner stood among towers of boxes Thursday, preparing for the school’s move from its three-year downtown home to 20 new portable buildings on the Sequoia High School Campus.The move, which begins today, marks the end of one chapter in a long struggle to find a home for Summit, but not the final one. The Sequoia Union High School District, which adopted the school’s charter in June, has opted to find the school a temporary home on the Sequoia campus but is still hunting for a long-term, permanent location for the charter school.
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