Event in favor of Prop. 87 features former president, city politicians, musical actsFormer President Bill Clinton and local rockers turned a Wednesday evening political rally outside of City Hall into a party.For more than an hour, a star-studded lineup took to the stage to pump up Proposition 87, a ballot measure before voters this Tuesday that would tax oil production in California. Rock music poured out of large speakers hanging over the makeshift stage set up in Civic Center Plaza, inspiring the crowd to dance and shout as they waited for speakers. Read More

Members want to stop plan to replace SoMa courts with market-rate condos, retailMembers of a private tennis club in the South of Market area are fighting to prevent a developer from demolishing their courts and say recreational facilities throughout San Francisco are under siege by development. Read More

Executive Park site, once set aside for offices, could be site of 3,000 homesSeventy-one acres near the Monster Park stadium may soon become home to one of San Francisco’s newest neighborhoods — giving rise to 3,000 new housing units for an estimated 8,000 residents.Executive Park, once envisioned as an office park, is now being targeted for housing developments. It is considered a sub-area of the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, but is also closely associated with nearby Visitacion Valley. Read More

Supes reject residents’ beefs that tower affects health, safety, wireless connectionsTwin Peaks residents will not see the kind of extensive review they were hoping for when it comes to the addition of more antennas on Sutro Tower.The four television stations that own the 977-foot tower have requested permission to replace four existing antennas, add another one and place four new ones on a nearby control building’s rooftop. There are 200 antennas on the tower, which was constructed 35 years ago. Read More

Citing shortage of officers, Newsom seeks more pay for those who delay retirementMayor Gavin Newsom has proposed a salary boost for police officers willing to postpone their retirement — something that could cost The City as much as $800,000 next year alone.The proposal comes as the Police Department, which already considers itself understaffed, struggles to attract new recruits and is facing as many as 700 retirees in the next six years. Read More

Planning Department says it is unable to meet task of enforcing Proposition GFour years ago, voters said no to anymore billboards in San Francisco, but these illegal advertisements are still popping up throughout The City, according to city officials.The lucrative business of general advertising has posed challenges for the Planning Department, which says it has been understaffed in recent years, unable to keep up with the number of billboards and other general advertising complaints. Read More