Trees make the urban landscape more pleasant. They shade the sidewalk and provide space for birds to roost. But they don’t usually produce fruit — and that’s something a secretive group of amateur horticulturalists is looking to change.
“When you take a stroll down the street and there’s all this free fruit, it changes your attitude,” said Tara Hui, one of the founders of Guerilla Grafters. Read More
There’s a forecast for snow in San Francisco tonight when Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials will celebrate the lighting of snowflake decorations on lampposts along Market Street.The fourth-annual “Snowflakes on Market” ceremony marks the start of the lighting of 162 snowflake decorations along Market Street between today and mid-January to celebrate the holiday season. Read More
Like my mother yelling and ringing a cowbell at my basketball games, supporters of Ed Lee may have gone a bit overboard.
Reports have surfaced that folks who want to see Lee elected mayor in November set up tables in Chinatown where they marked — or instructed people on how to mark — mail-in ballots for Lee. Read More
A taco truck that has found a home in Dolores Park may soon be on the street if efforts to codify complaints about commercializing the park move forward. Read More
Unlike in New York, demonstrators of the Occupy SF movement aren’t likely going to find a central public outdoor refuge in The City for camping. Participants in the flagship Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have secured a fairly stable staging ground at privately owned Zuccotti Park, around the corner from the financial epicenter that is the target of their anger. Read More
The new director of the sprawling agency that sets transportation policies in The City had some reassuring words Thursday for anyone concerned that he’ll be in over his head due to his lack of transit experience.
“I’m a fast learner,” said Ed Reiskin, formerly director of San Francisco’s Department of Public Works. “Give me a month and I’ll be well-versed in all these things.” Read More
To save $600,000 next fiscal year, The City wants to begin transferring the care of 24,000 street trees over to private property owners. The proposal will undergo its first public hearing Monday at the Board of Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee at 10 a.m. in Room 250. Read More
After a successful year of issuing 15 permits to build temporary common areas over parking spots in San Francisco, The City is issuing a second round of proposals.
The San Francisco Department of Public Works is asking business owners and residents to submit an application to turn more vehicle spaces into benches and seats for pedestrians in the spaces often referred to as parklets. Read More
Crews will begin retrofitting an underpass on Geary Boulevard today with new lighting as part of an ongoing effort to be more energy efficient, according to the Department of Public Works.Technicians were scheduled to begin work at 9 a.m. on replacing about 350 fluorescent lighting fixtures along the Geary Boulevard underpass between Collins and Lyons streets, department officials said. Read More
San Francisco’s Department of Public Works and the San Francisco Public Library received two Project of the Year awards in a ceremony on Thursday.The awards were given by the Northern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association for the recent renovations of the Bernal Heights Branch and the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch libraries. Read More
