Multiple lanes, one-way directions and access to heavily used commuter freeways can turn the streets of South of Market from residential roads to miniature interstates. But a speed limit reduction could curb that soon.
Officials have imposed a 5 mph cut — from 30 to 25 mph — on parts of Howard, Folsom, Harrison and Bryant streets. Mayor Ed Lee said in a statement that the reduction was based on his directive to improve pedestrian safety.
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Residents of the booming Rincon Hill neighborhood are backing a parks bond for the November ballot in order to upgrade open space in the area of The City that is attracting families.
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After months of sometimes-heated debate, San Francisco's public-financing program for mayoral and supervisorial candidates is finally about to change.In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Arizona legislation, finding that tying disbursement of public-finance dollars to third-party spending violates the First Amendment. That ruling encouraged San Francisco to modify its similar program.
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Supervisor Sean Elsbernd asked his colleague Jane Kim a worthwhile question at Monday’s Rules Committee meeting: “What is more important to [our] communities? Having dollars available for services? Or standing on a principle that has been deemed unconstitutional?”
Kim, for the record, prefers the latter, but we’ll get back to that.
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With all the controversy surrounding Mayor Ed Lee’s decision to enter the mayor’s race, you’d expect he’d be fielding the toughest questions from voters.But during a campaign event in the Mission district on Tuesday, it was not the mayor, but his supporter, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who faced the fire.While the mayor and supervisor talked to residents and merchants on 16th Street, a Chinese shopkeeper at Sam’s Shoe Services asked Supervisor Kim why she isn’t married.
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It’s nice that Supervisor Jane Kim was gung-ho to have Twitter move to the Tenderloin. Why didn’t she move Twitter to Sixth or Seventh streets? Didn’t she want them to enjoy the view of all the hot mess the Tenderloin has to offer?
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