EQUAL PARTS
by Stephen Listisen Since dining (and drinking) out is one of my favorite hobbies, I follow the San Francisco food scene closely and make a concerted effort to support local…
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SUPERVISOR SAUTER’S DISTRICT 3 CONTROVERSIAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT LEGISLATION LEGALLY CHALLENGED
Sidewalk blocking scooter courtesy of Lime.
Letter To Membership On the Passing of the Family Zoning Plan
Looking up Columbus Avenue from North Point Street
RESTAURANT NEWS
Cap Caplan, Editor, semaphore@thd.org Read about Steven Listisen and his friends’ experience when they finally got to dine at the legendary Cafe Jacqueline. CAFE JACQUELINE by Stephen Listisen After three…
WALK A MILE…
by Patricia Cady …And take someone with you, a friend or neighbor sidelined by an infirmity or age who has a new respect for gravity. I mean…
Mayor’s Zoning Plan Advanced on a Close Planning Commission Vote
These major height and density increases are intended to incentivize private developers to build the 5,900 new housing units in the city’s densest neighborhoods causing significant, long-term impacts on our existing tenants, small businesses, important historic resources, parks and open spaces, and the diverse culture of District 3, resulting in displacement and gentrification.
MAYOR LURIE’S “FAMILY PLAN”—IS IT REALLY FOR FAMILIES? IS IT EVEN A PLAN?
by Romalyn Schmaltz Dispatches from the “Abundance” Rally and Planning Commission Hearing District 3 residents and small business owners helped lead a massive and mischievous-serious counterrally disrupting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s…
THD Letter Dated September 9, 2025, to the San Francisco Planning Commission Regarding the Family Zoning Plan
OPPOSITION to Proposed Family Zoning Plan (2021-005878 GPA PCA MAP) Items 14(a), 14(b) and 14(c): General Plan Amendments; Planning Code Text Amendments; and Zoning Map Amendments September 9, 2025 Lydia…
Hitchcock’s haunted house in “Vertigo”
The Fortmann Mansion, Eddy and Gough Streets, San Francisco, shortly before it was demolished in 1959 or 1960