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…
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NORTH BEACH RESTAURANTS
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS AND IMPACTS: NORTH BEACH by Peter Stevens peter.stevens@thd.org In most parts of the city, golden arches signify McDonald’s. In North Beach, thanks in part to our formula retail…
MEET THE FILMMAKERS OF FREE FOR ALL: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Free Community Film Screening Telegraph Hill Dwellers, in partnership with The Savoy Tivoli, will host a free film screening with Q&A following with Lucie Faulknor, Producer and Co-Director. Sunday, November…
INTRODUCING NEW BOARD MEMBER
INTRODUCING NEW BOARD MEMBER SARAH GOLDSMITH Influenced by a fortune cookie and Tales of the City, I moved to San Francisco in 2020. Frustrated with my life in Philly during…
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…
One Freshman Textbook Cannot Explain San Francisco’s Housing Markets
Who thinks $7,000 per month rents are “affordable”? By Eric Jaye – July 30, 2025 Mayor Daniel Lurie now says that it is necessary to foundationally change the character of…
Hitchcock’s haunted house in “Vertigo”
The Fortmann Mansion, Eddy and Gough Streets, San Francisco, shortly before it was demolished in 1959 or 1960