Category: Land Use
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Prop I is About Neighborhoods Determining Their Own Future
Whether you’ve been a resident for ten years, twenty years, or for generations – you should have a say about what gets built in your back yard.
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Greens Say Don’t Frack Golden Gate Park
Comparing the effects of toxic turf and lighting pollution to fracking, the San Francisco Green Party is urging the public to save Golden Gate Park.
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Senator Leno, Mayor Lee Announce Legislation to Arrest Speculative Evictions in San Francisco
Senator Mark Leno today joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, other elected officials, tenant advocates, labor groups and business leaders to introduce legislation closing a loophole in the Ellis Act that allows speculators to buy rent-controlled buildings in San Francisco and immediately begin the process of evicting long-term renters.
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Environmental Groups Laud City Action to Resume Work on CleanPower SF Program
Local environmental and community organizations today lauded the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (SF LAFCo) decision last Friday to complete the unfinished clean energy build-out plan for the city’s CleanPowerSF program.
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This is Not Miami – The Fight over San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront
There is a battle being waged for the soul of San Francisco between developers, who would like to turn our city into a playground for the wealthy in return for large profits, versus people who live and work here and wish to preserve the character that makes our city a welcomed change from the urban…
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Bioneers: Paving a Way to a Sustainable Future
The Bioneers conference is billed as an event where “prominent and emergent scientific, sustainability, economic, environmental, social justice, diversity, and innovation experts convene to discuss and present their works to the public.”
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Expect More Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotitations
The history of these negotiations is merely camouflage for the systematic annexation of the West Bank by way of settlement construction hoping this will encourage Palestinian emigration. In short, a state for Palestine is but an illusion.