Robot Cars are Coming to Get You
Zoe Tribur In addition to hoverboards, unicycles, mopeds, and dog-pulled skateboards – as well as an occasional car or bike – San Franciscans will soon be sharing the roads with driverless robocars,…
December 2020
Mission Bay School Title Talks Stall Project
Bettina Cohen The site of the future Mission Bay School on Mission Bay South Block 14 is a quarter of an acre larger than indicated in the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Plan,…
Friends of Dogpatch Hub Eye Port Building to Serve as Neighborhood Center
Jessica Zimmer Friends of Dogpatch Hub (FoDH), formed to establish a community center, wants to secure a long-term lease with the Port of San Francisco on the Kneass building, at 651 Illinois…
Publisher’s View: Trapped
Steven J. Moss My wife, Debbie, and I were invited to a small dinner party last fall, to be held on an outdoor deck in the North Bay. Our host had assured us…
Letters to the Editor
PV Staff Editor, Please don’t make predictions. I picked up my copy of The Potrero View on Friday, November 6th, whereupon I was greeted by a clearly false first paragraph of a…
Potrero Annex-Terrace Redevelopment Continues
Don MacRitchie Last fall Bridge Housing released 2020 Rebuild Potrero Impact Report, which reviews progress redeveloping the Potrero Annex-Terrace housing complex on Potrero Hill’s southside. The “Rebuild Potrero” project was launched in…
Carolina Greenspace Conceptual Master Plan
Earlier this year the Carolina Green Space was awarded a $132,000 Community Challenge Grant to develop the Skyline Terrace. Work on the project began over the summer, with a hoped-for…
Southside Neighborhoods Deep Blue in November Election
Last month’s election attracted the highest participation level in three-quarters of a century, with 86 percent of those eligible voting, compared to 87 percent in 1944. While San Francisco was…
Community Calendar – December 2020
Virtual — AlwaysTravel: Tour of the Great Barrier Reef with David AttenboroughAttenborough, who first visited the Great Barrier Reef more than 60 years ago, gives an introduction and narrates different…
Working Class Housing Emerges in Rwanda, Despite Pandemic
With roughly 13 million people, Rwanda has experienced just three COVID-19 deaths for every million persons, compared to 742 per million in the United States. The small East African country’s…