Supervisor Walton Has His Hands Full with District 10 Challenges
Bettina Cohen District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton was quick to deliver on at least one campaign promise after he took office last January, announcing in his first week that switchbacks on the…
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Associate Capital Offers Historic Preservation Alternatives to Development Plan
Jessica Zimmer Associate Capital presented alternative Potrero Power Plant development designs to the San Francisco Planning Commission last spring, which included restoring the 300-foot concrete smokestack and adjacent 131-foot Unit 3 control…
Bayview Company Looking to Field Robots in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill
J. Eric Miller By J. Eric Miller Robots have walked, well, rolled, the streets of 21st Century San Francisco, but whether they’ll do so in the future is uncertain. Led by District 7…
Potrero Terrace Housing Complex Rebuilt
Michael Iacuessa After years of political promises, 53 Potrero Terrace households moved into brand new apartments last month at recently constructed 1101 Connecticut Street. Once dubbed Project X, the building reflects completion…
Caleb G. Clark Potrero Hill Health Center Cares for the Community
From its perch at 1050 Wisconsin Street the Caleb G. Clark Potrero Hill Health Center (PHHC) serves a wide range of City residents, including long-standing Hill patients, municipal employees, and…
Cove Park’s Cranes Could Remain Decapitated, or Worse
Brittany Vargas Crane Cove Park, a long-awaited waterfront commons located at Pier 70, is expected to open early next year without the iconic crane booms that gave the park its name. The…
Fossil Fuel Backup Generators Hidden Source of Power, Pollution
Steven Moss and Andy Bilich More than 6,400 backup generators – not counting the thousands of small engines in household garages and backyards – are littered throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, squatting at police…
Anchor Brewing Unionizes
Rebekah Moan Workers at Potrero Hill’s Anchor Brewing Company – the production facility and Public Taps – voted to unionize last winter. The action made the “craft-brewery” – if it can be…
Warriors Want a Hotel and Condominiums Adjacent to Chase Center
Citing economic and neighborhood needs, the Golden State Warriors want to build a hotel and condominium complex instead of the retail building that was initially approved as part of Chase…
City Ponders Ways to Oust JUUL from Pier 70
San Francisco Port Commissioners want vaping company, JUUL, to relocate from Pier 70, by shortening the firm’s lease or enacting a municipal ordinance that bans vaping firms and firearm manufacturers…
Dogpatch/Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District Pursues Success through Partnerships
Improvements to the 22nd Street Caltrain station are on schedule, with work to remove the asphalt walkway and replace it with a larger concrete plaza – along with additional plantings…
Fires Between Highway 101 and Potrero Hill Fanned by Interjurisdictional Challenges
Most San Franciscans probably believe that if a neighborhood experiences a plethora of intermittent fires someone would attempt to find a way to stop them. But when it comes to…
City Ignores Proposition K, Doing Little to Repurpose Surplus Land to Beneficial Uses
In 2015, voters approved Proposition K to streamline the process of identifying surplus municipally-owned land that could be used for affordable housing. The voter guide indicated that there’d be specific…
Planning Continues for New Mission Bay Elementary School
Potrero View Staff The San Francisco Unified School District held a briefing last fall to collect community reactions to a planned pre-kindergarten through fifth grade campus, to be built adjacent to the Owens…
Esprit Park Renovation Planning Process Continues
Veronica Dolginko The Esprit Community Advisory Group (ECAG) was formed last year to recommend approaches to the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department about how to best maintain and renovate Esprit Park.…
Central Waterfront Homeless Navigation Center May Extend its Stay
Halfway into a three-year lease, the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association (DNA) is generally supportive of extending the Central Waterfront Homeless Navigation Center’s stay and expanding its number of beds from 63…
Parking Management Plan Proposed for Potrero Hill’s North Slope
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has floated a plan to deploy several types of parking management tools on Potrero Hill’s North Slope, including weekday time limits to discourage…
With Measure D Passage Wrangling Begins Over How to Spend Extra Cannabis Revenues, or Rollback the Tax
Last fall, Measure D, which’ll place an additional tax on cannabis businesses, garnered 65.7 percent of the municipal vote. City Controller Ben Rosenfield estimates that the tax will generate between…
Walton Elected District 10 Supervisor, with 42 percent of First Place Votes
Shamann Walton was elected to the District 10 Board of Supervisors seat last month. He’ll be sworn into office on January 1, 2019. As of election data available in mid-November,…
Accidental THC Ingestion Continues to Dog Pets
Casually discarded roaches or dropped bits of edibles, inside and outside homes, are increasingly being gobbled up by canines, with unpleasant results. The instances of dogs sickened from ingesting marijuana…
Community Expresses Mixed Feelings About Potrero Power Plant Project
Closed in 2011, the Potrero Power Plant sits on more than 28 acres located on a central piece of waterfront property. It was purchased from NRG Energy by Associate Capital…
22nd Street Caltrain Station Closed on Weekends
Starting last month, the 22nd Street and Fourth Street Caltrain stations are no longer open on weekends. The closings are to accommodate installation of a catenary rail system that’ll allow…
Students Struggle to Study in San Francisco
Paul James According to Inc., San Francisco is the country’s most expensive city. Business Insider recently reported that Northern California is among the most prosperous economies in the world. While this may…
Dignity Health Merger Raises Questions
Ron Winter A proposed merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives has raised concerns about access to care for women, transgender, and low-income patients, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.…
Parking Prices Add to Pain of Bay Area Living
Garrett Harr According to SpotAngels, in 2017 San Francisco had the country’s highest average parking ticket cost – $97.40 – ahead of New York City, with an average price of $71.40. That…
