By Sebraleaves A used furniture store formerly graced this corner of 18th and Mission. No traffic and not many pedestrians either. Is this the future of Valencia? I am concerned about the negative effects all these street changes are having on the neighborhoods. SFMTA policies and street reconfigurations are turning…

By Sebra Leaves Building a Fortress: The citizens are restless and many are angry with Mayor London Breed. Voters set her up in a very powerful position, which she is augmenting. She appointed the DA, Police Chief, City Attorney, and too many department heads to count. She has as much…

By Sebraleaves and ChucklesByTheBay Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods (CSFN) held a Town Hall Meeting, in March 2023, with guest speakers Adam Wood, Secretary of Firefighters Local # 7987 and Matthew Schwartz, President of the San Francisco Fire Chiefs Association. …

By Sebraleaves FAKE HEADLINE posted on localnewsmatters site reads: “Buoyed by success of ‘slow streets’ program, SFMTA decides to keep Page Street car-free” This headline appeared January 23, 2023, weeks after the SFMTA members and Jeff Tumlin declared “SLOW STREETS ARE NOT CLOSED STREETS.” This false headline declaring Page Street…

According to Joe Eskenazi in his recent article in Mission Local, “This Screws the Sellers” Below Market Rate (BMR) owners claim the city is forcing them to sell at a big loss, and the forced down-pricing is making re-selling BMR units very difficult under the new program that City Hall…

By Bob Silvestri, marinpost — excerpt We need to empower the bottom, not the top. Incremental changes can lead to big things. “There are many other common sense solutions that reasonable people concerned just with implementing good policy would be able to agree on. But we’re not doing any of…

By Sebraleaves for Medium Scott Wiener’s Press Conference to Announce SB 50 did not go well. Now he claims “Single family housing is immoral” and gets away with it. What has changed? ABC coverage of the press conference that lists the items in SB50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSzXZ-0V94 Watching the above video brings…

By Mari Eliza There are generally three options for citizens to take when they feel their will and interests are ignored by the civil servants who represent them. These actions are playing out in Washington now for the world to see, but they are also on display in Sacramento. …

By Richard Johnson One of the most iconic movie endings comes from “Casablanca” when Claude Reins and Humphrey Bogart walk into a foggy mist as they plan to fight against the Nazis. Nothing beats Bogart’s final line: ‘This could be the start of a beautiful friendship’. During Covid-19 many people…