By TIM REDMOND
JANUARY 2, 2024
We love letters to the editor. Here’s one from someone who actually knows the answer to a question I raised:
In “Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules,” Tim Redmond asks, “Could a San Francisco citizen, or organization [as distinguished from San Francisco itself], sue? ‘That,’ said Peskin, ‘is a very good question.’”
By TIM REDMOND
JANUARY 1, 2024
Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan are asking the city attorney for advice on whether San Francisco can sue the state to block the punitive actions set in motion by Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bills.
By Chronicle readers
Dec 24, 2023
Regarding “The battle over S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston’s housing record is heating up again” (San Francisco, SFChronicle.com, Dec. 20): This discourse has been manipulated by YIMBY groups to distort San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston’s genuine intentions and unjustly vilify his approach.
Recent reports dissecting Preston’s housing record have been selectively crafted to cast shadows on his efforts.
By TIM REDMOND
DECEMBER 22, 2023
It was a crazy year for housing in San Francisco, with the state forcing to city to adopt new rules for “constraint reduction” to comply with a new construction mandate that nobody, even housing developers, thinks is remotely possible.
By Aldo Toledo
December 20, 2023
Entering an election year that could turn in part on his housing record, San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston is touting a new report by supporters finding that he has approved nearly 30,000 homes since he took office in 2020.
Preston and the report argue that critics of his housing record are misinformed about his approach to one of the city’s most intractable problems.
by Neil Gonzales / Contributor
Wed, Dec 20, 2023
Menlo Park leaders and residents were already aghast over a proposal to build a towering, multi-building, mixed-use development on the former Sunset Magazine headquarters.
The latest revision to the proposal by the development company N17 has only deepened their anxiety and worry as it would go even denser and higher — up to 421 feet — compared to two previous iterations.