City Insight
This is SF’s Wettest Year in 38 Years
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, San Francisco By Tony Hicks, Bay City News Foundation The National Weather Service said, as of 5 p.m. Sunday, San Francisco has had 15.01 inches of rain since Oct. 1, making this year the wettest during that same time span since 1983 (15.7 inches). Overall, this year’s amount to date is the 8th most more...
SF Projects A Two-Year Budget Surplus for First Time in Over 20 Years
City Insight, San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed today issued Budget Instructions to department heads to guide the budget process for Fiscal Years 2022-23 and 2023-24. For the first time since 1998, San Francisco is projecting a surplus for the next two years. This surplus is the result of a mix of revenue improvements, more...
Peak Fall Colors Hit San Francisco
City Insight, Outdoorsy, San Francisco The fall color is at its peak right now at San Francisco Botanical Garden… we’re told this should last just only 2 weeks. The Garden expects the peak colors to last through the second week of December. While the color of the leaves in San Francisco will never be confused for more...
Apartment Rents in SF Still 13% Below 2019 Numbers
City Insight, San Francisco By Keith Burbank, Bay City News The latest report out Friday on the recovery of the San Francisco economy presents a mix of good and bad as COVID-19 restrictions have been eased by officials. Overall, the city’s economic recovery has been slowed by the Delta variant, but some indicators show things improved more...
SF’s Bob’s Donuts Stars in Fun New YouTube Series
Brand New, City Insight, Fun & Games, Only in San Francisco, Transportation Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that a new comedy web series has launched and it stars San Francisco’s Bob’s Donuts. Taking a riff from Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is San Francisco’s “Comedians on Bicycles Getting Bob’s” streaming on YouTube. Comedian Sarah Katz-Hyman meets guests for a more...
Labor Day 2021 Parking Rules in San Francisco
City Insight If you’ve got a car in San Francisco, in addition to crazy high gas prices, you also have to worry about the insanely complex, nearly impossible to decipher conflicting parking signs and rules. Thankfully on Labor Day, the city of San Francisco is going to reward you with a ticket-free day more...
This is What Stern Grove Looks Like Now
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Festival Updates, Getting Help, What's Closed / What's Open Sunday‘s final show of the year for the Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco has been canceled because of a water main break that flooded the site, festival organizers announced Wednesday. The rupture of the water main on Monday closed Stern Grove and nearby Pine Lake; however, the west end of more...
List of Bay Area Events & Venues Re-Closing Due to COVID Delta
City Insight, COVID-19 Updates, Indoor Dining, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open That was fun while it lasted! For a few weeks at least, things were really looking up. While most everything is wide open and many venues are still opening back up, now with SF’s test positivity at a 15-month high, COVID-related hospitalizations matching summer 2020, Delta on the rise and a more...
SF’s Central Subway Testing Anticipates 2022 Start of Service
Brand New, City Insight, Only in San Francisco, Transportation The Central Subway Project is moving toward our goal of “substantial completion,” paving the way for the start of critical testing and certification of project elements such as station escalators, elevators, trackwork and radio communications. The next project stage will include rail activation to begin testing train operations, train control and more...
San Jose Home of World Famous Doobie Brothers Poised to be Historical Landmark
City Insight, Museums / Cultural Institutions By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Foundation The San Jose home that started it all for the world-famous rock band Doobie Brothers is on its way to becoming a historical landmark. On Wednesday night, San Jose’s Historic Landmark Commission unanimously voted to recommend that the City Council make the designation for the more...
SF Gives $6 Million for 24-Hour Bathrooms Around the City
Brand New, City Insight, Only in San Francisco San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney on Thursday celebrated new funding that will allow for the city’s Pit Stop program to continue providing 24-hour access to public bathrooms throughout the city. Back in 2019, the city’s Department of Public Works, which operates the Pit Stop program, moved to make three of its more...
SF’s New Central Subway Is Now Testing Trains (Finally!)
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Only in San Francisco, Transportation San Francisco’s Central Subway, a public transportation project criticized for being delayed and over budget, started testing trains in the underground tunnels last week, transit officials said Tuesday. The project, which began construction in 2012, is slated to open for public use by the spring of 2022, according to the San more...
SF Unveils New “Shine” Plan to Clean Streets & Sidewalks
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced a new partnership between the city and several organizations and businesses to launch Shine On SF — a new initiative encouraging cleanliness along city streets. Shine On SF brings together more than 40 neighborhood groups, benefit districts, nonprofit organizations, and businesses to engage more...
SF’s Car Break-ins Decline; Gun Violence Rises
Bay Area Updates, City Insight By Daniel Montes, Bay City News San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott and Mayor London Breed on Monday announced the mid-year crime statistics, showing that since mid-2019 auto break-ins are down while gun violence and homicides are up. According to the data, homicides mid-year in 2019 were the lowest in 58 years more...
SF Could Get More 24/7 Bathrooms on the Streets
City Insight, COVID-19 Updates With possible cuts to a program providing 24 public bathrooms in San Francisco, Supervisor Matt Haney on Friday proposed a plan to fund the program and save it from being eliminated. The city’s Pit Stop program offers public bathrooms for anyone to use, with most locations in the city’s downtown areas. In more...
