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According to the LA Times, the severe drought means less polluted beaches during the summer. However, it wasnt enough to eradicate all the pockets of pollution along the coast. Based on the survey, these are the California beaches with the dirtiest water: Tijuana River mouth (San Diego County) Erckenbrack Park (Foster City, San Mateo County) Capitola Beach, west of the jetty (Capitola, Santa Cruz County) Gull Park (Foster City, San Mateo County) Mother’s Beach (Marina del Rey, Los Angeles ...

After an 18-month, $3.3 million modernization, the park will reopen Monday with a...

Guides Wonders of the Crosstown Trail The 17-mile route avoids the guidebook spots. Here are 12 must-see destinations By Peter Hartlaub | June 5, 2021 | Updated: June 4, 2021 5:24 PM The Crosstown Trail is a true San Francisco miracle: a world-class hiking trail created by a band of citizens, who bypassed government bureaucracy and somehow finished the project in 18 months. As the trail celebrates its second anniversary on June 5-6, 2021, it’s arguably more popular than ever, coming o...

Land is underwater: Bizarre SF real estate lot lists for $75k FacebookTwitterEmail Candlestick Point, San Francisco.Google Street View Just over an acre of San Francisco land has hit the market, but theres a catch: its several feet underwater.  The vacant lot, technically three city blocks east of Candlestick Point, was purchased by real estate agent Trent Zhu at auction from the City of San Francisco for $5,000 around six years ago, reports ABC7. While extremely speculative, Zhu saw the possi...

Skip to main content Currently Reading With a little help from ecologists and a net, a butterfly makes its way back to S.F.s Presidio FacebookTwitterEmail Presidio Trust ecologist Jonathan Young (left) looks inside a container after capturing a California ringlet butterfly, working with David Harelson and lepidopterist Liam O’Brien in Marin County.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle A group of ecologists, volunteers and a lepidopterist trudged up a Marin hillside in the warm sun last week, nets and...

I went to all the parks in the Bayview. Heres what it was like. FacebookTwitterEmail A walker climbs the hill in Bayview Park in San Francisco on March 8, 2021.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE As soon as I crest the grassy 425-foot peak and take a moment to enjoy the sprawling vista, it hits me. Where is everybody? Sure, it’s a Tuesday, but I somehow have the 44-acre Bayview Park almost entirely to myself on a sunny afternoon. Aside from one woman and her dog, and a few city workers I saw driving to ...

3 SF neighborhood groups sue to stop UCSF Parnassus Heights expansion Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail The front entrance at the Parnassus Heights campus of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) hospital.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Three separate San Francisco neighborhood organizations on Friday filed separate lawsuits against the University of California over plans to expand UCSFs Parnassus Heights campus. UCSFs Comprehensive Parnassus Heights ...

S.F. community groups trying to stop UCSFs expansion of Parnassus campus FacebookTwitterEmail 2of3 3of3 UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less Three organizations filed separate lawsuits Friday in an effort to stop UCSF from building a 2 million-square-foot hospital and academic facility expansion at its historic Parnassus campus. The groups that filed lawsuits in Alameda Superior Court — San Franciscans for Balanced and Livable Communities, the Par...

After years of delay, concern about toxic cleanup, S.F.s big Shipyard development gets moving again FacebookTwitterEmail Troy Wilson, a realtor, runs at San Franciscos biggest housing development, the Shipyard, on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. He moved into a condo there last year.Photos by Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle From the window in his Shipyard condominium, Dean Talanehzar likes to sit and watch the backhoes and bulldozers pushing dirt around for the next phase...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA After years of delay, concern about toxic cleanup, S.F.’s big Shipyard development gets moving again [San Francisco Chronicle] Feb. 2—From the window in his Shipyard condominium, Dean Talanehzar likes to sit and watch the backhoes and bulldozers pushing dirt around for the next phase of San Francisco’s biggest development project. While the coming building won’t be particularly big — 77 units out of 12,000 planned on a former Navy base and nearby Candlesti...