Affordable housing in S.F. s Sunset District? Supes take step toward making it happen
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The Police Credit Union at 2550 Irving St., pictured Jan. 14, is a proposed site for a 7-story affordable housing project in the Sunset District.Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle
The city’s contentious push to build affordable housing on San Francisco’s west side got a significant boost Wednesday when a Board of Supervisors committee approved the acquisition of a Sunset District parcel slated for 98 low-income family apartments.
Despite concerns from immediate neighbors about potential toxic substances in the soil, the lack of parking spots and the proposed seven-story building’s sun-blotting impact on the neighboring homes, the three-member committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full board approve a $14.3 million loan to buy 2550 Irving St., currently a San Francisco Police Credit Union branch. The parcel itself will cost $9 million, with the rest of the money
San Francisco’s Most Important Housing Project
Westside Community Coalition Backs the Project
Bringing Affordable Housing to the Westside
San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood is at the center of a housing debate that will shape the city’s future. It involves a 100% affordable project designed to house the working families who long lived in the Sunset. That it is even controversial is an indictment of San Francisco housing policy over the last four decades.
The proposed 100 unit development at 2550 Irving is a break from the failed past. It sends a message that city leaders recognize that addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis requires ramping up new housing on the under-developed Westside. In contrast, allowing opponents’ pressure to scaled down the project would hand a victory to climate change deniers those distributing “No Slums in the Sunset” posters in the neighborhood.
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Will Golden Gate Park s JFK Drive reopen to cars? S.F. has taken its next step to find the answer
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Bicyclists and walkers wear masks and spread out to maintain social distance on JFK Drive, which is closed to thru traffic, at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.Paul Chinn/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Bicyclists and walkers wear masks and spread out to maintain social distance on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.Paul Chinn/The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority on Tuesday approved a panel’s report that will guide the city’s effort to resolve the fate of Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive, the eastern portion of which has remained closed to car traffic during much of the pandemic.
The station was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. When my father and my grandmother came to this country, like thousands of other immigrants from China and elsewhere, they were detained at the Immigration Station on Angel Island. As we recognize Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we have to recognize this history, Mar said during Tuesday s San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting. Angel Island remains a vital part of our city, our state, and our nation s history of immigration, and racist and exclusionary treatment of immigrants. To build a more just future, we have to contend with the injustices of our past. We have to preserve these places, their memories, and their lessons, he said.
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Ferry service from S.F. to Angel Island has an uncertain future. This transit operator could keep it going
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Passengers board a ferry boat on Angel Island. The state parks department may revive service to S.F.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2018
After months of uncertainty over its future, direct ferry service from San Francisco to the Bay Area’s largest island could be here to stay.
Ferry service from the city to Angel Island has been in jeopardy since September, when the private company responsible for operating ferries to the National Historic Landmark told the California Public Utilities Commission it planned to stop soon due to years of declining revenue.