Nine San Francisco mayoral candidates and more than 100 of the city's technophiles and "government 2.0" types gathered Thursday night for a tech-focused mayoral debate that started with a simple question: How would you use technology to fix the city? The Bay Citizen was invited by event organizer Summer of Smart to show off our Bike Accident Tracker at an "apps showcase" before the debate. Using public data and technology to approach messy ......

The rebuilding of Parkmerced — a World War II-era apartment complex near San Francisco State University — faces a big hurdle: the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The board will vote Tuesday on an appeal of a plan that would more than double the size of Parkmerced to 8,900 units.  The complex, with its garden apartments, was built starting in the 1940s. The new design imagines a dense development with green ......