The group responsible for redrawing political districts in a city that is one-third Asian until this week did not have a single Asian-American member. But on Tuesday, the city's Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to appoint Jenny Lam, director of community initiatives for Chinese for Affirmative Action, to San Francisco's Redistricting Task Force, the World Journal reported. The task force is a nine-member panel responsible for redrawing the boundaries for San Francisco's ......
By Vivian Po, New America Media 6/30/11 12:03 p.m. PDT
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave initial approval today to legislation that will restrict the distribution of Yellow Pages phone books in the city. The ordinance, proposed by Board President David Chiu, will create a three-year pilot program in which distributors of the Yellow Pages would have to ask residents and businesses if they would like a copy of the phone books before leaving them on doorsteps. The program ......
By Bay City News Service 5/10/11 6:05 p.m. PDT
In a toothless nod to their canine constituents, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voiced its opposition to the National Park Service's plan to limit off-leash areas for dogs at 21 different locations in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Supervisors voted 10-1 in favor of a resolution opposing the plan. Sean Elsbernd was the lone vote against the resolution, the Bay City News Service reported. Of course, the vote ......
Like that dude who suddenly makes himself the third wheel when a relationship looks like it's on the rocks, San Jose is now creepin' in on San Francisco's protracted — and increasingly painful — dance to keep Twitter in the city. On the day that the San Francisco supervisors are set to vote on a controversial payroll tax exemption sought by Twitter as a condition of staying within city limits, ......
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 ......
