PinnedScott BravmannDoes Autumn Looijen Have a Plan for Affordable Housing in San Francisco?I recently attended a meeting of the O’Farrell Neighborhood Group, a Tenderloin community organization primarily concerned with public…20h ago20h ago
PinnedScott BravmannHe’s Faking It: The Political Disingenuousness of Bilal MahmoodBilal Mahmood, a recently elected member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee as part of a slate of “moderates”…Jul 30Jul 30
PinnedScott BravmannTogetherSF’s CEO, Kanishka Karunaratne Cheng, Thinks Her Dislike of the Tenderloin Makes Her…On March 22, 2023, KPIX, San Francisco’s CBS affiliate television station, ran a nightly news segment on plans to develop a “greenway” on…Mar 27, 2023Mar 27, 2023
Scott BravmannYou Need the Right Tools to Build Homes: “Streamlining” the Permitting Process Is Not a Fix for New…At the end of June, California State Senator Scott Wiener and the YIMBYs began rejoicing over an ostensible triumph that will speed up the…Jul 7Jul 7
Scott BravmannNearly a Lifetime of Waiting: Blighted Parcels, Developers’ Pencils, and a Kids’ Petition for an…Recently, SFist reported that San Francisco had “acquired” a parking lot near Civic Center for an affordable housing development. This…Jul 16, 20231Jul 16, 20231
Scott BravmannSlow Streets in San Francisco and Equity: Difference Matters but Indifference Matters MoreI have had an on again/off again interest in how Slow Streets have come into existence; been modified, expanded or eliminated; garnered…Mar 2, 2023Mar 2, 2023
Scott BravmannGetting San Francisco’s Polk Street Bike Lane BackBelow is an open letter I recently sent to Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and Janelle Wong…Nov 22, 2022Nov 22, 2022
Scott BravmannSafeway or Deathtrap? San Francisco Chain Grocery Store Repeatedly Blocks Their Emergency EgressOver the past five or six years, the Safeway at 1335 Webster Street has repeatedly blocked the two double-door emergency exits on the…Jul 10, 2022Jul 10, 2022
Scott BravmannIs San Francisco Ready for a School Street?“School Streets” have been around for more than thirty years. Since the creation of the first one in Bolzano, Italy, this transformational…May 10, 2022May 10, 2022
Scott BravmannTruck go “boom.” Who knew propane can blow up?On August 19, 2021, a truck caught fire on the upper deck of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after its cargo of propane gas exploded.Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
