Richmond Review crossword puzzle and solution, December 2024.
Richmond Review Crossword Puzzle, December 2024
After Prop. K, What Is Next for the Upper Great Highway?
Despite being shot down by approximately 60% of Sunset District and 70% of Richmond District voters, the measure passed citywide by 54.7%, with support coming mostly from the City’s eastside residents.
Now, the City is quickly working to fully activate the space as a “car-free promenade” by early next year. On Nov. 21, the City was awarded a $1 million grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy to fund art projects, water fountains, trash bins, event programming and dune restoration.
‘From a Reader’: How Should Progressive Cities Face Their Urban Crises?
If the current lack of housing has been decades in the making, it will require an extraordinary re-allocation of resources to catch up. A good place to start would be tax reform.
Letter to the Editor: ‘Danke’
There is a box with the The Richmond Review displayed,
(this time the November edition). It is so much fun to reading what’s
going on … in the
Richmond District.
Commentary: How Now, Ocean Beach Park?
So, Proposition K won. I didn’t vote for it, nor did most westside residents apparently, but it passed. The ballot measure promised to replace the stretch of the Upper Great Highway from Fulton Street to Lincoln Way with a park. But it didn’t say what kind of park. So, let’s think about this!
Press Release: CA Coastal Conservancy Awards $1 Million for Upper Great Highway Project
The California State Coastal Conservancy Board today approved a $1 million grant to address sea level rise along the Great Highway from Lincoln Way to Sloat Boulevard – funding the City of San Francisco will use to support its broader plan to transform the oceanside stretch into a permanent park.
Commentary: Brian Quan
This is where we as citizens can continue to engage in the civic process. We can be advocates that amplify what priorities and solutions matter. Organizing around these issues clarifies one’s values.
‘Cooking Together’: Autumn Soup
The fall season brings us many naturally colorful fruits and vegetables that are needed for the shorter and darker days. Beta carotene, an antioxidant present in pumpkin, carrots and sweet potatoes used in this recipe, is beneficial for our vision and the immune system which can be compromised in the winter.
Letter to the Editor: Prop. K Puts the Cart Before the Horse
All of this is to say that the proponents of Prop. K (and similar measures) are putting the cart before the horse. If they want people to get out of their cars and onto public transit, the way to do that is not to inconvenience drivers by closing roads and hoping they get the hint.
Letter to the Editor: Where is the Consideration for the Working Class?
I hope, in the future, when all concerned make decisions such as JFK Drive and the Upper Great Highway, more consideration is given to the majority of people who are busy with their lives on Mondays through Fridays and who can only “recreate” on the weekends.
‘Photos of the Month’: November 2024
To submit photos for consideration in the Photos of the Month online gallery, send three jpegs to Editor@RichmondSunsetNews.com by the 15th of the month. (If possible, send pictures resized to 150 dpi, 6″ wide.)
Commentary: Stephen Martin-Pinto
To control housing costs, tenant advocacy groups are always clamoring for stronger tenant protections and expanded rent control. But even as they do so, what they do not realize, perhaps through their own lack of understanding, is that they are advocating for even higher rental costs and restricted housing supply in the long term.
‘The Beef Parlor’: Illustration by Rob Summerlin
Fwimpletini Gaziti by Rob Summerlin
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‘Dear Lady of La Playa’ Advice Column #1
New advice column by Vanessa VerLee.
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