Historic photo from above SF, 1950.
View from above
July Calendar of Events – Sunset
Calendar of events for July, 2017.
Letter to the Editor
Editor: The gentrification crisis in San Francisco has not quelled; greed has run rampant and tenants are dealing with the repercussions. Since 2014, the Rent Board’s Annual Statistical Report details more than 6,000 evictions, a conservative estimate because […]
Assembly – Phil Ting
This year, I honored Shannon Kissinger, a San Francisco native and resident of the Richmond District. He served in the United States
Navy from 1996 to 2001 and now works to help homeless veterans.
Surfrider Picks Up Butts
The Surfrider Foundation is offering free cigarette containers for the outside of
businesses that allow smoking in an effort to keep cigarette butts out of the
environment.
Police Blotter – Sunset District
Crime report from the Sunset District.
Putting Butts in Proper Place
On Friday, June 30, a six-month effort was launched to reduce the
number of toxic cigarette butt waste in San Francisco’s
Sunset and Richmond districts when SF supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer
and Katy Tang organized a kick-off event and beach clean-up at Ocean Beach.
Sunset Spotlight
A neighborhood journal for the Sunset District.
City Aims to Build Teachers’ Housing
A plan to turn the Francis Scott Key Annex in the Outer Sunset District from a dilapidated
surplus school property into new housing for teachers is moving forward, as city officials
seek ways to keep educators from leaving for less expensive towns.
Future of Large Kirkham Heights Project Debated
At the southern end of Fifth Avenue in the Inner Sunset District, next to the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), sits an 86-unit housing complex on six acres of land
built in 1950 called Kirkham Heights.
Real Estate
I examined the single-family home markets in the Richmond and Sunset districts and compared them
against the data in San Francisco as a whole.
Blood drive at the Y
The Park Presidio-Sunset Lions Club joined forces with the Richmond District YMCA to host a blood drive on June 17.
Surfrider fighting to remove gnarly butts
The Surfrider Foundation is offering free cigarette containers for the outside of
businesses that allow smoking in an effort to keep cigarette butts out of the
environment.
June Calendar of Events – Sunset District
Things to do, June 2017.
Students Clean Beach; Create Art
Nearly 1,000 elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin came
together to “rescue” San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on May 17 at the 24th annual
Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 