December 2021 - Beyond Chron

Beyond Chron’s Best in Politics Awards 2021

Posted December 14, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Bringing Hope in a Challenging Year We are reviving a longtime feature: honoring those who made a particularly impressive impact on our favored topics in the past year. Our Beyond Chron awards do not require attending a ceremony or submitting Read More »

Can SF Revive Downtown and the Central City?

Posted December 14, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Key Neighborhoods in Crisis San Francisco’s downtown office occupancy rate is 25%. It’s the nation’s lowest. Downtown, as well as Mid-Market and Civic Center, remains a virtual ghost neighborhood. They remain almost as visibly inactive as in the pre-vaccine era. Read More »

Study: Shifting to EVs Won’t Save Our Planet Without ‘Compact’ Cities

Posted December 14, 2021 by Vince DiMiceli

(This first appeared in Streetsblog USA) The slow transition from internal combustion engines to electric cars won’t be the silver bullet America needs to escape the deadly grip of climate change unless cities reversing decades of car-first development, a new Read More »

SF: Stop Undermining the Tenderloin!

Posted December 7, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Supervisors Must Allow Community Input on Safe Injection Plan Mayor London Breed’s office has secretly moved to buy two properties in the upper Tenderloin to open a Safe Injection Site. Both properties are in the heart of an historic residential Read More »

Will San Francisco Legalize Fourplexes?

Posted December 7, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Board Divided Over Affordability The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will soon confront a new housing challenge: whether to legalize fourplexes in single-family zoned districts. There are three proposals. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman originally introduced a fourplex legalization measure in January Read More »

Some Political Gifts For The Holidays

Posted December 7, 2021 by Peter Wong

Sarah Kunstler and Emily Kunstler’s must-see documentary “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism In America” won’t be hitting San Francisco theaters (and hopefully more than a few Southern states) until February 4, 2022. While its message about the racist Read More »