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What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: November 2025 | JD Supra
November 7, 2025 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: S.F. supervisors back tenant, small-business protections in Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ plan (SF Chronicle): Mayor Lurie’s family zoning plan would raise height limits and add density on the north and west sides of the city, but some elected officials, residents, neighborhood groups, and organized labor are pushing back, and various amendments are being...
What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: September 2025 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco Family Zoning Plan Updates (SF Planning): As of late July, the Planning Department has updated the draft zoning height maps as part of its proposed Family Zoning Plan, which aims to expand housing affordability and availability by allowing for increased density. Critics of this Plan are ramping up their political pressure.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: June 2025 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Mayor Lurie names new S.F. planning director (SF Chronicle): Sarah Dennis Phillips has been named the City’s planning director, replacing Rich Hillis. Mayor Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan Is a Leap Forward for San Francisco Housing Policy (SPUR): According to SPUR, a proposal to make changes to the City’s zoning code could help the City meet its state-set target for new housing construction.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: March 2025 | JD Supra
March 25, 2025 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Mayor Lurie launches initiative to speed up S.F.’s slow permitting process (SF Chronicle): The Mayor announced a new effort to streamline the City’s permitting process as he seeks to bolster its economic recovery.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: February 2025 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Why Mission Bay is recovering faster than anywhere else in San Francisco (SF Standard): The redeveloped neighborhood is booming ahead of its showcase at next month’s NBA All-Star Game.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: October 2024 | JD Supra
November 4, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Can downtown be saved? Mayoral candidates’ big ideas to stop the bleeding (SF Standard): The candidates agree that something must be done, but who has the right formula to make the downtown boom again?
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: October 2024
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Can downtown be saved? Mayoral candidates’ big ideas to stop the bleeding (SF Standard): The candidates agree that something must be done, but who has the right formula to make the downtown boom again?
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What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: July 2024 | JD Supra
August 2, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: S.F.’s Stonestown to become west side’s largest residential development in 50 years (SF Chronicle): The plan to convert the Stonestown Galleria from a suburban shopping center to an urban neighborhood with thousands of units of housing received its final approvals from the Board of Supervisors.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: July 2024
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: S.F.’s Stonestown to become west side’s largest residential development in 50 years (SF Chronicle): The plan to convert the Stonestown Galleria from a suburban shopping center to an urban neighborhood with thousands of units of housing received its final approvals from the Board of Supervisors.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: June 2024 | JD Supra
June 26, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Ultra Wealthy Are Putting Money Behind Bets on San Francisco’s Comeback (Bloomberg): Big investments in City businesses and real estate assets continue.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: May 2024 | JD Supra
May 7, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Small and Mighty: How small businesses can reinvent downtown San Francisco (SPUR Policy Brief): SPUR’s research, drawn from a literature review and interviews with City staff, small business owners, and nonprofits, pinpoints seven interventions that would make a difference to help small downtown businesses succeed.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: May 2024
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Small and Mighty: How small businesses can reinvent downtown San Francisco (SPUR Policy Brief): SPUR’s research, drawn from a literature review and interviews with City staff, small business owners, and nonprofits, pinpoints seven interventions that would make a difference to help small downtown businesses succeed. These tech workers want to build a co-living ‘campus’ across a square mile of S.F. But for whom?
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: March 2024 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco’s Montgomery Street Could Signal a Downtown Revival (NY Times): Why a seven-block stretch of Montgomery Street, from the Transamerica Pyramid to Market Street, offers hope for recovery in the City. Why TMG Partners Co-CEO Matt Field is still betting on San Francisco (Business Journals): Insight into Matt’s life and work, and how he’s thinking about the City’s downtown recovery.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: March 2024
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco’s Montgomery Street Could Signal a Downtown Revival (NY Times): Why a seven-block stretch of Montgomery Street, from the Transamerica Pyramid to Market Street, offers hope for recovery in the City. Why TMG Partners Co-CEO Matt Field is still betting on San Francisco (Business Journals): Insight into Matt’s life and work, and how he’s thinking about the City’s downtown recovery.
What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: December 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Can Free Rent Jump-Start a Downtown San Francisco Revival? Pop-Up Retailers Say Maybe (SF Standard): Nearly halfway into the three-month program, called Vacant to Vibrant, stakeholders say it has breathed life into Downtown and given entrepreneurs a platform to get their businesses in front of new customers. S.F. passes crucial housing reforms. Will it be enough to satisfy the state?
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: December 2023
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: Can Free Rent Jump-Start a Downtown San Francisco Revival? Pop-Up Retailers Say Maybe (SF Standard): Nearly halfway into the three-month program, called Vacant to Vibrant, stakeholders say it has breathed life into Downtown and given entrepreneurs a platform to get their businesses in front of new customers. S.F. passes crucial housing reforms. Will it be enough to satisfy the state?
What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: November 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco Office Market Shows Signs of Life (Wall Street Journal): Sales slowly materialize as some sellers accept lower prices, showing that the City’s appeal hasn’t evaporated. San Francisco has a big plan to revive downtown. Will it work? (Business Journals): Describing the City’s Vacant to Vibrant program that aims to fill a growing number of empty downtown storefronts with pop-up businesses.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: November 2023
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco Office Market Shows Signs of Life (Wall Street Journal): Sales slowly materialize as some sellers accept lower prices, showing that the City’s appeal hasn’t evaporated. San Francisco has a big plan to revive downtown. Will it work? (Business Journals): Describing the City’s Vacant to Vibrant program that aims to fill a growing number of empty downtown storefronts with pop-up businesses.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: September 2023 | JD Supra
September 19, 2023 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: These three new blocks of housing are among S.F.’s best. They’re for the formerly homeless (S.F. Chronicle): Exploring three recently completed complexes in San Francisco, and how they provide both shelter and services to improve lives.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: September 2023
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: These three new blocks of housing are among S.F.’s best. They’re for the formerly homeless (S.F. Chronicle): Exploring three recently completed complexes in San Francisco, and how they provide both shelter and services to improve lives.
What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to: August 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco San Francisco isn’t doomed. These 6 places show why (S.F. Chronicle): The City is not without its current challenges but, for most of its 49 square miles, its stories are more complex. Here are six vignettes that hint at the facets of this nuanced place.
What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to: August 2023
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What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to: July 10, 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco California and Beyond Skip to co
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What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to: June 2, 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco Oakland Bay Area California and Beyond Skip to content
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State Seeks to Curb Appeals of Residential Building Permits in San Francisco | JD Supra
The land use entitlement process in California is notoriously complicated, lengthy, and fraught with uncertainty. Less attention is paid to the process of receiving building permits, post-entitlement. Generally, this process is more straightforward because the local agency’s review is limited to ensuring state and local building code compliance. Accordingly, the issuance of building permits is typically a ministerial act, not subject to the discretion of city or county officials and not appealable.
State Seeks to Curb Appeals of Residential Building Permits in San Francisco
The land use entitlement process in California is notoriously complicated, lengthy, and fraught with uncertainty. Less attention is paid to the process of receiving building permits, post-entitlement. Generally, this process is more straightforward because the local agency’s review is limited to ensuring state and local building code compliance. Accordingly, the issuance of building permits is typically a ministerial act, not subject to the discretion of city or county officials and not appealable.
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: May 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: May 2023 "My best business intelligence, in one easy email…" Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra: By using the service, you signify your acceptance of
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What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: April 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: April 2023 "My best business intelligence, in one easy email…" Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra: By using the service, you signify your acceptance of
What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: March 3, 2023 | JD Supra
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco California National Real Estate Construction Urban Planning
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