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Date:
10/20/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Eco-People proposal for current parking lot at 17th and Folsom. Get ready to peek into a possible future for San Francisco parks. This evening and next week, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will lead a tour of four properties being considered for purchase and transformation into parkland. The locations being considered are at 17th and Folsom; Palou and Phelps in the shadow of 280; on Third Street... [Read more...]
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10/07/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Click to enlarge visualization of the former San Francisco watershed, with street map and topography. Source: Oakland Museum. The Mission is more than just a meeting point for different cultures: it's also a meeting point for different waters. Hundreds of years ago, two water sources converged along what is now Folsom Street. During rainy season, fresh water flowed east down from Twin Peaks, aligning roughly with today's 14th and... [Read more...]
Date:
08/26/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published It may look like a forgotten military landscape, decaying beneath an elevated freeway and overgrown with weeds, but hidden beneath the abandoned buildings and broken pavement, Presidio planners see the potential to regenerate a wetland. Quartermaster Reach is currently so neglected, most people don't even know it exists. Floating between Lucasfilm's Letterman complex and the Presidio Post Office, some sections have been abandoned for decades. A disused power plant sits... [Read more...]
Date:
07/31/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Lawyers for AC Transit and the Amalgamated Transit Union squared off in an Oakland courtroom today in the ongoing dispute over a new contract. After two hours of arguments, Superior Court Judge Judith B. Ford indicated she would issue a ruling as early as Monday, but AC Transit attorneys predicted a final agreement might take much longer, and the legal ordeal could potentially drag into early next year. At issue... [Read more...]
Date:
07/27/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published When most San Franciscans turn on a faucet, they'll see water that's traveled as far as two hundred miles from Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. But that's not the case for some locally-minded gardeners, for whom careful water stewardship is as important as selecting their crops. This past weekend, the San Francisco Bike Coalition organized a rec ride that visited several gardens around the Sunset, highlighting low-impact water... [Read more...]
Date:
07/21/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Drive north from San Francisco for a few hours, and the 101 will gradually melt into a slim road between giant sequoia trees. You've found your way to Richardson Grove State Park, where you can see thousand-year-old redwoods, the South Fork Eel River, and lots of campgrounds, but you won't see any big box stores. That's thanks, at least in part, to the narrowness of the 101. With a... [Read more...]
Date:
04/21/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Source: Chicago's Green Alleys Handbook During the heavy rainfall season, San Francisco faces some daunting challenges: Draining the water, keeping the roads from getting slippery, and containing and treating the runoff. Some storms are so severe that the city can't keep pace. That's when we see flooding in the Muni tunnels and sewage discharges into the bay. But the solution -- or at least part of the solution --... [Read more...]
Date:
04/14/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Islais Creek Channel. Photo: Matt Baume (Editor's note: This is Part 2 in a 3-part series on the Bay Area watershed.) San Francisco may be getting new waterfront soon, thanks to ambitious projects currently being studied by the city's Public Utilities Commission, including proposals for daylighting, or uncovering, long-buried creeks and streams and creating open-air channels that flow alongside the city's sidewalks and streets. Top contenders for daylighting include: Islais... [Read more...]
Date:
04/09/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published One of the proposed designs for Center Street in Berkeley, by Ecocity Builders (Editor's note: This is Part 1 in a 3-part series on the Bay Area watershed) The proposal to convert Center Street in Berkeley from an asphalt thoroughfare to a park-like promenade -- revealing a long-hidden underground creek -- is the latest twist in the interesting and often-controversial story of the Bay Area's heavily-modified waterways. The Center Street... [Read more...]
Date:
03/31/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Eco Citybuilders The Berkeley City Council has overwhelmingly endorsed a plan to radically transform Center Street. The project, to be overseen by Ecocity Builders, would turn the parking lot-lined thoroughfare into a pristine wildlife preserve complete with a babbling brook, stretching from the Downtown Berkeley BART to the UC Berkeley Campus. The plan is part of a movement known as "daylighting," whereby natural water sources, buried decades ago, are... [Read more...]
Date:
03/26/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Streetsblog
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Photo: Troy Holden Roughly two dozen attendees came out to the inaugural meeting of the San Francisco Transit Riders Union (SFTRU) on Thursday evening and had a spirited -- at times heated -- debate about how to make the fledgling organization a vocal constituency representing the diverse interests of Muni riders. Billed as an opportunity for the public to become familiar with the new riders union, the meeting functioned largely... [Read more...]
