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(Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a two-part series on affordable housing by June A. Osterberg for the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association. Click here for part 1.)

The 2013-2014 Civil Grand Jury selected several unquestionably timely subjects for study, including “The Mayor’s Office of Housing…Under Pressure and Challenged to Preserve Diversity.”  The 18-member Grand Jury’s job is government oversight – particularly relevant in rapidly-changing San Francisco.

While the Jury’s final report on Housing, published in June, is primarily about Affordable Housing, it repeatedly refers to the continuing need for moderately-priced housing. Continue Reading→

(Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a two-part series on affordable housing by June A. Osterberg for the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association.)

The City’s 2013-2014 Civil Grand Jury last year chose three topics for its investigative reports that are of special interest to BCNA members and other residents of the Northeast Waterfront community.

They are: The Port of San Francisco, the Mayor’s Office of Housing, and Rising Sea Levels.

The Civil Grand Jury’s well-researched and well-written findings and recommendations are too lengthy to be reproduced in these pages.

But the BCNA intends to carry locally relevant excerpts and quotations from the reports, beginning with housing, before the valuable reports disappear onto shelves at City Hall.

The Civil Grand Jury is an 18-member government oversight panel in the Office of the Controller.

Copies of the bound book of all the reports are available at City Hall. They also may be seen at the Main Library, and the reports can be found online at www.civilgrandjury.sfgov.org. Continue Reading→

BCNA NEWS

The BCNA recently carried accounts of a remarkably participatory public meeting of NEWAG (Northeast Waterfront Advisory Group). Besides much public comment, the evening was noteworthy for the Port Staff’s distribution of a one-page flyer depicting “Northeast Waterfront Current and Planned Land Uses.”

A color hand drawing depicts the area from Pier 7 to Pier 35.

The “Potential Development Sites” are Piers 19, 19-1/2, and 23, a portion of Pier 29 and 29-1/2 and Pier 31.  On the land side, several Port property seawall lots are shown. Continue Reading→