Voters Speak: No Billboards for Mid-Market!

Voters Speak: No Billboards for Mid-Market!

November 10th, 2009

Status quo rules the day: the signy district of Mid-Market yore will remain just that, as voters yesterday spiked Prop D by a sizeable 8.18 percent margin. Fifty-four percent voted no on the measure to allow signage on buildings between 5th and 7th. "We always thought it would be very close," said Warfield owner and Prop D booster David Addington, who'll now have to make do with no signage in his quest to remake the two slummy blocks. Meanwhile, the next measure down the alphabet, which proposed banning an increase in ads on street furniture (like Muni bus shelters) and city-owned buildings, passed by a solid 57 percent.
· San Francisco voters defeat sign district plan [AP]
· Election: Mid-Market Billboard Prop Fails, All Others Succeed [SF Appeal]
· Mid-Market's Billboard Fight Hits the Air [Curbed SF]
· Mid-Market's Man With a Plan: So Crazy It Might Work? [Curbed SF]

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Monday PM Linkage

November 9th, 2009

["Muni Bus Interior, Circa 1947," via Curbed SF Flickr photog Troy Holden]

· Embarcadero fireboat station to get $2M rehab [SF Examiner]
· 2012 sticker: real or more guerrilla marketing? [SFist]
· Glassy honeycomb disguises solar panels [Fast Company]
· Joe puts Villa Montana up for sale: $49M [SFBT]
· 18 Bayview condos unveiled in reinvigoration project [SF Appeal]

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No Little Plan: California currently has a plan under...

November 9th, 2009

California currently has a plan under way to cobble together a framework for future development in the state. Called Vision California, the first step involves bundling together various regional plans, which "rarely have teeth," and then posing a number of what-if questions that might help to guide a hypothetical statewide plan. "For instance: If townhouses and bungalows are built instead of large single-family homes, how much agricultural land will be saved? If new housing is placed near existing jobs and shopping, rather than in distant subdivisions, what will be the effect on a household's transportation expenses?" This, and other beard scratchers, will be the topic of study at Berkeley-based Calthorpe Associates. [SFGate]