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San Francisco asked 311 to clean streets and sidewalks 6,625 times in the seven days through September 2. That is more than a third of everything the city logged that week, and Mission filed one in five of the cleaning requests.
All northbound lanes of U.S. 101 close at the Cesar Chavez and 17th Street exits from 11 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday. The detour runs northbound I-280, and Caltrans wants you on transit instead.
The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3 to 0 to send the five-year permit software deal to the full board. Chen said the data does not show the software works. A new clause would let the city exit after one more weak year.
SFMTA records obtained by Gazetteer SF count 4,178 tickets on Waymo vehicles in 2025 and 4,131 more through July 19, 2026. The fines pass $957,000.
Oakland logged 403 abandoned-auto reports last week, nearly as many as illegal dumping. Of the cars reported in late June and early July, 43 percent were still open on September 2.
The Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to save the sycamore at Rhode Island and 19th Street, then voted 4-0 against a rule change that would end appeals for trees the city calls hazardous.
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San Francisco police logged 1,829 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for September 3. The archive is the demand side of the record: what people asked for, not what officers found.
San Francisco police logged 1,948 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for September 2. The archive is the demand side of the record: what people asked for, not what officers found.
Police published 230 incident reports on September 2. Reports are allegations until resolved, and this count is paperwork: what officers wrote up.
Service brief · Better 311All northbound lanes of U.S. 101 close at the Cesar Chavez and 17th Street exits from 11 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday. The detour runs northbound I-280, and Caltrans wants you on transit instead.
Data brief · Better 311San Francisco asked 311 to clean streets and sidewalks 6,625 times in the seven days through September 2. That is more than a third of everything the city logged that week, and Mission filed one in five of the cleaning requests.
Brief · Better 311Sin Miedo, a gallery run by the Sketchboard Co. drawing collective, opens September 19 in the storefront at 2831 Mission Street. The Portal Cinema, a nonprofit 45-seat house, is set to open near 29th Street next month.
Brief · Better 311SFMTA records obtained by Gazetteer SF count 4,178 tickets on Waymo vehicles in 2025 and 4,131 more through July 19, 2026. The fines pass $957,000.
Brief · Better 311The Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to save the sycamore at Rhode Island and 19th Street, then voted 4-0 against a rule change that would end appeals for trees the city calls hazardous.
Brief · Better 311The alley's famous walls live on verbal agreements with owners, not in any city file. The week they disappeared, the record around them logged seven requests, all for trash.
Data brief · Better 311Street defect reports rose 32 percent in a week. Sidewalk and pavement damage is two of every three, and the same addresses keep coming back.
Data brief · Better 311Public graffiti reports rose 69 percent in a week and private reports rose 77. Mission carries a third of the load, and the record is full of repeats.
Follow-up · Better 311The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3 to 0 to send the five-year permit software deal to the full board. Chen said the data does not show the software works. A new clause would let the city exit after one more weak year.
Brief · Better 311The Budget and Finance Committee votes today on a five-year extension for OpenGov, the permit system that missed its own March deadlines.
Data brief · Better 311The new one-month rule lands as the eviction file shows nonpayment notices already falling and breach notices taking their place.
Analysis · Better 311A thousand closure notes point to the same problem: the stamp tells you less than the note.
The city's ballot file holds 1,998 measures going back to 1907. Five concerned cannabis. Four passed. None of the first four could change a law.
The state's official initiative history lists four marijuana or cannabis measures that qualified for a statewide ballot between 1972 and 2016. Voters rejected two and approved two.
Ten local letters plus a regional transit measure, and 14 statewide propositions. Here is what each one is called on the official lists, and how to read what you are voting on.
Oakland services, East Bay institutions, transit, and regional records.
Oakland Police logged 394 incidents in the seven days ending September 1, down 21 percent from the prior week. The file is the department's own log and incidents remain allegations until resolved.
The volunteer commission that advises Oakland on arts and culture policy is recruiting four Oakland residents. Applications are open now, and the commission next meets in public on September 28.
Data brief · Better 311Oakland logged 403 abandoned-auto reports last week, nearly as many as illegal dumping. Of the cars reported in late June and early July, 43 percent were still open on September 2.
Data brief · Better 311Oakland's 311 file logged 59 sideshow reports in August. That is the highest month in a year and nearly five times July's 12. The city built this category on purpose, and
Data brief · Better 311Seventy graffiti reports hit Oakland's 311 file in the last seven days. That is up a third from the three weeks before. It is not a citywide wave. It is a District 7 wave
Follow-up · Better 311508 illegal-dumping reports in seven days, up 46 percent. District 5, the slowest to close, is up 158 percent.
Breaking · Better 311219 requests in seven days. That is double the normal rate, and it is not evenly spread: District 7 is up 194 percent.
Data brief · Better 311Pavement requests are running 40% above the five-year average for this week of the year.
Data brief · Better 311The median is nine days. In Sobrante Park it's fourteen. A closed case is not the same as a cleared corner.
Brief · Better 311The rapid bus carries about 15,500 riders a day, and roughly a third of its operating cost has come from cap-and-trade money. A state board decision and a thin budget backfill leave that stream at less than a third of what transit asked for.
Data brief · Better 311The metro unemployment rate rose from 3.6 percent in May to 4.2 percent in June. That is the same jump the file has shown every June since 2019.
Brief · Better 311Yes, the money cleared. On Tuesday the state Senate and Assembly sent the budget trailer bill carrying $125 million for Golden Gate Fields to the governor. Newsom include
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