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- As many as 60,000 new housing units could be built within San Francisco in the next 15 to 20 years — development that will have deep-rooted implications for The City’s appearance, culture and politics.
- New environmental figures could help settle a vexing debate, which has pitted environmentalists, Bayview activists and energy corporations against public power champions and real estate interests, over how best to burn fossil fuels.
- The demographer and senior research fellow at the Williams Institute, a think-tank at UCLA School of Law that focuses on sexual orientation, talks about the recent news that the U.S. Census will list same-sex marriages in California and Massachusetts — where they are legal — as “unmarried partners.”
- A Monday evening wreck involving two historic F-Market streetcars injured 14 people — sending six to the hospital — less than two months after 16 were hurt in a similar crash.
- Trash collectors will start snooping through San Franciscans’ garbage next year to make sure residents are recycling and composting, under a draft new law that would ping recalcitrant recyclers with fines of up to $1,000.
- Scores of windmills, which for millennia have provided a familiar backdrop to agrarian life, are poised to blow into San Francisco’s urban core on the winds of technological and bureaucratic change.
