Posts Tagged ‘permit’
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Here’s the scene from yesterday AM at the corner of McAllister and Market and Jones in the Tenderloinish Civic Center Twitterloin area.
The woman involved were trying to sell the stuff they had gotten from a program what just gives it away with just one condition, can you guess? The condition is that you DON”T GO TO MID-MARKET AND SELL THIS FOOD ON THE SIDEWALK RIGHT NEXT TO THE THUGS SELLING STOLEN iPHONES.
Anyway, this one was a little different. Instead of just kicking the women off the corner, our SFPD (you see them all – there’s a bunch in there) actually took their stuff. And word on the street is that the cops didn’t want to bust them, in part, over “immigration issues.”
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That’s all I know.
Tags: 7th, American, asian, bank, chinese, DEPORTED, food, free, immigration, Issues, kitchen, permit, Pink Bag Mafia, selling, street, ststus, Women
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Here are about ten sellers in a row this morning on the corner of 7th and Market in the heart of the corrupt Twitterloin.
Cream cheese was the order of the day:
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Appears as if San Francisco’s seniors have more than enough food, but not enough cold hard cash.
I inquired about Crispy Hexagons, but there was no reply.
No reply at all.
Tags: 2011, akit, bank, bay area, california, ceral, church, churches, citizens, complaint, cops, Crispy, Crispy Hexagons, department, dept., food, glide, groceries, Hexagons, illegal, memorial, old, pantry, permit, poice, San Francisco, sell, seniors, SFPD, sold
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
I’d put this one in the “Worthy Initiative” category, but some parking lot owners might not.
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I could see this saving a few lives over the years…
All the deets:
“Legislation by Chiu, Wiener, and Herrera takes on security issues at parking garages and lots
Proposed amendment to SF Police Code seeks to improve the safety of patrons of San Francisco’s vibrant entertainment industry and the surrounding neighborhoods
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 29, 2011) — Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Supervisor Scott Wiener, and City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced a major legislative step to curb late night public nuisance and criminal activities in parking garages and lots, in particular at those garages and lots near entertainment establishments. The proposed ordinance seeks to amend sections of the San Francisco Police Code regarding commercial parking permits and empower the City Attorney’s Office to pursue civil action against those who violate those sections.
“Making parking lots near nightclubs more secure will make it safer for people to patronize our vital entertainment industry,” said Supervisor David Chiu. “I appreciate the opportunity to work with Supervisor Wiener, City Attorney Herrera and the industry to put forward this much-needed legislation.”
More deets after the jump
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Tags: 2011, bay area, board of supervisors, california, city attorney, club, commercial, criminal, David Chiu, dennis herrera, Entertainment, garages, legislative, lighting, lots, nightclubs, nuisance, ordinance, parking, permit, permits, police, Police Code, president, public, San Francisco, Scott Wiener, security plan, Security Plans for Commercial Parking Garages and Lots, SFPD, Supervisor
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Just as politics is the reason why the feds are about to spend a billion dollars on the oh-my-God-wouldn’t-we-be-better-off-without-it Central Subway, politics is the reason why it’s hard to get a taxi cab in San Francisco.
I mean, what kind of world do you want to live in – one where we have a lower number of higher-paid drivers or a larger number lower-paid drivers? (That’s a political question, of course.)
For whatever reason, it’s relatively easy to catch a cab at certain times and relatively hard at others. That’s the system we’ve had, that’s what’s been chosen.
And that means it’s awfully tempting for illegal cab drivers to hit the streets during the busier times.
As here, at the foot of California Street, right near the foot of Market, right in the Financial District in front of the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero. See? A quick price quote/negotiation convo and then she hopped in:
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Do you think this woman would have preferred to take her taxi ride in a taxi? Probably as it would have been much cheaper, but she didn’t really have all that much of a choice.
Do you think the SFPD generally knows what’s going on here. Sure, but they don’t really want to deal with this sitch.
Now, how about making money instead of spending it this coming New Years Eve? Simply rent a car and then drive it around all night taking people where they want to go. You’ll see thousands of people waving their arms around all over the City, so you’ll have no problem finding customers. Be sure to quote an outrageous amount when they ask you, “How much?”
As long as you don’t get in an accident, and don’t get pulled over by the police, and don’t run into a few other hazards I can think of, you should be good to go. (But if the cops figure out what you’re doing and they’re motivated to throw the book at you for not having permits and stickers on the outside of your car and whole bunch of other stuff, then you’ll be in trouble with a capital “T.” That’s just one reason why I don’t recommend you to do anything like this.)
Such is the state of San Francisco taxi driving.
As it is, as it was, and as it shall ever be…
Tags: 2011, bay area, black, cab, california, cops, december 31, department, dept., district, driver, drviers, Embarcadero, evenings, financial, friday, hyatt, illegal, insurance, legal, license, lincoln, mta, new years eve, nights, permit, police, regency, San Francisco, Saturday, SFMTA, SFPD, taxi, taxicab, town car, weekends
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Bluoz has the deets on this kind of behavior.
SFPD: ”Hello!? Go home!”
Via Bluoz - click to expand
Tags: 2011, bank, bay area, busted, california, ceral, China, chinese, church, churches, citation, citizens, complaint, cops, Crispy, Crispy Hexagons, department, dept., district, ed lee, elderly, food, glide, groceries, Hexagons, ladies, Mayor, memorial, mid market, old, pantry, permit, Pink Bag Mafia, San Francisco, sell, seniors, sfpd police, sold, tenderloin, ticket, twitter, twitterloin, Women
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
[UPDATE: Here's the other shot of these two in action.]
You kids might be too young to remember, but the annual Bay to Breakers footrace used to run wild on the streets.
As here, from back in The Aughts.
At this point, race-leader Caroline Rotich (#2) must have been thinking how different things are here compared with Kenya:
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Ah memories…
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Well, here it is, the 2200 block of Octavia Street betwixt Washington and Jackson in San Francisco’s tony Specific Whites District right near writer Danielle Steel’s large white mansion and just up the hill from our 3.5-star Yelp-rated German Consulate.*
See? It’s got a brick surface and it’s curvy, sort of:
There it is on the left. (How many of the cars you can see are owned by Ms. Steel? She used to have 26(!) residential parking permits, you know…)
Fake Lombard Street is a big FAIL, IMO.
Oh well.
Why is it here? Who built it? I know not.
*”Gee honey, do you think we should go to the consulate after getting those deportation notices?” “I don’t know, Cupcake. Let’s check Yelp first…”
Tags: 1960 jackson, 2011, bay area, brick, california, cars, consulate, crookedest, curve, curvy, danielle, district, german, Germany, heights, lombard, lombard street, mansion, octavia, octavia street, pacific, pacific heights, parking, permit, places, red, residential, San Francisco, specific whites, steel, street, tourists, Washington, white, world, Writer
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Now, ideally, people protesting the next unlawful BART Police shooting would get seven-day notice so they could apply to legally protest the shooting on BART property.
But life doesn’t work that way IRL. So when a BART Police officer shoots somebody unlawfully or by mistake or whatever and people want to have a demo at BART that same day, well, that’s going to be an automatic violation of BART rules even if the protest takes place in the designated free speech area.
Check it:
“BART requires those who wish to exercise their right to free speech to have a permit while on BART property. If you wish to obtain a permit, please do the following:
Download the Permit Rules and read them thoroughly. [And the permit application goes directly to BART's P.R. Dept., srsly.]
Download the Permit Application complete it and return it to BART.
BART must receive the permit no less than seven days prior to the date of your activity. Permits received after the seven day deadline will be denied – there are NO exceptions.“
See how that works? Irate protesters have the choice of cooling their heels seven day to protest in a legal fashion in a legal area or protest the same day as the shooting illegally.
Maybe that’s part of the reason why you have so many “illegal” protests, BART?
And oh, has any legal protest at BART ever gotten any attention? Not to my knowledge.
And oh, has any Designated Free Speech Area looked good anytime, anywhere in history? Usually, these places are far from the action, sometimes encircled with cyclone fencing all around, you know, like Thunderdome.
Here’s the only Designated Free Speech Area that I’ve seen lately. It’s from somewhere in the vicinity of Strybing Arboretum, that place that got renamed and paywalled (that’s why there’s a boycott going on…) Anyway:
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That’s what the people who run things in the Bay Area think protests should look like.
(Now, this designated area might have been a joke, but my point is that you can’t tell the difference – the real thing looks pretty unreal as well.)
To repeat, maybe this is part of the reason why you have so many “illegal” protests, BART?
Just asking, BART-bro.
All the deets after the jump.
Tags: #OpBART, (BART), 1st, 2011, Amendment, anonymous, area, bay area, civic center, designated, free speech, illegal, illegally, legal, legally, permit, protest, rights, San Francisco, shooting, wait
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
This semi-official “Neighborhood Ambassador” of the 100th running of the Bay to Breakers event somehow got the idea that she should start shutting down the annual after-party on Fell Street all by herself.
She spent a while hectoring these street youth until one of them proffered his hand for a high-five good-bye. (You see, he was too polite just to walk away during the haranguing session.) She left him hanging for a bit with his hand fixed in the air but eventually she responded in kind and then the kids, the Future of America, the people who were doing nothing wrong, felt free to walk away without appearing to be too disrespectful.
The scene on Fell – what happens when you try to end an afternoon party at lunchtime:
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Some of the “Ambassadors” felt it was their job to prevent people from walking across the Panhandle to get to the other side, you know, the same way residents of Fell Street do the other 364 days of the year, However, the citizens of SF mostly managed to ignore these brownshirts.
Good times.
See you next year in 2012, Bay to Breakers!
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
I don’t know, do you think the Roxie should be able to serve beer?
(I don’t care. Sure, why not?)
Things didn’t work out a half-decade back, back in aught-six:
“Soon to be offering BEER! You heard it here first. Always interesting programming of flicks not found in the ubiquitous multiplex. Even if I’ve never visited without wishing I could power wash the interior, who wouldn’t love a good movie and a BEER?”
The NIMBYs put the kibosh on that effort.
Here’s an update this AM, straight from the Roxie Theatre itself:
“Cold Beer At The Roxie Theater!
At a spry 102-years young, the Roxie Theatre has applied for a permanent beer license. Over the past year, the Roxie has used its non-profit status to obtain day use permits for on-site alcohol, and the response was so overwhelmingly positive that we’re trying to make it permanent. Our application is in!
The Roxie hopes to add beer sales as part of its mission statement to make the theater a place of gathering and celebration, as well as a business model for the survival of neighborhood theatres. In 2008, the Roxie became a non-profit. With the litany of struggles independent theaters have faced recently (illustrated by the closing of the Red Vic), beer sales will help increase our revenue by offering a more complete night out, as well as drawing new folks into our one-of-a-kind mixture of programs unparalleled in the Bay Area.
Have no fear- The Roxie is dedicated to its mission of reaching the widest and most diverse audiences and our programming will continue to reflect this cause. You will still find a smattering of family friendly events throughout our calendar, and all of our programs will clearly indicate when it’s for only those 21 and over. It has not yet been decided if beer will be offered every day, just weekends or just special events. We care the most about building a community, so we invite you to join us at this exciting new chapter so that we can develop this model together.”
Tags: 16th, 2006, 2011, alcohol, bay area, beer, california, cold, district, mission, nimbys. nimby, non-profit, permit, roxie, roxie theatre, San Francisco, street, valencia
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