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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 44m

Drivers who clearly have right of way at 4 way stops please go I am on a bike not the bus from Speed

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna have to buy a poster book soon, I’m running out of wall space. But I really liked the Decemberists poster!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2h

I refuse to believe that this space at 6th and Balboa is for lease

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how people see the the most drastic change to our planning code as the upzoning we are currently discussing when in reality was the *original* 1978 downzoning

A screen shot from PAR with the laziest attempt to show towers (literally just black outlines of rectangles with no bearing on anything) with the following text:

PAR for the Richmonton
for the Richmond
PETITION TO OPPOSE
UPZONING
We oppose Mayor Daniel Lurie's "Family
Zoning" Plan, the most drastic changes ever made to San Francisco's Planning Code and to the Richmond District.

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

Guy near me complaining about $40 posters and I gotta wonder when was the last time he bought one? That’s market rate these days

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

Fun set so far from The Decemberists with the SF Symphony. Can’t wait to see what’s after intermission

The Decemberists on stage with the SF Symphony at Davies

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I know!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Down the Peninsula? Go hang out at Fieldwork at 4:30 pm this afternoon actionnetwork.org/events/impro...

Impromptu SB 79 Celebration

SB 79 has been signed into law!!!!!!!!!! It's time for an impromptu celebration! Share a pint with friends to enjoy a victory that has literally been YEARS in the making. Many folks got us to this po...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Not in SF and still wanna celebrate? East Bay YIMBYs will be doing just that tomorrow at 3 PM at Temescal Brewing actionnetwork.org/events/sb-79...

SB 79 Celebration!

7 stories of housing near quality transit is now the law of California! Gov Newsom signed SB 79, the land use law that YIMBYs have been fighting for for 8 years, into law on Friday. Let's celebrate to...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to celebrate the Ws. Come share a pint with fellow YIMBYs now that SB 79 is LAW! actionnetwork.org/events/impro...

Impromptu SB 79 Celebration

SB 79 has been signed into law!!!!!!!!!! It's time for an impromptu celebration! Share a pint with friends to enjoy a victory that has literally been YEARS in the making. Many folks got us to this po...

actionnetwork.org

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

You fucking love to see it

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 2d

WE DID IT!!!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Who hurt you?

A bike rack perpendicular to the curb for some goddamn reason

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

If I ever understand why my Bluetooth headset just doesn’t connect sometimes, I’ll have transcended human knowledge and my corporeal form

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah…yeah…yeah...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Even if SF ended up with the Builder’s Remedy, how many parcels near the ocean could you actually build a tower on? I can only think of a handful of examples (a few on Sloat, the Safeway), but the vast majority are still just standard small SF lots. The Builder’s Remedy doesn’t make lots bigger

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

It’s natural to have fears. It’s disappointing that our journalism which should exist to help dispel fact from fiction plays into that

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

This is an irresponsible graphic. Tell me where in the Family Zoning Plan the heights are like that on Ocean Beach. You can’t because it’s pure imagination. The vast majority of the parcels remain 40 feet. Most people won’t get past the scary headline/picture www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/r...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just a girl, trying to watch Caps hockey when I got too much other shit going on

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · Mar 25

Many nations that allow midrise single-stair apartment buildings have a far better fire safety record than the U.S. The codes promulgated by the #NFPA haven't delivered.

The #NFPA should try to learn from nations that achieve better fire safety, instead of attacking those nations' code officials.

This chart compares fire fatality rates in nations around the world. Purple dots (provided by @holz-bau.bsky.social) indicate nations that allow single-stair apartment buildings up to at least 4 stories.

Source for the chart of average number of fire deaths per 100,000 inhabitants:
World Fire Statistics Report No. 28, 2023, page 114.

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 4d

Dropped my ballot off at City Hall yesterday, already got the message it’s been received and counted. Don’t forget to turn in those ballots and vote yes on 50. It’s literally the only question, let’s get this done

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Vulture @vulture.com · 4d

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him for the band’s new album, ‘Bleeds.’

‘I’m Poking Roadkill With a Stick. Making It Twitch.’

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him for the band’s new album, ‘Bleeds.’

www.vulture.com

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 4d

Solid showing for Haim @ Bill Graham

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 4d

The bucolic hamlet of Saint Francis

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 4d

Another evening of “this is why your city has a housing shortage”

Another room full of (mostly) older attendees for a public meeting about the Family Zoning Plan

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