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Logo of San Francisco Public Works on the top of a building in San Francisco. San Francisco Public Works (SFPW) is a governmental agency for the City and County of San Francisco in California. They are responsible for the care and maintenance of San Francisco’s streets and infrastructure.
If you choose to ignore notices that your sidewalk needs repair, California law provides that local jurisdictions can assess property owners for the costs of maintaining the sidewalk.
Along a 10-block stretch of Mission Street, a thriving illicit market formed, where sidewalk vendors sell cheap stolen items. In 2023, a San Francisco district supervisor issued a 90-day ban on sidewalk vending on Mission Street after Public Works inspectors tasked with regulating them were subjected to violent threats.
Sit-lie ordinances are most notably found in West Coast cities, since the 2000s, with Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and several San Francisco Bay Area cities – Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, and San Francisco itself – having passed such ordinances. [2] In a 2009 survey of 235 US cities, 30% prohibited sitting or lying in some public places ...
Sep. 14—Curbs, gutters and sidewalks are widely thought to be city or county property. However, for business and residential properties, sidewalk repair is the responsibility of property owners ...
The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1), also known as the "Gas Tax", is a legislative bill in the U.S. state of California that was passed on April 6, 2017 with the aim of repairing roads, improving traffic safety, and expanding public transit systems across the state.
To the south of San Francisco, the NWS confirmed an EF-1 tornado with winds of 90 mph tore through the community of Scotts Valley. Videos and photos from the area showed debris in the roads and ...
Because San Francisco is a dense city, yard waste was found to make up only 5 percent of the residential waste stream. These findings, in conjunction with AB939 diversion requirements, prompted San Francisco to develop new curbside recycling pilots that included the collection of food residuals. [8]