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New Food Truck Rules Rolled Out For San Francisco Vendors
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — San Francisco’s food-truck industry is changing its permitting process, putting the Department of Public Works in charge starting March 7. Last year, the Board of Supervisors...
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Ed Reiskin Named To Head SF Municipal Transit Agency
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco public works director Ed Reiskin will be shifting gears in his new role as executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Reiskin has no...
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San Francisco Anti-Graffiti Crews Busy Cleaning Up Illegal Ads For Graffiti Doc
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Illegally posted advertisements for a documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes were keeping anti-graffiti crews from the San Francisco Department of Public Works busy. City...
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Great Highway $7.3M Facelift Begins; Roadway To Remain Open
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— One of San Francisco’s most popular roadways is getting a makeover. The re-paving of The Great Highway began on Wednesday as part of a $7.3 million project that will include...
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San Francisco Supervisor Seeks App To Keep Drivers From Being Towed
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Having your car towed in San Francisco is a pricey proposition. Supervisor David Chiu has asked the San Francisco Police Department, the Department of Public Works and...
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Diseased SF Embarcadero Palm Trees Will Be Costly To Replace
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Dozens of the palm trees San Francisco planted after Loma Prieta to evoke feelings of California dreaming along the Embarcadero have been dying a slow death, a city official said...
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SF Market Street To Get $700K Re-Paving Job; 1st In 30 Years
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The stretch of San Francisco’s Market Street from 6th Street to Van Ness Avenue is getting re-paved this weekend, starting Friday night. It’s a $700,000 project and one that...
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SF Sidewalk Cleaners Can’t Keep Up With The Call Of Nature
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco has been trying to clean the stench of urine from its streets, an aroma that in several neighborhoods serves as a daily reminder of the failure of a quality of life...
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ConsumerWatch: San Francisco Homeowners Asked To Trim Trees, Some Face Fines
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Recently, the City of San Francisco has placed the care of trees along sidewalks, also known as street trees, in the hands of residents. For some property owners, the move has...
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Parking Crackdown Targets San Francisco Food Trucks
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Food trucks in San Francisco’s Financial District will soon have to follow the same parking rules as everyone else, following new regulations that became law last month. The...
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Traffic Light Installed At SF Corner Where Teen Was Killed In Suspected DUI...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/BCN) — A new traffic beacon was unveiled on Wednesday to improve pedestrian safety on a thoroughfare in San Francisco where a high school girl was killed earlier this year. The...
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San Francisco Rolls Out Portable Bathroom Program In Tenderloin To Curtail...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — In an effort to reduce the amount of human and animal excrement on the city’s streets, the San Francisco’s Department of Public Works will be begin a six-month pilot program on...
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San Francisco Trying To Keep Up With Damage From December Downpours
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — As the Bay Are gets a break Saturday from rainy weather, the city of San Francisco is getting a better picture of the damage done during December’s downpours. LISTEN: San...
View ArticleSan Francisco Homeowners May Be Billed For Storm-Related Tree Damage
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – During the recent storms, hundreds of trees have come down in San Francisco alone. Once the debris is gone, homeowners could be slapped with a bill. During the first few weeks...
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SF Public Works Clears Tree That Fell Onto Noe Valley Home
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Crews from the San Francisco Department of Public Works were called to Noe Valley Thursday morning after a tree fell into a home on Dolores Street, according to authorities. A...
View ArticleSan Francisco Launching ‘Poop Patrol’ To Clean Up Streets
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The San Francisco Department of Public Works announced Wednesday it will assemble a new team, known as the Poop Patrol, which will be focused on cleaning up human and animal...
View ArticleSan Francisco Curbs Waste With Public Toilets, ‘Poop Patrol’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The sidewalks surrounding Ahmed Al Barak’s corner market in one of San Francisco’s roughest neighborhoods are filled with cardboard, used syringes and homeless people who have...
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‘Boulder Battle’ In Response To Homeless Crisis Continues On San Francisco...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — There is no end in sight over the battle of large boulders in one San Francisco neighborhood in response to homelessness and drug use. Neighbors got together two weeks ago to...
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San Francisco Public Works Dept. Names Acting Director Amid Public Corruption...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Amid allegations of bribery against San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, the department announced an acting director late Tuesday. In a statement,...
View ArticleSan Francisco Officials Call For Reform Of Public Works Dept. Amid Corruption...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Following the arrest of San Francisco’s powerful Department of Public Works boss, the reverberations have not stopped at City Hall, where a push to reform the department could...
View ArticleMohammed Nuru, Nick Bovis, Accused In San Francisco Corruption Scandal,...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco official known around town as “Mr. Clean” and the charity-promoting restaurateur whom federal officials say conspired to line their own pockets at the expense of...
View ArticleIndicted Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru Officially Resigns From His City...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — Indicted San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru officially resigned from his post Monday as he prepares to battle federal public corruption charges. San Francisco...
View ArticleSF City Attorney Subpoenas 8 Organizations As Public Corruption Investigation...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Wednesday announced that his office issued eight new subpoenas as part of the corruption investigation in the wake of the criminal...
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SF Public Works Apologizes For Painting Over Black Lives Matter Mural On...
SAN FRANCISCSO (CBS SF) – A battle over a rock and an art space ended in an apology and a promise on Tuesday, after someone — this time a worker on San Francisco’s graffiti abatement crew — painted...
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San Francisco Corruption Case Expands: 2 More Charged, 2 Plead Guilty
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — U.S. Attorneys charged the heads of an Oakland engineering firm with bribery and connected them to a widespread corruption scandal in San Francisco’s Department of Public...
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San Francisco Trash Company Exec Charged With Bribery, Money Laundering In...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An executive with waste and recycling company Recology San Francisco has been charged with bribery and money laundering as part of the corruption scandal embroiling the city’s...
View ArticleCOVID: San Francisco Public Works Employees File Cal/OSHA Complaint Over...
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – Labor union officials representing San Francisco Department of Public Works employees said on Wednesday they’re calling on the California Division of Occupational Safety and...
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Car Flies Off Road Onto Metal Pipes at San Francisco DPW Lot
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Video obtained by KPIX shows the result of a bizarre crash at a San Francisco city lot on Sunday. Somehow a red sedan flew off the road and above a Department of Public Works...
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$20,000 Price Tag Of San Francisco Trash Can Prototypes Stuns Residents, City...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – San Francisco’s Department of Public Works wants to replace 3,000 existing green trash cans with bigger and better-looking ones. The prototype being considered will cost...
View ArticleUPDATE: San Francisco Public Works Crews Scramble to Clean Up After Historic...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Public Work crews in San Francisco were working hard Monday to respond to the hundreds of calls they’ve received regarding downed trees from Sunday’s storm. SFDPW officials said...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s New Sanitation And Streets Department To Launch In July
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved for the city’s new Sanitation and Streets Department to begin on July 1, 2022. Back in November 2020, more...
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