Filed
Pavement requests are running 40% above the five-year average for this week of the year. The response queue is already stretching.
Brief · San Francisco
SFMTA records obtained by Gazetteer SF count 4,178 tickets on Waymo vehicles in 2025 and 4,131 more through July 19, 2026. The fines pass $957,000.
Brief · San Francisco
The Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to save the sycamore at Rhode Island and 19th Street, then voted 4-0 against a rule change that would end appeals for trees the city calls hazardous.
Data brief · Oakland
Oakland logged 403 abandoned-auto reports last week, nearly as many as illegal dumping. Of the cars reported in late June and early July, 43 percent were still open on September 2.
Data brief · San Francisco-Oakland metro
The metro unemployment rate rose from 3.6 percent in May to 4.2 percent in June. That is the same jump the file has shown every June since 2019.
Brief · East Bay
Yes, the money cleared. On Tuesday the state Senate and Assembly sent the budget trailer bill carrying $125 million for Golden Gate Fields to the governor. Newsom include
Data brief · Oakland
Oakland's 311 file logged 59 sideshow reports in August. That is the highest month in a year and nearly five times July's 12. The city built this category on purpose, and
Data brief · Oakland
Seventy graffiti reports hit Oakland's 311 file in the last seven days. That is up a third from the three weeks before. It is not a citywide wave. It is a District 7 wave
Brief · San Francisco
The Budget and Finance Committee votes today on a five-year extension for OpenGov, the permit system that missed its own March deadlines.
Brief · San Francisco
The alley's famous walls live on verbal agreements with owners, not in any city file. The week they disappeared, the record around them logged seven requests, all for trash.
Data brief · San Francisco
The new one-month rule lands as the eviction file shows nonpayment notices already falling and breach notices taking their place.
Data brief · San Francisco
Street defect reports rose 32 percent in a week. Sidewalk and pavement damage is two of every three, and the same addresses keep coming back.
Data brief · San Francisco
Public graffiti reports rose 69 percent in a week and private reports rose 77. Mission carries a third of the load, and the record is full of repeats.
Analysis · San Francisco
A thousand closure notes point to the same problem: the stamp tells you less than the note.
Follow-up · Oakland
508 illegal-dumping reports in seven days, up 46 percent. District 5, the slowest to close, is up 158 percent.
Breaking · Oakland
219 requests in seven days. That is double the normal rate, and it is not evenly spread: District 7 is up 194 percent.
Data brief · Oakland
Pavement requests are running 40% above the five-year average for this week of the year.
Data brief · Oakland
The median is nine days. In Sobrante Park it's fourteen. A closed case is not the same as a cleared corner.