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S.F.'s difficult path to home renovation: Simply owning your home in San Francisco doesn't give you the right to fix it up. Richard and Cher Zillman learned this the hard way when, in 2000, they applied for a permit to transform a decaying carriage house behind their Western Addition home into a two-bedroom apartment.
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Tenancy-in-common 'lottery hell': At 8 a.m. Feb. 6, some 60 people gathered on the steps of City Hall. They were there to protest an annual event, about to be 25 years old, that determines their future as San Francisco homeowners, an event that TIC owner David Silva calls "lottery hell."
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A DOOR, A WINDOW, A SINK - BE CREATIVE: When writer and brand consultant Julie Mason toured ActivSpace in San Francisco's Mission District, she wasn't expecting to rent an office there. "I live on the other side of town," she said, "but a friend said I should look." Thirty minutes later, she signed a lease. "I didn't even need the courtesy '24-hour hold' period to think about it." |
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Garages add value, stress for S.F. homeowners: Title insurance: A couple thousand dollars. Property
taxes: A few thousand more. Having your own garage in
San Francisco: Priceless.
Well, maybe not priceless - and not easy either,
considering the drawn-out, stressful design review and
permit process - but a place to keep the car is worth plenty. |
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Working At Home: When Mexican painter Pico Sanchez moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s, he joined an artists collective in the former American Can Co. building on Potrero Hill. Sanchez says the neighborhood was "much funkier" then. The train still ran along Florida Street every night at 7, and the greasy air wafting out of the Best Foods factory on the corner smelled like a fast-food restaurant. |
