Sunset Spotlight/Police Blotter

Planning Dept. Faces Opposition Over Housing Proposal
City planners are facing strong opposition from neighbors, who fear new proposals to promote affordable housing by increasing housing densities along transit corridors will diminish the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Bubble Tea the Rage on Taraval St.
Everyone in the store has one or is waiting to get one. It's non-alcoholic and non-carbonated. It is the latest craze, a beverage, known as bubble tea.

Little to Show After 20-year Battle
By Andy Sywak From the sand path leading downhill from 48th Avenue, the boardwalk below looks like a curvy "Y" scribbled by a preschooler. It forges a path over a sandy plain enclosed by a chain-link fence and the steep ridges of Sutro Heights Park. Looking at the peerless views of Ocean Beach to the south, it is no wonder that this piece of land has been as disputed over as any in San Francisco.

Sunset Recreation Center Serves for More Than 60 Years
In 1937, the three-acre site at 29th Avenue and Lawton Street was bought for $50,676 and began as a playground. Built by the SF Recreation and Park Department and the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), Sunset Playground opened in 1940 with a small field house and volleyball, basketball and tennis courts.

Artist Draws on Life's Lessons to Create Artwork
Every Thursday morning a group of local artists, including painter and muralist David Steinhardt, meet at the Corner Cup coffee shop in the Sunset District to discuss art. At a recent meeting, a topic was brought up concerning the experience of painting and what Steinhardt described as a "loss of self" with his own work.

There's Life after Mime, in Europe, for Bush Actor
Sunset District resident, Amos Glick, the doltish George Bush impersonator for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, has not been assassinated or moved - he has just taken the summer off.

Man's Odyssey Ends Right Where it Began, at Home
The Webster Dictionary describes the word "odyssey" as a long wandering marked by many changes of fortune.

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