Bay Briefing: The downtown housing fight that took 20 years
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John Marchand, a former mayor of Livermore, holds a print of the new affordable housing project that is suppose to be built in conjunction with Stockmen s Park in Livermore, Calif. on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, May 26, and Cal could have more students from California by design over the next decade. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
‘Right place, right time, right now’
A 20-year crusade to build affordable housing in downtown Livermore won a unanimous victory Tuesday when the city council approved a development that had divided the city and fueled accusations of racism and elitism. One council member was 13 years old when the project was first proposed.
Priest holes and pirate ships: The secrets of Muir Beach s Pelican Inn
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The Pelican Inn, Muir Beach, Calif.Andrew Chamings
Any English person visiting San Francisco will hear its name muttered in conversation before too long.
“Have you heard about that pub over the Golden Gate Bridge? They have
proper pints and shepherd’s pie.”
But the mention of Americans trying to build something “authentically British” is normally met with eyerolls by us snooty Brits. I’ve been to the Dickens Fair in Cow Palace, where kids run around and stare at old-timey Victorian sex workers as bearded fellows slap their thighs and sing sea shanties it does not bring back memories of home. I also used to visit “You Say Tomato,” the now-shuttered British grocery store on California Street, where you could pay $20 for a sad Lincolnshire sausage.