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By way of the California Emergency Management Agency, California Geological Survey, and University of Southern California: San Francisco’s Tsunami Inundation Map. The inundation map has been compiled with best currently available scientific information. The [red] inundation line represents the…

Preliminary November labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.7%, 8.0% and 8.9% respectively, down 0.2 percentage points in San Francisco and San Mateo and down 0.1 percentage points in…

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· Twitter’s new headquarters will never stop being news [BoomTown]
· Cary Lane apparel store trades valleys, moving to Laguna St [NVSF]
· Market Street Railway’s preview of four new streetcar looks [L. Squid]
· The harder they fall: Bourn Mansion’s bankruptcy sale [SocketSite]
· AT&T users out of luck as Transbay Tube lights up [The Snitch]
· The tale of a Lembi-like flameout, only British [NYT]
· On the Block readers hate the Bayview, accuse blog of trickery [SFA]
· Las Vegas’ CityCenter: complete guide to all the craziness [Curbed LA]

“In other words, ‘raise your HOA fees by $10 a month to cover car sharing’?” —Xenu [Credit for Cutting Car Trips]

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The Ingleside Branch Library has recently found a permanent home after bouncing between rented spaces since 1917. The building, designed by Fougeron Architecture, won a competition held by the San Francisco Public Library in 2002, and opened in September. Arch Daily’s just posted gallery showcases the building’s two main features: an egg-shaped reading room, and a high canopy roof that shields the building from too much heat and also doubles as a good platform for future solar panels. The courtyard’s located next to the site of a future playground for “greater aggregate outdoor space.”
· Ingleside Branch Library / Fougeron Architecture [Arch Daily]
· Rendering Reveal Redux: Ingleside Library is, in Fact, Square [Curbed SF]

Broker blog SF New Developments has a couple nuggets on One Hawthorne, the last of the now rare breed of big daddy condo developments, scheduled for 2010 launch. The units will range from junior one-beds to 3-bedrooms, each with or without dens, except maybe the 1-beds, which all seem to have them. They range from 500 square feet to about 1,300 square feet, and four penthouses on the 24th and 25th floors will be (initially?) available, up to almost 2,000 square feet in size. And now back to our regularly scheduled words. [SF New Developments, previously]

Not bad for a cheapo listing in Lower Pac Heights: 2608 Sutter St’s going for the bargain bin price of $399,000. For that, buyer gets a 720-square-foot, 1-bedroom Victorian with a lovely red door and a questionable paint job on ornamentation. Why’s it priced so? Maybe it’s the weird crawl space at the top of the stairs, or maybe it’s the fact that the only obvious windows are at the front of the building.
· 2608 Sutter St [Redfin]

Patching up what some complain is a loophole in LEED, Bay Area nonprofit TransForm has come up with a set of guidelines for developments to work toward cutting down car trips. The GreenTRIP certification lays it out thusly: “All developments must have unbundled parking, free car-share membership, and provide at least one 50-percent discounted transit pass per unit for the life of the project.” We’re not sure if we’ve seen any recent developments that go quite as far as that, but we’ll go out on a limb and guess it’ll be a David Baker project that does it first. [Streetsblog]

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Recently anointed LindenHayes in Hayes Valley is just months away from occupancy, so the still relatively new building at 300 Linden down the street might tell us how rent rates might look for the newcomer — not to imply that LindenHayes would ever turn to renting or anything. The 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath, tri-level loft has a “generous” master bedroom and a “fair size” loft bedroom. There’s one parking spot included, and there’s a west-facing deck accessible from aforementioned loft. Rent: $3,750 a month. Yeah, it’s Hayes Valley.
· Dramatic TRI-Level LOFT-Heart of Hayes Valley [Craigslist]

Pedestrianist follows up on the redesign of the Potrero Terrace-Annex housing project, describing the area’s evolution from sparsely populated street “grid” to the diagonal ribs we have today: “The less-than-concrete nature of this grid made it susceptible to the changing whims of city planners. When the Potrero Terrace-Annex housing projects were built in the ’40s, the streets were reconfigured according to the latest fashion. 60 years of history have shown that the winding, meandering roads that hugged the terrain did not foster a quiet bucolic atmosphere, but instead created indefensible spaces where outsiders didn’t feel comfortable passing through.” The new plan aims to fix all that by reintroducing a real grid to the project. What would O.J. think, we wonder? [Pedestrianist, previously]