The Planning Department maintains that Medjool's rooftop bar is illegal -- yet every politician in the city has raised bucks up there and no one seemed to know about itA fair amount of ink -- but not enough -- was spilled over how a typo will allow heavy Gavin Newsom donor Gus Murad to build a proposed condo project at the New Mission Theater 20 feet higher than zoning rules allow -- and Newsom's veto overrode the Board of Supervisors' attempt to remedy this error. So, in the hubbub over the Ame
At Medjool, in a manner of speaking, the roof is on fireInvitations to join a Facebook page titled "SAVE MEDJOOL" are flooding San Franciscans' e-mail inboxes. The missive pleads for locals' help in persuading the big, bad Planning Department from pulling the permits for the Mission establishment's rooftop bar, which would ostensibly put the place under and force 60 hard-working souls into the breadlines. And yet, while Medjool's position may truly be perilous, this might not be an organic swell
Fun on the rooftop bar...​After it was discovered in February that the owner of the Medjool restaurant in the Mission, Gus Murad, had violated the city's zoning laws with the height of his rooftop bar (and then got away with it temporarily with a little help from his friends), Murad struck up a campaign to "Save Medjool," from the sudden wrath of the planning department. The department showed little mercy for the Mission's favorite scofflaw -- the bar was ordered closed in April. Today's Appea
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