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Parks & Open Space — A Small City, Big Ambitions • Featured
active • Parks & green space
Last activity: Jun 6, 2026
Despite its dense urban fabric, Daly City is making meaningful investments in parks and open space — a quality-of-life priority for a city where residents have limited private outdoor space. The city recently celebrated the ribbon cutting o…
Community Identity & Civic Pride — The Most Filipino City in America • Featured
active • Ethnic communities
Last activity: Jun 6, 2026
Daly City is home to the largest concentration of Filipinos of any city in the United States — a demographic identity that shapes everything from the city's food culture and commercial corridors to its civic organizations and political repr…
Vision Zero & Traffic Safety — Deadly Streets in a Dense City • Featured
active • Traffic / congestion
Last activity: Jun 6, 2026
Daly City has committed to eliminating serious and fatal traffic crashes by 2035 through its Vision Zero Action Plan — but progress has been difficult in one of the most densely populated and heavily trafficked cities on the Peninsula. The …
Housing Production & Federal Funding Uncertainty
active • Housing Affordability
Last activity: Jun 6, 2026
Daly City carries one of the largest RHNA obligations in San Mateo County — reflecting its size as the county's most populous city — and its housing production depends significantly on federal community development funds that are now under …
Serramonte Del Rey — The Biggest Development in Daly City History • Featured
active • Development & Neighborhoods
Last activity: Jun 6, 2026
The 22-acre Serramonte Del Rey campus redevelopment is the most consequential development project in Daly City's recent history — and it is finally moving from planning to construction. The project, led by the Jefferson Union High School Di…
Housing & The Largest Upzoning in County History
active • Development & Neighborhoods
Last activity: May 24, 2026
San Mateo County is making a historic housing bet along its transit corridors. On April 21, 2026, the Board of Supervisors adopted an amended Housing Element on a 4-1 vote, creating three new high-density zoning districts near Colma BART — …
Sea Level Rise — California's Ground Zero
active • Climate, Environment, and Resilience
Last activity: May 24, 2026
San Mateo County has been formally identified as the most vulnerable county in California to sea level rise — a designation that carries enormous long-term policy and financial stakes. The county's bayfront communities, including Redwood Sh…
Youth Mental Health Crisis — Alarming Data Demands Action
active • Mental health
Last activity: May 24, 2026
San Mateo County is confronting a youth mental health emergency that elected officials described as "sobering" even during a ceremonial Mental Health Month proclamation. A representative from the Peninsula Suicide Prevention / Felton Instit…
Sheriff's Office Aftermath — Rebuilding Accountability & Trust • Featured
active • Police accountability
Last activity: May 24, 2026
San Mateo County is still working through the fallout of one of the most dramatic law enforcement governance crises in the Bay Area in recent memory. In May 2025, an independent investigation found evidence of conflicts of interest, misuse …
The VLF Funding Crisis — A $157 Million Injustice • Featured
active • Budget priorities
Last activity: May 24, 2026
San Mateo County is fighting one of the most consequential — and least publicized — fiscal injustices in California. The dispute centers on "in-lieu VLF" replacement funding that counties and cities receive tied to a vehicle license fee red…