Daly City

Daly City is a city of 104,000 at San Francisco's southern border — the largest city in San Mateo County, a dense, diverse, and majority Filipino American community serving as the Bay Area's urban gateway to the Peninsula. Incorporated 1911, governed by a five-member Council.

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2026-09-05

Daly City City Council has an upcoming meeting on 2026-07-27

The Daly City City Council held a regular meeting on July 27, 2026. This session was one of the recent key gatherings of the council, marking an important moment for city governance and local decision-making.

Separately, the council also convened a special meeting on August 13, 2026. Residents following city developments may want to watch for future council meetings as they continue to address ongoing issues such as the large Serramonte Del Rey housing development, investments in parks and open spaces, and traffic safety initiatives under the Vision Zero plan. These topics remain central to Daly City's growth and quality of life priorities.

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Parks & Open Space — A Small City, Big Ambitions

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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 …

Community Identity & Civic Pride — The Most Filipino City in America

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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 rep…

Vision Zero & Traffic Safety — Deadly Streets in a Dense City

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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…

Serramonte Del Rey — The Biggest Development in Daly City History

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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 D…

Sheriff's Office Aftermath — Rebuilding Accountability & Trust

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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…