My favorite moment from the Martin's Beach saga was when he cited an ancient law from the conquistadors trying to block access and got shot down in the Supreme Court. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and ceded California to the United States was overruled by the 1976 California Coastal Act.

> Tech behemoth Google will be exiting the 300,000-square-foot office that it has occupied at One Market Plaza since 2018, once the company’s lease for the space expires next April, a spokesperson for Google confirmed Tuesday. The move follows Visa’s exit from the three-building complex, as the company relocated its employees to Mission Rock.

> Many of Google’s employees are already working outside of the giant waterfront office, in light of the company’s flexible approach to office attendance.

> “As we’ve said before, we’re focused on investing in real estate efficiently to meet the current and future needs of our hybrid workforce,” Lamont said in an email to the Chronicle. “We remain committed to our long-term presence in San Francisco.”

Sounds like hybrid is here to stay due to employee demand.