Overview
- Supporters of the Stronger Muni For All parcel-tax campaign submitted about 18,500 signatures, well above the 10,600 needed to seek placement on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot, and campaign leaders say county election offices must now validate them.
- The parcel tax is a tiered, 15-year levy designed to raise roughly $150–$160 million a year for Muni with rates such as $129 for most single-family homes, $249 for many multifamily units, $799 for smaller mixed-use parcels, annual inflation adjustments, and limited tenant passthroughs.
- Proponents also say the Connect Bay Area campaign gathered enough signatures to seek a five-county sales tax that would add 1% in San Francisco and 0.5% in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to fund BART, Caltrain, AC Transit and other regional operators.
- SFMTA projects a structural operating shortfall of more than $300 million starting in July and rising toward $430 million by 2030 and has warned that failure of new revenue measures could force elimination of routes, large cuts to evening service, reduced cable car service, and longer wait times.
- The next steps are official signature verification, final ballot language and the Nov. 3 vote, and the campaign battle is drawing major union endorsements and big tech donors which raises political stakes and could shape whether the region’s transit-driven economic recovery holds.