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Roughly 5,000 drivers filed claims with the state labor commissioner’s office in 2020, alleging that they were denied overtime, mileage reimbursement and other benefits employees are entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, then-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the city attorneys of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego sued Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors. The labor commissioner’s office also sued the companies, alleging wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two actions, in addition to several others filed on behalf of individual drivers, were combined into a single joint case before the San Francisco Superior Court. 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They take more than half of our paycheck and then leave us in bad condition and deactivate us unfairly,” said Ibrahim Diallo, a San Francisco resident who started driving for Uber in 2015 before his account was deactivated in 2023. “More than half of the Uber drivers have to drive 12 hours six days a week, sometimes even seven days, to be able to meet the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers don’t get paid enough to make ends meet, and they also have to deal with maintenance costs, registration fees and paying for gas, Diallo said, adding that the ride-hailing companies are paying their drivers less and less each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033549 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240617-VTAfile-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uber and Lyft are useful, but we can do better,” he said. “We have to treat people with dignity. They have to get good pay to allow them to take weekends, at least spend time with their wife, with their children, and be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Uber, drivers earn at least 120% of minimum wage during active hours. The company also said it has invested more than $1 billion into direct benefits, including health care plans and accident insurance for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drivers come to Uber precisely because of the unique flexibility that it provides,” an Uber spokesperson said in an email. “Prop 22 safeguarded their choice to work independently while ensuring important new protections. The voters of California have spoken — overwhelmingly — and we look forward to putting these years-old matters behind us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Veena Dubal, a law professor at UC Irvine who researches the ride-hailing industry and has been critical of Uber and Lyft, studies show drivers are making less money than they did before Proposition 22. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration launched an investigation Thursday into the California Department of Education over a law that says districts can’t force teachers and staff to notify parents if a student changes their gender identity at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Education said the policy may violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a law allowing parents to access their child’s records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not only immoral but also potentially in contradiction with federal law for California schools to hide crucial information about a student’s wellbeing from parents and guardians,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office defended the law, saying parents still have the right to access their child’s education records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the U.S. Department of Education still had staff, this would be a quick investigation — all they would need to do is read the law the Governor signed,” Newsom spokesperson Elana Ross said in a statement, referencing Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-shutdown-b1d25a2e1bdcd24cfde8ad8b655b9843\">plans to dismantle the agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Education Department says it could take away funding if it determines California’s school gender-identity law violates federal rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What does the law do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It bans school districts from adopting or enforcing rules that require staff to disclose information about a student’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the child’s consent, unless otherwise required by law. That means if a student wants to use different pronouns, the school can’t force teachers to tell the students’ parents. It does not prohibit teachers and school staff from choosing to share that information with parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed the law last year, making California the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gender-identity-schools-california-law-af387bef5c25c14f51d1cf05a7e422eb\">first state to enact such a policy\u003c/a>. It took effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law also requires the state education department to develop resources to support LGBTQ+ students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Why was it passed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A nationwide battle is underway over transgender rights, with some states \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-health-texas-state-government-tennessee-minnesota-878a9217fa434f3ecd83738a71e40572\">imposing bans on gender-affirming care\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-transgender-women-sports-ban-athletes-1c58c20cac2b191e323e4376d7949a2d\">barring trans athletes\u003c/a> from girls and women’s sports, and requiring schools to share students’ gender identity with parents without the students’ consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli introduced a bill in 2023 that would have required schools to notify parents within three days of a school employee becoming aware of a child’s pronoun change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated Legislature blocked the bill from receiving a hearing, so school boards started to take up the issue and pass so-called parental notification policies of their own. 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It passed on party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What do supporters say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The goal is to protect the privacy of students, some of whom may live in unaccepting households and are not ready to tell their parents, backers say. Teachers should not be required to get involved in family discussions about a student’s gender identity, they argue.[aside postID=forum_2010101908942 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/transrights-1020x574.jpg']“Requiring governmental school officials to expose them without their consent runs afoul of the US Constitution,” Ward said in a statement, calling such policies “immorally invasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, said the law helps ensure students have a safe and supportive learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What do opponents say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics of the law say parents should be able to know if their child changes their gender identification at school. Chino Valley Unified \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-identity-pronouns-schools-parents-teachers-4b4079dbd5a121f25fa05ff38785505f\">sued the state\u003c/a> over the policy, arguing it violated parents’ rights under the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to get very clear guidance to school districts that they absolutely should not have policies keeping secrets from parents,” said Jonathan Zachreson, a Roseville City School District board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said children are at risk of falling victim to “radical transgender ideology” and medical interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Are other California policies at risk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-order-passports-prisons-military-3c14ecbdd10f61618384e81624d090fb\">set the tone\u003c/a> on his administration’s stance on issues affecting transgender and nonbinary people during his first days back in office. He signed executive orders to restrict gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also been in the spotlight for his position on trans rights after he \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-transgender-athletes-e28abfe4d507086633e5f83b94b095e6\">said on his podcast\u003c/a> that transgender athletes’ participation in girls sports was unfair. California has a state law, signed in 2013 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, allowing students to participate on a sex-segregated sports team that aligns with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records. A Republican bill seeks to reverse it; Newsom hasn’t taken a position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration also sent a letter Thursday requesting the state to submit curricula and materials from a sexual health education program that receives federal funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will review whether the materials are “medically accurate” and “age-appropriate,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli introduced a bill in 2023 that would have required schools to notify parents within three days of a school employee becoming aware of a child’s pronoun change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated Legislature blocked the bill from receiving a hearing, so school boards started to take up the issue and pass so-called parental notification policies of their own. The state \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-sues-chino-valley-parental-notification-transgender-students-03fd6e74c62054d9bb4ba85ee92e850d\">started a legal battle\u003c/a> with Chino Valley Unified School District, one of the first districts to enact such a rule, arguing the policy violated the rights of students and put the well-being of transgender children at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district later \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-chino-gender-pronouns-school-board-a8d3f17ec89b2ec8a2e946da37284e5c\">updated its rule\u003c/a> to remove any mention of gender identification and require staff broadly to notify parents of any request their child makes for a change to their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Chris Ward, chair of the legislative LGBTQ+ caucus, introduced the bill largely in response to the school district policies. It passed on party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What do supporters say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The goal is to protect the privacy of students, some of whom may live in unaccepting households and are not ready to tell their parents, backers say. Teachers should not be required to get involved in family discussions about a student’s gender identity, they argue.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Requiring governmental school officials to expose them without their consent runs afoul of the US Constitution,” Ward said in a statement, calling such policies “immorally invasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, said the law helps ensure students have a safe and supportive learning environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What do opponents say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics of the law say parents should be able to know if their child changes their gender identification at school. Chino Valley Unified \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-identity-pronouns-schools-parents-teachers-4b4079dbd5a121f25fa05ff38785505f\">sued the state\u003c/a> over the policy, arguing it violated parents’ rights under the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to get very clear guidance to school districts that they absolutely should not have policies keeping secrets from parents,” said Jonathan Zachreson, a Roseville City School District board member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said children are at risk of falling victim to “radical transgender ideology” and medical interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Are other California policies at risk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-order-passports-prisons-military-3c14ecbdd10f61618384e81624d090fb\">set the tone\u003c/a> on his administration’s stance on issues affecting transgender and nonbinary people during his first days back in office. He signed executive orders to restrict gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also been in the spotlight for his position on trans rights after he \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-transgender-athletes-e28abfe4d507086633e5f83b94b095e6\">said on his podcast\u003c/a> that transgender athletes’ participation in girls sports was unfair. California has a state law, signed in 2013 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, allowing students to participate on a sex-segregated sports team that aligns with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records. A Republican bill seeks to reverse it; Newsom hasn’t taken a position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration also sent a letter Thursday requesting the state to submit curricula and materials from a sexual health education program that receives federal funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will review whether the materials are “medically accurate” and “age-appropriate,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A yearslong, drag-out fight in a wealthy Bay Area enclave over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024770/north-beach-a-historic-district-not-yet-sf-mayor-lurie-says\">what should be considered “historic”\u003c/a> has reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Mateo City Council sent a letter pleading with California’s historic preservation board to delay a decision on whether to deem Baywood, one of its most coveted neighborhoods, eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The coalition of homeowners who launched the effort shot back, accusing the city of defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For four years, a contentious battle has raged between the group, which said it wants to “protect historic resources” in San Mateo, and other homeowners who don’t see their 20th-century homes as particularly extraordinary. It all began when a few homeowners along Fairfax Avenue decided to renovate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Gene Alston. He and his wife bought their home in 2021 and were drawn to Baywood’s wide, quiet streets, quick commute to their daughters’ school and strong community feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, their excitement was quickly tainted. As Alston began preparing to renovate their new home — which included shifting the house forward on the lot, changing the architecture style and building an accessory dwelling unit for his mother-in-law in the backyard — neighbors got wind. They weren’t happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flyers stuck in mailboxes warned that the new homeowners were going to destroy a historic property. When Alston hosted a meeting to discuss the remodel with neighbors who live within 500 feet, per city policy, he said a “flash mob” of people who live outside the radius joined the video call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Baywood Neighborhood Association hired a historic preservation architect who deemed Alston’s home historic and retained attorneys to oppose the remodel. At the time, that included Mike Nash, whose property abuts the Alstons’ and who is married to San Mateo Councilmember Lisa Diaz Nash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston, who is Black and Korean, said the effort felt hostile and made his family feel unwelcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz Nash told KQED at the time that opposition to Alston’s renovation had nothing to do with proximity to her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it because we are not established residents in Baywood, even though we’re established in San Mateo?” asked Alston, who has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city approved his planning proposal in 2022, but it spurred a larger movement against development in Baywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It was a catalyst’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors who had opposed the renovation of Alston’s home and two others nearby that year formed the San Mateo Heritage Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the organization, they applied to have Baywood added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, which requires approval from California’s state historic resources commission. President Laurie Hietter said they wanted to preserve San Mateo’s architecture and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The San Mateo Heritage Alliance (SMHA) wants to designate Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from making changes to their homes as they would have to adhere to specific guidelines. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the group stuck yellow signs in their lawns and formed their own organization, Less Red Tape, to inform Baywood residents — most of whom were entirely removed from this debate at the time — about the potential drawbacks of the historic designation, which they said would include stricter environmental impact scrutiny and parameters on how they can renovate the exteriors of their homes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, talk of the looming decision by the state has been continuous, at least at City Hall. Residents of Baywood and nearby neighborhoods have attended City Council meetings and signed petitions — some set on preserving the look of the neighborhood they moved into decades ago, and others arguing that new restrictions would make renovating their homes nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, the council tried to broker an agreement between SMHA and Less Red Tape, proposing to create its own updated local historic resources program. In the meantime, council members hoped that SMHA would pause its appeal to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal fell apart, but Hietter said SMHA still pulled back for about six months. In December, she announced that the group would resume its push for state recognition, citing slow movement on the part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council’s letter urging the historic resources board not to vote on Baywood’s status during its May meeting, officials said San Mateo had “recently allocated funds to develop a local process for evaluating and designating historic resources, including updates to related ordinances,” which it said would increase community engagement and “build consensus around our historic preservation efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should the nomination advance at the state level before our local process is fully developed, it could inadvertently undermine these efforts — not only in Baywood but across the entire City of San Mateo,” the council said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What makes a neighborhood historic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to SMHA’s application to the state board, Baywood became a commuter suburb of San Francisco as the city emerged as an industrial hub in the 1920s and ’30s. Upper and middle-class businesspeople who wanted to get out of the dense cityscape after much of it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake moved a 20- to 30-minute streetcar ride down the peninsula and built homes in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter said the mix of French, Spanish revival and Tudor style homes are signatories of the time period and important to preserve. But not all Baywood neighbors agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lead organizer of Less Red Tape Frank Elliott stands for a portrait in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Elliott, who has lived in his home since 1997, founded Less Red Tape to protest the designation of Baywood as a historic district. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an invented history,” said Frank Elliott, a fellow resident and founder of Less Red Tape. “The architecture is only distinct because the homes represent styles of houses that were built at the time they were built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area that would be covered by the historic designation, which includes about 440 homes, is a mix of over 40 styles designed by more than 20 architects, he argues. Almost 100 have been renovated significantly enough that they no longer qualify as historic on their own, according to SMHA’s application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has three existing historic districts, two of which have been recognized at the local level since the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazenwood — a neighborhood that spans one U-shaped road and a short offshoot just south of the city’s downtown — is the only residential zone considered historic. Most of the 70 single-story homes within the restored white pillars that stand at its three entrances are 1920s-style Spanish colonial structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood was originally part of the estate of Alvinza Hayward, a San Francisco businessman in the late 1800s. When Hayward died, his mansion was turned into the ritzy Peninsula Hotel, which operated until the property burned down in 1920. After the fire, the land was divided into single-family homes, most of which were built between 1922 and 1925 by one company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Exacerbating patterns of segregation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just one additional property, the Yoshiko Yamanouchi House, has been deemed historic in San Mateo since the ’90s. However, across California, the number of applications from neighborhoods requesting historic status has been increasing over the last decade, according to Annie Fryman, the director of special projects at the housing advocacy group SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although no searchable database of historic district nominations exists, according to the state parks department, six neighborhoods in California — including St. Francis Wood in southwest San Francisco — were granted historic status between October 2020 and March 2024 based on applications with the same loose outline as Baywood’s.[aside postID=news_12024770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_00193-1020x680.jpg']The increase in historic district applications could be a reaction to new state housing legislation being implemented at the same time, much of which is meant to ease development and help cities meet lofty requirements for building new housing, Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these laws, which aim to rectify years of housing discrimination, expedite permitting and allow more single-family lots to be subdivided into duplexes. They also carve out exemptions for historic places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the challenges with historic districts is that they’re often exacerbating existing patterns of segregation by saying, ‘This is already a segregated place and nothing here can ever change,’” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disproportionately, neighborhoods that get these designations are in wealthier, more segregated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many state housing laws are basically attempts on the edges to address existing patterns of segregation,” Fryman told KQED. “And establishing historic districts squarely takes us backwards in that journey. That’s something that hasn’t been reconciled in the field yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baywood was developed in the 1920s and ’30s, it had housing covenants that blocked Black and Asian people from purchasing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it remains one of San Mateo’s most prestigious — and wealthiest — neighborhoods. It’s 70% white, and the median sale price for three-bedroom properties like the one Alston purchased was $3.03 million from 2021 to 2024, according to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More ‘Red Tape’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Elliott and Alston believe the SMHA is motivated by a desire to “control the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A historic designation could force homeowners to hire historic consultants, go through additional California Environmental Quality Act reviews or face lawsuits, making renovations more expensive and resource-intensive, Elliott said. CEQA litigation adds an average of two years to a housing project’s timeline, according to a report from the state’s Little Hoover Commission, an independent oversight agency that investigates state government operations and policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the face of such lengthy delays, financing can vanish, stopping a project even if it would eventually have survived the CEQA process and been approved,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter argues that a historic designation’s effect on homeowners would be minimal and maintains that the designation is symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic resource regulations are enforced at the local level, and it would be up to San Mateo to add Baywood to its historic resource ordinance, Hietter said. San Mateo is considering updating its ordinance, and SMHA would advocate for Baywood to be added, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to have an extremely restrictive ordinance. The ordinance would only apply if you’re doing something that’s visible from the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gain for us is to raise awareness about historic resources, to have a sign that says, ‘This is a historic district,’ so that if people want to come in here and mow down a house, they’re going to think twice,” Hietter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A time-consuming, costly process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Alstons bought their first home in San Mateo 25 years ago and have built successful careers working for various Silicon Valley tech giants since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After having two daughters and outgrowing that home, they moved around Burlingame and San Mateo several times, finally planning to settle in Baywood. Alston said the neighborhood finally met his wife’s top priority — a strong community feel similar to that of their first home, where young families were always hosting backyard barbecues and birthday celebrations or inviting the kids to shoot hoops and ride bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981485 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo on March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The renovation, though, has been discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alston’s project plans were originally approved, neighbors submitted a historic evaluation of his house and a letter from an attorney, asking the city to apply historic preservation restrictions. Alston commissioned his own historic assessment, racked up thousands of dollars in city fees, and fielded multiple nuisance complaints in the following years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His whole family, including his mother-in-law, presented the renovation project to the city’s planning commission in July 2022, anticipating appeals. It was unanimously approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston hoped to complete the renovation last year, but he said that additional pushback — and changes he made to the renovated design to try to nullify some of the controversy — slowed progress. He now believes the time-consuming and costly process will be over in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston said he thinks his project ultimately gained approval because it includes an ADU. California legislation passed in 2021 requires that cities limit project-by-project discretionary reviews of renovations that subdivide single-family lots into duplexes or add junior units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, Senate Bill 9, has a carve-out for homes in historic districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston believes that if Baywood had been historic when he started the renovation process four years ago, “you wouldn’t be able to do it. If they for some reason wanted to pick on your project, you couldn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Gene Alston. He and his wife bought their home in 2021 and were drawn to Baywood’s wide, quiet streets, quick commute to their daughters’ school and strong community feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, their excitement was quickly tainted. As Alston began preparing to renovate their new home — which included shifting the house forward on the lot, changing the architecture style and building an accessory dwelling unit for his mother-in-law in the backyard — neighbors got wind. They weren’t happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flyers stuck in mailboxes warned that the new homeowners were going to destroy a historic property. When Alston hosted a meeting to discuss the remodel with neighbors who live within 500 feet, per city policy, he said a “flash mob” of people who live outside the radius joined the video call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Baywood Neighborhood Association hired a historic preservation architect who deemed Alston’s home historic and retained attorneys to oppose the remodel. At the time, that included Mike Nash, whose property abuts the Alstons’ and who is married to San Mateo Councilmember Lisa Diaz Nash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston, who is Black and Korean, said the effort felt hostile and made his family feel unwelcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz Nash told KQED at the time that opposition to Alston’s renovation had nothing to do with proximity to her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it because we are not established residents in Baywood, even though we’re established in San Mateo?” asked Alston, who has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city approved his planning proposal in 2022, but it spurred a larger movement against development in Baywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It was a catalyst’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors who had opposed the renovation of Alston’s home and two others nearby that year formed the San Mateo Heritage Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the organization, they applied to have Baywood added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, which requires approval from California’s state historic resources commission. President Laurie Hietter said they wanted to preserve San Mateo’s architecture and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The San Mateo Heritage Alliance (SMHA) wants to designate Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from making changes to their homes as they would have to adhere to specific guidelines. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the group stuck yellow signs in their lawns and formed their own organization, Less Red Tape, to inform Baywood residents — most of whom were entirely removed from this debate at the time — about the potential drawbacks of the historic designation, which they said would include stricter environmental impact scrutiny and parameters on how they can renovate the exteriors of their homes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, talk of the looming decision by the state has been continuous, at least at City Hall. Residents of Baywood and nearby neighborhoods have attended City Council meetings and signed petitions — some set on preserving the look of the neighborhood they moved into decades ago, and others arguing that new restrictions would make renovating their homes nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, the council tried to broker an agreement between SMHA and Less Red Tape, proposing to create its own updated local historic resources program. In the meantime, council members hoped that SMHA would pause its appeal to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal fell apart, but Hietter said SMHA still pulled back for about six months. In December, she announced that the group would resume its push for state recognition, citing slow movement on the part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council’s letter urging the historic resources board not to vote on Baywood’s status during its May meeting, officials said San Mateo had “recently allocated funds to develop a local process for evaluating and designating historic resources, including updates to related ordinances,” which it said would increase community engagement and “build consensus around our historic preservation efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should the nomination advance at the state level before our local process is fully developed, it could inadvertently undermine these efforts — not only in Baywood but across the entire City of San Mateo,” the council said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What makes a neighborhood historic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to SMHA’s application to the state board, Baywood became a commuter suburb of San Francisco as the city emerged as an industrial hub in the 1920s and ’30s. Upper and middle-class businesspeople who wanted to get out of the dense cityscape after much of it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake moved a 20- to 30-minute streetcar ride down the peninsula and built homes in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter said the mix of French, Spanish revival and Tudor style homes are signatories of the time period and important to preserve. But not all Baywood neighbors agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lead organizer of Less Red Tape Frank Elliott stands for a portrait in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Elliott, who has lived in his home since 1997, founded Less Red Tape to protest the designation of Baywood as a historic district. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an invented history,” said Frank Elliott, a fellow resident and founder of Less Red Tape. “The architecture is only distinct because the homes represent styles of houses that were built at the time they were built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area that would be covered by the historic designation, which includes about 440 homes, is a mix of over 40 styles designed by more than 20 architects, he argues. Almost 100 have been renovated significantly enough that they no longer qualify as historic on their own, according to SMHA’s application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has three existing historic districts, two of which have been recognized at the local level since the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazenwood — a neighborhood that spans one U-shaped road and a short offshoot just south of the city’s downtown — is the only residential zone considered historic. Most of the 70 single-story homes within the restored white pillars that stand at its three entrances are 1920s-style Spanish colonial structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood was originally part of the estate of Alvinza Hayward, a San Francisco businessman in the late 1800s. When Hayward died, his mansion was turned into the ritzy Peninsula Hotel, which operated until the property burned down in 1920. After the fire, the land was divided into single-family homes, most of which were built between 1922 and 1925 by one company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Exacerbating patterns of segregation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just one additional property, the Yoshiko Yamanouchi House, has been deemed historic in San Mateo since the ’90s. However, across California, the number of applications from neighborhoods requesting historic status has been increasing over the last decade, according to Annie Fryman, the director of special projects at the housing advocacy group SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although no searchable database of historic district nominations exists, according to the state parks department, six neighborhoods in California — including St. Francis Wood in southwest San Francisco — were granted historic status between October 2020 and March 2024 based on applications with the same loose outline as Baywood’s.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The increase in historic district applications could be a reaction to new state housing legislation being implemented at the same time, much of which is meant to ease development and help cities meet lofty requirements for building new housing, Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these laws, which aim to rectify years of housing discrimination, expedite permitting and allow more single-family lots to be subdivided into duplexes. They also carve out exemptions for historic places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the challenges with historic districts is that they’re often exacerbating existing patterns of segregation by saying, ‘This is already a segregated place and nothing here can ever change,’” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disproportionately, neighborhoods that get these designations are in wealthier, more segregated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many state housing laws are basically attempts on the edges to address existing patterns of segregation,” Fryman told KQED. “And establishing historic districts squarely takes us backwards in that journey. That’s something that hasn’t been reconciled in the field yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baywood was developed in the 1920s and ’30s, it had housing covenants that blocked Black and Asian people from purchasing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it remains one of San Mateo’s most prestigious — and wealthiest — neighborhoods. It’s 70% white, and the median sale price for three-bedroom properties like the one Alston purchased was $3.03 million from 2021 to 2024, according to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More ‘Red Tape’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Elliott and Alston believe the SMHA is motivated by a desire to “control the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A historic designation could force homeowners to hire historic consultants, go through additional California Environmental Quality Act reviews or face lawsuits, making renovations more expensive and resource-intensive, Elliott said. CEQA litigation adds an average of two years to a housing project’s timeline, according to a report from the state’s Little Hoover Commission, an independent oversight agency that investigates state government operations and policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the face of such lengthy delays, financing can vanish, stopping a project even if it would eventually have survived the CEQA process and been approved,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter argues that a historic designation’s effect on homeowners would be minimal and maintains that the designation is symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic resource regulations are enforced at the local level, and it would be up to San Mateo to add Baywood to its historic resource ordinance, Hietter said. San Mateo is considering updating its ordinance, and SMHA would advocate for Baywood to be added, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to have an extremely restrictive ordinance. The ordinance would only apply if you’re doing something that’s visible from the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gain for us is to raise awareness about historic resources, to have a sign that says, ‘This is a historic district,’ so that if people want to come in here and mow down a house, they’re going to think twice,” Hietter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A time-consuming, costly process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Alstons bought their first home in San Mateo 25 years ago and have built successful careers working for various Silicon Valley tech giants since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After having two daughters and outgrowing that home, they moved around Burlingame and San Mateo several times, finally planning to settle in Baywood. Alston said the neighborhood finally met his wife’s top priority — a strong community feel similar to that of their first home, where young families were always hosting backyard barbecues and birthday celebrations or inviting the kids to shoot hoops and ride bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981485 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo on March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The renovation, though, has been discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alston’s project plans were originally approved, neighbors submitted a historic evaluation of his house and a letter from an attorney, asking the city to apply historic preservation restrictions. Alston commissioned his own historic assessment, racked up thousands of dollars in city fees, and fielded multiple nuisance complaints in the following years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His whole family, including his mother-in-law, presented the renovation project to the city’s planning commission in July 2022, anticipating appeals. It was unanimously approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston hoped to complete the renovation last year, but he said that additional pushback — and changes he made to the renovated design to try to nullify some of the controversy — slowed progress. He now believes the time-consuming and costly process will be over in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston said he thinks his project ultimately gained approval because it includes an ADU. California legislation passed in 2021 requires that cities limit project-by-project discretionary reviews of renovations that subdivide single-family lots into duplexes or add junior units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, Senate Bill 9, has a carve-out for homes in historic districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston believes that if Baywood had been historic when he started the renovation process four years ago, “you wouldn’t be able to do it. If they for some reason wanted to pick on your project, you couldn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gambling addiction experts warn that online sports betting, which is not legal in the state, makes it easier to bet in excess and harder to pull away — especially on cellphones. When there’s a major event like the ongoing NCAA basketball tournament, sports betting activity spikes, and in the aftermath, so do the numbers of people seeking treatment for problem gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018–2019 fiscal year, 36% of problem gamblers between 18 and 30 years old reported betting on sports, according to the California Gambling Education and Treatment Services Program. Five years later, that number jumped to more than 60% even as rates of other types of gambling like poker and lotteries fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong said his parents eventually caught on after noticing him spending whole days watching football games on his laptop as credit card bills piled up. He finally sought treatment at 24 after his parents threatened to kick him out of their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial destruction of it was absolutely insane. I ended up with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and a bankruptcy when I was pretty young,” Leong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A casino in your pocket’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dozens of states have legalized sports betting after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling overturned a federal ban, but California is not among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not for lack of trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of 2022 ballot measures, which would have legalized online sports betting and sports betting in Native American tribal casinos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931029/california-sports-gambling-measures-losing-bets\">both failed to pass. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians are still able to wager money on sports through several means. One is daily fantasy sports, where users pay an “entry fee” and draft mock lineups or make predictions about individual players, such as whether one will score higher or lower than 20 points, or whether another will get more or less than 12 rebounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies operating these apps argue that their users aren’t gambling because they are competing against other players, not against the house, and because the games are more skill-based than chance-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people also use online sportsbooks from companies that are based in other countries, and therefore aren’t inclined to abide by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101908531 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/01/GettyImages-1406738183-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Timothy Fong, co-director of UCLA’s Gambling Studies Program, which helps oversee CalGETS, said the majority of patients he sees now are specifically struggling with online sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gambling is ubiquitous, it’s accessible … you can’t turn without seeing it. You have a casino in your pocket,” Fong said. “Contrast that to me when I was 26 … if I wanted to bet on sports, I had to have a tremendous amount of effort to place any bet. I needed to drive somewhere, I needed to go to the bank, I needed to carry cash. I mean, it was an entirely different world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong believes that many of his younger patients would not be gambling excessively were it not for that access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many patients who’ve said to me, ‘I’ve never set foot inside a brick and mortar casino in my entire life,’ and yet, they have a substantial gambling disorder,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early adulthood is also a common time for people to begin gambling. State gambling helpline data shows that more people reported their gambling issues started between the ages of 18 and 25 than any other age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong, who quit gambling after lots of work, is now 32 and a social worker helping other people struggling with gambling problems. He said he’s also concerned by the increased access to gambling through phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think addiction is much more severe than it used to be,” Leong said. “I’d hear about stories where you call your bookie 10 times a day. Now, gambling online, you hear people firing off like 50 bets in an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tomorrow’s gamblers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gambling disorder experts argue that daily fantasy sports apps use similar tactics as social media sites to keep users engaged and coming back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intermittent reinforcement, gamify it, constantly have this pressure that something new and fresh is coming and if you log off, you’re going to miss it,” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only seen in sports betting and daily fantasy. Some experts are also criticizing video game companies for using similar tactics, which they say could prime children for gambling later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many video games sell so-called loot boxes. The boxes contain mystery prizes, and players buy them — often with real money — for a chance to win high-value items like special characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Video games for many years, since the introduction of in-app purchasing, have utilized methods of sales for in-game consumable items, or digital items that follow psychological practices that make people more likely to continue to spend more money,” said Robert Jacobson, executive director of the California Council on Problem Gambling, which runs the state’s 1-800-GAMBLER helpline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our position that many of those practices meet the legal definition of gambling,” Jacobson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison makes sense. When a user purchases a loot box, they’re doing so in the hopes of winning a big prize, much like buying a scratch-off in the hopes of winning a jackpot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the connection isn’t lost on the users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2018, the helpline began asking some callers whether they’ve ever spent more time or money on video games than they could afford because it gave them a gambling-like rush. In 2019, 219 callers answered yes. Five years later, that figure had climbed to 345.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong said he saw firsthand how captivating loot boxes could be for his own son, who was playing an NBA video game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kept buying these packs to try and get the player he wanted,” Fong said. “But he kept buying, and he kept not getting it. Buy, buy, buy. Eventually, in the span of about two hours, he spent $1,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A spokesperson for the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office told KQED that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed Hall was already released, which Leong said she was not aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original notice sent to Leong by CDCR’s Office of Victim and Survivor Rights and Services, which KQED reviewed, did not provide a reason for Hall’s release. CDCR said Hall completed his sentence after earning credits while incarcerated, which are awarded for good behavior and participation in rehabilitative programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that [Hall] is being released early is already really harmful to our community,” said Bella Quinto Collins, the sister of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/angelo-quinto\">Angelo Quinto\u003c/a>, a Navy veteran who was killed by Antioch police officers in 2020. “The fact that he is being released secretly, that he’s been released this morning — that is a huge tell that we cannot trust the system that we currently have in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11707357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Leong, whose uncle Laudemer Arboleta was shot and killed by a police officer in Danville Nov. 3, speaks at a press conference announcing a legal claim filed agains the city on Nov. 19.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147-800x406.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147-1020x517.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33986_alt_800-e1542667208147-1200x609.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Leong, whose brother, Laudemer Arboleda, was shot and killed by a police officer in Danville on Nov. 3, speaks at a press conference announcing a legal claim filed against the city on Nov. 19. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 3, 2018, police officers received a report of a suspicious person knocking on doors in Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When law enforcement arrived, Arboleda led them on a nine-minute car chase toward the downtown area. Video taken of the pursuit shows Arboleda pulling over several times before driving off when officers exited their patrol vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall arrived on the scene and tried to block Arboleda’s car at an intersection of Front and Diablo streets. Police video showed Hall get out of his car and step into the path of Arboleda’s vehicle, firing into the windshield and window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arboleda, 33, was shot nine times and pronounced dead at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges for Arboleda’s death were filed against Hall in April 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870567/video-footage-of-tyrell-wilson-killing-released-as-same-danville-officer-charged-in-another-death\">a month after he fatally shot Tyrell Wilson\u003c/a>, a 32-year-old unhoused man whose family said was also suffering from depression. No charges were brought against Hall for Wilson’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11907219 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/BurrisArboledaHallPresser.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, who also served as a Danville police officer, was the first officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905820/more-bay-area-officers-are-being-prosecuted-for-killing-people-does-this-really-signal-a-shift-in-police-accountability\">amid a wave of recent police prosecutions in the Bay Area\u003c/a> to be found guilty and sentenced. Six years was one of the longest sentences a California officer has received for an on-duty shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was originally charged with assault with a deadly weapon and voluntary manslaughter in Arboleda’s death, but a jury deadlock on the second charge led to its dismissal. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Terri Mockler sentenced Hall to three years for assault and an additional three years for causing great bodily injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston said his office welcomes Hall’s release and that he “never should have been in prison in the first place.” Livingston said Hall made a split-second decision to protect himself and others when he used deadly force on Arboleda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time we stop feeling sympathy for dangerous criminals and start supporting law-abiding Contra Costa residents and the warriors that defend them,” Livingston, who publicly supported Hall and criticized Mockler, said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Hall was convicted of a felony crime, he was supposed to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for parole. He challenged the conviction, but a \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/A165142.PDF\">three-judge panel\u003c/a> rejected his appeal last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hall’s release is very disappointing and re-traumatizing,” Leong said in a statement. “We are still grieving and when we found out that he was being released early we were completely devastated. These are lives we’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">Samantha Kennedy\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scales back some harm reduction programs\u003c/a> amid the city’s crackdown on open-air drug markets, UCSF doctors are raising concerns and emphasizing the integral role that such public health strategies play in keeping drug users safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harm reduction, which aims to mitigate the risks of death and long-term damage associated with drug use, has spurred increasingly polarized debate between coalitions that support and oppose the strategy. However, doctors and policy experts say increasing collaboration is the best way to ensure public health for the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harm reduction and treatment are like part and parcel of each other,” Dr. Ayesha Appa, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, said during a town hall on Thursday hosted by the Treatment on Demand Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that for one of her patients, “having relationships with people who are offering safer-use supplies allowed him to feel valued and then think, ‘I’m worth something. I can do this,’” and get on methadone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s election results, though, show a city growing more concerned with getting drugs and drug users off the streets and out of public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> campaigned on public safety, saying the city needed to crack down on open-air drug markets. He and other candidates running against incumbent London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">criticized\u003c/a> some of her efforts focused on harm reduction, including the shuttered Tenderloin Center, which was the city’s first publicly run overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s latter years as mayor, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">moved away\u003c/a> from a harm-reduction approach to the drug crisis, which progressive politicians had embraced. And in District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013950/dean-preston-concedes-sf-district-5-race-to-bilal-mahmood-blasts-right-wing-pressure-groups\">ousted their progressive supervisor\u003c/a> in favor of a more moderate leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a city that moved in a pragmatic direction – a lot of people are clearly unhappy with a number of things in the city, but a big part of what they’re unhappy about is drugs, homelessness, disorder, crime,” said Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and nonprofits who have advocated for harsher crackdowns on public drug use — and criticized the city for making it too “easy” for people to use drugs — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">joined Lurie\u003c/a> during his first month in office to introduce his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people suffering in the name of compassion and body autonomy, and it has to end,” said Gina McDonald, the co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths, who hosted the rally. “We believe that this fentanyl state of emergency ordinance is a state of emergency. It’s a five-alarm fire that needs to be mitigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032239 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-OverdoseResponse-42-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gained wide approval from the Board of Supervisors, with only a single vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Lurie released more details on how he plans to use his expanded powers under the ordinance, which includes increasing treatment availability, clearing open-air drug markets and “reassess[ing] policies for distribution of fentanyl smoking supplies” — a service \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997957/heres-why-some-san-francisco-nonprofits-give-foil-and-pipes-to-drug-users\">provided by some city-funded nonprofits\u003c/a> that had drawn controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also worked with law enforcement to set up a mobile police command unit at the 16th Street BART station in the Mission, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight police raids\u003c/a> at prominent drug markets have increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced the “Recovery First Ordinance” at the end of February, which would make entirely stopping illicit drug use and attaining long-term treatment “the primary objective of the city’s drug policy.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mattdorsey/status/1905468937963536639\">post on the social media platform X\u003c/a> on Friday criticizing the UCSF doctors, Dorsey wrote that abstinence-only approaches to ending drug use include medication-assisted treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push toward recovery-focused drug policy has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">unpopular with harm reduction advocates\u003c/a>, who say reducing efforts to give out safer smoking supplies like foil and pipes is “misguided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from independent scientific research organization RTI International found that increased drug seizures by law enforcement also increased opioid overdose mortality. 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Barbara Lee, who is running for mayor of Oakland, and former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was indicted on bribery charges after being recalled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point in the video, a news article appears with a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/21/misleading-ads-fake-oaklandside-headline-oakland-mayor-race/\">design nearly identical\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> website, featuring the headline: “Barbara Lee accused of hiding rental income for taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story isn’t real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent expenditure committee called Oakland Neighbors, Businesses & Public Safety Advocates for Loren Taylor for Mayor 2025 and against Barbara Lee paid for the ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do agree that it’s misleading,” Taylor said about the ad. “I have been consistent relative to my campaign and those that I am directly engaged with, that we will run an honest, fact-based campaign. It’s important that we draw the contrast, we identify what the stakes are for Oaklanders, but doing that in a fact-based, data-driven way, and I encourage others to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909352/oakland-mayoral-hopeful-loren-taylor-on-why-local-experience-matters\">made the comments on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Thursday. He and Lee are the expected frontrunners in the April 15 special election to replace Thao. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032042/oakland-special-election-candidate-guide-and-how-to-vote\">Voting is already underway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Representative Barbara Lee addresses the room, as Loren Taylor (center) and Renia Webb observe, at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone, in downtown Oakland, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. All are running for mayor. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor also commented on Google Ads that his campaign purchased that linked to news articles and featured text that resembled headlines but didn’t match the headlines in the stories themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One version of an ad the campaign purchased read, “Lee’s Ties to Corruption — Lee’s Dirty Money Problem” and “Barbara Lee accepted $66k from a bribery-linked family — what else is she hiding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users who clicked on the ad were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025747/barbara-lee-return-5000-donations-from-family-linked-oakland-bribery-scandal\">taken to a KQED story\u003c/a> with the headline, “Barbara Lee to Return $5,000 in Donations From Family Linked to Oakland Bribery Scandal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The advertisement is intended to direct people towards the actual source, not replace the headline,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> when asked about the Google Ad. “We want to direct people towards that versus replacing, and so the actual article that’s there is what KQED produced and developed.”[aside postID=news_12021907 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250106-BarbaraLeeExitInterview-09-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad appeared in Google search results for users in Oakland for 37 days in February and March, \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">according to Google’s Ads Transparency Center\u003c/a>, which discloses it was shown 9-10,000 times at a cost of $2,000-$2,500 to Taylor’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">ad’s text had changed\u003c/a> to reflect the original KQED headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got the response and we corrected — we no longer put that there,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “But that was not the intent. Our intent was to direct people towards KQED’s article, and that’s what the ads now sort of focus on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Taylor campaign ad that linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/barbara-lee-ron-dellums-oakland-mayor-00232049?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7pO_BhAlEiwA4pMQvNUC6GPRiuFSdDKBcI_R-Bovu3hiDwGogRjvMTR6M_otjmPRBQ1TZxoCBPgQAvD_BwE\">a \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> story\u003c/a> ran for at least five days in March. One version of the ad read, “\u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR11515748725867675649?region=US&topic=political\">Barbara Lee is a Risky Gamble – Barbara Lee = Dellums 2.0?\u003c/a>,” referring to the late East Bay Rep. Ron Dellums, who also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021907/can-barbara-lee-avoid-mentors-missteps-run-oakland-mayor\">served as mayor of Oakland\u003c/a> after serving in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1903561920239874227/photo/2\">March 22 statement posted on the social media platform X\u003c/a>, Taylor said his campaign’s Google Ad linking to the KQED story did not replace its headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every political campaign uses Google Ads to advertise. And Google Ads do not replace headlines but instead allow for captions similar to social media posts. Our caption is not meant to replace KQED’s headline — and there is no intention to misrepresent that to voters,” Taylor wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement went on: “If the design of Google’s advertising platform is causing confusion with KQED’s original headline, that should be taken up with Google,” he added. “Our campaign will continue to monitor to confirm if there’s actual confusion versus an overblown issue by supporters of Lee and adjust accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loren Taylor takes notes ahead of a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone in downtown Oakland, California, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s campaign isn’t the only one purchasing Google ads and linking them to news sites to influence voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called Supporters of Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00300604778226909185/creative/CR06927962791693254657?region=US&topic=political\">began running an ad on Thursday\u003c/a> that read, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5uvWdo6uMAxVjkcMCHRoBDbUQ0Qx6BAgAEAE\">EB Times: No on Loren Taylor” and “\u003c/a>We found that Loren Taylor is surprisingly unprepared in his campaign for Oakland Mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00300604778226909185/creative/CR01537716987684192257?region=US&topic=political\">Another ad\u003c/a> included the text, “Loren Taylor has failed to build a coalition to govern effectively. No to Loren Taylor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both ads linked to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/22/editorial-oakland-elect-barbara-lee-mayor-charlene-wang-council/\">\u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> editorial\u003c/a> endorsing Lee for mayor and Charlene Wang for Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate ad that appeared in Google search results for “Loren Taylor” on Friday displayed the text, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwi_2q7ZhK2MAxUVz8IEHa1oOUYYABABGgJwdg&co=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZm_BhDrARIsAAEbX1GkaGvJ49uPfXsuzg4LYxfYoh9vzbe8HnMXZbbS6WRkTlJWpQPsQrAaAryTEALw_wcB&sig=AOD64_1xCmPoq60bu1Y0OIhZracvGnHnLA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwizrqrZhK2MAxVBFjQIHa4iCQkQ0Qx6BAgWEAE&nis=7\">Loren Taylor Isn’t Change” and “\u003c/a>Vote No on Loren Taylor — Loren Taylor & Sheng Thao got us into this mess in the first place.”[aside postID=news_12032042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k_qed-1020x765.jpg']The ad \u003ca href=\"https://notthechangeoaklandneeds.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZm_BhDrARIsAAEbX1GbjLREGIl57dV5RW7Wxa4sq02liUnuHIY-JGAOdrZjRGogXpcxAYUaAjajEALw_wcB\">linked to a website\u003c/a> describing Taylor as an “ineffective city hall insider who got us into this mess in the first place.” The website disclosed it was paid for by an independent expenditure group, Supporters of Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor 2025, A Coalition of Business, Labor and Public Safety Organizations for a Better Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mailers with similar messaging paid for by the same committee were recently sent out to Oakland voters. KQED contacted a law firm whose phone number is listed on the committee’s campaign finance filings but did not receive a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Google spokesperson said that it’s common for advertisers to link to external websites, including news sites, in the text of their ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ads in question are explicitly labeled as ‘Sponsored’ so that they’re easily distinguishable from Search results and they also include ‘paid for by’ disclosures so it’s clear to users who paid for them,” Michael Aciman, a company spokesperson, said in an email. “For this type of ad format, the advertiser provides the text in their ad and the ad also links to the original news article in full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads may have markers indicating that a campaign paid for them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not misleading, said Subramaniam Vincent, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/journalism-and-media-ethics/\">Journalism and Media Ethics program\u003c/a> at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Google user seeing the ad, he said, “may or may not notice that the headline on the KQED story and the framing and the thrust of the story and the findings in the story and the scope of the story are actually different from the conclusion in the campaign headline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Vincent said, misrepresentative ads are a reality of political campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Misrepresentation is kind of the name of the game,” he said. “Politicians are engaged in making claims against their opponents because their speech is protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent expenditure committee called Oakland Neighbors, Businesses & Public Safety Advocates for Loren Taylor for Mayor 2025 and against Barbara Lee paid for the ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do agree that it’s misleading,” Taylor said about the ad. “I have been consistent relative to my campaign and those that I am directly engaged with, that we will run an honest, fact-based campaign. It’s important that we draw the contrast, we identify what the stakes are for Oaklanders, but doing that in a fact-based, data-driven way, and I encourage others to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909352/oakland-mayoral-hopeful-loren-taylor-on-why-local-experience-matters\">made the comments on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Thursday. He and Lee are the expected frontrunners in the April 15 special election to replace Thao. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032042/oakland-special-election-candidate-guide-and-how-to-vote\">Voting is already underway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Representative Barbara Lee addresses the room, as Loren Taylor (center) and Renia Webb observe, at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone, in downtown Oakland, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. All are running for mayor. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor also commented on Google Ads that his campaign purchased that linked to news articles and featured text that resembled headlines but didn’t match the headlines in the stories themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One version of an ad the campaign purchased read, “Lee’s Ties to Corruption — Lee’s Dirty Money Problem” and “Barbara Lee accepted $66k from a bribery-linked family — what else is she hiding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users who clicked on the ad were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025747/barbara-lee-return-5000-donations-from-family-linked-oakland-bribery-scandal\">taken to a KQED story\u003c/a> with the headline, “Barbara Lee to Return $5,000 in Donations From Family Linked to Oakland Bribery Scandal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The advertisement is intended to direct people towards the actual source, not replace the headline,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> when asked about the Google Ad. “We want to direct people towards that versus replacing, and so the actual article that’s there is what KQED produced and developed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad appeared in Google search results for users in Oakland for 37 days in February and March, \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">according to Google’s Ads Transparency Center\u003c/a>, which discloses it was shown 9-10,000 times at a cost of $2,000-$2,500 to Taylor’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">ad’s text had changed\u003c/a> to reflect the original KQED headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got the response and we corrected — we no longer put that there,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “But that was not the intent. Our intent was to direct people towards KQED’s article, and that’s what the ads now sort of focus on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Taylor campaign ad that linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/barbara-lee-ron-dellums-oakland-mayor-00232049?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7pO_BhAlEiwA4pMQvNUC6GPRiuFSdDKBcI_R-Bovu3hiDwGogRjvMTR6M_otjmPRBQ1TZxoCBPgQAvD_BwE\">a \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> story\u003c/a> ran for at least five days in March. One version of the ad read, “\u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR11515748725867675649?region=US&topic=political\">Barbara Lee is a Risky Gamble – Barbara Lee = Dellums 2.0?\u003c/a>,” referring to the late East Bay Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>Victoria Mannah has loved being on stage since fourth grade choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been my whole life at this point,” she said. “My dad is a choir teacher, and so I grew up, and I always wanted to be on stage and sing with my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mannah is in her final semester at Cal State East Bay, where she’s studied theater and arts since 2023. She plans to graduate this spring, but she’s worried that other students won’t be able to do the same if the department is shut down due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">campus budget cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by almost every teacher in the department that they were concerned about the department being dissolved,” she told KQED. “They were encouraging students to start looking for other schools to complete their degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> system is facing an 8% funding reduction from the state, and some Bay Area campuses have struggled to maintain enrollment, bringing revenue down further. Cal State East Bay is facing a budget deficit that totaled about $14 million in the fall. And after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">major athletics and degree program cuts\u003c/a> — including to dance and theater arts — were announced at nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> in January, many in the East Bay program are on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Lorenzo, 20, right, a theater major with a concentration of tech and design, joins other students at California State University East Bay in a march across campus on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a dozen students working toward theater degrees climbed the spiraling stairs to University President Cathy Sandeen’s office, hand-delivering a petition signed by more than 900 CSU East Bay students, faculty and community members to her staff. Chanting “East Bay arts,” they urged Sandeen to continue funding the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that as of now, “the theatre and dance program remains intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be speculation on my part to talk about what cuts could be made to account for the budget deficit next year or when we might release more information,” university spokesperson Kimberly Hawkins said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University East Bay students march across campus in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the university said it has been able to save about $10 million throughout this budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Olmsted, head of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is worried about the small-but-mighty program’s odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted said the program graduates 14 to 20 students a year on four separate degree tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever it’s numbers they’re looking at, we’re never going to look good on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is losing a lecturer, one of its four faculty members, at the end of the semester, and Olmsted is worried the department as a whole is on a list of under-enrolled programs currently eyed for discontinuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Mannah, 28, center, gathers students in a theater room for a protest against proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Sandeen sent a message to the university community saying that CSU East Bay was preparing to form a new advisory committee to “continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were suspended in the fall, and over the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes a semester lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theatre and Dance has proposed merging with the Music Department to consolidate resources, according to Olmsted, but he isn’t sure what will happen at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030322 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20230822-SFSU-45-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. Arts programs are often the first to go, despite Olmsted’s assertion that the degrees do prepare students for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay exit the Office of the President at CSUEB in protest of proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We teach students how to work on creative projects together, how to research material, how to present themselves and their ideas,” he said. “All of these really good, soft skills that will help them throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in this limbo period, he doesn’t know what to say to students, whether they are currently enrolled at the school or considering attending in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a number of prospective students that I’ve talked with, and it’s really hard to just say, ‘Come on over here, it’s going to be great,’” he told KQED. “I used to be full-throated — ‘You’ll do well here, we’ll make sure of that.’ Now, I’m hesitant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. 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