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One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. 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And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. 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Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. 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"content": "\u003cp>To afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you need to earn $29.83 an hour, or $62,046 annually, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>out this month from the \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>. Add a second bedroom and your household hourly wage needs to hit $37.62 ($78,249 annually), the highest for any metro region in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things don’t get better in other parts of the Bay Area: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin join San Francisco atop the charts as four of the six most expensive counties in America. Oakland-Fremont, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara join San Francisco in the top 10 most expensive metro regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/most-expensive-jurisdictions-640x226.jpg\" alt=\"Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This report also contains dismal news for minimum-wage workers in California. Those earning the state minimum wage of $8 an hour would need to work 130 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week total) to afford a market-rate two-bedroom in California based on the statewide real estate average. Though the minimum wage is higher in many California cities, including San Francisco and San Jose, there is still a wide gap between what minimum-wage workers earn and what they need for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign to raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/17/ron-unz-minimum-wage-measure-unlikely-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough financial support\u003c/a> to get on this year’s ballot. KQED’s Do Now project recently asked people across the country \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/03/22/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">how much they think minimum wage should be. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/local-min-wage-rates.jpg\" alt=\"Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"628\" height=\"340\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you look at what people in the Bay Area are actually earning, the picture is a\u003cem> bit\u003c/em> less grim. The average renter in San Francisco, for example, earned $31.45 an hour – well above the $10.74 minimum wage. At that rate, it would take 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom in the city. Factor in a roommate or partner to split the rent with, and things look a bit more manageable – at least for those at or above the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Jose metro region, the average renter is even better off, earning $32.99 an hour, but only $31.71 is needed for a market-rate two-bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, if all of these wage levels seem out of reach, we’ll leave you with a glimpse of all the cheaper places you could live. Hint: Can anybody give us a ride to Idaho?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-27-at-11.00.00-AM-640x516.png\" alt=\"A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you need to earn $29.83 an hour, or $62,046 annually, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>out this month from the \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>. Add a second bedroom and your household hourly wage needs to hit $37.62 ($78,249 annually), the highest for any metro region in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things don’t get better in other parts of the Bay Area: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin join San Francisco atop the charts as four of the six most expensive counties in America. Oakland-Fremont, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara join San Francisco in the top 10 most expensive metro regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/most-expensive-jurisdictions-640x226.jpg\" alt=\"Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This report also contains dismal news for minimum-wage workers in California. Those earning the state minimum wage of $8 an hour would need to work 130 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week total) to afford a market-rate two-bedroom in California based on the statewide real estate average. Though the minimum wage is higher in many California cities, including San Francisco and San Jose, there is still a wide gap between what minimum-wage workers earn and what they need for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign to raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/17/ron-unz-minimum-wage-measure-unlikely-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough financial support\u003c/a> to get on this year’s ballot. KQED’s Do Now project recently asked people across the country \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/03/22/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">how much they think minimum wage should be. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/local-min-wage-rates.jpg\" alt=\"Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"628\" height=\"340\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you look at what people in the Bay Area are actually earning, the picture is a\u003cem> bit\u003c/em> less grim. The average renter in San Francisco, for example, earned $31.45 an hour – well above the $10.74 minimum wage. At that rate, it would take 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom in the city. Factor in a roommate or partner to split the rent with, and things look a bit more manageable – at least for those at or above the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS8866_UberX_3-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The California Public Utilities Commission requires Transportation Network Companies like UberX to display signage. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED) \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple of days ago, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/24/uber%E2%80%99s-secret-%E2%80%9Cproprietary%E2%80%9D-insurance-policy-leaked\">San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c/a> got hold of the holy grail of Lyft/UberX detractors, a document long sought by taxi companies and others calling for greater oversight of these ride services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, the Guardian posted \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/214351992/Leaked-Uber-Insurance-Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber’s secret insurance policy\u003c/a>. The weekly said that someone sent it the document anonymously, and that it was sent to a number of taxi-industry advocates as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently in response, Uber soon \u003ca href=\"http://blog.uber.com/ridesharinginsurancepolicy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted the policy\u003c/a> on its own website. Uber wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.uber.com/ridesharinginsurancepolicy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post\u003c/a>: “We are confident it is a best-in-class policy and hope that this additional transparency addresses any remaining questions about the insurance provided to ridesharing partners on our platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy was written by James River Insurance Co., based in Richmond, Virginia. How much Uber is paying in premiums is redacted in both the leaked and company versions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secrecy an issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The taxi industry across the country has made a big issue of the non-public nature of the ride-services’ policies. In covering the issue over the past year, we have frequently heard from taxi companies, drivers and regulators that because these documents have been seen only by the California Public Utilities Commission, no one knows what exclusions and other conditions might get the companies off the hook — and its drivers on the hook — for liability costs in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”249dc16385ce75265eee36c75804d273″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early indications are that those looking for a smoking gun to implicate Uber as engaging in insurance hocus-pocus may be disappointed. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association — which appreciates the technological marvel of loosely regulated, app-based dispatch startups about as much as the music industry liked Napster — focused on the name of the company listed as insured on the policy. Under “name of insured,” it says “Rasier LLC,” which is a subsidiary of Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is some sort of corporate shell game,” said William Rouse, past president of the TLPA and currently general manager of Los Angeles Yellow Cab. “The policy states that insurance kicks in only when Rasier LLC is liable. But Uber — not Rasier LLC — is the company providing for-hire transportation across the U.S. This could be the mechanism Uber uses to avoid paying out any insurance whatsoever. Why would any city allow Uber to operate on its streets with the company’s deceitful practices now on full display?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “Uber Technologies Inc.” is indeed named as an “additional insured” in an addendum to the policy. (\u003cstrong>Update Thursday\u003c/strong>: Robert Passmore, senior director of personal lines policy at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, told the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/03/27/what-does-ubers-1-million-commercial-policy-cover/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> this is not an unusual way to do things.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance issue came to the fore after a fatal New Year’s Eve accident involving an UberX driver in San Francisco. Syed Muzaffar, driving an SUV, drove into a family in a Tenderloin crosswalk, killing 6-year-old Sofia Liu. Uber said the driver was not covered under the $1 million liability policy mandated by the CPUC because he was between calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/14/uber-lyft-insurance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed that gap to a certain degree\u003c/a> two weeks ago, when it announced it had added coverage for the period when a driver is logged into its app but not yet on a call. (Lyft said it would similarly augment its coverage.) However, UberX’s added coverage is capped at $100,000 total per incident for bodily injury and $25,000 per incident for property damage, the company said. That’s far less than the New Year’s Eve accident, for example, is likely to incur in terms of liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy over insurance coverage has become a sort of Achilles’ heel for the fast-growing ride-service industry as it fights numerous \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/18/lyft-uber/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulatory battles\u003c/a> in multiple cities and states. In January, the California Department of Insurance issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0200-bulletins/bulletin-notices-commiss-opinion/TransNetwkDrvrs.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning to ride-service drivers\u003c/a> about potential gaps in coverage that could leave them liable in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago recently, the City Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-14/news/chi-city-council-subpoenas-insurance-records-from-rideshare-firms-20140313_1_ride-share-lyft-and-sidecar-taxi-drivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subpoenaed the policies\u003c/a> of UberX, Lyft and Sidecar in search of holes that could leave drivers and passengers unprotected. Meanwhile, there have been at least two reports of insurers canceling the personal auto coverage of ride-service drivers, leading many of them to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/ride-sharing-insurance-lyft-uberx-sidecar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hide their status as commercial drivers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The policy: Excess vs. primary insurance\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can take a look at the insurance policy, which makes for fascinating reading if you’re an actuary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/214351992/Leaked-Uber-Insurance-Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> or embedded at the end of this article. If you follow this stuff, I imagine you’re going to hear a fair bit of analysis over the next few days. We asked Pete Moraga of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iinc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insurance Information Network of California\u003c/a>, someone who has expressed skepticism to us in the past about ride-service insurance, to take a look. He told us the contract contains a lot of standard boilerplate language and exclusions found in other insurance contracts. The \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/03/27/what-does-ubers-1-million-commercial-policy-cover/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> showed the policy to a couple of other insurance industry professionals, and they agreed there is nothing unusual about the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still early, but all in all one would have to say the release of the policy has been a positive development for Uber and maybe the entire TNC industry. Why? Because, as previously mentioned, the taxi industry has been attempting to use the refusal of the TNCs to make their insurance policies public to sow distrust in them and create a sense that the coverage likely includes a host of conditions unfavorable to drivers and the public. So far, that does not look to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean there aren’t still issues with TNC insurance. Uber’s policy functions as excess insurance for drivers who contract with the company. Excess insurance is meant to supplement a primary policy, paying claims where the primary insurance leaves off. The TNCs have always said that should a driver’s personal insurance fail to cover an accident, their excess coverage will “drop down” to become primary insurance, picking up the entire tab if necessary. But the insurance industry has said repeatedly that drivers’ personal policies will \u003cem>never\u003c/em> cover an accident involving a ride-service vehicle, because personal policies routinely exclude coverage for commercial use. TNCs, however, have insisted that claims are getting through on personal policies. To which some in the insurance and taxi industries have replied that’s only because those insurers don’t actually \u003cem>know \u003c/em>that the accidents occurred during a TNC call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, to the seven insurance industry people still reading, let’s put it this way: During a hearing last week on TNC insurance issues held by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/03/insurance-groups-uber-lyft-sidecar.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_sanfrancisco+%28San+Francisco+Business+Times%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance groups said the ride-services were basically getting a free ride\u003c/a>, no pun intended, by relying on drivers’ personal insurance to cover some claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one reason the taxi industry is so angry: They pay for primary insurance, which is more expensive because it covers more claims than excess insurance. When the CPUC hammered out its TNC rules last year, the California Department of Insurance issued an opinion that its preferred option would have been to require that ride services carry \u003ca href=\"http://www.irmi.com/online/insurance-glossary/terms/p/primary-cover.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary insurance\u003c/a>, because a dual system of commercial excess insurance sitting on top of personal primary insurance could result in confusion to consumers and drivers who need to file claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department also said an excess, drop-down policy would suffice as the next-best thing, and the CPUC declined to require that TNCs get primary insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Moraga, from the Insurance Information Network of California, said Uber’s policy still “begs the question: Did (Uber) purchase the excess policy knowing that drivers’ own policies would not cover commercial use of the auto, or did they try to imply to drivers signing up that their own personal policy would cover them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane Kasselman of Uber’s communications department responded with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teams work with partner drivers to answer any questions they have about a range of issues, including insurance. As a matter of law, all California drivers are required to have auto insurance, so we require that drivers have it to partner with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personal auto insurance is a contract between the driver and their insurer. Most personal auto insurance policies contain an exclusion for transporting passengers for hire, that’s why we have the commercial policy in place. We tell drivers to report all accidents to their personal insurance provider, and we report it to our insurance at the same time. We expect drivers to be truthful with all parties involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC takes another look\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday the CPUC issued a \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M089/K247/89247822.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call for comments\u003c/a> on proposed modifications to the regulations it issued last year. Among the changes floated is the requirement that TNC insurance go into effect “when the TNC app is open and available to accept rides” — in other words, between calls. This is a change that UberX and Lyft have said they have already made, and one that would have extended coverage to Syed Muzaffar, the UberX driver in the New Year’s Eve accident, who was waiting to be assigned a passenger when the accident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC is also proposing that TNCs be required to offer $1,000,000 in uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage; $50,000 in comprehensive coverage (theft, fire, vandalism); $50,000 in collision coverage (when the accident is the driver’s fault); and $5,000 in medical payments due to bodily injury sustained by the driver or passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document from CPUC Commissioner Michael Peevey said, “While efforts to craft market-based solutions are certainly appreciated, not all of the TNCs who have filed applications with the Commission have voluntarily proposed solutions to close the acknowledged insurance gap. Thus, the assigned Commissioner believes it is incumbent on the Commission to consider fashioning a remedy that will apply on an industry-wide basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber said it “strongly supports requests for public comment,” because “for far too long transportation regulation has been made in the dark, and it’s long past time the riding public had a say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: In t\u003c/em>\u003cem>he original \u003c/em>\u003cem>version of this \u003c/em>\u003cem>article, one insurance expert called into question whether the text of Uber’s policy specified that drivers would be covered if their personal insurance policy declined to do so. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The taxi industry across the country has made a big issue of the non-public nature of the ride-services’ policies. In covering the issue over the past year, we have frequently heard from taxi companies, drivers and regulators that because these documents have been seen only by the California Public Utilities Commission, no one knows what exclusions and other conditions might get the companies off the hook — and its drivers on the hook — for liability costs in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early indications are that those looking for a smoking gun to implicate Uber as engaging in insurance hocus-pocus may be disappointed. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association — which appreciates the technological marvel of loosely regulated, app-based dispatch startups about as much as the music industry liked Napster — focused on the name of the company listed as insured on the policy. Under “name of insured,” it says “Rasier LLC,” which is a subsidiary of Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is some sort of corporate shell game,” said William Rouse, past president of the TLPA and currently general manager of Los Angeles Yellow Cab. “The policy states that insurance kicks in only when Rasier LLC is liable. But Uber — not Rasier LLC — is the company providing for-hire transportation across the U.S. This could be the mechanism Uber uses to avoid paying out any insurance whatsoever. Why would any city allow Uber to operate on its streets with the company’s deceitful practices now on full display?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “Uber Technologies Inc.” is indeed named as an “additional insured” in an addendum to the policy. (\u003cstrong>Update Thursday\u003c/strong>: Robert Passmore, senior director of personal lines policy at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, told the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/03/27/what-does-ubers-1-million-commercial-policy-cover/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> this is not an unusual way to do things.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance issue came to the fore after a fatal New Year’s Eve accident involving an UberX driver in San Francisco. Syed Muzaffar, driving an SUV, drove into a family in a Tenderloin crosswalk, killing 6-year-old Sofia Liu. Uber said the driver was not covered under the $1 million liability policy mandated by the CPUC because he was between calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/14/uber-lyft-insurance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed that gap to a certain degree\u003c/a> two weeks ago, when it announced it had added coverage for the period when a driver is logged into its app but not yet on a call. (Lyft said it would similarly augment its coverage.) However, UberX’s added coverage is capped at $100,000 total per incident for bodily injury and $25,000 per incident for property damage, the company said. That’s far less than the New Year’s Eve accident, for example, is likely to incur in terms of liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy over insurance coverage has become a sort of Achilles’ heel for the fast-growing ride-service industry as it fights numerous \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/18/lyft-uber/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulatory battles\u003c/a> in multiple cities and states. In January, the California Department of Insurance issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0200-bulletins/bulletin-notices-commiss-opinion/TransNetwkDrvrs.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning to ride-service drivers\u003c/a> about potential gaps in coverage that could leave them liable in an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago recently, the City Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-14/news/chi-city-council-subpoenas-insurance-records-from-rideshare-firms-20140313_1_ride-share-lyft-and-sidecar-taxi-drivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subpoenaed the policies\u003c/a> of UberX, Lyft and Sidecar in search of holes that could leave drivers and passengers unprotected. Meanwhile, there have been at least two reports of insurers canceling the personal auto coverage of ride-service drivers, leading many of them to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/ride-sharing-insurance-lyft-uberx-sidecar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hide their status as commercial drivers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The policy: Excess vs. primary insurance\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can take a look at the insurance policy, which makes for fascinating reading if you’re an actuary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/214351992/Leaked-Uber-Insurance-Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> or embedded at the end of this article. If you follow this stuff, I imagine you’re going to hear a fair bit of analysis over the next few days. We asked Pete Moraga of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iinc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insurance Information Network of California\u003c/a>, someone who has expressed skepticism to us in the past about ride-service insurance, to take a look. He told us the contract contains a lot of standard boilerplate language and exclusions found in other insurance contracts. The \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/03/27/what-does-ubers-1-million-commercial-policy-cover/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> showed the policy to a couple of other insurance industry professionals, and they agreed there is nothing unusual about the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still early, but all in all one would have to say the release of the policy has been a positive development for Uber and maybe the entire TNC industry. Why? Because, as previously mentioned, the taxi industry has been attempting to use the refusal of the TNCs to make their insurance policies public to sow distrust in them and create a sense that the coverage likely includes a host of conditions unfavorable to drivers and the public. So far, that does not look to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean there aren’t still issues with TNC insurance. Uber’s policy functions as excess insurance for drivers who contract with the company. Excess insurance is meant to supplement a primary policy, paying claims where the primary insurance leaves off. The TNCs have always said that should a driver’s personal insurance fail to cover an accident, their excess coverage will “drop down” to become primary insurance, picking up the entire tab if necessary. But the insurance industry has said repeatedly that drivers’ personal policies will \u003cem>never\u003c/em> cover an accident involving a ride-service vehicle, because personal policies routinely exclude coverage for commercial use. TNCs, however, have insisted that claims are getting through on personal policies. To which some in the insurance and taxi industries have replied that’s only because those insurers don’t actually \u003cem>know \u003c/em>that the accidents occurred during a TNC call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, to the seven insurance industry people still reading, let’s put it this way: During a hearing last week on TNC insurance issues held by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/03/insurance-groups-uber-lyft-sidecar.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_sanfrancisco+%28San+Francisco+Business+Times%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance groups said the ride-services were basically getting a free ride\u003c/a>, no pun intended, by relying on drivers’ personal insurance to cover some claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one reason the taxi industry is so angry: They pay for primary insurance, which is more expensive because it covers more claims than excess insurance. When the CPUC hammered out its TNC rules last year, the California Department of Insurance issued an opinion that its preferred option would have been to require that ride services carry \u003ca href=\"http://www.irmi.com/online/insurance-glossary/terms/p/primary-cover.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary insurance\u003c/a>, because a dual system of commercial excess insurance sitting on top of personal primary insurance could result in confusion to consumers and drivers who need to file claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department also said an excess, drop-down policy would suffice as the next-best thing, and the CPUC declined to require that TNCs get primary insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Moraga, from the Insurance Information Network of California, said Uber’s policy still “begs the question: Did (Uber) purchase the excess policy knowing that drivers’ own policies would not cover commercial use of the auto, or did they try to imply to drivers signing up that their own personal policy would cover them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane Kasselman of Uber’s communications department responded with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teams work with partner drivers to answer any questions they have about a range of issues, including insurance. As a matter of law, all California drivers are required to have auto insurance, so we require that drivers have it to partner with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personal auto insurance is a contract between the driver and their insurer. Most personal auto insurance policies contain an exclusion for transporting passengers for hire, that’s why we have the commercial policy in place. We tell drivers to report all accidents to their personal insurance provider, and we report it to our insurance at the same time. We expect drivers to be truthful with all parties involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC takes another look\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday the CPUC issued a \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M089/K247/89247822.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call for comments\u003c/a> on proposed modifications to the regulations it issued last year. Among the changes floated is the requirement that TNC insurance go into effect “when the TNC app is open and available to accept rides” — in other words, between calls. This is a change that UberX and Lyft have said they have already made, and one that would have extended coverage to Syed Muzaffar, the UberX driver in the New Year’s Eve accident, who was waiting to be assigned a passenger when the accident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC is also proposing that TNCs be required to offer $1,000,000 in uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage; $50,000 in comprehensive coverage (theft, fire, vandalism); $50,000 in collision coverage (when the accident is the driver’s fault); and $5,000 in medical payments due to bodily injury sustained by the driver or passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document from CPUC Commissioner Michael Peevey said, “While efforts to craft market-based solutions are certainly appreciated, not all of the TNCs who have filed applications with the Commission have voluntarily proposed solutions to close the acknowledged insurance gap. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CG-photo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CG-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of the BUSD cooking and gardening program speak out at the March 12 BUSD Board meeting. Photo: Mary Flaherty/Berkeleyside\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of the BUSD cooking and gardening program speak out at the March 12 BUSD Board meeting. Photo: Mary Flaherty/Berkeleyside\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Flaherty, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past few months the Berkeley school district has been struggling along with funding for its beloved cooking and gardening program. After some back-and-forth on proposals this winter, the board is now expected to vote March 26 to approve \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/29/cooking-may-be-cut-in-berkeley-schools-edible-program/\" target=\"_blank\">very reduced funding for gardening classes only in the 2014-15 school year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters – teachers, students and parents – pleaded with the school board at its March 12 meeting not to make further cuts to the cooking and gardening classes, which lost an annual $1.9 million in federal funding last fall. The program is already operating on less than half its former budget this year – about $850,000 — with bridge funds. Next year’s budget would be under $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a very difficult process for all of us,” Superintendent Donald Evans said. “This is a nationally recognized program. But that was when we had $2 million. We can no longer retain that type of program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts affect cooking and gardening classes at every school in the district, except King Middle School, where the garden is operated under separate funding by the non-profit Edible Schoolyard Project, founded by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their long discussion, the board members appeared to agree that the current BUSD program needs to eliminate its cooking classes for now and offer limited gardening classes. The latest proposal called for gardening classes for pre-kindergarten through grade 7 (eliminating grades 8-12). However, board members said they’d also like to fund the garden at Berkeley Technical Academy (which is shared by the Independent Study students), and that will be added to the proposal the board is expected to pass Wednesday, March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at a reduced cost of $485,000 for the coming year, with only $178,000 requested in new funding, the board members were very concerned about whether the budget could accommodate the outlay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m struggling with this,” board member Karen Hemphill said. “We’re having a lot of things come to the board, piecemeal, that are all a priority, that all have their supporters. Nobody here doesn’t love this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will be committing to funding only one year right now. Board members recognized that a longer term financial commitment is probably better for attracting major donors. However, with changes in school funding this coming year (the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> from the state), the district is still sorting out priorities for any new monies it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members discussed allowing individual PTAs to raise funds supporting cooking classes in their own schools. Hemphill was initially opposed, saying it would create inequalities between the schools. But by the end of the discussion, the board members seemed to agree that if a principal signed off, they were fine with PTA-funded cooking classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility for the future is involvement from the Edible Schoolyard Project which has offered to help run BUSD’s middle school cooking and gardening program once a blueprint for sustainability is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board president Josh Daniels said he is hoping that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/14/berkeley-likes-taxing-soda-but-support-for-parks-pools-lags/\" target=\"_blank\">a proposed city tax on sugar-sweetened beverages\u003c/a> (not just soda) for November’s election, will help fund the cooking and gardening program. The tax — which the City Council has not yet decided to put on the ballot — would bring in an estimated $1.5 million a year, say supporters. That’s less than the $2 million cost of the full cooking and gardening program, and it’s unlikely all the proceeds from the tax would go to the program. A further hurdle is that any funding for the cooking and gardening program would have to be re-approved annually by the city council, if, as expected, the tax is a general tax (which would only require a 50% vote to pass). A special tax, which would segregate the funds for specific uses, requires a two-thirds vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Starting March 26 the board moves its meeting location to 2020 Bonar St. Meetings will no longer take place at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. 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(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CCSFskirmish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-129429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CCSFskirmish-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"CCSFskirmish\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nCity College student Otto Pippenger was detained by San Francisco Police Department officers outside an administration building. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/ccsf-protest-violent\" target=\"_blank\">Students and teachers protesting\u003c/a> decisions by Special Trustee Robert Agrella were stopped by campus and San Francisco police from entering the college's administration building on Thursday, March 13. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/12/neighbors-stop-a-new-starbucks-opening-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/3001-telegraph.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/3001-telegraph-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"Neighborhood residents successfully fought a bid by Starbucks to open a cafe in a new building at Ashby and Telegraph avenues. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighborhood residents successfully fought a bid by Starbucks to open a cafe in a new building at Ashby and Telegraph avenues. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A vocal group of South Berkeley neighbors, working in concert with local merchants, has prevented a Starbucks from opening in South Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s City Council voted earlier this week to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">deny Starbucks an administrative use permit\u003c/a> for a 2,063 square-foot space at 3001 Telegraph Ave., at the south-east intersection with Ashby. Council members voted on Tuesday after hearing from dozens of local residents and business owners that such a high-customer-volume coffee shop would increase traffic congestion and exacerbate what they described as an already taxing parking situation. The denial came in spite of the fact that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the original application from Starbucks was approved\u003c/a> by city staff a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks' attempts to rebut parking and traffic concerns — with company-commissioned parking studies, its contention that most customers and employees would arrive at the store on foot, and promises to take steps to create parking in the area — were to no avail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time council members had considered the coffee shop’s application, and the process has been a long one for both Starbucks and its opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Zoning Adjustments Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-13_AUPost__3001-Telegraph.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">approved an administrative use permit for Starbucks\u003c/a> on March 13, 2013. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-06-27_ZAB_ATT5_3001-Telegraph_Appeal-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">appeal was lodged by local resident \u003c/a>Jim Smith and Andrew Johnson from the Bateman Neighborhood Association 16 days later. The crux of the opposition was the parking waiver given to Starbucks over the number of spaces it needed to provide. This was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/02/berkeley-neighbors-bid-to-halt-starbucks-stumbles/\" target=\"_blank\">denied by ZAB\u003c/a> at its June 30 meeting. On Nov. 19, the Council referred \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/20/berkeley-city-councils-nov-19-meeting-the-highlights/\" target=\"_blank\">ZAB’s decision to a public meeting\u003c/a>. That happened last night, and ended with the vote to deny Starbucks a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re thrilled,” said Smith. “The detrimental issues are pretty obvious, but we didn’t know we would get the five votes.” Smith said he believed that from the beginning of the application process, the city had never quantified the impact the store would have on the neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Starbucks’ attorney John Kevlin of Reuben, Junius & Rose, had not been returned at press time. It is not known whether the coffee chain intends to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Starbucks would have opened in the Telegraph Gardens project owned by Avi Nevo which \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/09/12/new-mixed-use-building-going-up-on-telegraph-at-ashby/\" target=\"_blank\">opened early last year\u003c/a>. Savvy Rest Mattresses moved into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/22/shop-talk-the-ins-and-outs-of-berkeley-businesses-95/\" target=\"_blank\">one of the three vacant street-facing retail spaces\u003c/a> last October. Along with the proposed Starbucks location, there is an additional, smaller retail space still for lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starbucks: 'We Went Above and Beyond'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks met all its requirements on paper, and, as Andrew Zall, store development manager for Starbucks, put it to the council, had in fact gone “above and beyond” to try to and reassure locals that the store would not put excessive pressure on parking or increase traffic congestion. Zall said Starbucks was collaborating with AC Transit to move a bus stop currently on the south side of Telegraph across the street to the north side. Nevo would have contributed funding for the move which, according to John Kevlin, an attorney working for Starbucks, had been under discussion for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opposition to the coffee shop moving in was strong and widespread. Opponents who spoke at last night’s meeting included representatives for the LeConte, Bateman, and Willard neighborhood associations, as well as the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacquelyn McCormick, president of the Claremont and Elmwood Neighborhood Association, said CENA was “standing in solidarity” with the other neighborhood associations, and urged the Council to stand in solidarity with neighbors too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Shelton, who lives near Telegraph Gardens, said today that his concerns go back to the original approval of the building. “Planning, then ZAB, then the Council allowed this building to go in with substantial concessions,” he wrote by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starbucks got a waiver of the parking requirements ‘over the counter’ with no notice to the neighbors and minimal inquiry by the clerk. So we have waiver on top of waiver on top of exception. It’s like the bureaucrats don’t look at the totality of their decisions, just the micro view of this one piece of paper in front of them now,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/public-hearing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-129248\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/public-hearing-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbors and merchants — including Mokka owners Susan and Michael Iida, front row, right — turned out to a zoning board meeting on Nov. 19, 2013 to request a public hearing over the proposed Starbucks at Ashby and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors and merchants — including Mokka owners Susan and Michael Iida, front row, right — turned out to a zoning board meeting on Nov. 19, 2013 to request a public hearing over the proposed Starbucks at Ashby and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am offended by the process that requires hundreds and hundreds of citizen-hours to take a matter to ZAB and then two council meetings to overturn a decision made in a few minutes by a clerk at the permit department. If we have a general plan and zoning ordinances, shouldn’t the city be required to enforce them?” said Shelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local business owners, many of them from the multitude of medical and dental offices that are located in the area, on the doorstep of Alta Bates Hospital, spoke of the difficulties their patients, some of whom were be disabled or injured, already have to find parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of Direct Urgent Care at 3095 Telegraph Ave. said his office sees many people with broken bones. A reduction in the number of parking spaces would impact the business. “We have grave concerns about the impact [of Starbucks] on congestion and parking,” he said. He added that the parking study conducted by the the coffee chain was “fabricated” and “simply not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council was divided on the issue. A new Starbucks would bring tax revenues of $100,000 to the city, according to Zall, who also said in testimony that the coffee chain would create 25 new jobs. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said he was concerned about who might lease the space if Starbucks’ application was denied, particularly given the parking issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Capitelli: parking a serious issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Laurie Capitelli said he was conflicted on the issue, but felt that parking was ultimately the one serious issue to consider. He reminded people that the impact on local independent coffee shop Mokka, whose co-owners Michael and Susan Iida \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/02/berkeley-neighbors-bid-to-halt-starbucks-stumbles/\" target=\"_blank\">have campaigned against Starbucks on parking grounds\u003c/a>, should not be taken into consideration, as the council could not consider potential market competition as a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Councilwoman Susan Wengraf and Councilman Gordon Wozniak made a point of mentioning they personally preferred Peet’s coffee — which, of course, was founded in Berkeley — to Starbucks, and Mayor Bates said he had done some research and found that, “Starbucks was a better company than I had realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Wengraf moved the motion to approve the permit. It was seconded by Wozniak. But before a vote could be taken, and after three and a half hours had been devoted the the issue, Councilman Jesse Arreguin stepped in with a last-minute substitute motion to deny the permit, which was seconded by Worthington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguin argued that there was ample evidence that Starbucks, as a high-impact use, quick-service restaurant, would exacerbate local parking problems and create “detriment” to the neighborhood. “As one resident put it,” he said, “this is a good use but not a good location.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote was taken to deny the permit and it passed with six yes votes (Linda Maio, Jesse Arreguin, Max Anderson, Kriss Worthington, Laurie Capitelli and Mayor Bates) and three abstentions (Susan Wengraf, Gordon Wozniak, and Darryl Moore).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">extensive documentation\u003c/a> related to the application, including parking surveys, and street maps created by the appellants, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Council agenda, item 15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/12/neighbors-stop-a-new-starbucks-opening-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/3001-telegraph.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/3001-telegraph-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"Neighborhood residents successfully fought a bid by Starbucks to open a cafe in a new building at Ashby and Telegraph avenues. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighborhood residents successfully fought a bid by Starbucks to open a cafe in a new building at Ashby and Telegraph avenues. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A vocal group of South Berkeley neighbors, working in concert with local merchants, has prevented a Starbucks from opening in South Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s City Council voted earlier this week to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">deny Starbucks an administrative use permit\u003c/a> for a 2,063 square-foot space at 3001 Telegraph Ave., at the south-east intersection with Ashby. Council members voted on Tuesday after hearing from dozens of local residents and business owners that such a high-customer-volume coffee shop would increase traffic congestion and exacerbate what they described as an already taxing parking situation. The denial came in spite of the fact that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the original application from Starbucks was approved\u003c/a> by city staff a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks' attempts to rebut parking and traffic concerns — with company-commissioned parking studies, its contention that most customers and employees would arrive at the store on foot, and promises to take steps to create parking in the area — were to no avail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time council members had considered the coffee shop’s application, and the process has been a long one for both Starbucks and its opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Zoning Adjustments Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-13_AUPost__3001-Telegraph.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">approved an administrative use permit for Starbucks\u003c/a> on March 13, 2013. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-06-27_ZAB_ATT5_3001-Telegraph_Appeal-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">appeal was lodged by local resident \u003c/a>Jim Smith and Andrew Johnson from the Bateman Neighborhood Association 16 days later. The crux of the opposition was the parking waiver given to Starbucks over the number of spaces it needed to provide. This was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/02/berkeley-neighbors-bid-to-halt-starbucks-stumbles/\" target=\"_blank\">denied by ZAB\u003c/a> at its June 30 meeting. On Nov. 19, the Council referred \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/20/berkeley-city-councils-nov-19-meeting-the-highlights/\" target=\"_blank\">ZAB’s decision to a public meeting\u003c/a>. That happened last night, and ended with the vote to deny Starbucks a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re thrilled,” said Smith. “The detrimental issues are pretty obvious, but we didn’t know we would get the five votes.” Smith said he believed that from the beginning of the application process, the city had never quantified the impact the store would have on the neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Starbucks’ attorney John Kevlin of Reuben, Junius & Rose, had not been returned at press time. It is not known whether the coffee chain intends to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Starbucks would have opened in the Telegraph Gardens project owned by Avi Nevo which \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/09/12/new-mixed-use-building-going-up-on-telegraph-at-ashby/\" target=\"_blank\">opened early last year\u003c/a>. Savvy Rest Mattresses moved into \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/22/shop-talk-the-ins-and-outs-of-berkeley-businesses-95/\" target=\"_blank\">one of the three vacant street-facing retail spaces\u003c/a> last October. Along with the proposed Starbucks location, there is an additional, smaller retail space still for lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starbucks: 'We Went Above and Beyond'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks met all its requirements on paper, and, as Andrew Zall, store development manager for Starbucks, put it to the council, had in fact gone “above and beyond” to try to and reassure locals that the store would not put excessive pressure on parking or increase traffic congestion. Zall said Starbucks was collaborating with AC Transit to move a bus stop currently on the south side of Telegraph across the street to the north side. Nevo would have contributed funding for the move which, according to John Kevlin, an attorney working for Starbucks, had been under discussion for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opposition to the coffee shop moving in was strong and widespread. Opponents who spoke at last night’s meeting included representatives for the LeConte, Bateman, and Willard neighborhood associations, as well as the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacquelyn McCormick, president of the Claremont and Elmwood Neighborhood Association, said CENA was “standing in solidarity” with the other neighborhood associations, and urged the Council to stand in solidarity with neighbors too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Shelton, who lives near Telegraph Gardens, said today that his concerns go back to the original approval of the building. “Planning, then ZAB, then the Council allowed this building to go in with substantial concessions,” he wrote by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starbucks got a waiver of the parking requirements ‘over the counter’ with no notice to the neighbors and minimal inquiry by the clerk. So we have waiver on top of waiver on top of exception. It’s like the bureaucrats don’t look at the totality of their decisions, just the micro view of this one piece of paper in front of them now,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/public-hearing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-129248\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/public-hearing-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbors and merchants — including Mokka owners Susan and Michael Iida, front row, right — turned out to a zoning board meeting on Nov. 19, 2013 to request a public hearing over the proposed Starbucks at Ashby and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbors and merchants — including Mokka owners Susan and Michael Iida, front row, right — turned out to a zoning board meeting on Nov. 19, 2013 to request a public hearing over the proposed Starbucks at Ashby and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am offended by the process that requires hundreds and hundreds of citizen-hours to take a matter to ZAB and then two council meetings to overturn a decision made in a few minutes by a clerk at the permit department. If we have a general plan and zoning ordinances, shouldn’t the city be required to enforce them?” said Shelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local business owners, many of them from the multitude of medical and dental offices that are located in the area, on the doorstep of Alta Bates Hospital, spoke of the difficulties their patients, some of whom were be disabled or injured, already have to find parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of Direct Urgent Care at 3095 Telegraph Ave. said his office sees many people with broken bones. A reduction in the number of parking spaces would impact the business. “We have grave concerns about the impact [of Starbucks] on congestion and parking,” he said. He added that the parking study conducted by the the coffee chain was “fabricated” and “simply not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council was divided on the issue. A new Starbucks would bring tax revenues of $100,000 to the city, according to Zall, who also said in testimony that the coffee chain would create 25 new jobs. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said he was concerned about who might lease the space if Starbucks’ application was denied, particularly given the parking issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Capitelli: parking a serious issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Laurie Capitelli said he was conflicted on the issue, but felt that parking was ultimately the one serious issue to consider. He reminded people that the impact on local independent coffee shop Mokka, whose co-owners Michael and Susan Iida \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/02/berkeley-neighbors-bid-to-halt-starbucks-stumbles/\" target=\"_blank\">have campaigned against Starbucks on parking grounds\u003c/a>, should not be taken into consideration, as the council could not consider potential market competition as a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Councilwoman Susan Wengraf and Councilman Gordon Wozniak made a point of mentioning they personally preferred Peet’s coffee — which, of course, was founded in Berkeley — to Starbucks, and Mayor Bates said he had done some research and found that, “Starbucks was a better company than I had realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Wengraf moved the motion to approve the permit. It was seconded by Wozniak. But before a vote could be taken, and after three and a half hours had been devoted the the issue, Councilman Jesse Arreguin stepped in with a last-minute substitute motion to deny the permit, which was seconded by Worthington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguin argued that there was ample evidence that Starbucks, as a high-impact use, quick-service restaurant, would exacerbate local parking problems and create “detriment” to the neighborhood. “As one resident put it,” he said, “this is a good use but not a good location.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote was taken to deny the permit and it passed with six yes votes (Linda Maio, Jesse Arreguin, Max Anderson, Kriss Worthington, Laurie Capitelli and Mayor Bates) and three abstentions (Susan Wengraf, Gordon Wozniak, and Darryl Moore).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">extensive documentation\u003c/a> related to the application, including parking surveys, and street maps created by the appellants, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2014/03_Mar/City_Council__03-11-2014_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Council agenda, item 15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lance Knobel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/13/west-berkeleys-pacific-steel-files-for-bankruptcy/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/castings.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/castings-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific Steel has made castings like these in Berkeley since 1934. (Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Steel has made castings like these for trucks and construction equipment in Berkeley since 1934. (Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pacific Steel Castings, based in West Berkeley since 1934, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Pacific Steel, one of the largest independent steel casting companies in the U.S., has 410 employees in three separate plants at the 8-acre site off Gilman Street. There are no immediate layoffs or interruptions in payment of wages or pensions. (In a hearing Thursday, the bankruptcy court agreed that Pacific Steel could access funds from a Wells Fargo loan to make payroll, pay vendors and meet operational expenses.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company hopes the bankruptcy proceedings, filed Monday in federal court in Oakland, will enable it to restructure its liabilities and remain in operation, possibly under a different owner from the Genger family, which is in its fourth generation of ownership. Pacific Steel makes carbon, low-alloy and stainless-steel castings for U.S. and international customers, largely for heavy-duty trucks and construction equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pacific Steel is not going anywhere,” said chief operating officer Chuck Bridges in a statement. “The process we have chosen is to restructure the company while preserving jobs and exploring the best way to continue making high-quality castings for our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'One day a third of the workforce with hundreds of years of experience walked out the door. That’s hard to recover from.'\u003ccite>— Elisabeth Jewel,\u003cbr>\nPacific Steel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to company spokeswoman Elisabeth Jewel, several companies have shown interest in acquiring Pacific Steel. She said the Genger family emerging from bankruptcy as owners or with a role in Pacific Steel was “definitely within the realm of possibility, but right now it’s very uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bankruptcy was provoked by what Jewel described as a “series of difficult financial events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Pacific Steel \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/12/19/200-undocumented-pacific-steel-workers-lose-their-jobs/\" target=\"_blank\">lost a third of its workforce in 2011\u003c/a> after a U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day a third of the workforce with hundreds of years of experience walked out the door,” Jewel said. “That’s hard to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ compensation insurance costs went up fourfold following a flood of claims from those departing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, this January the company settled \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/12/27/pacific-steel-accused-of-labor-violations-in-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit about the timing of worker lunch breaks\u003c/a> for around $5.4 million, which is owed to about 1,300 current and former employees. According to the bankruptcy filing, the company “was not in a financial position to immediately fund the settlement.” The lawsuit had not been supported by the union, GMP 136B, and was originally filed by a former employee, Jewel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are great jobs, great wages, great benefits,” said Jewel. “The union has been notified every step of the way what’s going on. There have been no secrets with the union. We have a good relationship with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a major employer, and a union employer,” said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates. “We’d really like to see them continue to work in Berkeley and continue to strive to be good neighbors and clean up the plant as much as possible. 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