Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom.
KQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.
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"content": "\u003cp>Sarah Treuhaft has lived in San Francisco's Mission District since 2001. She's seen the transformation of her neighborhood and the city as a whole. But by 2040, it's likely to change a whole lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she says, the notion of the city as a diverse and inclusive place might simply be a \"mirage\" by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being a resident of San Francisco and thinking of it as a progressive bastion -- the data really flies in the face of that,\" says Treuhaft, director of equitable growth initiatives at PolicyLink, a national social equity organization with an office in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data can be found in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/documents/bay-area-profile/BayAreaProfile_21April2015_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyLink\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/\" target=\"_blank\">PERE\u003c/a> (the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California), which came out earlier this year. One of its main conclusions is sobering: \"While the Bay Area economy is booming, rising inequality, stagnant wages and persistent racial inequities place its long-term economic future at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Change in city population 'is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up.'\u003ccite>Sarah Treuhaft,\u003cbr>\nPolicyLink\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By 2040, San Francisco County is projected to have a non-Hispanic white majority -- jumping from 42 percent in 2013 to 52 percent in 25 years. The percentage of Asians is expected to fall from 34 percent to 28 percent. The Latino population is forecast to shrink from 15 percent to 12 percent. The city's dwindling number of African-Americans, currently down to 6 percent, should remain the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the only one of the five central Bay Area counties where ethnic and racial diversity will actually decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up,\" says Treuhaft. These parallel trends, with the tech boom as a backdrop, translate into an exodus of families and lower-income and working-class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that the percentage of young people in San Francisco who are white jumped to 33 percent in 2014, compared with 22 percent in 1990 -- an unusual trend in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10500958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-04-23 20.20.29\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-400x293.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png 917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is just the latest piece of evidence chronicling the huge shifts in San Francisco and the five-county Bay Area, which ranks second in diversity nationwide, trailing only the Vallejo-Fairfield area. Titled \"An Equity Profile of the San Francisco Bay Area Region,\" the report offers a demographic portrait over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1980, the region did not have a single county that was majority people of color, and San Francisco County had the highest percentage people of color. Now, all counties except for Marin are majority people of color. By 2040, the percentage people of color is projected to decline in San Francisco while it continues to rise in Marin. In 2040, seven in every 10 San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa County residents are expected to be people of color.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised and disappointed to see that divergence with San Francisco,\" Treuhaft says. \"I was also surprised to see the extent of racial and gender inequities by wages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which was prepared for the San Francisco Foundation, draws on data from public and private sources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a> and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There has been dramatic growth and change in the Bay Area in the past 35 years, with people of color increasing from 34 percent to 58 percent of the population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A large racial generation gap exists between the region's mainly white senior citizens and increasingly diverse young population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area has grown from 3.3 million to 4.3 million residents since 1980, with people of color contributing 97 percent of the growth in the 1980s and all the growth in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigration played a bigger role in the increase of the region's Asian population -- 52 percent from foreign-born residents -- than its Latino population, of which only 26 percent were not born in the United States.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By 2040, 69 percent of Bay Area residents are projected to be people of color, making the region No. 19 among the 150 largest metros for share of the nonwhite population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>College-educated women of color with a bachelor's degree or higher earn $14 an hour less than their white male counterparts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Income inequality has risen dramatically all over the Bay Area in the last few decades -- more so than the United States as a whole -- to the point where it's now 14th among the country's 150 largest metro regions, up from 45th position in 1979. The wages of the highest-paid workers have increased significantly, while those of the lowest-paid workers have declined, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the unemployment rate is much higher for people of color, and more than one in four people without jobs live in neighborhoods where at least 82 percent of residents are nonwhite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that the percentage of Bay Area households with middle-class incomes has shrunk since 1979 -- from 40 to 36 percent -- but they've become more racially and ethnically diverse. About one in every nine Bay Area residents lives below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, high-wage workers have flourished: Incomes have more than doubled for those with jobs in professional and technical services and finance, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as being prepared for the future, the Bay Area will be facing a skills gap unless education levels increase, according to the study: \"By 2020, 43 percent of the state's jobs will require an associate degree or above. Only 38 percent of U.S.-born Latinos, 35 percent of blacks, 31 percent of Native Americans and 14 percent of Latino immigrants have that level of education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other tidbits from the report: The Bay Area is less dependent on cars than almost anywhere else in the country. Poverty has increased faster in the suburbs. Segregation is steadily decreasing. And half of Bay Area renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people like Treuhaft, the flood of data takes on personal meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, who live near 24th Street in the Mission with their 2-year-old son, had hoped to buy a house in the neighborhood. But at this point they know that's simply delusional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen housing prices increase beyond our means,\" says Treuhaft, who grew up in Ohio. \"If my family was evicted now, we couldn't even afford to rent in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's dismayed by the study's predictions for what San Francisco will become. But they are, after all, only projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Losing our diversity is a serious risk in the long run,\" Treuhaft says. \"But it's not hopeless. We can change this trajectory through strong leadership and different policies. And immigration will play a big role. There's a lot San Francisco could do now to ensure that its current diverse population continues to live and thrive.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the only one of the five central Bay Area counties where ethnic and racial diversity will actually decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up,\" says Treuhaft. These parallel trends, with the tech boom as a backdrop, translate into an exodus of families and lower-income and working-class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that the percentage of young people in San Francisco who are white jumped to 33 percent in 2014, compared with 22 percent in 1990 -- an unusual trend in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10500958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-04-23 20.20.29\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-400x293.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png 917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is just the latest piece of evidence chronicling the huge shifts in San Francisco and the five-county Bay Area, which ranks second in diversity nationwide, trailing only the Vallejo-Fairfield area. Titled \"An Equity Profile of the San Francisco Bay Area Region,\" the report offers a demographic portrait over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1980, the region did not have a single county that was majority people of color, and San Francisco County had the highest percentage people of color. Now, all counties except for Marin are majority people of color. By 2040, the percentage people of color is projected to decline in San Francisco while it continues to rise in Marin. In 2040, seven in every 10 San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa County residents are expected to be people of color.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised and disappointed to see that divergence with San Francisco,\" Treuhaft says. \"I was also surprised to see the extent of racial and gender inequities by wages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which was prepared for the San Francisco Foundation, draws on data from public and private sources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a> and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There has been dramatic growth and change in the Bay Area in the past 35 years, with people of color increasing from 34 percent to 58 percent of the population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A large racial generation gap exists between the region's mainly white senior citizens and increasingly diverse young population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area has grown from 3.3 million to 4.3 million residents since 1980, with people of color contributing 97 percent of the growth in the 1980s and all the growth in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigration played a bigger role in the increase of the region's Asian population -- 52 percent from foreign-born residents -- than its Latino population, of which only 26 percent were not born in the United States.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By 2040, 69 percent of Bay Area residents are projected to be people of color, making the region No. 19 among the 150 largest metros for share of the nonwhite population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>College-educated women of color with a bachelor's degree or higher earn $14 an hour less than their white male counterparts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Income inequality has risen dramatically all over the Bay Area in the last few decades -- more so than the United States as a whole -- to the point where it's now 14th among the country's 150 largest metro regions, up from 45th position in 1979. The wages of the highest-paid workers have increased significantly, while those of the lowest-paid workers have declined, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the unemployment rate is much higher for people of color, and more than one in four people without jobs live in neighborhoods where at least 82 percent of residents are nonwhite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that the percentage of Bay Area households with middle-class incomes has shrunk since 1979 -- from 40 to 36 percent -- but they've become more racially and ethnically diverse. 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"content": "\u003cp>A plan to redesign the stretch of Middlefield Road that runs through the working-class neighborhood of North Fair Oaks, just south of Redwood City, has residents torn between wanting a safer, more inviting main thoroughfare, and being concerned that upgrades will lead to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, cars speed along Middlefield’s four traffic lanes, while pedestrians crowd on narrow sidewalks and cyclists risk being struck by cars backing out of diagonal parking spaces. Last October, the County of San Mateo approved a $12.5 million revamp of Middlefield between Pacific and Fifth Avenues, making the street the \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/north-fair-oaks-road-project/\" target=\"_blank\">centerpiece of its renewed focus\u003c/a> on this unincorporated area. The plan will cut the road to three traffic lanes, switch from diagonal to parallel parking, and use the extra space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks and public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as housing costs skyrocket in surrounding cities, community support for the project has become mixed with fear. Residents and business owners worry that a spruced-up Middlefield may attract affluent newcomers and push up prices in one of the last affordable pockets in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10728866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10728866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1440x863.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-960x575.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks. \u003ccite>(Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d be really sorry to see the community driven out, and our nice little working street that’s always been really useful turn into some kind of chichi, boutiquey area,” said Penny Durham, a 36-year resident of North Fair Oaks. “There’s been historically sort of benign neglect. Now there’s so much pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar projects to swap traffic lanes for bike paths and broad sidewalks are increasingly common around the Bay Area. Often known as “complete streets” or “road diets,” these redesigns can reduce traffic injuries, encourage healthier and more sustainable commutes, and spark activity on street corners and in local shops. Yet on the Peninsula, these projects have typically been in wealthy neighborhoods and downtown business districts, such as California Avenue in Palo Alto or Lincoln Avenue in San Jose’s Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks doesn’t fit this mold. Tucked between the mansions of Atherton and booming Redwood City, the neighborhood’s median household income was just $60,000 in 2013, and 73 percent of residents are Latino. Instead of being lined with upscale restaurants, this stretch of Middlefield is home to auto repair shops and beauty salons, the signs outside a blend of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help adapt the complete street concept to North Fair Oaks, the county has engaged community members throughout the project. It launched an outreach initiative called North Fair Oaks Forward, and selected the three-lane, parallel-parking concept through a series of collaborative neighborhood meetings. Now, the project team is hosting workshops where community members can shape the details of the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229363665\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials acknowledge risks of gentrification, but say they are taking a similarly collaborative approach to developing protections for existing residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will form a gentrification group and we will talk about this,” said Deputy County Manager Mike Callagy at the first design workshop on Sept. 30. “I promise you these issues are really important to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all residents are convinced, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to know who to trust,” said Armando Garcia, a resident and business owner. “I wouldn’t mind having a nice street, but I feel like it’s going to snowball into something bigger than that eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond policy protections, thoughtful design can also help check gentrification, said landscape architect Steve Rasmussen Cancian. A bilingual former community organizer, Cancian was brought in by the county to facilitate design workshops and help translate neighborhood feedback into specific plans. 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"content": "\u003cp>Increased traffic and soaring construction, combined with rising real estate costs, have prompted more than 500 Redwood City residents to sign a petition asking for a moratorium on approval of new commercial buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229337133\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In city planning meetings, protesters are routinely demanding that officials amend the Downtown Precise Plan, a blueprint for future growth in the three-block radius surrounding the county’s Old Courthouse downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan — approved in 2011 and first conceived during the 2007-2010 economic recession — anticipated slow urban growth to take place over 20 years, allowing residents to gauge its impact over time. But as the economy bloomed and conditions changed, the city reached 86 percent of the plan’s office cap in the last four years alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BoxPlaza-800x478.jpg\" alt=\"New headquarters for tech storage firm Box loom over a gateway to the emerging downtown in Redwood City. 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Dostart Development Co. is proposing a nine-story office building and 270 parking spots at 601 Marshall St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s Planning Commission says the 112-foot-tall building won’t dwarf historic buildings like the City Hall of Justice (143 feet) or the Old Courthouse (118 feet). But residents remain skeptical, arguing that the project’s modern architecture will change the downtown look and feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10727775,10727841\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is simply too much,” said Tania Sole, who is running for City Council in November. “Within less than 12 months, four huge buildings went up and totally changed the character of the city. We’ve gone from a suburban environment to an urban environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sole calls for a new precise plan based on a five-year horizon that would account for changes to the area, such as the drought and new services like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727783\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727783\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Redwood City resident Dave Gahagen fears that downtown's rampant development will sprawl into his suburban neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-800x578.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-400x289.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-1440x1040.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-960x694.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Redwood City resident Dave Gahagen fears that downtown's rampant development will sprawl into his suburban neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Ana Santos/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These factors cascade down into society, and people don’t always think of them until it hits them in the face,” she said. “And here, it hit people in the face really brutally, with the number of buildings that came up all of a sudden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A construction boom is indeed underway: Fourteen new buildings have been approved under the development plan, and six more are currently being reviewed. From the 500,000 square feet planned for commercial buildings, only 61,341 remain open. In contrast, 1,478 housing units were built to date, from the 2,500 capped — even though a specific objective of the Precise Plan was to provide more downtown housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 30-year resident Dave Gahagen, organizer of group “Residents for Sensible Growth in Redwood City” and author of the “Too Tall, Too Fast” petition, the impact of the construction goes beyond downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is with the neighborhoods surrounding the area, because as these apartments and offices start to fill up, we’re going to see a large influx of traffic,” he said. “And I’m afraid that a great deal of that traffic will go by my front door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727785\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727785\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Garcia stands in front of his Ralph's Vacuum & Sewing Center on Main Street, which opened in 1978.\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-800x584.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-400x292.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-1440x1051.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-1180x861.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-960x701.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Garcia stands in front of his Ralph's Vacuum & Sewing Center on Main Street, which opened in 1978. \u003ccite>(Ana Santos/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gahagen believes that the city should allow smaller buildings, and perhaps more of them, at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was the case, I don’t think commissioners would face the kind of antagonism that’s being raised,” he said. “To me, development is like salt in a cookie recipe. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is simply too much,” said Tania Sole, who is running for City Council in November. “Within less than 12 months, four huge buildings went up and totally changed the character of the city. We’ve gone from a suburban environment to an urban environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sole calls for a new precise plan based on a five-year horizon that would account for changes to the area, such as the drought and new services like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727783\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727783\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Redwood City resident Dave Gahagen fears that downtown's rampant development will sprawl into his suburban neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-800x578.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-400x289.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-1440x1040.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/DaveG-960x694.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Redwood City resident Dave Gahagen fears that downtown's rampant development will sprawl into his suburban neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Ana Santos/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These factors cascade down into society, and people don’t always think of them until it hits them in the face,” she said. “And here, it hit people in the face really brutally, with the number of buildings that came up all of a sudden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A construction boom is indeed underway: Fourteen new buildings have been approved under the development plan, and six more are currently being reviewed. From the 500,000 square feet planned for commercial buildings, only 61,341 remain open. In contrast, 1,478 housing units were built to date, from the 2,500 capped — even though a specific objective of the Precise Plan was to provide more downtown housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 30-year resident Dave Gahagen, organizer of group “Residents for Sensible Growth in Redwood City” and author of the “Too Tall, Too Fast” petition, the impact of the construction goes beyond downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is with the neighborhoods surrounding the area, because as these apartments and offices start to fill up, we’re going to see a large influx of traffic,” he said. “And I’m afraid that a great deal of that traffic will go by my front door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727785\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727785\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Garcia stands in front of his Ralph's Vacuum & Sewing Center on Main Street, which opened in 1978.\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-800x584.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-400x292.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-1440x1051.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-1180x861.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RalphsVacuum-960x701.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Garcia stands in front of his Ralph's Vacuum & Sewing Center on Main Street, which opened in 1978. \u003ccite>(Ana Santos/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gahagen believes that the city should allow smaller buildings, and perhaps more of them, at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was the case, I don’t think commissioners would face the kind of antagonism that’s being raised,” he said. “To me, development is like salt in a cookie recipe. If you don’t have it, it tastes funny. But if you have too much, you ruin the recipe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ralph Garcia, owner of Ralph’s Vacuum on Main Street, a big part of the problem is that residents don’t know how the growth will affect them personally, and the pace is frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously [the Precise Plan] is five years ahead of itself and it caught everybody off-guard,\" he said. \"But people in general, and I’m afraid I’m guilty of it, too, don’t like change.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's been a while since there's been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\">a really spirited rush-hour protest\u003c/a> against the behemoth buses carrying workers to and from tech campuses in Silicon Valley. But the tech shuttles have not gone away. Quite the opposite, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency suggests the private buses are busier than ever, with about 17,000 boardings every weekday. That's the equivalent of 8,500 round trips, about 75 percent of which involve workers traveling to Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo!, Genentech and other tech campuses. 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In the first 10 months of the pilot, the report says, the SFMTA issued 1,200 citations to shuttle buses for those two offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Double-parking is dangerous for everyone who walks, bikes and drives, resulting in unpredictable behavior by people trying to get around double-parked vehicles,\" said Chris Cassidy, communications director for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bike Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also includes results of an SFMTA survey that included responses from 550 shuttle riders. Nearly half of those respondents said they'd drive alone in their cars if the shuttles weren't available. Based on that response, the SFMTA estimates the shuttles eliminate about 4.3 million vehicle miles traveled from the region's streets and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pilot program took cars off the road and created a situation where the shuttles could operate safely, as opposed to the kind of unregulated Wild West conditions that were out there before,\" said Tom Maguire, director of SFMTA's Sustainable Streets program, which produced the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot project is scheduled to run through the end of January 2016. Business groups support making the program permanent, but whether it becomes a fixture on city streets may depend on the outcome of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-activists-and-seiu-sue-city-over-google-bus-plan\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit filed last year\u003c/a> by anti-eviction activists who say the private shuttle buses have fueled a rising tide of displacement in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks to require the city to review the pilot project under the California Environmental Quality Act, a review that must include an assessment of the project's impact on pedestrian and bicyclist safety, on air quality and on its \"potential to displace low- and moderate-income individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuttle opponents \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-temporary-tech-shuttle-rules-get-good-6549938.php\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Francisco Chronicle:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We’ve been pretty upset that the SFMTA, in evaluating the program, has not looked at the impacts on housing that the stops are having,” said Erin McElroy, of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. “We’ve found that rents have risen dramatically in the areas where stops are located, and so have evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Crews, a self-described “transit geek,” is part of a group that has sued the city, seeking an environmental impact report on the shuttle program. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is calling for the city to always have at least one subway under construction, an idea that would lead to billions of dollars in transit spending and, most likely, opposition from many residents and merchants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the region's booming population and chronic traffic congestion, Wiener is introducing legislation Tuesday that would require the city to create a long-term policy for new underground train projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener is vocal on the subject of public transit, often posting his complaints about Muni Metro delays \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener\" target=\"_blank\">on social media\u003c/a>. He is chairman of the board that oversees the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and sits on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. His last transportation road map helped carve out the city's priorities for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/22/san-francisco-late-night-transit-plan\" target=\"_blank\">late-night transit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he is renewing his push for BART to build a second transbay tube, a connection he says should link to Caltrain and future high-speed rail service. 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But how would we pay for it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Henderson, a San Francisco State University professor of geography specializing in urban transportation, agrees that the city needs high-capacity rail and a second transbay tube, but is worried that the proposed expansion could come at the expense of bus service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The concern is funding,\" Henderson, who advocates for stronger mass transit policies, said in an email. \"It must be ensured that the Muni bus system is not sacrificed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city should spend money on making the city's current transit system, especially bus service on Van Ness Avenue and Geary Boulevard, more reliable, Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he said finding money for new subway development will be a challenge. The Central Subway relied heavily on federal transportation funds -- a source that may be harder to tap in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless additional revenues -- such as higher gas taxes, an increase in the vehicle license fee and congestion pricing -- are implemented, the city won't get both a major subway expansion and improved bus service, Henderson suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Subway's budget is $1.578 billion. You can see a breakdown of its funding sources \u003ca href=\"http://www.centralsubwaysf.com/content/project-fundingbudget\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to a year ago, San Francisco voters approved two funding measures aimed at improving the city's transportation over the next 15 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>Where are the Bay Area’s gentrification hot spots? In which neighborhoods are low-income residents most at risk of being pushed out due to rising real estate prices? Which areas have become exclusive enclaves unattainable to most of us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley researchers assembled data on more than 2,000 census tracts in the region — including everything from property prices and rents to density of low-income households to migration patterns — to try to create a new portrait of gentrification and displacement dynamics. The result, released earlier this week under the auspices of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project, is the interactive map above — available with lots of supplementary data and case studies at \u003ca href=\"http://urbandisplacement.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the project’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team, led by \u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/karen-chapple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Chapple\u003c/a>, a professor of city and regional planning, and \u003ca href=\"http://communityinnovation.berkeley.edu/staffzuk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam Zuk\u003c/a>, a postdoctoral researcher at Cal’s Center for Community Innovation, wasn’t focusing specifically on displacement and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they were trying to answer questions about the impact of policies meant to help attain state and regional goals for responding to climate change — measures like encouraging in-fill development to help reduce sprawl and vehicle miles traveled. The takeaway is that those policies \u003cem>may\u003c/em> spur gentrification and displacement — if they are not managed carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapple and Zuk said the biggest surprises from the research included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fifty-three percent of of all low-income households in the region live in neighborhoods at risk of, or already experiencing, displacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“The crisis is not half over” — meaning that rising rents and home prices, along with an influx of more affluent people, increase the pressure on low-income people to move to the region’s outer suburbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Displacement is occurring beyond neighborhoods that are clearly gentrifying — something the researchers call “an ongoing story of exclusion” that’s being experienced even in more affluent areas where property prices are rising.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Between 2000 and 2013, the region lost 50 percent of the units defined as affordable for low-income households; at the same time, the number of low-income households regionwide increased by 10 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One of their main conclusions is that there is simply no way for the Bay Area to build its way out of the displacement problem. Instead, an approach that focuses both on increasing the supply of affordable homes, while adopting or strengthening policies to protect the existing supply of affordable housing, will be needed to slow displacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The project’s report also found that one of the key indicators for gentrification in a neighborhood is a spike in development of market-rate housing. That’s become a key issue in San Francisco’s Mission District, which was one of nine neighborhoods the project focused on in a series of case studies that accompany the displacement map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked Chapple and Zuk their thoughts about a proposed moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission: Could it be effective in halting the march of gentrification in the district? Their answer: It might be useful as a tactic in winning some sort of agreement among community groups, the city and developers to add more affordable housing to the mix proposed for the area.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. One deal may be signed this week, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second property hasn’t been easy. He’s had no luck contacting the owner, and the city isn’t helping out, he says. If he fails to secure the second property, Ahmadi says, his longtime campaign to bring a full-service grocery to a community that badly needs one could be over.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are some days when, over a few unforgettable hours, the world seems to shift on its axis. They often involve flames, explosions and splintering steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other days mark a similar tectonic shift, if only symbolically. One happened 20 years ago on the morning of Aug. 9, 1995, when the Age of Aquarius and the dot-com boom briefly collided, signaling a transition from one era to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first event occurred just before dawn when guitarist Jerry Garcia, founder of the Grateful Dead and one of the iconic symbols of a generation shaped by music, love, and community, \u003ca href=\"http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/the-day-jerry-garcia-died/?_r=0\">was found dead\u003c/a> at Serenity Knolls, a rehab facility in Marin County, just north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had checked into the site a few days earlier to clean up for an upcoming fall tour. A long-term drug problem, involving mostly heroin and cocaine, had turned Garcia’s diabetic and overweight body into a death trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[jerrygarcia]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was sometimes so incapacitated he couldn’t function,” writes Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann in his book, \"Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on stage, Garcia forgot lyrics, missed notes and could often seem listless and disoriented. The gray-bearded guru had significant health problems, made worse by cigarette smoking and the stress of the Dead’s tour schedule. In 1986, he nearly died when he slipped into a diabetic coma, but the Grim Reaper wasn’t ready just then. On Aug. 9, 1995, it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was found unresponsive in bed just after 4 a.m. A staff nurse and local paramedics frantically administered CPR, but it was too late: Jerry Garcia, who had just turned 53, was dead of a heart attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Garcia’s body was driven down a winding wooded road to the local coroner, a wildly different scene was occurring 3,000 miles to the east, at Manhattan’s Nasdaq stock market. It was 9:30 a.m. and Netscape Communications was about to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRo3j5XS-A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn of a New Era\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many investors had high hopes for \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/netscape-ipo-ignited-the-boom-taught-some-hard-lessons-20058518550\">Netscape\u003c/a>, which, just eight months earlier, had released the first version of its groundbreaking Web browser, helping to simplify and transform the online experience. The stock was to be offered at $14 per share, but with so much interest they made a high-stakes gamble and doubled the initial price to $28 per share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing prepared investors for what happened next. Demand for the Netscape shares was so intense that for almost two hours after the opening bell, trading in Netscape shares couldn't open, as the bids were overwhelming the asks. When it finally opened, the share price shot up. And up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634431\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1101960219_400.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10634431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1101960219_400-400x527.jpg\" alt=\"A Time magazine cover from February 1996 featured Netscape's Marc Andreessen.\" width=\"400\" height=\"527\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Time magazine cover from February 1996 featured Netscape's Marc Andreessen. \u003ccite>(TIME Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within a few moments it hit $71, then later peaked at $75. Venture capitalist John Doerr, an early investor, later recalled: “When I checked the price, I was numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day’s end, Netscape’s stock price had settled in at $58.25, giving the company a market value of $2.9 billion. The firm was only 16 months old and had yet to make a profit, but none of that seemed to matter on the day the Netscape bottle rocket lit up the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he Netscape IPO was to tech entrepreneurs what the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was to pop music fans -- the astonishing moment when a mental door flew open and a new world awaited, in glorious Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, \u003ca href=\"http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266639/index.htm\">Adam Lashinsky spelled out \u003c/a>what Netscape’s IPO meant in Fortune:\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than any other company, it set the technological, social, and financial tone of the Internet age. Its founders, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark -- a baby-faced 24-year-old programmer from the Midwest and a restless middle-aged tech pioneer who badly wanted to strike gold again -- inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to try to become tech millionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after Netscape went public, eBay was founded. The following spring, Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a Web-based “crawling” technology called BackRub, laying the foundation for the creation of Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of the IPO created the term “Netscape Moment” -- a giddy point that marks the starting gun of a new industry and age. Many business historians say the dot-com boom began that day. Soon, everyone was pestering their broker for tips on new companies. Day trading of stocks via online brokers such as Ameritrade or Etrade was now considered a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like \u003ca href=\"http://www.redhat.com/en/about/company\">Red Hat Software\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/company-history.jsp\">Akamai Technologies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theglobe.com/\">theGlobe.com\u003c/a> would surpass even Netscape’s heights, seeing their shares rise more than 400 percent in their first day of trading -- an excitement that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously called “irrational exuberance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it? Business was radically and quickly reshaped worldwide by inexpensive communications based on a browser-based Internet. It was the biggest era of U.S. wealth creation in generations. Within five years, the tech-heavy Nasdaq soared from 1,000 companies to more than 5,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spontaneous Wake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, the early glimmers of the Internet gold rush meant little to mourning Grateful Dead fans, who had lost an irreplaceable musical god. A spontaneous citywide wake developed. Mayor Frank Jordan ordered city flags to fly at half-staff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in Haight-Ashbury, the low-rent neighborhood that formed a spiritual base for 1960s counterculture. Some sat on the stoop of 710 Ashbury, the ornate house where the Grateful Dead briefly lived, to console, cry, talk it out and get high. Thousands of mourners gathered in Golden Gate Park, listening to tapes of the Dead and creating a makeshift shrine to Jerry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[jerrygarciamourners]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Dead guitarist Bob Weir went ahead with a scheduled solo show in Hampton Beach, N.H. “If our dear, departed friend proved anything to us,” Weir told the crowd, “he proved that great music can make sad times better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deadheads high and low knew better -- an age had passed. Sen. Patrick Leahy said the news of Garcia’s death felt “like I had been kicked in the stomach.” A month earlier, at the band’s final gig with Garcia in Chicago, they ended the show with the song “Box of Rain” and its prescient lyrics: “Such a long long time to be gone/and a short time to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\"So Many Roads\" From Garcia's Final Concert\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/6sFyRQPraJ8\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Garcia and many Deadheads, that short time was now over. The group had survived the death of other active members -- founding member Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan succumbed to an internal hemorrhage in 1973, and keyboardist Brent Mydland died from a drug overdose in 1990 -- but the loss of their colorful leader, affectionately known as Captain Trips, was insurmountable. Within four months of Garcia’s passing, the band that had meant so much to so many officially called it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the closing bell of the stock market, Netscape shareholders were also in a state of shock, although a delightful one. Many were now staggeringly wealthy. Jim Clark’s 20 percent share was suddenly worth $663 million. Champagne bottles were popped open; toasts were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heady days were still ahead, but nothing compared with the surreal euphoria of that first day. Netscape’s stock peaked in late 1995 at $171 share, before its market share began to slip. AOL acquired the company in 1999 for $10 billion, but by 2002 it was sliding rapidly and had less than 10 percent of the browser market. In early 2008, AOL finally pulled the plug on the Netscape browser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that warm August day in 1995, Netheads and Deadheads shared a moment of high drama and importance -- one group thrilling to a colorful dawn, the other wistfully watching a darkening sunset. The zeitgeist was changing. The fading notes of the psychedelic age started to be drowned out by the buzz of red-hot startups. LSD was replaced by IPO. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on stage, Garcia forgot lyrics, missed notes and could often seem listless and disoriented. The gray-bearded guru had significant health problems, made worse by cigarette smoking and the stress of the Dead’s tour schedule. In 1986, he nearly died when he slipped into a diabetic coma, but the Grim Reaper wasn’t ready just then. On Aug. 9, 1995, it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was found unresponsive in bed just after 4 a.m. A staff nurse and local paramedics frantically administered CPR, but it was too late: Jerry Garcia, who had just turned 53, was dead of a heart attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Garcia’s body was driven down a winding wooded road to the local coroner, a wildly different scene was occurring 3,000 miles to the east, at Manhattan’s Nasdaq stock market. It was 9:30 a.m. and Netscape Communications was about to go public.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8WRo3j5XS-A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8WRo3j5XS-A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn of a New Era\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many investors had high hopes for \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/netscape-ipo-ignited-the-boom-taught-some-hard-lessons-20058518550\">Netscape\u003c/a>, which, just eight months earlier, had released the first version of its groundbreaking Web browser, helping to simplify and transform the online experience. The stock was to be offered at $14 per share, but with so much interest they made a high-stakes gamble and doubled the initial price to $28 per share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing prepared investors for what happened next. Demand for the Netscape shares was so intense that for almost two hours after the opening bell, trading in Netscape shares couldn't open, as the bids were overwhelming the asks. When it finally opened, the share price shot up. And up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634431\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1101960219_400.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10634431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1101960219_400-400x527.jpg\" alt=\"A Time magazine cover from February 1996 featured Netscape's Marc Andreessen.\" width=\"400\" height=\"527\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Time magazine cover from February 1996 featured Netscape's Marc Andreessen. \u003ccite>(TIME Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within a few moments it hit $71, then later peaked at $75. Venture capitalist John Doerr, an early investor, later recalled: “When I checked the price, I was numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day’s end, Netscape’s stock price had settled in at $58.25, giving the company a market value of $2.9 billion. The firm was only 16 months old and had yet to make a profit, but none of that seemed to matter on the day the Netscape bottle rocket lit up the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he Netscape IPO was to tech entrepreneurs what the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was to pop music fans -- the astonishing moment when a mental door flew open and a new world awaited, in glorious Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, \u003ca href=\"http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266639/index.htm\">Adam Lashinsky spelled out \u003c/a>what Netscape’s IPO meant in Fortune:\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than any other company, it set the technological, social, and financial tone of the Internet age. Its founders, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark -- a baby-faced 24-year-old programmer from the Midwest and a restless middle-aged tech pioneer who badly wanted to strike gold again -- inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to try to become tech millionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after Netscape went public, eBay was founded. The following spring, Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a Web-based “crawling” technology called BackRub, laying the foundation for the creation of Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of the IPO created the term “Netscape Moment” -- a giddy point that marks the starting gun of a new industry and age. Many business historians say the dot-com boom began that day. Soon, everyone was pestering their broker for tips on new companies. Day trading of stocks via online brokers such as Ameritrade or Etrade was now considered a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like \u003ca href=\"http://www.redhat.com/en/about/company\">Red Hat Software\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/company-history.jsp\">Akamai Technologies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theglobe.com/\">theGlobe.com\u003c/a> would surpass even Netscape’s heights, seeing their shares rise more than 400 percent in their first day of trading -- an excitement that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously called “irrational exuberance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it? Business was radically and quickly reshaped worldwide by inexpensive communications based on a browser-based Internet. It was the biggest era of U.S. wealth creation in generations. 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Thousands of mourners gathered in Golden Gate Park, listening to tapes of the Dead and creating a makeshift shrine to Jerry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[jerrygarciamourners]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Dead guitarist Bob Weir went ahead with a scheduled solo show in Hampton Beach, N.H. “If our dear, departed friend proved anything to us,” Weir told the crowd, “he proved that great music can make sad times better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deadheads high and low knew better -- an age had passed. Sen. Patrick Leahy said the news of Garcia’s death felt “like I had been kicked in the stomach.” A month earlier, at the band’s final gig with Garcia in Chicago, they ended the show with the song “Box of Rain” and its prescient lyrics: “Such a long long time to be gone/and a short time to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\"So Many Roads\" From Garcia's Final Concert\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/6sFyRQPraJ8\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Garcia and many Deadheads, that short time was now over. The group had survived the death of other active members -- founding member Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan succumbed to an internal hemorrhage in 1973, and keyboardist Brent Mydland died from a drug overdose in 1990 -- but the loss of their colorful leader, affectionately known as Captain Trips, was insurmountable. Within four months of Garcia’s passing, the band that had meant so much to so many officially called it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the closing bell of the stock market, Netscape shareholders were also in a state of shock, although a delightful one. Many were now staggeringly wealthy. Jim Clark’s 20 percent share was suddenly worth $663 million. Champagne bottles were popped open; toasts were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heady days were still ahead, but nothing compared with the surreal euphoria of that first day. Netscape’s stock peaked in late 1995 at $171 share, before its market share began to slip. AOL acquired the company in 1999 for $10 billion, but by 2002 it was sliding rapidly and had less than 10 percent of the browser market. In early 2008, AOL finally pulled the plug on the Netscape browser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that warm August day in 1995, Netheads and Deadheads shared a moment of high drama and importance -- one group thrilling to a colorful dawn, the other wistfully watching a darkening sunset. The zeitgeist was changing. The fading notes of the psychedelic age started to be drowned out by the buzz of red-hot startups. LSD was replaced by IPO. 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"content": "\u003cp>This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at the geographic center of the original \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery, classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run collective operating \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Paper Scissors\u003c/a> exemplifies the city’s social justice-seeking, DIY art and activism scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space. August’s will be the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> street fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218061535″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the storefront to learn how to become pen pals with LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can get really complicated, because if someone’s legal name is John but they go by Jennifer, for instance, you have to put J or John on the outside of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of \u003ca href=\"https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Over Walls\u003c/a>, a queer/trans prisoner solidarity organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632273 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1440x924.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be decorated, so they won’t be confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That does not reflect equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632276 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at the geographic center of the original \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery, classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run collective operating \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Paper Scissors\u003c/a> exemplifies the city’s social justice-seeking, DIY art and activism scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space. August’s will be the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> street fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218061535″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218061535″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the storefront to learn how to become pen pals with LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can get really complicated, because if someone’s legal name is John but they go by Jennifer, for instance, you have to put J or John on the outside of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of \u003ca href=\"https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Over Walls\u003c/a>, a queer/trans prisoner solidarity organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632273 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1440x924.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be decorated, so they won’t be confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That does not reflect equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632276 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. 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