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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile James Tsukuda doesn’t say too much about his farm work, his attention to detail makes his care for the craft apparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For harvesting raspberries — some so deeply red in color they appear purple in the right light — he keeps a small metal coffee can tied around his midsection where he collects them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For growing heirloom tomatoes, he ties the branches to stakes to help support the weight of the fruit. It’s extra work, but the twine is more effective than tomato cages, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the tomatoes sit on the ground, the slugs will put a lot of holes in them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm and the Tsukuda’s stand — located on a plot of land bordered by the busy Montague Expressway near the corner of Seely Avenue — are an unusual sight in San José. Surrounded by tech company office buildings, Tsukuda harvests fruits and vegetables for the day starting at dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996299\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests zucchini in front of the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tsukudas started leasing the farmland after James’ father, Eiji Tsukuda, and his family lost some of their own farmland off Oakland Road four decades ago through the eminent domain process. The forced sale allowed the Orchard School District to purchase the land and build its facilities there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda took over the lion’s share of the planting and harvesting work nearly 20 years ago after his father was diagnosed with cancer and died. His mother, Miyo, might be an octogenarian but said her age is “a secret.” She helps at the stand — which is not much more than a set of bright yellow tables under wooden arbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As active Japanese American farmers, the Tsukudas are a rarity in the South Bay. But after the fall season’s popular persimmon harvest, they will close up shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family that owns the land under the stand, the Sakauyes, is preparing to sell it to a developer. And with the sale, a significant piece of Japanese American history is at risk of disappearing. A decision on the fate of the land is expected to be made Tuesday by the San José City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel sad. I’m going to miss this work,” Miyo Tsukuda said while working the stand, tossing extra raspberries into a basket for a customer. “What am I going to do now? I’m going to miss all these people coming here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda (center) chats with a customer at the Tsukuda family fruit stand in San José on July 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Japanese American family history \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 22.8-acre plot of land is steeped in history and has been owned by the Sakauyes — a Japanese American family with a long farming legacy — for roughly 120 continuous years. While many Japanese American families \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10459596/hard-row-to-hoe-japanese-farming-in-the-santa-clara-valley\">lost their property during World War II\u003c/a>, the Sakauyes were able to retain their land due to the stewardship of a white neighbor. (A fire broke out Thursday, burning 3–5 acres and a barn not considered historically significant before San José Fire Department crews stopped it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was first brought into the family after Japanese immigrant Yuwakichi Sakauye bought the initial plots in 1907, only several years before the Alien Land Act would have prevented an Asian immigrant from owning such property. It was later managed by his eldest son, Eiichi Edward Sakauye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi Sakauye became a prominent farmer and civic figure serving on local boards and commissions. He was also a steadfast booster and advocate for the preservation of Japanese American history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm is one of only a handful of remaining active farming and orchard sites in the city’s boundaries and represents the last patch of agricultural land owned in the immediate area by the Sakauyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999082\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999082 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eiichi Sakauye is photographed with a pear tree following his return to his farm in San José from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on July 9, 1945. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family once grew the plots under their control into a veritable farming empire of around 200 acres in the region, despite facing severe hurdles, including entrenched racism against Asian immigrants; government-sanctioned discrimination such as the Alien Land Act and Asian Exclusion Act; two World Wars, including four years during WWII when the family was sent to a concentration camp at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10459596/hard-row-to-hoe-japanese-farming-in-the-santa-clara-valley\">Heart Mountain, Wyoming\u003c/a>; and a technological revolution that collapsed the agriculture and canning industry here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sakauyes, led by Eiichi Sakauye’s son Ron, planned to develop or sell off much of the acreage they once owned beginning in the 1980s, and indeed, a pair of large commercial offices sit today on nearby land owned by some of the family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Eiichi Sakauye painted a more complicated picture of what happened to the rest of their farmland in a \u003ca href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-jamsj-2-7-1/?tableft=segments\">February 2005 interview\u003c/a> with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, alluding to disagreements with in-laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sad story. We had family disputes, so gradually, we got in debt and lost it,” he said. He died later that year at the age of 93.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the decades, the family has held onto this cleaver-shaped parcel the longest, part of the original farmland worked by the patriarch, Yuwakichi Sakauye in the early 1900s, and now farmed largely by James and Miyo Tsukuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Historical Sites into housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half of the site is eligible to be listed as an entire historic district in the state’s Register of Historic Resources, according to a consultant report commissioned by the developer. On the site are several buildings — such as barns and pump houses — in addition to the rows of crops, dirt roads and fruit trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those buildings is an adobe home with a red clay tile roof built around 1920. This home is where Eiichi Sakauye lived his entire life, save for the years he was interned during World War II. It is eligible on its own for listing in the register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996245 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda picks cucumbers in front of an old building on the Sakauye family farm in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, a contract is in place for the Sakauyes to sell the land to the Hanover Company, a Houston-based developer that has mapped out plans to level the entire site to build nearly 1,500 apartments and townhomes, as well as a 2.5-acre public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will consider the proposal at its Aug. 13 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Not worth preservation, according to family\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While no one disagrees that housing is sorely needed in the region, some in the city are concerned about the apparent ease with which city officials, the Sakauye family and the developer are willing to allow the historic structures to be leveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In letters to the city, family members said they are proud of their father’s accomplishments and contributions in the community but don’t care about saving his former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999081 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sakauye family outside their home in San José following their return from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on July 9, 1945. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May, the children of Eiichi Edward Sakauye, have very fond memories of growing up and spending their childhoods in that family farmhouse, they do not think it is worth trying to preserve it,” their attorney, Sam Farb, wrote to the city in June. The sisters declined to be interviewed for this story, citing advice from their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Youdall, a development partner at Hanover, told city officials the public park will include a prominently featured historic interpretation area with embedded storyboards that would tell the story of Eiichi Sakauye’s life in San José, his internment, and his contributions to agriculture. Youdall did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to see this last patch of the farm and orchard land be converted into apartment buildings. It’s very difficult to see,” said Vanessa Hatakeyama, the acting director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamsj.org/\">Japanese American Museum of San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few Japanese American farms. And so I think to see one of the last ones in this area go, it is a little bit painful,” she said, citing the once large cultural influence on farming by Japanese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama said the museum is in a tough spot. The organization is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the stories of Japanese Americans in the South Bay but also wants to respect the wishes of the family members who have decided to sell the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi Sakauye seemed resigned to the fate of farms like his even decades ago. In a 1982 feature story in the San José \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> about the changing of the guard in his family, he described his farming in the area at the time as a hobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to see it going like this, but there’s no way you can save the valley. It’s too far gone already. All the canners and packers have moved out, all the equipment people have moved out, all the cold storage people have moved out,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996249 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A modern office park for Cadence Design Systems is located across the street from the Tsukuda Fruit Stand and the farm owned by the Sakauye family in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in the 2005 videotaped interview with the local museum, Eiichi was asked what he thought of the future for Japanese Americans in agriculture in Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe there’s none,” he said. “Because there’s very few of us in agriculture, and those very few are not producing as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Eiichi Sakauye’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama noted that Eiichi Sakauye purchased a home on Fifth Street in San José and generously donated it to the Japanese American Resource Center in 1998, an organization he helped found, which later became the first iteration of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979430,news_11857895,news_11969746\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family also donated many other farm tools, equipment and artifacts that support the museum’s exhibit on Japanese American agriculture in the valley, including a pear sorting machine that Eiichi and his brothers engineered. Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May are also members of the museum’s advisory board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their contributions were really huge already as a family. So even though it’s difficult, and even though we always like to preserve things … sometimes you have to remember that these are people’s personal stories and their personal lives,” Hatakeyama said. “It is their story to tell, and it is their property to control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum has advocated for the public park to be named after Eiichi Sakauye, not just the family name, Hatakeyama said, so people will remember his unique story and contributions, including his force of spirit while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi, while with his family at Heart Mountain, took on a variety of roles, such as block manager and activities coordinator, and he was assigned to be the assistant superintendent of agriculture because of his depth of farming knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recruited other farmers interned there and together they helped produce bounties for thousands of people forcibly living at the camp, according to city and museum records. He led the construction of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/heart-mountain-miracle,134795\">root cellar\u003c/a>, which was preserved and \u003ca href=\"https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/annual-heart-mountain-pilgrimage-highlights-lessons-from-the-past,3125\">dedicated\u003c/a> there in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2249px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999518 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2249\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2.jpg 2249w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-800x355.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1020x452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1536x681.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-2048x908.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1920x851.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2249px) 100vw, 2249px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Eiichi Sakauye operates a bean thrasher on the farm at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on Nov. 22, 1943. Right: Eiichi Sakauye checks the moisture of the soil on the farm at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on March 10, 1944. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a camera he managed to bring into the camp, Eiichi documented life at Heart Mountain in photographs and \u003ca href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1005-1-1/\">video footage\u003c/a>, which were used in a national television documentary in the 1960s. In 2000, he published a \u003ca href=\"https://asianamericanbooks.com/books/2892.htm\">photo book\u003c/a> called \u003cem>Heart Mountain: A Reflection of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama said the property in North San José is visible evidence of not only Japanese American lineage and the journey of an entire community but also of allyship and of \u003cem>gaman\u003c/em>, a Japanese term meaning to persevere and endure through difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi and his father were able to preserve the land in part because of a close friendship with their neighbors, the Seely family, from whom Yuwakichi first bought the land. During World War I, which lasted from 1914–18, the Sakauyes helped take care of the Seely farm and Edward Seely’s ill mother while Edward Seely served in the military, according to city reports and museum accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During WWII, when the Sakauye family was incarcerated, the Seelys took ownership of the Sakauye family’s land and protected it for them until they returned, then handed it back, while many other Japanese Americans lost their land, homes and possessions during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They persevered, and they endured, and they managed to hold on to that farm and make it thrive even after resettling in the area,” Hatakeyama said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Losing history for good?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Members of Preservation Action Council San Jose are hoping city officials will push for a rejiggering of the plans to allow at least the home that Eiichi Sakauye grew up in to be preserved on the site and incorporated into the development, and possibly some of the remaining orchard trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a lot of sites that really tell such a compelling story,” Ben Leech, the president of the action council, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a major preservationist [Eiichi Sakauye] telling a major San José story, and his own house is now threatened,” Leech said. “That just seemed like we needed to speak up and say, there’s got to be a better way to treat this as a development site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leech said his organization has had conversations with the developer and the city, but overall, his organization’s requests are being met with apathy, with no one yet willing to take responsibility for the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like plaques as much as the next person, but this still exists. And it is being proposed as if this was a blank slate, and it’s not a blank slate. It’s actually an incredible site,” Leech said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996244 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests produce for the Tsukuda Fruit Stand beside the Montague Expressway in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May’s attorney said they don’t believe the developer nor the city should have to bear the costs of preserving their father’s home, Leech thinks it can be done without affecting the bottom line of the deal for the family and developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the site and the story transcend the personal interests of the people involved in a positive way,” Leech said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as it is significant that two of the daughters aren’t championing preservation, it doesn’t mean that preservation isn’t important to the larger community. In the future, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, people will forget who was for and who was against saving this thing. They’ll just be glad that it’s still around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama also worries about what else is lost when something is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss that might come with this transformation of the property, it might be one that we don’t realize immediately off the bat,” she said. “There is something that can be very, very magical about being able to actually stand in a space that is still full of generations of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The future of San José family farming\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some customers of the Tsukuda fruit stand share a similar sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before my time here, I heard there were orchards everywhere,” said Rich Buttrey, a customer for the last two years, as he loaded his haul from the fruit stand into his car. “And this is one of the last remaining ones, and we’re very fortunate to have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re wonderful people, really make you feel at home, and they have really good food,” Buttrey said of James Tsukuda and his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999524 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-800x274.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1020x349.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-160x55.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1536x525.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-2048x700.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1920x657.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Inez Lismonde (left) and Rich Buttrey (right) chat at the Tsukuda fruit stand. Right: Produce for sale at the Tsukuda fruit stand. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another grower in the region, Phil Cosentino, along with his daughters, still maintains the 2-acre \u003ca href=\"https://cosentinofamilyfarm.com/\">J&P Cosentino Family Farm\u003c/a> near Highway 85 in South San José that was started in the 1940s by his father, Dominic Cosentino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Cosentino said he’s saddened but not surprised to see the paving over of another patch of what he calls the “most fertile fruit-producing region” in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what are you going to do? Money talks. Nothing else seems to matter anymore,” he said. “History and all that, what there was here in the valley, is meaningless. Money is the only thing that means anything, and nothing else matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he doesn’t know what he’s going to do next after his time working the farmland here comes to an end. The Tsukudas say they likely won’t continue their business elsewhere after they close, especially given the exorbitant prices for land in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda on the Sakauye family farm in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through this before. So for me, this is roughly the same experience or a similar experience,” he said. “Once we’re done, I think I’ll miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing he’s sure of: he won’t be visiting the area to gaze at the multi-story apartment buildings about to replace the rows of crops he’s worked in for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not for me. I might come and take a look at the development once after they finish,” James Tsukuda said. “And I’ll probably never come back here again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hile James Tsukuda doesn’t say too much about his farm work, his attention to detail makes his care for the craft apparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For harvesting raspberries — some so deeply red in color they appear purple in the right light — he keeps a small metal coffee can tied around his midsection where he collects them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For growing heirloom tomatoes, he ties the branches to stakes to help support the weight of the fruit. It’s extra work, but the twine is more effective than tomato cages, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the tomatoes sit on the ground, the slugs will put a lot of holes in them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm and the Tsukuda’s stand — located on a plot of land bordered by the busy Montague Expressway near the corner of Seely Avenue — are an unusual sight in San José. Surrounded by tech company office buildings, Tsukuda harvests fruits and vegetables for the day starting at dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996299\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-26_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests zucchini in front of the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tsukudas started leasing the farmland after James’ father, Eiji Tsukuda, and his family lost some of their own farmland off Oakland Road four decades ago through the eminent domain process. The forced sale allowed the Orchard School District to purchase the land and build its facilities there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda took over the lion’s share of the planting and harvesting work nearly 20 years ago after his father was diagnosed with cancer and died. His mother, Miyo, might be an octogenarian but said her age is “a secret.” She helps at the stand — which is not much more than a set of bright yellow tables under wooden arbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As active Japanese American farmers, the Tsukudas are a rarity in the South Bay. But after the fall season’s popular persimmon harvest, they will close up shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family that owns the land under the stand, the Sakauyes, is preparing to sell it to a developer. And with the sale, a significant piece of Japanese American history is at risk of disappearing. A decision on the fate of the land is expected to be made Tuesday by the San José City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel sad. I’m going to miss this work,” Miyo Tsukuda said while working the stand, tossing extra raspberries into a basket for a customer. “What am I going to do now? I’m going to miss all these people coming here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda (center) chats with a customer at the Tsukuda family fruit stand in San José on July 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Japanese American family history \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 22.8-acre plot of land is steeped in history and has been owned by the Sakauyes — a Japanese American family with a long farming legacy — for roughly 120 continuous years. While many Japanese American families \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10459596/hard-row-to-hoe-japanese-farming-in-the-santa-clara-valley\">lost their property during World War II\u003c/a>, the Sakauyes were able to retain their land due to the stewardship of a white neighbor. (A fire broke out Thursday, burning 3–5 acres and a barn not considered historically significant before San José Fire Department crews stopped it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was first brought into the family after Japanese immigrant Yuwakichi Sakauye bought the initial plots in 1907, only several years before the Alien Land Act would have prevented an Asian immigrant from owning such property. It was later managed by his eldest son, Eiichi Edward Sakauye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi Sakauye became a prominent farmer and civic figure serving on local boards and commissions. He was also a steadfast booster and advocate for the preservation of Japanese American history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm is one of only a handful of remaining active farming and orchard sites in the city’s boundaries and represents the last patch of agricultural land owned in the immediate area by the Sakauyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999082\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999082 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-03-KQED.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eiichi Sakauye is photographed with a pear tree following his return to his farm in San José from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on July 9, 1945. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family once grew the plots under their control into a veritable farming empire of around 200 acres in the region, despite facing severe hurdles, including entrenched racism against Asian immigrants; government-sanctioned discrimination such as the Alien Land Act and Asian Exclusion Act; two World Wars, including four years during WWII when the family was sent to a concentration camp at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10459596/hard-row-to-hoe-japanese-farming-in-the-santa-clara-valley\">Heart Mountain, Wyoming\u003c/a>; and a technological revolution that collapsed the agriculture and canning industry here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sakauyes, led by Eiichi Sakauye’s son Ron, planned to develop or sell off much of the acreage they once owned beginning in the 1980s, and indeed, a pair of large commercial offices sit today on nearby land owned by some of the family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Eiichi Sakauye painted a more complicated picture of what happened to the rest of their farmland in a \u003ca href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-jamsj-2-7-1/?tableft=segments\">February 2005 interview\u003c/a> with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, alluding to disagreements with in-laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sad story. We had family disputes, so gradually, we got in debt and lost it,” he said. He died later that year at the age of 93.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the decades, the family has held onto this cleaver-shaped parcel the longest, part of the original farmland worked by the patriarch, Yuwakichi Sakauye in the early 1900s, and now farmed largely by James and Miyo Tsukuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Historical Sites into housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half of the site is eligible to be listed as an entire historic district in the state’s Register of Historic Resources, according to a consultant report commissioned by the developer. On the site are several buildings — such as barns and pump houses — in addition to the rows of crops, dirt roads and fruit trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those buildings is an adobe home with a red clay tile roof built around 1920. This home is where Eiichi Sakauye lived his entire life, save for the years he was interned during World War II. It is eligible on its own for listing in the register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996245 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda picks cucumbers in front of an old building on the Sakauye family farm in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, a contract is in place for the Sakauyes to sell the land to the Hanover Company, a Houston-based developer that has mapped out plans to level the entire site to build nearly 1,500 apartments and townhomes, as well as a 2.5-acre public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will consider the proposal at its Aug. 13 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Not worth preservation, according to family\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While no one disagrees that housing is sorely needed in the region, some in the city are concerned about the apparent ease with which city officials, the Sakauye family and the developer are willing to allow the historic structures to be leveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In letters to the city, family members said they are proud of their father’s accomplishments and contributions in the community but don’t care about saving his former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999081 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-ARCHIVAL-02-KQED.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sakauye family outside their home in San José following their return from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on July 9, 1945. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May, the children of Eiichi Edward Sakauye, have very fond memories of growing up and spending their childhoods in that family farmhouse, they do not think it is worth trying to preserve it,” their attorney, Sam Farb, wrote to the city in June. The sisters declined to be interviewed for this story, citing advice from their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Youdall, a development partner at Hanover, told city officials the public park will include a prominently featured historic interpretation area with embedded storyboards that would tell the story of Eiichi Sakauye’s life in San José, his internment, and his contributions to agriculture. Youdall did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to see this last patch of the farm and orchard land be converted into apartment buildings. It’s very difficult to see,” said Vanessa Hatakeyama, the acting director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamsj.org/\">Japanese American Museum of San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few Japanese American farms. And so I think to see one of the last ones in this area go, it is a little bit painful,” she said, citing the once large cultural influence on farming by Japanese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama said the museum is in a tough spot. The organization is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the stories of Japanese Americans in the South Bay but also wants to respect the wishes of the family members who have decided to sell the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi Sakauye seemed resigned to the fate of farms like his even decades ago. In a 1982 feature story in the San José \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> about the changing of the guard in his family, he described his farming in the area at the time as a hobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to see it going like this, but there’s no way you can save the valley. It’s too far gone already. All the canners and packers have moved out, all the equipment people have moved out, all the cold storage people have moved out,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996249 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-27-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A modern office park for Cadence Design Systems is located across the street from the Tsukuda Fruit Stand and the farm owned by the Sakauye family in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in the 2005 videotaped interview with the local museum, Eiichi was asked what he thought of the future for Japanese Americans in agriculture in Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe there’s none,” he said. “Because there’s very few of us in agriculture, and those very few are not producing as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Eiichi Sakauye’s legacy \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama noted that Eiichi Sakauye purchased a home on Fifth Street in San José and generously donated it to the Japanese American Resource Center in 1998, an organization he helped found, which later became the first iteration of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family also donated many other farm tools, equipment and artifacts that support the museum’s exhibit on Japanese American agriculture in the valley, including a pear sorting machine that Eiichi and his brothers engineered. Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May are also members of the museum’s advisory board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their contributions were really huge already as a family. So even though it’s difficult, and even though we always like to preserve things … sometimes you have to remember that these are people’s personal stories and their personal lives,” Hatakeyama said. “It is their story to tell, and it is their property to control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum has advocated for the public park to be named after Eiichi Sakauye, not just the family name, Hatakeyama said, so people will remember his unique story and contributions, including his force of spirit while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi, while with his family at Heart Mountain, took on a variety of roles, such as block manager and activities coordinator, and he was assigned to be the assistant superintendent of agriculture because of his depth of farming knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recruited other farmers interned there and together they helped produce bounties for thousands of people forcibly living at the camp, according to city and museum records. He led the construction of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/heart-mountain-miracle,134795\">root cellar\u003c/a>, which was preserved and \u003ca href=\"https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/annual-heart-mountain-pilgrimage-highlights-lessons-from-the-past,3125\">dedicated\u003c/a> there in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2249px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999518 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2249\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2.jpg 2249w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-800x355.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1020x452.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1536x681.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-2048x908.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-2-1920x851.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2249px) 100vw, 2249px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Eiichi Sakauye operates a bean thrasher on the farm at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on Nov. 22, 1943. Right: Eiichi Sakauye checks the moisture of the soil on the farm at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on March 10, 1944. \u003ccite>(Hikaru Iwasaki courtesy of Calisphere)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a camera he managed to bring into the camp, Eiichi documented life at Heart Mountain in photographs and \u003ca href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1005-1-1/\">video footage\u003c/a>, which were used in a national television documentary in the 1960s. In 2000, he published a \u003ca href=\"https://asianamericanbooks.com/books/2892.htm\">photo book\u003c/a> called \u003cem>Heart Mountain: A Reflection of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama said the property in North San José is visible evidence of not only Japanese American lineage and the journey of an entire community but also of allyship and of \u003cem>gaman\u003c/em>, a Japanese term meaning to persevere and endure through difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eiichi and his father were able to preserve the land in part because of a close friendship with their neighbors, the Seely family, from whom Yuwakichi first bought the land. During World War I, which lasted from 1914–18, the Sakauyes helped take care of the Seely farm and Edward Seely’s ill mother while Edward Seely served in the military, according to city reports and museum accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During WWII, when the Sakauye family was incarcerated, the Seelys took ownership of the Sakauye family’s land and protected it for them until they returned, then handed it back, while many other Japanese Americans lost their land, homes and possessions during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They persevered, and they endured, and they managed to hold on to that farm and make it thrive even after resettling in the area,” Hatakeyama said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Losing history for good?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Members of Preservation Action Council San Jose are hoping city officials will push for a rejiggering of the plans to allow at least the home that Eiichi Sakauye grew up in to be preserved on the site and incorporated into the development, and possibly some of the remaining orchard trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a lot of sites that really tell such a compelling story,” Ben Leech, the president of the action council, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a major preservationist [Eiichi Sakauye] telling a major San José story, and his own house is now threatened,” Leech said. “That just seemed like we needed to speak up and say, there’s got to be a better way to treat this as a development site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leech said his organization has had conversations with the developer and the city, but overall, his organization’s requests are being met with apathy, with no one yet willing to take responsibility for the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like plaques as much as the next person, but this still exists. And it is being proposed as if this was a blank slate, and it’s not a blank slate. It’s actually an incredible site,” Leech said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996244 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests produce for the Tsukuda Fruit Stand beside the Montague Expressway in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Carolyn Sakauye and Jane May’s attorney said they don’t believe the developer nor the city should have to bear the costs of preserving their father’s home, Leech thinks it can be done without affecting the bottom line of the deal for the family and developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the site and the story transcend the personal interests of the people involved in a positive way,” Leech said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as it is significant that two of the daughters aren’t championing preservation, it doesn’t mean that preservation isn’t important to the larger community. In the future, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, people will forget who was for and who was against saving this thing. They’ll just be glad that it’s still around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatakeyama also worries about what else is lost when something is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss that might come with this transformation of the property, it might be one that we don’t realize immediately off the bat,” she said. “There is something that can be very, very magical about being able to actually stand in a space that is still full of generations of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The future of San José family farming\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some customers of the Tsukuda fruit stand share a similar sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before my time here, I heard there were orchards everywhere,” said Rich Buttrey, a customer for the last two years, as he loaded his haul from the fruit stand into his car. “And this is one of the last remaining ones, and we’re very fortunate to have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re wonderful people, really make you feel at home, and they have really good food,” Buttrey said of James Tsukuda and his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11999524 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-800x274.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1020x349.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-160x55.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1536x525.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-2048x700.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Japanese-American-Family-Farm-Diptych-3-1-1920x657.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Inez Lismonde (left) and Rich Buttrey (right) chat at the Tsukuda fruit stand. Right: Produce for sale at the Tsukuda fruit stand. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another grower in the region, Phil Cosentino, along with his daughters, still maintains the 2-acre \u003ca href=\"https://cosentinofamilyfarm.com/\">J&P Cosentino Family Farm\u003c/a> near Highway 85 in South San José that was started in the 1940s by his father, Dominic Cosentino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Cosentino said he’s saddened but not surprised to see the paving over of another patch of what he calls the “most fertile fruit-producing region” in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what are you going to do? Money talks. Nothing else seems to matter anymore,” he said. “History and all that, what there was here in the valley, is meaningless. Money is the only thing that means anything, and nothing else matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he doesn’t know what he’s going to do next after his time working the farmland here comes to an end. The Tsukudas say they likely won’t continue their business elsewhere after they close, especially given the exorbitant prices for land in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240703-JAPANESE-AMERICAN-FAMILY-FARM-MD-28-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda on the Sakauye family farm in San José on July 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through this before. So for me, this is roughly the same experience or a similar experience,” he said. “Once we’re done, I think I’ll miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing he’s sure of: he won’t be visiting the area to gaze at the multi-story apartment buildings about to replace the rows of crops he’s worked in for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not for me. I might come and take a look at the development once after they finish,” James Tsukuda said. “And I’ll probably never come back here again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nine years ago, tenants of the Pigeon Palace at 2840–2848 Folsom Street in San Francisco faced a dilemma. Their aging landlord, who had long rented at affordable rates, was unable to continue overseeing the place. Instead, a court-appointed conservator took steps to auction off the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Pigeon Palace is in the popular and increasingly expensive Mission neighborhood, the residents feared a new owner might dramatically raise their rents — or kick them out altogether. So they crowdfunded $300,000 and gave it to a nonprofit called the San Francisco Community Land Trust, which combined it with loans from a bank and the city to place the winning bid of more than $3 million. The trust then rented units back to the tenants at affordable rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the political debate about California’s housing crisis has focused on building new units. However, community land trusts, a method of preserving existing affordable housing that dates back to the Civil Rights Movement, have quietly been gaining steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of community land trusts — nonprofits that buy up land and then sell or rent the buildings on top of it to residents with low-income — has tripled in California since 2014, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacltnetwork.org/\">California Community Land Trust Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the housing units that such trusts oversee number only in the low thousands, supporters say the model is cheaper than building new and can help stabilize communities at risk of gentrification and displacement. Indigenous tribes, immigrant neighborhoods and formerly affordable inland cities are among the communities experimenting with community land trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, tenants of Pigeon Palace, a six-unit Queen Anne building, pay between $1,400 and $3,000 per month for spacious two-bedroom apartments in one of the pricey city’s most desirable neighborhoods. They share a bike room and garden with outdoor meeting space and make decisions together about building management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shifted from being renters in a market where someone could buy our building any day to where no one’s coming to buy our building,” said Keith Hennessy, an experimental dance performer who’s lived at the Palace for 22 years. With that stability, he said, “it’s easier to build a family. It’s easier to build community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the San Francisco Community Land Trust has grown to oversee 150 units, including two larger buildings in the Tenderloin district that primarily house Spanish- and Mayan-speaking service workers. Last year, philanthropist \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bezo-s-ex-donates-20m-s-f-affordable-housing-18353981.php\">MacKenzie Scott gave the organization $20 million\u003c/a> to expand its portfolio and help incubate new land trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts can oversee single-family homes or multi-unit buildings, and residents can rent or own. When residents own their homes, the trust retains control over the land, leasing it to homeowners long-term and requiring that any home sales be to other lower- or moderate-income buyers or back to the trust. Tenants in multi-unit buildings typically cooperate to manage the property and sit on the trust’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than just creating new affordable housing, community land trusts help stem the bleed of existing affordable housing being converted to units for wealthier residents. While the trusts are not new in California, concern about growing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/03/institutional-investors-corporate-landlords/\">corporate control of housing\u003c/a> and the rising cost of new construction have driven increased interest in the model, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Land Trust Network represents 50 established and emerging trusts across the state, with most of the newest ones springing up in working-class Black and brown communities, according to the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving control of buildings to the community. We’re taking it off the speculative market, and we’re ensuring that tenants can become homeowners if they want to,” said Jessica Melendez, director of policy for T.R.U.S.T. South LA, which recently bought two small multi-unit buildings in gentrifying South Los Angeles with the goal of turning them into cooperatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization also owns the Rolland Curtis Gardens, a 140-unit apartment complex with a health clinic and market near the University of Southern California, on a site that was slated for conversion to market-rate housing until the trust purchased and rehabbed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/327SC/6/\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community land trusts could be a tool to help close the homeownership gap between Black and white individuals,” said Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a>. The construction of condominiums has slowed nationwide in the past 15 years, he said, restricting options for entry-level homeowners who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/03/california-home-prices-black-latino-households/\">lack generational wealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said community land trusts also have to navigate a financial and legal system that doesn’t tend to favor cooperative ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge of raising capital has constrained the growth of community land trusts. They currently house about 3,500 California residents, with most properties consisting of fewer than 10 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement took a hit this year when California lawmakers seeking to close a budget deficit scrapped a $500 million program that would have given tenants and community land trusts grants to buy properties at risk of foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998629\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998629\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080124_PigeonPalace_FM_CM-06-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pigeon Palace in San Francisco, on Aug. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts are instead turning to local funding streams: A $20 billion affordable \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-housing-bond-bahfa-billion/\">housing bond on the ballot in the San Francisco Bay Area \u003c/a>this November would set aside $3 billion to preserve existing affordable housing, plus $6 billion for local communities to spend flexibly on priorities including preservation. And in Los Angeles, part of the revenue from the city’s “mansion tax” on real estate purchases, over $5 million, will go toward acquiring and rehabilitating affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once concentrated in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, community land trusts are spreading to other areas where the cost of living is rising. The Bakersfield City Council voted last year to establish a community land trust; Irvine already has one, and Long Beach is considering it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979610,news_11992758,news_11997102\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fledgling Sacramento Community Land Trust just bought its first property — a garden used by residents transitioning out of homelessness — where it plans to build tiny homes, executive director Tamika L’Ecluse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Wiyot Tribe in Humboldt County has set up a land trust focused on conservation as well as housing. “As housing prices are pricing our people out of the Tribe’s ancestral lands, this land trust is an attempt to make change in our community,” tribal administrator Michelle Vassel said by email. “Our intention is to take the profit margin out of housing development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not community land trusts can scale to become a significant part of California’s housing landscape, the model cuts across some of the traditional binaries of the state’s housing conversation. Land trust acquisitions can bring together cash-strapped tenants and small landlords who want to sell their properties, two groups often pitted against each other. And the idea goes beyond the debate between NIMBYs and YIMBYs about whether to build; community land trust advocates argue it’s not just about how much housing we have but who controls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennessy, the Pigeon Palace tenant, said he loves co-managing his building with a multi-ethnic community of 11 adults, four kids and two regularly visiting grandchildren. The building is undergoing renovations, and he said the tenants made decisions together about everything, down to the paint colors for its facade (lavender in back, greens and blues in front).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is affordable housing for another generation,” he said. He doesn’t have children himself, but his unit will go to another lower- to moderate-income tenant after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m building a house for people I don’t know in the future,” he said. “It’s another kind of legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ben Christopher contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They share a bike room and garden with outdoor meeting space and make decisions together about building management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shifted from being renters in a market where someone could buy our building any day to where no one’s coming to buy our building,” said Keith Hennessy, an experimental dance performer who’s lived at the Palace for 22 years. With that stability, he said, “it’s easier to build a family. It’s easier to build community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the San Francisco Community Land Trust has grown to oversee 150 units, including two larger buildings in the Tenderloin district that primarily house Spanish- and Mayan-speaking service workers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the country to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">ban algorithmic software\u003c/a> used to set and raise rental prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted an ordinance blocking the use and sale of artificial intelligence tools that allegedly enable price fixing by large corporate landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s ordinance comes as the U.S. Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/20/rental-housing-market-doj-investigation-00147333\">investigating RealPage\u003c/a>, a revenue management company whose software is used by landlords to maximize rents. Attorney generals across the country have filed \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/wPwFCwpkPvsy6WkvSKomPN?domain=reuters.com\">lawsuits\u003c/a> alleging RealPage’s tools empower collusion and price-gouging among large corporate property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning algorithmic price gouging is pro-housing policy, and it’s entirely consistent with our shared goal of a functioning housing market that meets our real housing needs,” Board President Aaron Peskin, who introduced the legislation, said at Tuesday’s meeting. “Wall Street has gotten into the housing business, and it’s a phenomenon we have seen here locally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of units in San Francisco are estimated to be owned by companies that use AI technology, according to Lee Hepner, senior legal counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landlords, who should be ordinarily competing against each other, are instead adopting the price recommendations of this third-party revenue management software. And the effect of that is an old-fashioned price-fixing scheme,” Hepner said. “It is not unlike the kind of price fixing that antitrust laws have addressed for well over a century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates have similarly raised concerns about rent hikes coordinated by property owners using software to artificially inflate rents and vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenants experience the effects of RealPage in the form of rent hikes, miscellaneous fees to get around rent control and arbitrary evictions. It’s a dangerous tool in the hands of well-resourced corporate landlords,” Lenea Maibaum, a tenant organizer for the Housing Rights Committee and a member of the Veritas Tenants Association, said in a statement. “Since Veritas, then Brookfield (Properties), took over my apartment building and the management of thousands of other rental units in San Francisco, we’ve noticed dramatic increases in rent for new tenants and new tactics to harass and displace long-term tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation will go before the board for final approval on Sept. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he hopes the legislation will be a model for other local governments around the country, comparing the urgency around the ordinance to the city’s early regulation of Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s build housing for renters, not real estate investors,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>To stem an outflow of teachers from schools across the state, California’s Department of Education encourages districts to venture into a different business: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/housing\">housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Tuesday announced an initiative that aims to establish the department as a go-to resource for districts looking to build homes for teachers on their property. The move comes as the state faces a housing affordability crisis and a shortage of some \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94729ab1648d43b1811c1698a748c136\">2.5 million homes\u003c/a>. School districts lose, on average, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csba.org/-/media/CSBA/Files/Advocacy/LegislativeAdvocacy/ResearchReport.ashx\">12% of their staff\u003c/a> each year to retirements and turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a strategy to help allow us to keep our workforce,” Thurmond said. “This is part of a larger plan to make sure that people can afford to live where they work, that they can afford the American dream and to buy a home, and that they have earnings that support them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 11,000 school districts across the state control more than 151,000 acres of total property. A 2021 analysis by UC Berkeley and UCLA found that of that land, there are enough developable parcels to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.csba.org/-/media/CSBA/Files/Advocacy/LegislativeAdvocacy/ResearchReport.ashx\">2.3 million new homes\u003c/a> or more than 90% of the state’s estimated shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts have shown recent success in overcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-unified-teachers-react-affordable-housing-proposal/\">opposition\u003c/a> to affordable housing for teachers. In Menlo Park, voters in 2022 defeated an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929505/from-menlo-park-to-laguna-beach-residents-turn-to-ballot-box-to-fight-new-california-housing-mandates\">block a teacher housing project\u003c/a> in a single-family neighborhood. And in San Jose, school district leaders voted last week to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/26/1-2-billion-south-bay-school-facilities-bond-headed-for-november-ballot/\">place a $1.2 billion bond\u003c/a> on the November ballot, part of which would fund new teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond plans to convene a housing summit on Aug. 14, bringing together members of the construction and building trades, labor unions, school districts and others to identify barriers to housing development and ensure the Department of Education can make it easier for districts to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998056\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/38721084395_0e50d3503f_o_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Tuesday announced an initiative that aims to establish the Department of Education as a go-to resource for districts looking to build homes for teachers on their property. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Thurmond Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The school districts have one of the most important parts of being able to create educator housing: They own land,” Thurmond said. “So there’s no need to make a purchase, to acquire land to develop that land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts can use local bonds and \u003ca href=\"https://ahcd.assembly.ca.gov/sites/ahcd.assembly.ca.gov/files/AB%203308_Gabriel_AHCD_ABPCA.pdf\">state tax credits\u003c/a>, some $500 million of which were approved for educator housing as part of the 2020 state budget. And in 2022, the Legislature approved AB 2295, which \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2295/id/2609196#:~:text=This%20bill%20would%20deem%20a,objective%20design%20review%20standards%2C%20as\">essentially rezoned\u003c/a> school properties to allow housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, despite the additional tax credit funding and legislation, only a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1CZW87xekMzSDEidilfGRyzE-QlbosGo&ll=36.526851860206364%2C-120.4401245&z=6\">handful of districts\u003c/a> across the state have completed educator housing projects, though dozens more have \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/leadership/more-districts-are-building-housing-for-teachers-heres-what-to-know/2023/11\">expressed interest\u003c/a> or are in various stages of the development process, according to the California School Boards Association. Andrew Keller, a senior director with the association, said one big reason is that not enough districts know how to go about building housing.[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']“Chief among those roadblocks, actually, is the fact that schools aren’t in the housing business,” Keller said. “This is something that’s new to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board association leads workshops for district staff on approaching and constructing housing on their properties, including connecting them with developers and financial institutions. But uptake has been slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond said he was hoping to accelerate that with the new initiative, which will include creating a “scalable blueprint” for districts to use to develop housing and exploring potential legislation that may include allowing school bond funds to go toward housing for families in the district, not just teachers and staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Lie, a trustee of the Jefferson Union High School District in San Mateo County, said he’s seen the impact of educator housing firsthand. The district faced a 25% staff turnover before completing a 122-unit apartment complex in May 2022. 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That decision gave cities more power to regulate encampments on sidewalks and public property, overturning a lower court’s ruling that found local laws fining or jailing people for sleeping outside in the absence of any viable alternative shelter amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the high court’s majority opinion, said a “handful of federal judges” could not instruct cities on “how best to handle a pressing social question like homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities and the Bay Area Council, a business organization, both lauded Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities throughout the state are already enforcing their laws against unsafe encampments consistent with the clarity in the Grants Pass ruling created, and we are pleased to see the governor joining cities in these efforts,” said Jason Rhine, director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities. “However, safely clearing encampments with dignity is only one part of the solution to address our state’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, cities and state agencies have cleared more than 11,000 encampments and removed almost 250,000 cubic yards of debris from public areas and streets, according to the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, housing advocates point to research showing that encampment sweeps are often costly to local governments and don’t often result in unhoused people finding permanent housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s skyscraper-studded downtown could soon see more housing development under a proposal to remove a requirement for office space in large projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation announced Tuesday by Mayor London Breed aims to boost housing in the city’s South of Market neighborhood and help keep San Francisco on track to add 82,000 homes over the next eight years to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993388/new-state-law-slashed-sfs-housing-permit-timeline-will-builders-follow\">meet state housing mandates\u003c/a>. 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Critics, on the other hand, say zoning is not the problem, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/pipeline-report#current-dashboard\">70,000 approved units\u003c/a> already in San Francisco’s housing pipeline at various stages of development, many of which have struggled to progress due to a lack of financing and other barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation announced Tuesday would eliminate the office requirement, allowing developments on certain large sites – lots larger than 20,000 square feet near Transbay and over 40,000 square feet in Central SoMa — to be fully residential or to have more residential space in a mixed-use project than previously allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also builds on a city ordinance enacted last year that waives certain fees and a transfer tax to enable the conversion of existing office buildings into housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed and her supporters say the zoning rules in the original Central SoMa Plan stymie the city’s housing goals. Critics, on the other hand, say zoning is not the problem, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/pipeline-report#current-dashboard\">70,000 approved units\u003c/a> already in San Francisco’s housing pipeline at various stages of development, many of which have struggled to progress due to a lack of financing and other barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation announced Tuesday would eliminate the office requirement, allowing developments on certain large sites – lots larger than 20,000 square feet near Transbay and over 40,000 square feet in Central SoMa — to be fully residential or to have more residential space in a mixed-use project than previously allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also builds on a city ordinance enacted last year that waives certain fees and a transfer tax to enable the conversion of existing office buildings into housing. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927063/california-clears-a-path-for-housing-developers-to-build-on-commercial-lots\">California also passed two laws\u003c/a> that make it easier for developers to build housing on what was otherwise slated for commercial use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are currently building 500 units in Central SoMa and, with this change, we will certainly look to do more,” Jesse Blout, founding partner at Strada Investment Group, said in a statement about Breed’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is part of Breed’s goal to add at least 30,000 new residents to the city’s downtown by 2030. Her Roadmap to San Francisco’s Future attempts to shift SoMa from largely commercial use to a more diverse residential and mixed-use urban neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to seeing these thriving neighborhoods welcome even more residents,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who co-sponsored the legislation, said in a statement on Tuesday. SoMa communities, which Dorsey represents, “embody our city’s shared values of urbanism and diversity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan pointed to examples like the city’s Flower Mart as potential places that could add significant housing if the legislation passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the property was rezoned, it allowed for the building to be taller, but it still would have been required to include two-thirds office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Breed’s plan, “the Flower Mart could become a full housing development,” Cretan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan will then head to the Planning Commission, followed by a committee review before being presented to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a contentious and, at times, unruly five-hour meeting, the Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to scale down a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996229/berkeley-first-city-to-sanctify-single-family-zoning-considers-historic-reversal-allowing-small-apartments\">add small apartment buildings\u003c/a> in most single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín had called the original \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-07-23%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General.pdf\">Middle Housing proposal\u003c/a> “one of the largest residential up-zonings in the state of California.” It would have allowed up to three-story apartment buildings with an unlimited number of units, which, in practice, might have ranged from two apartments to a dozen or more per lot, depending on the size of the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the proposal the council unanimously advanced Tuesday imposes density limits. For a typical 5,000-square-foot lot, it would permit five to seven units per property, with neighborhoods currently zoned as single-family on the lower end and areas that already allow greater density permitting more units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Ben Bartlett, representing a district with more existing apartment buildings, questioned whether the new proposal would achieve \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/02/24/berkeley-denounces-racist-history-of-single-family-zoning-begins-2-year-process-to-change-general-plan\">the stated goal\u003c/a> of the Middle Housing plan: rewriting the racist legacy of single-family zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1916, Berkeley became the first city in the country to adopt single-family zoning. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wwnorton.com/books/the-color-of-law/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has shown that jurisdictions with more single-family-only neighborhoods also have higher degrees of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-california-statewide-analysis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racial segregation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just wondering what we’re doing here,” Bartlett said. “It looks like what we’re doing here today is maintaining the status quo and exempting the very-resourced neighborhoods from integrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended proposal exempts the city’s wealthier hills neighborhoods — where white residents make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/07/17/berkeley-population-demographics-housing-census-2020-maps\">70% of the population\u003c/a>, compared with roughly 50% of the population citywide — until the fire department can evaluate the area’s evacuation routes, which is expected later this year.[aside postID=news_11996888 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/IMG_1717-1020x680.jpg']The decision followed impassioned pleas from many hills residents on Tuesday urging the council to resist adding more housing to the area, which is largely in high fire-hazard zones. Several pointed to memories of the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fire-Rescue/Documents/US-Fire-Admin-East-Bay-Hills-Fire-Report.pdf\">1991 Tunnel Fire\u003c/a>, which killed 25 people, injured 150 others and destroyed more than 3,300 homes and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not sugarcoat the stakes here,” hills resident Russ Mitchell said. “There could be burning bodies … and if the Planning Commission and City Council passes this [proposal], all that mayhem will be on your shoulders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents of the proposal said adding market-rate housing to lower-income neighborhoods without setting some of those units as affordable housing would further accelerate gentrification, as developers would be more likely to build in areas where property values are lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The African American small property owners will be further harmed by painful gentrification,” said Deborah Matthews of the community advocacy group South Berkeley Now. Matthews urged the council to delay passage of the proposal until more work could be done to support lower-income homeowners. “We must provide those who have experienced redlining the same leverage to upgrade their homes … and not just have the properties go to new speculators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, newly elected Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra countered those concerns, saying that not adding housing was already pushing out residents of color. Over the past half-century, the portion of Black residents in Berkeley has steadily declined, dropping from 23% of the population \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Berkeley70.htm\">in 1970\u003c/a> to less than 8% \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia,US/PST045223\">in 2020\u003c/a>, according to the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our current policies are actively worsening gentrification. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1916, Berkeley became the first city in the country to adopt single-family zoning. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wwnorton.com/books/the-color-of-law/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has shown that jurisdictions with more single-family-only neighborhoods also have higher degrees of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-california-statewide-analysis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racial segregation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just wondering what we’re doing here,” Bartlett said. “It looks like what we’re doing here today is maintaining the status quo and exempting the very-resourced neighborhoods from integrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended proposal exempts the city’s wealthier hills neighborhoods — where white residents make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/07/17/berkeley-population-demographics-housing-census-2020-maps\">70% of the population\u003c/a>, compared with roughly 50% of the population citywide — until the fire department can evaluate the area’s evacuation routes, which is expected later this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The decision followed impassioned pleas from many hills residents on Tuesday urging the council to resist adding more housing to the area, which is largely in high fire-hazard zones. Several pointed to memories of the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fire-Rescue/Documents/US-Fire-Admin-East-Bay-Hills-Fire-Report.pdf\">1991 Tunnel Fire\u003c/a>, which killed 25 people, injured 150 others and destroyed more than 3,300 homes and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not sugarcoat the stakes here,” hills resident Russ Mitchell said. “There could be burning bodies … and if the Planning Commission and City Council passes this [proposal], all that mayhem will be on your shoulders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents of the proposal said adding market-rate housing to lower-income neighborhoods without setting some of those units as affordable housing would further accelerate gentrification, as developers would be more likely to build in areas where property values are lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The African American small property owners will be further harmed by painful gentrification,” said Deborah Matthews of the community advocacy group South Berkeley Now. Matthews urged the council to delay passage of the proposal until more work could be done to support lower-income homeowners. “We must provide those who have experienced redlining the same leverage to upgrade their homes … and not just have the properties go to new speculators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, newly elected Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra countered those concerns, saying that not adding housing was already pushing out residents of color. Over the past half-century, the portion of Black residents in Berkeley has steadily declined, dropping from 23% of the population \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Berkeley70.htm\">in 1970\u003c/a> to less than 8% \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia,US/PST045223\">in 2020\u003c/a>, according to the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our current policies are actively worsening gentrification. Our status quo is actively displacing our poorer residents,” Lunaparra said, adding that by limiting the supply of new housing, “we are artificially increasing the prices of homes across the city, benefiting landlords and homeowners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, noted it was unlikely the proposed policy change would result in rampant redevelopment. Over the past six years, the city received only 25 applications for middle-housing projects — developments ranging from two to 10 units. Given that the proposed new rules would make those projects easier to build, he said staff conservatively estimated the proposal would result in up to 1,700 new units over eight years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t anticipate we’re going to see a flood of projects,” he said. New development will hinge on whether homeowners want to sell or build upon their properties, he said, and are already constrained by high land and materials costs that make the projects \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/making-missing-middle-pencil-the-math-behind-small-scale-housing-development-2024/\">less financially feasible\u003c/a> than other forms of housing. “It’s more likely to be a trickle of new projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has championed the proposal, said that while not expected to dramatically remake the city’s neighborhoods, it was nevertheless significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to give middle- and moderate-income people more housing options that are affordable by design,” Kesarwani said. “We need to give teachers, firefighters, seniors who are on fixed incomes, and kids who grew up here a chance to live here as adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s vote was not the final one; it provided direction to city staff to draft a proposed ordinance, which could come back to the council for adoption as early as this fall. In the meantime, the council asked staff to assist them in holding more town hall meetings on the topic, as well as provide greater detail on a range of questions about the limits of the proposal and its impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have workshops,” Arreguín said. “There’s going to be an opportunity for more input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story repeated an error that originated in academic research used to inform the reporting. A proposed Black-owned dancehall was not seeking to move into the Elmwood neighborhood, but rather \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_National_Conference_o/DcUUvqEa4JgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Districting+Progress+and+Procedure+in+California%22+cheney&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">another neighborhood\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He assumed it would result in a sleepy suburb where, much like other cities in Solano County, residents would commute toward Silicon Valley for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, his wife gave birth to their first child, and his perspective shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially having a son, [I think about] 20 years from now — is my son, Jasper, going to find a place here?” he asked. “Jasper being born definitely makes me think about the future and take it more to heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal from California Forever had been set to go before Solano County voters in November, but after months of controversy, testy debates between residents and millions of dollars spent on campaigning, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996747/california-forever-pulls-bid-to-build-new-city-from-this-years-ballot\">announced on Monday\u003c/a> that it was pulling its initiative from the ballot. Company representatives plan to try again in two years after working with county officials to publish an environmental impact report and development agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the project’s opponents, as well as supporters who spoke to KQED, including Houston, said they welcomed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was the right move,” Houston said. “I think it’s a way to take in the community’s feedback, their concerns, and their input and incorporate that into the plans. I think it’s the best way to address the community’s concerns and answer their questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the county released a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SolanoCountyReport.pdf\">damning preliminary report\u003c/a> about the project’s impacts on the environment and cost to taxpayers, despite company representatives’ promises that it would not cost Solano residents anything. California Forever CEO Jan Sramek told KQED that he has repeatedly heard from residents who want a full environmental impact report before voting on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/231205-SolanoCountyFarmers-57-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, speaks during a town hall meeting in Rio Vista on Dec. 5, 2023, for the proposed California city backed by Silicon Valley investors on farmland in eastern Solano County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brian Hanlon, president of the housing advocacy organization California YIMBY, said that although his organization still supports the project and its vision to bring dense housing to the state, any project should have an environmental impact report and detailed planning done before asking voters to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conducting environmental assessments for big, new projects that could have real environmental impacts is good and appropriate,” Hanlon said. “It sounds like county leaders and California Forever are working collaboratively, in good faith, to solve the challenges. It strikes me as a positive sign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monique Lopez Feybesse, owner of Vallejo-based patisserie Tarts de Feybesse, said she was looking forward to the new city and the business opportunities that could have come with it. Pushing the ballot measure back to 2026 could delay the new city, she said, though California Forever has asserted it would have spent the next two years working on reports and developer agreements anyway.[aside postID=news_11996747 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-12_qed-1020x680.jpg']“I detest the idea of taking polar sides,” she said. “The people who I have spoken to who oppose the project are mostly of an older generation who are reluctant for change and have valid questions about the impact. On the other side, the younger generation is hopeful for changes here and looking for opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who remain skeptical about the project hope the ballot measure’s delay gives the company a chance to prove itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Summers, a pastor at Healthy Vallejo Community Support Services, said he wants to stay involved with the community discussions that California Forever pledged to hold over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them time to show the character of who they are by partnering with the cities,” he said. “I want some of the relationships to show that they really are serious about investing in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanotogether.org/post/statement-solano-together-win?utm_campaign=087fc253-f684-42c9-b418-c6ba4c0feb7c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=029ada15-a014-4860-9c51-349cf503a8cd\">Solano Together\u003c/a>, the biggest organization opposing the project, said the company’s decision was a “win” for the people of Solano. 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