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In January, Lurie announced plans to merge the Planning Department, the Department of Building Inspection and Permit Center, an effort he said would “mean better coordination, time and cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TransAmerica Pyramid peeks out behind wooden walls as workers construct two affordable housing developments in San Francisco in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to achieve that goal, Mahmood said, voters would need to approve reforms to the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the charter outlines each department’s responsibilities. Mahmood said the ballot measure he’s considering would move those department responsibilities into the city’s administrative code, giving the Mayor and Board of Supervisors flexibility to restructure the departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will help to fully realize that vision that the Mayor’s already announced,” he told KQED. Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-president-mandelman-launch-effort-to-reform-bloated-outdated-city-charter-improve-services-for-san-franciscans\">launched plans in December\u003c/a> to reform the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he chooses to do so, Mahmood will have until June to submit a proposed ordinance, with the support of at least four members of the Board of Supervisors or the Mayor’s office, in time for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Yes, we’re getting faster at the ones we’re approving, but there’s still a lot that aren’t even approved,” he said. Mahmood said that the report’s timeline is based on about 740 permits approved in that time, but there’s a backlog of more than 1,300 applications that haven’t yet been issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those pending applications have been in the pipeline since 2017 — as of Oct. 29, the average number of days that those permits had been awaiting approval was 1,489 days, or more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also needs to allow for more than 80,000 new housing units by 2031, in line with the state’s mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, five city departments are involved in approving a permit application, with no single point of contact that oversees applications all the way from filing to permit issuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, one or more departments start their review process later than others, the report said, causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said it can also be complicated for developers to communicate with the many departments and fulfill requests of each of their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways he’s proposed to ease these problems is by consolidating the number of departments involved in the process. In January, Lurie announced plans to merge the Planning Department, the Department of Building Inspection and Permit Center, an effort he said would “mean better coordination, time and cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TransAmerica Pyramid peeks out behind wooden walls as workers construct two affordable housing developments in San Francisco in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to achieve that goal, Mahmood said, voters would need to approve reforms to the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the charter outlines each department’s responsibilities. Mahmood said the ballot measure he’s considering would move those department responsibilities into the city’s administrative code, giving the Mayor and Board of Supervisors flexibility to restructure the departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will help to fully realize that vision that the Mayor’s already announced,” he told KQED. Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-president-mandelman-launch-effort-to-reform-bloated-outdated-city-charter-improve-services-for-san-franciscans\">launched plans in December\u003c/a> to reform the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he chooses to do so, Mahmood will have until June to submit a proposed ordinance, with the support of at least four members of the Board of Supervisors or the Mayor’s office, in time for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a fire at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">PG&E\u003c/a> substation plunged a third of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> into darkness on the evening of Dec. 20, one of the city’s 911 dispatchers sat on hold with Waymo’s first responder hotline for 53 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s systems had become overwhelmed with requests from the more than 1,500 confused robotaxis trying to navigate intersections without functioning traffic signals, rendering them inoperable for two minutes or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the stalled Waymos complicated the city’s emergency response efforts and what measures the company is putting in place to prevent service stoppages during a future emergency were the subject of a meeting of the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, representatives from city departments revealed the severity of Waymo’s service outage and its effect on the city, which lasted overnight and into the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Emergency Management Executive Director Mary Ellen Carroll, whose department staffs the city’s 911 dispatch center, said she lost sleep over the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I definitely stay awake at night thinking about things that could happen and how do we integrate this new technology into our emergency response,” Carroll told city supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WaymoOutageReport-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WaymoOutageReport-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WaymoOutageReport-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WaymoOutageReport-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, speaks during a Board of Supervisors hearing on Waymo’s emergency operations at City Hall in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Broadly, representatives from Waymo apologized for the inconveniences their vehicles caused that day and said they were putting in place safeguards to prevent a similar service outage from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I want to be very clear that Waymo takes full responsibility for the communication gaps that occurred that evening,” said Sam Cooper, the program manager for incident response at Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did little to mollify some supervisors, who expressed ire over stalled Waymos blocking intersections and the path of emergency vehicles, a problem that sometimes required intervention by first responders. The hearing came just a day after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/03/02/waymo-vehicle-blocks-ems-austin-mass-shooting\">Waymo blocked an ambulance\u003c/a> responding to a mass shooting in Austin, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Rabbitt, the deputy chief of operations for the San Francisco Fire Department, said firefighters can call Waymo and request a remote operator to move a stalled vehicle, but they can’t always reach the company by phone, and sometimes the remote operators are unable to move the vehicle, requiring first responders to do it themselves.[aside postID=news_12074861 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250730-waymofile_00306_TV_qed.jpg']Waymo spokesperson Ethan Teicher told KQED Waymo is aware of 62 manual retrievals of its stalled vehicles during the blackout, which were done by Waymo’s own roadside assistance or tow trucks. In two instances, he said, first responders had to manually move a Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll and other city leaders lamented that when that happens, it forces valuable first responders to become “default roadside assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Anything that brings a high volume of calls to 911 can delay our response time for people that have true life-and-death situations,” Caroll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for the service stoppage, according to Waymo, was a high number of remote assistance requests generated by the vehicles attempting to navigate intersections without functioning streetlights, although the company did note that its vehicles traversed 7,000 darkened intersections during the blackout without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cars idled as they waited for their remote assistance requests to be fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remote assistance requests are handled by operators located in countries as far away as the Philippines, who can provide guidance to the autonomous vehicles. The company said it currently employs 70 remote operators, who are responsible for handling requests from its fleet of about 3,000 vehicles across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood was incredulous that Waymo representatives didn’t think the location or number of remote operators would be an issue in future emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re reliant in an emergency situation on operators in the Philippines to have to assess the condition here, how can you explain or justify that?” Mahmood asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinmay Jain, director of product management at Waymo, speaks during a Board of Supervisors hearing on Waymo’s emergency operations at City Hall in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinmay Jain, Waymo’s director of product management, said the location of the remote assistants “had no implications” in the San Francisco power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We do a very detailed analysis on the demand for such requests, and hence, have these dynamic systems where we can increase the supply of remote assistance accordingly,” Jain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cooper said the company did change its practices in response to the December outage in other ways. Waymo rolled out fleet-wide updates that allow its vehicles to better navigate intersections without working traffic signals, revised how its operations team responds to power outage events, and improved its staffing capabilities during significant incidents, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the representatives largely dodged questions from supervisors seeking explicit commitments. Cooper said he could not provide numbers at the time on the number of additional staff the company had hired to handle surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management and Fire Department recommended integrating their “avoid the area” notifications with Waymo software to prevent the driverless cars from entering emergency response zones, but Cooper said he couldn’t commit to that in the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gig workers, union members and labor advocates fill a Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on March 2, 2026, to discuss Waymo’s emergency operations following a December power outage that left the company’s autonomous vehicles stalled on city streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ We’re absolutely willing to have the conversations at the conclusion of this hearing to make sure that we are hearing everyone on the table,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local unions and gig workers for Uber and Lyft hosted a rally on the steps of City Hall before the meeting, calling for greater regulation of Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We just want to be part of the conversation and make sure that these vehicles operate safely in emergencies. 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Not the company, not the executives, the community does. Safety should never come second. It should never be tested on real people in real time,” Hardy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo said its vehicles have shown an 88% reduction in serious injury-or-worse crashes compared to human drivers in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That safety record, however, came into question last year when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062777/san-francisco-supervisor-calls-for-robotaxi-reform-after-waymo-kills-neighborhood-cat\">one of its vehicles ran over a beloved bodega cat in the city’s Mission District\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12071764 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/WaymoLosAngelesGetty.jpg']The incident sparked calls by city Supervisor Jackie Fielder for more local control over autonomous vehicle regulations, but she has yet to introduce a resolution that could drive that process forward. Most of the jurisdiction for regulating Waymo currently sits with state agencies, not San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casting a long shadow over the meeting is AB 1777, a 2024 state law that by July 1 of this year will require, among other things, that autonomous vehicle operators staff a phone line that allows first responders to reach a human operator within \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1777\">30 seconds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gulf between the 30 seconds that the law requires and the 50 minutes that we heard about today is massive,” Mahmood said. “The results of today show that there are dire consequences if we don’t get public safety right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED on Tuesday at a separate event, Supervisor Myrna Melgar said she was “disappointed that Waymo had no answers at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I feel like their whole support infrastructure — it is not adequate for disaster preparedness,” Melgar said. “It’s adequate for the day-to-day. 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In two instances, he said, first responders had to manually move a Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll and other city leaders lamented that when that happens, it forces valuable first responders to become “default roadside assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Anything that brings a high volume of calls to 911 can delay our response time for people that have true life-and-death situations,” Caroll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for the service stoppage, according to Waymo, was a high number of remote assistance requests generated by the vehicles attempting to navigate intersections without functioning streetlights, although the company did note that its vehicles traversed 7,000 darkened intersections during the blackout without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cars idled as they waited for their remote assistance requests to be fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remote assistance requests are handled by operators located in countries as far away as the Philippines, who can provide guidance to the autonomous vehicles. 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Waymo rolled out fleet-wide updates that allow its vehicles to better navigate intersections without working traffic signals, revised how its operations team responds to power outage events, and improved its staffing capabilities during significant incidents, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the representatives largely dodged questions from supervisors seeking explicit commitments. Cooper said he could not provide numbers at the time on the number of additional staff the company had hired to handle surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management and Fire Department recommended integrating their “avoid the area” notifications with Waymo software to prevent the driverless cars from entering emergency response zones, but Cooper said he couldn’t commit to that in the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gig workers, union members and labor advocates fill a Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on March 2, 2026, to discuss Waymo’s emergency operations following a December power outage that left the company’s autonomous vehicles stalled on city streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ We’re absolutely willing to have the conversations at the conclusion of this hearing to make sure that we are hearing everyone on the table,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local unions and gig workers for Uber and Lyft hosted a rally on the steps of City Hall before the meeting, calling for greater regulation of Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We just want to be part of the conversation and make sure that these vehicles operate safely in emergencies. 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That’s a third of the city being told to just ‘figure it out,’” said Supervisor Alan Wong, who led the hearing. “It’s food spoiling, it’s medical equipment without power. It’s a family sitting in the dark. It’s caregivers scrambling to protect loved ones, workers losing shifts, and merchants bleeding money by the hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s meeting of the city’s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee included a report from PG&E on the outages’ causes and duration, impacts on residents and businesses and potential remedies, as well as the city’s emergency response coordination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E leaders detailed the company’s response timeline during the event, as well as changes and improvements that are underway, such as better communication structures and platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repairs at the Mission substation are now complete. 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Residential customers were credited $200, and non-residential customers received $2,500, and the company said about 2,700 claims, or 90% of those submitted, have been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many residents said they struggled to secure claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kim, owner of the Richmond District ice cream shop Joe’s Ice Cream, said gallons of product spoiled during the outage, leading to a major loss of revenue. During the hearing, Kim detailed the tedious requirements he faced trying to file claims for his business after the outage and what he and other merchants said was a cumbersome, fruitless endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear about what accountability means. It does not mean a press release. It does mean a website update … It does not mean bill credits that don’t come close to covering actual losses. 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You’ve probably noticed that there are some parts of San Francisco that are just much taller than others. Like downtown with its high-rises and skyscrapers, versus neighborhoods like The Richmond and Sunset, with its rows of single-family homes and views of Ocean Beach. And that is by design. Since the late 70s, San Francisco has had strict limits on how tall buildings could be in the city’s north and west sides. Limits that some argue have made it hard to build enough housing and keep rents from skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t today. We write a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:44] \u003c/em>San Francisco supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new family zoning plan, one that paves the way for taller and denser buildings in parts of the city that haven’t been upzoned for decades. Some hope it’ll lead to more housing and lower rents, while others are afraid of what these changes will mean for their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>No, we don’t want these giant high rises to to take over. Like what about the the charm of the the buildings, the businesses? Like it’s gonna be all No soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:21] \u003c/em>So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city. It’s okay. Like the houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and then like build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:32] \u003c/em>Today, how San Francisco’s new rezoning plan could change the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>The rezoning plan is intended to actually make it easier for the city to build taller buildings in certain areas in neighborhoods where they’re frankly just not permitted right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:00] \u003c/em>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:04] \u003c/em>Rezoning is really just one slice of the pie for the city to meet its housing goals. There still are height limits even in those residential areas, so it’s like you’re not gonna see a giant skyscraper in between two single family homes in in the Richmond, but you could see a multi story, you know, apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:31] \u003c/em>I guess why is this zoning change happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:34] \u003c/em>So there’s a couple of reasons. One of the biggest and you know, probably most obvious is the state is requiring it. So California has said that cities, including San Francisco, have to make way for more housing because for decades in certain parts of the city, and and this is true, you know, in cities all across the state, there have been rules and restrictions that make it harder to build housing. And places have been downzoned in the past for a variety of reasons, you know, to preserve neighborhood character or in some cases for environmental protections. But what that has also meant is that it’s made way for a housing crunch in places like San Francisco. And so the state has said you need to come up with a plan to make room for thousands of more units. The state of California has said that San Francisco has to build 82,000 new homes by 2031. That includes some tens of thousands of units that have actually already been approved but haven’t been built yet. But this plan in particular is designed to make way for around 36,000 new housing units in San Francisco. So, you know, most of the plan to increase height limits is concentrated in areas like The sunset, the Richmond, closer to the Marina and some parts of Nobb Hill, but also North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Are there any parts of the plan that specify, I mean, what kind of housing should be built where? Like I mean i whether any of it has to be affordable, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>The people who wrote this plan estimate that out of the 82,000 new units that the city is mandated to build, over 30,000 should be affordable to low income families, which for a family of four in San Francisco earns less than $156,000. But there’s nothing in this plan that says you need to build housing that’s affordable for this income level, you know, on this corner. That is it the plan does not get into those kind of specifics at all, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:53] \u003c/em>Well, that’s probably a great transition into the arguments for and against this plan. Because it seems like it was a a little controversial. This was I mean, to start Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first really big policy fight, right? And he was probably the biggest champion for passing this new rezoning plan. What were his arguments for passing this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, just to echo what you said, I I have been following this mayor’s administration, you know, from the campaign trail and and I really do believe that this was probably one of the most controversial, you know, more or less difficult things he had to get through so far and and was a real test for our new mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>People in San Francisco have built the future. They’ve created businesses, families, and diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. But that promise to build a life and belong to your community is slipping away for far too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:53] \u003c/em>He has been out in public forums and community meetings and you know, sometimes appearing at actual board of supervisors meetings to make the case that San Francisco needs to do this in order to increase housing supply to make it affordable for future generations. That’s kind of the big reason why is is folks are saying, Hey, like I grew up in this city and I can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:18] \u003c/em>At the heart of family zoning is a simple idea. Families deserve to live in San Francisco. Not just visit, not just commute, but live here, grow here and thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>You know, he had a lot of support from groups like SF Yumby and the Chamber of Commerce and you know, other groups that said we need this housing, you know, more housing might mean more customers and more foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t. Today we write a new chapter. We want to build enough housing so kids growing up here will be able to raise their own families here in San Francisco. We want businesses to stay and grow, confident that their employees can afford to live here. We want firefighters, police officers, teachers, and nurses to live in the communities in which they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:14] \u003c/em>He and other supporters have stressed that this is something that the state is mandating and that if the city doesn’t pass this plan, that we could risk losing essential funding. The city already faced a huge budget deficit this year and had to make a lot of cuts. We’re facing more cuts from the federal government. And so any, you know, potential further loss of funding, I think, you know, is sort of like putting up the alarm signals of like, hey, we have to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:45] \u003c/em>The state has given us a clear mandate, and if we don’t ask, we risk losing funding and our ability to decide what gets built here. Our plan it keeps control right here where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:00] \u003c/em>And I know that you and our colleague Adhiti Bandlamudi spoke with residents of some of these areas that would be most impacted by this new zoning plan. What’s your sense of how residents who live in these areas are feeling about this? I mean, presumably they’ll be the most impacted. Does anyone think this is a good idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>Sure, you know, I think there are plenty of people, you know, regardless of whether or not they support this plan that recognize that San Francisco and really the Bay Area as a region needs more housing and specifically needs more affordable housing. I’ve been doing a lot of reporting with our colleague Aditi, who actually lives on one of the streets that is slated to be upzoned, and she spoke with a resident named Darya Bulgova about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:48] \u003c/em>Like like it’s so many people who teach in the city commute into the city from somewhere else. It’s like super messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:57] \u003c/em>And she actually supports upzoning and says that the city needs to make room for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>Like yes, we we even joke whenever people ask what neighborhood we live in, when we say Sunset we’re like, It’s the ‘burbs of San Francisco. But I I think, yeah, at the end of the day, like we should make the city more accessible and whatever way we get there is is better. So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city, it’s okay.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Coming up, the people and the arguments against the rezoning plan. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:30] \u003c/em>Let’s dive a little bit more into the arguments against this plan. It didn’t pass easily by the Board of Supervisors. Who was really coming out against this, especially on the city side of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:42] \u003c/em>So supervisors like Connie Chan and residents and neighborhood groups that have opposed this plan are concerned that it’s not gonna actually lead to more affordable housing, but that it actually might just lead to real estate speculation, you know, drive up the rent in certain areas and displace families who have been here for a long time while not actually guaranteeing to include and build that affordable housing that the city still desperately needs. One main concern is the fate of rent-controlled units. Because when you upzone, you can open up the possibility of old buildings getting torn down or redeveloped. And that can include possibly rent-controlled units. And some people are really worried about that. There was an amendment that was incorporated into this plan that actually removed any buildings that have three or more rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:42] \u003c/em>I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:46] \u003c/em>Chan, who represents the Richmond, said, I actually believe that there should be no rent-controlled units that are at risk of demolition under this plan. You know, she put forward an amendment that would have excluded potentially all rent-controlled buildings. That did not ultimately get incorporated. But she was saying that it doesn’t make sense to remove buildings that have rent-controlled units where people already have kind of that security baked into their living situation and potentially, you know, bulldoze and then develop a a building that they wouldn’t be able to afford potentially after it got completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:25] \u003c/em>My mother, a single mother, an immigrant, longtime worker in Chinatown, she was able to work and live in Chinatown boarding North Beach area because of the rent control units where she reside for three decades, where I grew up until she passed in 2021. People, San Franciscans, need housing, both existing and new. We know that our existing housing stock, especially rent control housing, is our most valuable and affordable housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:57] \u003c/em>It sort of sounds like the impact that this could have on rent control apartments is one of the big sticking points, but also it sounds like people are just concerned that this is just gonna make way for more buildings that actually don’t make the city more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Yeah, that seems to be one of the most salient, you know, criticisms of this plan is like, sure, even if it does lead the way for more housing, what part of this plan is actually guaranteeing that that will be affordable to folks who are low income or even, you know, have the average median income? And then of course there are small business owners that have shops in these corridors that are also slated to be upzoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:40] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean definitely more construction is not — we we really dislike it.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:47] \u003c/em>I spoke with Justine Escalada. She runs a vintage shop over in the inner Richmond. And she was there working with her partner and their little baby sleeping in a stroller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Like but prior to this I was a preschool teacher and like very involved in the families’ lives as in there as well and like a lot of them were even like having to leave the city. So I don’t know if this would just continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:13] \u003c/em>She was worried that if the building owner, you know, decides one day to sell to a developer to, you know, build more housing on that block, she said that they would probably have to move and and potentially even leave the city entirely because they don’t have this, you know, stack of cash that can keep them afloat during that construction process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>So I think it would drive away a lot of people who have been a part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:46] \u003c/em>For every person that said, Yes, let’s build more housing, there’ll be more foot traffic, there’ll be more nightlife. There was also someone out there that said, I don’t want to have to, you know, drive around my block ten times before I can find parking. Or, you know, it’s already expensive. How is this going to, you know, help keep my rents down? And then also just frankly, from some folks who said, you know, I bought this home 20 years ago for the neighborhood and and the way that it looks, and I don’t want that to change. Or, you know, I moved here six months ago and I’m starting a family and and you know, I don’t want this neighborhood to change. You know, that is that is still very much an opinion that is out there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:34] \u003c/em>Well, I mean, as we were just talking about Zini, this was a pretty contentious plan, and that the Board of Supervisors ultimately had to vote on. How did the board vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:45] \u003c/em>This was a pretty long discussion. I mean, I’ve been following this for months now and and have sat through some hours and hours of public comment. There was no public comment at this particular meeting because it was one of the final votes. But each supervisor went around and shared their thoughts about why they support it and don’t and it got, you know, pretty heated. Ultimately it came down to a seven to four vote in support of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:16] \u003c/em>I mean, Sydney, I feel like there’s a lot of concern around how much this plan can change San Francisco or p big parts of the city. I mean, how much could this plan on its own actually change San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:32] \u003c/em>You know, there’s been actually a couple analyzes of this that have come out. One from the city’s economist actually said that because of constraints in the market, you know, construction cost, financing that is or is not available and funding, that the number of units that could actually be built as a result of this plan is, you know, pretty shy of what the plan’s goal is. So for better or for worse, this, you know, may not actually result in 36,000 new units, and it certainly won’t right away. Actually, it was really interesting going to some of these public forums and hearing the city’s planning commission and and representatives from the mayor’s office talk to people who were concerned about their neighborhoods, you know, just being transformed and and looking radically different from the place that they moved to and and love, you know, saying things like, actually this plan isn’t gonna change that much. And these are the people who are actually, you know, supporting the plan and saying we need to pass this, but are also kind of being like, Well, realistically, we know that this isn’t gonna like dramatically change the city. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:42] \u003c/em>Cause It doesn’t change the fact that it just takes a long time to build in the state of California, period. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>And I mean, San Francisco is not the only city in the state that is really under pressure from the state of California to build more, right? But but why do you think what is happening in San Francisco around housing and around its rezoning plan is important to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I think San Francisco is a really interesting place to watch because we brand ourselves as a sanctuary city. You know, we brand ourselves as this place that is welcoming to all. But when it comes down to it, we’re one of the most unaffordable and difficult places to live. It’s not the same as it was, you know, back in the 60s, where you could, you know, move here and start a new life so easily. It’s actually really hard to do that. So I think that, you know, this plan is a really interesting test case of our values of a city. Is that gonna actually work? Is that gonna actually like lead to more housing and and particularly lead to housing that can be affordable to future generations? Or is it going to lead to more gentrification and you know, potentially, you know, maybe make way for, you know, higher income folks, but not necessarily preserve that opportunity for lower income families to stay here and work here and live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:18] \u003c/em>Well, Sydney, thank you so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:21] \u003c/em>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">San Francisco Supervisors Pass Rezoning Plan, Making Way for Taller, Denser Housing\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:45] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. You’ve probably noticed that there are some parts of San Francisco that are just much taller than others. Like downtown with its high-rises and skyscrapers, versus neighborhoods like The Richmond and Sunset, with its rows of single-family homes and views of Ocean Beach. And that is by design. Since the late 70s, San Francisco has had strict limits on how tall buildings could be in the city’s north and west sides. Limits that some argue have made it hard to build enough housing and keep rents from skyrocketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t today. We write a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:44] \u003c/em>San Francisco supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new family zoning plan, one that paves the way for taller and denser buildings in parts of the city that haven’t been upzoned for decades. Some hope it’ll lead to more housing and lower rents, while others are afraid of what these changes will mean for their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:10] \u003c/em>No, we don’t want these giant high rises to to take over. Like what about the the charm of the the buildings, the businesses? Like it’s gonna be all No soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:21] \u003c/em>So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city. It’s okay. Like the houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and then like build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:32] \u003c/em>Today, how San Francisco’s new rezoning plan could change the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>The rezoning plan is intended to actually make it easier for the city to build taller buildings in certain areas in neighborhoods where they’re frankly just not permitted right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:00] \u003c/em>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:04] \u003c/em>Rezoning is really just one slice of the pie for the city to meet its housing goals. There still are height limits even in those residential areas, so it’s like you’re not gonna see a giant skyscraper in between two single family homes in in the Richmond, but you could see a multi story, you know, apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:31] \u003c/em>I guess why is this zoning change happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:34] \u003c/em>So there’s a couple of reasons. One of the biggest and you know, probably most obvious is the state is requiring it. So California has said that cities, including San Francisco, have to make way for more housing because for decades in certain parts of the city, and and this is true, you know, in cities all across the state, there have been rules and restrictions that make it harder to build housing. And places have been downzoned in the past for a variety of reasons, you know, to preserve neighborhood character or in some cases for environmental protections. But what that has also meant is that it’s made way for a housing crunch in places like San Francisco. And so the state has said you need to come up with a plan to make room for thousands of more units. The state of California has said that San Francisco has to build 82,000 new homes by 2031. That includes some tens of thousands of units that have actually already been approved but haven’t been built yet. But this plan in particular is designed to make way for around 36,000 new housing units in San Francisco. So, you know, most of the plan to increase height limits is concentrated in areas like The sunset, the Richmond, closer to the Marina and some parts of Nobb Hill, but also North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Are there any parts of the plan that specify, I mean, what kind of housing should be built where? Like I mean i whether any of it has to be affordable, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>The people who wrote this plan estimate that out of the 82,000 new units that the city is mandated to build, over 30,000 should be affordable to low income families, which for a family of four in San Francisco earns less than $156,000. But there’s nothing in this plan that says you need to build housing that’s affordable for this income level, you know, on this corner. That is it the plan does not get into those kind of specifics at all, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:53] \u003c/em>Well, that’s probably a great transition into the arguments for and against this plan. Because it seems like it was a a little controversial. This was I mean, to start Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first really big policy fight, right? And he was probably the biggest champion for passing this new rezoning plan. What were his arguments for passing this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, just to echo what you said, I I have been following this mayor’s administration, you know, from the campaign trail and and I really do believe that this was probably one of the most controversial, you know, more or less difficult things he had to get through so far and and was a real test for our new mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>People in San Francisco have built the future. They’ve created businesses, families, and diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. But that promise to build a life and belong to your community is slipping away for far too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:53] \u003c/em>He has been out in public forums and community meetings and you know, sometimes appearing at actual board of supervisors meetings to make the case that San Francisco needs to do this in order to increase housing supply to make it affordable for future generations. That’s kind of the big reason why is is folks are saying, Hey, like I grew up in this city and I can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:18] \u003c/em>At the heart of family zoning is a simple idea. Families deserve to live in San Francisco. Not just visit, not just commute, but live here, grow here and thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>You know, he had a lot of support from groups like SF Yumby and the Chamber of Commerce and you know, other groups that said we need this housing, you know, more housing might mean more customers and more foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>Even though our needs have changed, our zoning didn’t. Today we write a new chapter. We want to build enough housing so kids growing up here will be able to raise their own families here in San Francisco. We want businesses to stay and grow, confident that their employees can afford to live here. We want firefighters, police officers, teachers, and nurses to live in the communities in which they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:14] \u003c/em>He and other supporters have stressed that this is something that the state is mandating and that if the city doesn’t pass this plan, that we could risk losing essential funding. The city already faced a huge budget deficit this year and had to make a lot of cuts. We’re facing more cuts from the federal government. And so any, you know, potential further loss of funding, I think, you know, is sort of like putting up the alarm signals of like, hey, we have to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Daniel Lurie: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:45] \u003c/em>The state has given us a clear mandate, and if we don’t ask, we risk losing funding and our ability to decide what gets built here. Our plan it keeps control right here where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:00] \u003c/em>And I know that you and our colleague Adhiti Bandlamudi spoke with residents of some of these areas that would be most impacted by this new zoning plan. What’s your sense of how residents who live in these areas are feeling about this? I mean, presumably they’ll be the most impacted. Does anyone think this is a good idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>Sure, you know, I think there are plenty of people, you know, regardless of whether or not they support this plan that recognize that San Francisco and really the Bay Area as a region needs more housing and specifically needs more affordable housing. I’ve been doing a lot of reporting with our colleague Aditi, who actually lives on one of the streets that is slated to be upzoned, and she spoke with a resident named Darya Bulgova about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:48] \u003c/em>Like like it’s so many people who teach in the city commute into the city from somewhere else. It’s like super messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:57] \u003c/em>And she actually supports upzoning and says that the city needs to make room for more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Darya Bolgovia: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>Like yes, we we even joke whenever people ask what neighborhood we live in, when we say Sunset we’re like, It’s the ‘burbs of San Francisco. But I I think, yeah, at the end of the day, like we should make the city more accessible and whatever way we get there is is better. So like it’s a city, like we should look like a city, it’s okay.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Coming up, the people and the arguments against the rezoning plan. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:30] \u003c/em>Let’s dive a little bit more into the arguments against this plan. It didn’t pass easily by the Board of Supervisors. Who was really coming out against this, especially on the city side of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:42] \u003c/em>So supervisors like Connie Chan and residents and neighborhood groups that have opposed this plan are concerned that it’s not gonna actually lead to more affordable housing, but that it actually might just lead to real estate speculation, you know, drive up the rent in certain areas and displace families who have been here for a long time while not actually guaranteeing to include and build that affordable housing that the city still desperately needs. One main concern is the fate of rent-controlled units. Because when you upzone, you can open up the possibility of old buildings getting torn down or redeveloped. And that can include possibly rent-controlled units. And some people are really worried about that. There was an amendment that was incorporated into this plan that actually removed any buildings that have three or more rent-controlled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:42] \u003c/em>I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:46] \u003c/em>Chan, who represents the Richmond, said, I actually believe that there should be no rent-controlled units that are at risk of demolition under this plan. You know, she put forward an amendment that would have excluded potentially all rent-controlled buildings. That did not ultimately get incorporated. But she was saying that it doesn’t make sense to remove buildings that have rent-controlled units where people already have kind of that security baked into their living situation and potentially, you know, bulldoze and then develop a a building that they wouldn’t be able to afford potentially after it got completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Connie Chan: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:25] \u003c/em>My mother, a single mother, an immigrant, longtime worker in Chinatown, she was able to work and live in Chinatown boarding North Beach area because of the rent control units where she reside for three decades, where I grew up until she passed in 2021. People, San Franciscans, need housing, both existing and new. We know that our existing housing stock, especially rent control housing, is our most valuable and affordable housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:57] \u003c/em>It sort of sounds like the impact that this could have on rent control apartments is one of the big sticking points, but also it sounds like people are just concerned that this is just gonna make way for more buildings that actually don’t make the city more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Yeah, that seems to be one of the most salient, you know, criticisms of this plan is like, sure, even if it does lead the way for more housing, what part of this plan is actually guaranteeing that that will be affordable to folks who are low income or even, you know, have the average median income? And then of course there are small business owners that have shops in these corridors that are also slated to be upzoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:40] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean definitely more construction is not — we we really dislike it.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:47] \u003c/em>I spoke with Justine Escalada. She runs a vintage shop over in the inner Richmond. And she was there working with her partner and their little baby sleeping in a stroller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Like but prior to this I was a preschool teacher and like very involved in the families’ lives as in there as well and like a lot of them were even like having to leave the city. So I don’t know if this would just continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:13] \u003c/em>She was worried that if the building owner, you know, decides one day to sell to a developer to, you know, build more housing on that block, she said that they would probably have to move and and potentially even leave the city entirely because they don’t have this, you know, stack of cash that can keep them afloat during that construction process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Justine Escalada: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>So I think it would drive away a lot of people who have been a part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:46] \u003c/em>For every person that said, Yes, let’s build more housing, there’ll be more foot traffic, there’ll be more nightlife. There was also someone out there that said, I don’t want to have to, you know, drive around my block ten times before I can find parking. Or, you know, it’s already expensive. How is this going to, you know, help keep my rents down? And then also just frankly, from some folks who said, you know, I bought this home 20 years ago for the neighborhood and and the way that it looks, and I don’t want that to change. Or, you know, I moved here six months ago and I’m starting a family and and you know, I don’t want this neighborhood to change. You know, that is that is still very much an opinion that is out there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:34] \u003c/em>Well, I mean, as we were just talking about Zini, this was a pretty contentious plan, and that the Board of Supervisors ultimately had to vote on. How did the board vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:45] \u003c/em>This was a pretty long discussion. I mean, I’ve been following this for months now and and have sat through some hours and hours of public comment. There was no public comment at this particular meeting because it was one of the final votes. But each supervisor went around and shared their thoughts about why they support it and don’t and it got, you know, pretty heated. Ultimately it came down to a seven to four vote in support of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:16] \u003c/em>I mean, Sydney, I feel like there’s a lot of concern around how much this plan can change San Francisco or p big parts of the city. I mean, how much could this plan on its own actually change San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:32] \u003c/em>You know, there’s been actually a couple analyzes of this that have come out. One from the city’s economist actually said that because of constraints in the market, you know, construction cost, financing that is or is not available and funding, that the number of units that could actually be built as a result of this plan is, you know, pretty shy of what the plan’s goal is. So for better or for worse, this, you know, may not actually result in 36,000 new units, and it certainly won’t right away. Actually, it was really interesting going to some of these public forums and hearing the city’s planning commission and and representatives from the mayor’s office talk to people who were concerned about their neighborhoods, you know, just being transformed and and looking radically different from the place that they moved to and and love, you know, saying things like, actually this plan isn’t gonna change that much. And these are the people who are actually, you know, supporting the plan and saying we need to pass this, but are also kind of being like, Well, realistically, we know that this isn’t gonna like dramatically change the city. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:42] \u003c/em>Cause It doesn’t change the fact that it just takes a long time to build in the state of California, period. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:52] \u003c/em>And I mean, San Francisco is not the only city in the state that is really under pressure from the state of California to build more, right? But but why do you think what is happening in San Francisco around housing and around its rezoning plan is important to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I think San Francisco is a really interesting place to watch because we brand ourselves as a sanctuary city. You know, we brand ourselves as this place that is welcoming to all. But when it comes down to it, we’re one of the most unaffordable and difficult places to live. It’s not the same as it was, you know, back in the 60s, where you could, you know, move here and start a new life so easily. It’s actually really hard to do that. So I think that, you know, this plan is a really interesting test case of our values of a city. Is that gonna actually work? Is that gonna actually like lead to more housing and and particularly lead to housing that can be affordable to future generations? Or is it going to lead to more gentrification and you know, potentially, you know, maybe make way for, you know, higher income folks, but not necessarily preserve that opportunity for lower income families to stay here and work here and live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:18] \u003c/em>Well, Sydney, thank you so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:21] \u003c/em>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is looking to strengthen its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">sanctuary city status\u003c/a> by prohibiting federal law enforcement agencies from using city-owned properties for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal from Supervisor Bilal Mahmood comes amid an uptick in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity both locally and around the country, and just weeks after San Francisco narrowly averted President Donald Trump’s call for a federal immigration surge in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t blur the lines between local government and federal immigration enforcement,” Mahmood, who is the son of immigrants, said at a press conference on Tuesday. “It is our job to deliver services. It is our job to make residents feel they can trust us. And it is our job to make sure that this city works for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation would block agencies like ICE from using city-owned buildings, parks and even parking lots for anything that could disrupt public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also amend San Francisco’s Administrative Code to clarify that federal immigration enforcement is not a city purpose, and allow the city attorney to take legal action for unauthorized use of city property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities with dense immigrant populations, like San José, have similarly sought to create so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060893/south-bay-leaders-aim-to-create-ice-free-zones\">ICE-free zones\u003c/a>” in the wake of rising deportations and increased immigration raids across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066528\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposal co-sponsored by Supervisor Chyanne Chen and written by City Attorney David Chiu goes to the Board of Supervisors in January. It would let the city attorney take legal action if federal agents use city property for unauthorized purposes, including immigration enforcement. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco would be among the first cities in the nation to codify what federal law enforcement can and cannot do on city properties, which Mahmood said gives the proposal stronger teeth than some approaches other cities are taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other actions that we’ve heard about across the country that we learned from were non-binding resolutions, or they were executive orders by the respective mayor,” Mahmood said. “Here, as a legislative body, we are taking action to make this into law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also recently moved to bar law enforcement, including ICE agents, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059088/masking-law-just-part-of-bigger-fight-over-immigration-enforcement\">wearing masks during operations\u003c/a>; however, the Trump administration is fighting the ban in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immigration unit sees the human costs of detention and deportation every single day. People are taken from their families with little warning, held in remote facilities, and forced to navigate a system where due process is far from assured,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, who is supporting the legislation.[aside postID=news_12065708 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has refrained from mentioning Trump by name, recently helped the city navigate the president’s threats to send in the National Guard and other federal agencies to carry out a large-scale federal immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, along with wealthy billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, managed to convince the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">hold off on sending troops\u003c/a> directly to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal immigration enforcement has increased overall this year. Arrests outside the city’s immigration court and high-profile incidents, like when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">van drove through a group\u003c/a> of anti-ICE protestors, have all led to rising tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, Mahmood and other immigrant advocates said many of the communities they serve are fearful of escalating ICE arrests and other demonstrations of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, where many immigrant families live, explained how undocumented families have stayed home from school, work, medical appointments or other public services to avoid encountering immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Max Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco works best when people can move through our city without fear,” Raju said. “The ICE-free zones ordinance reinforces that vision by making clear that city property cannot be repurposed in ways that create fear or that undermine the trust our communities place in public institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five Chinatown residents are also immigrants, according to Annie Lee, managing director for policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is based in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant safety must be paramount for San Francisco because immigrants are our neighbors, they are our friends, they are our students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has refrained from mentioning Trump by name, recently helped the city navigate the president’s threats to send in the National Guard and other federal agencies to carry out a large-scale federal immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, along with wealthy billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, managed to convince the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">hold off on sending troops\u003c/a> directly to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal immigration enforcement has increased overall this year. Arrests outside the city’s immigration court and high-profile incidents, like when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">van drove through a group\u003c/a> of anti-ICE protestors, have all led to rising tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, Mahmood and other immigrant advocates said many of the communities they serve are fearful of escalating ICE arrests and other demonstrations of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, where many immigrant families live, explained how undocumented families have stayed home from school, work, medical appointments or other public services to avoid encountering immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Max Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco works best when people can move through our city without fear,” Raju said. “The ICE-free zones ordinance reinforces that vision by making clear that city property cannot be repurposed in ways that create fear or that undermine the trust our communities place in public institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five Chinatown residents are also immigrants, according to Annie Lee, managing director for policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is based in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant safety must be paramount for San Francisco because immigrants are our neighbors, they are our friends, they are our students. They drive our buses, deliver mail, they open the shops and the restaurants that we love,” Lee said at the press conference. “They make up the very fabric of this city, which has long been a beacon around the world as a place of opportunity, freedom and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which was co-sponsored by Supervisor Chyanne Chen and written by City Attorney David Chiu, is expected to go before the full Board of Supervisors for a vote in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As an outsider with no political experience, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie promised voters a fresh perspective on local governance and has enjoyed a relatively smooth first year in office. But the honeymoon period appears to have ended with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064108/mayor-daniel-luries-pick-for-sunset-supervisor-resigns-after-1-week\">the abrupt resignation of the supervisor\u003c/a> he appointed — a shift that could complicate his relationship with residents on the city’s westside and his own political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sophomore slump has officially started,” David Ho, a political consultant, said. “He’s entering this period where he’s going to struggle to maintain the confidence of the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie carried the westside and did well among Sunset District voters in his own 2024 election. And he has weathered several challenges as mayor so far, including passing a controversial budget earlier this year and, more recently, successfully averting a federal immigration crackdown in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fallout over his recent District 4 appointment to the Board of Supervisors, Beya Alcaraz, marked a major misstep. The 29-year-old with no prior experience in government was not active in community organizing and was relatively unknown in the neighborhood and City Hall when the mayor picked her to replace recalled supervisor Joel Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said he chose Alcaraz because of her grit and small business background, plus her connection to the neighborhood. He knew she lacked the chops of a career politician, but she also didn’t come with political baggage — and had stated she would support his controversial family zoning plan, one of his chief agenda items. She was also a choice that initially appeased pro-recall voters when she agreed to revisit whether cars could be allowed back on the Great Highway — a flashpoint in the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, left, shakes a supporter’s hand, following the announcement of her as the next District 4 supervisor, representing the Sunset district, at Ortega Branch Library on Nov. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Lurie’s team failed to get ahead of, however, was that Alcaraz also apparently misrepresented her business background. Shortly after her appointment, numerous news outlets reported her former pet shop was left in unsanitary conditions after she passed it over to a new owner in 2025, and \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> first reported that she admitted to paying workers under the table to skirt taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In choosing Alcaraz, Lurie “made a decision to do something which he hasn’t done yet in his tenure, which was to go off script,” said Patrick Murphy, a professor of public affairs at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has taken full credit for the botched pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the first time that I have gotten something wrong. It won’t be the last. But what I commit to all of you and to the people of San Francisco is that I’m going to learn from this and I’m going to grow,” he said the day after Alcaraz resigned.[aside postID=news_12064108 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg']But political analysts who spoke to KQED said that the brouhaha revealed gaps in the mayor’s own resume when it comes to political maneuvering. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, comes from a well-connected family and has experience running a major nonprofit, Tipping Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed serious political chops after steering President Donald Trump clear of sending the National Guard to San Francisco, leveraging close ties to powerful tech billionaires to sway the commander in chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s largely stayed out of political tiffs. Lurie did not endorse Engardio in the recall, for example, and has avoided ever mentioning Trump’s name publicly. Polling on Lurie’s tenure has largely been positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this bluster surprised some residents and analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was actually a kind of rookie mistake to avoid the more foreseeable pitfalls,” said Keally McBride, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. “They chose an untested candidate who ended up being quite an embarrassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz was the first Filipina woman to serve on the Board of Supervisors. But Ho said it was shocking to him that the mayor didn’t pick someone with closer ties to the powerful Chinese American community, which drove the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie, center, lights fireworks during the Chinatown Night Market on Grant Avenue on his Inauguration Day in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Lurie got elected with more conservative votes on the westside, and his family zoning plan is going to challenge that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is even greater in the wake of the Alcaraz situation because some everyday residents have started to feel disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a revolving door of politicians … and hopefully there’ll be someone soon that doesn’t turn out to have been corrupt in some way or shady in some way,” Sunset resident Sandra Krista said while on a recent stroll at Sunset Dunes. “But until then, I’m happy that the Great Highway is open as a park. So at least we got something out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others aren’t holding it all against the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along the Great Highway in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a reflection on him,” Stelios Vafiadis, a Sunset resident who voted for Lurie, said while sipping coffee outside Java Beach Cafe on La Playa. “Maybe [Alcaraz] just couldn’t deal with all the obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said his office will be vetting potential supervisors more thoroughly and is already reviewing candidates to fill the seat as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll be looking, again, for a unicorn: someone willing to jump into the lion’s den, who has the qualifications to navigate a district in turmoil, and who supports his family zoning plan but also promises to at least look into putting cars back on the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if he’ll pick a caretaker to help get his zoning plan approved, which must be done by January, or if he’ll risk adding a new leader whom he doesn’t align with as closely ideologically but who could be popular in the Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment is not Lurie’s only test ahead. The next budget cycle is just around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will folks be looking for his next mistake? Absolutely,” Murphy said. “But let’s be honest, the honeymoon was going to end in January, regardless, because he’s got to put forward a budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As an outsider with no political experience, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie promised voters a fresh perspective on local governance and has enjoyed a relatively smooth first year in office. But the honeymoon period appears to have ended with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064108/mayor-daniel-luries-pick-for-sunset-supervisor-resigns-after-1-week\">the abrupt resignation of the supervisor\u003c/a> he appointed — a shift that could complicate his relationship with residents on the city’s westside and his own political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sophomore slump has officially started,” David Ho, a political consultant, said. “He’s entering this period where he’s going to struggle to maintain the confidence of the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie carried the westside and did well among Sunset District voters in his own 2024 election. And he has weathered several challenges as mayor so far, including passing a controversial budget earlier this year and, more recently, successfully averting a federal immigration crackdown in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fallout over his recent District 4 appointment to the Board of Supervisors, Beya Alcaraz, marked a major misstep. The 29-year-old with no prior experience in government was not active in community organizing and was relatively unknown in the neighborhood and City Hall when the mayor picked her to replace recalled supervisor Joel Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said he chose Alcaraz because of her grit and small business background, plus her connection to the neighborhood. He knew she lacked the chops of a career politician, but she also didn’t come with political baggage — and had stated she would support his controversial family zoning plan, one of his chief agenda items. She was also a choice that initially appeased pro-recall voters when she agreed to revisit whether cars could be allowed back on the Great Highway — a flashpoint in the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, left, shakes a supporter’s hand, following the announcement of her as the next District 4 supervisor, representing the Sunset district, at Ortega Branch Library on Nov. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Lurie’s team failed to get ahead of, however, was that Alcaraz also apparently misrepresented her business background. Shortly after her appointment, numerous news outlets reported her former pet shop was left in unsanitary conditions after she passed it over to a new owner in 2025, and \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> first reported that she admitted to paying workers under the table to skirt taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In choosing Alcaraz, Lurie “made a decision to do something which he hasn’t done yet in his tenure, which was to go off script,” said Patrick Murphy, a professor of public affairs at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has taken full credit for the botched pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the first time that I have gotten something wrong. It won’t be the last. But what I commit to all of you and to the people of San Francisco is that I’m going to learn from this and I’m going to grow,” he said the day after Alcaraz resigned.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But political analysts who spoke to KQED said that the brouhaha revealed gaps in the mayor’s own resume when it comes to political maneuvering. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, comes from a well-connected family and has experience running a major nonprofit, Tipping Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed serious political chops after steering President Donald Trump clear of sending the National Guard to San Francisco, leveraging close ties to powerful tech billionaires to sway the commander in chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s largely stayed out of political tiffs. Lurie did not endorse Engardio in the recall, for example, and has avoided ever mentioning Trump’s name publicly. Polling on Lurie’s tenure has largely been positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this bluster surprised some residents and analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was actually a kind of rookie mistake to avoid the more foreseeable pitfalls,” said Keally McBride, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. “They chose an untested candidate who ended up being quite an embarrassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz was the first Filipina woman to serve on the Board of Supervisors. But Ho said it was shocking to him that the mayor didn’t pick someone with closer ties to the powerful Chinese American community, which drove the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieChinatownMarket_DMB_00098-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie, center, lights fireworks during the Chinatown Night Market on Grant Avenue on his Inauguration Day in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were surprised he didn’t pick a much more seasoned candidate that was ready to step into the role of supervisor,” Ho said. “I was also surprised that it wasn’t someone with deeper involvement in the Chinese American community or someone with a deep connection to that segment of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups on both sides of the Engardio recall have expressed concern about the fallout from the resignation, after only a week, of Lurie’s initial supervisor pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sunset is once again left without representation, especially during a critical period when major policy decisions like the Family Zoning Plan are moving forward without a D4 voice at the table,” said Julia Kwon, a Sunset resident who advocates for the Chinese American Democratic Club. “The outcome shows that the initial vetting process did not meet the level of rigor that District 4 deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas Lux, who backed Engardio and is a vocal advocate for Sunset Dunes, the park that has replaced a stretch of the Great Highway, said Lurie is stuck trying to straddle two very different kinds of voters in the neighborhood: those who support the park and his zoning plan, which would allow denser housing on the westside, versus those who want cars back on the Great Highway and oppose bringing thousands of new homes in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The mayor signaled to us very clearly that he’s willing to move against the will of the voters on Sunset Dunes in order to placate a small voter base on the westside,” Lux said. “The Lurie Administration has not decided who their voters are on the westside. Lurie got elected with more conservative votes on the westside, and his family zoning plan is going to challenge that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is even greater in the wake of the Alcaraz situation because some everyday residents have started to feel disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a revolving door of politicians … and hopefully there’ll be someone soon that doesn’t turn out to have been corrupt in some way or shady in some way,” Sunset resident Sandra Krista said while on a recent stroll at Sunset Dunes. “But until then, I’m happy that the Great Highway is open as a park. So at least we got something out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others aren’t holding it all against the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240214-CoastalCommission-33-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along the Great Highway in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a reflection on him,” Stelios Vafiadis, a Sunset resident who voted for Lurie, said while sipping coffee outside Java Beach Cafe on La Playa. “Maybe [Alcaraz] just couldn’t deal with all the obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said his office will be vetting potential supervisors more thoroughly and is already reviewing candidates to fill the seat as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll be looking, again, for a unicorn: someone willing to jump into the lion’s den, who has the qualifications to navigate a district in turmoil, and who supports his family zoning plan but also promises to at least look into putting cars back on the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if he’ll pick a caretaker to help get his zoning plan approved, which must be done by January, or if he’ll risk adding a new leader whom he doesn’t align with as closely ideologically but who could be popular in the Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment is not Lurie’s only test ahead. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a much-anticipated decision, Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced Thursday that he has appointed Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz as the next District 4 supervisor to represent the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection of a relatively unknown 29-year-old comes after a decisive recall election in September, when District 4 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055340/san-francisco-supervisor-joel-engardio-braces-for-tuesday-recall-vote\">residents voted to remove Supervisor Joel Engardio\u003c/a>, leaving a seat open on the powerful Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall election stemmed from local residents’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">frustration over Engardio’s support\u003c/a> for closing the Upper Great Highway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036078/san-francisco-opens-controversial-new-park\">open a park\u003c/a>, but ultimately touched on everything from housing policy to racial dynamics on the westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ensure that people can still drive to work and get to the doctor. That affordable housing exists for the next generation. Too many of these decisions have been made without us from the top down,” Alcaraz said at a press conference on Thursday. “I want to hear your concerns and design community-informed solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie swore in the new supervisor at the press conference outside the Ortega library branch on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beya will be a bridge between generations, between the long-time residents like her family, who helped build this community, and the young people who will carry it forward,” Lurie said. “She’s a bridge between small business owners, working families, and our city government. She is a bridge to the future of the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, right, takes the oath of office as the next District 4 supervisor, representing the Sunset district, at Ortega Branch Library on Nov. 6, 2025. Alcaraz is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz, a lifelong Sunset resident, is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors and one of the youngest. (Former Sunset supervisors Carmen Chiu and Katy Tang were also 29 when they joined the board. In 2000, Chris Daly was the youngest person elected to the Board of Supervisors, at age 28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement marks an important milestone for the Sunset District’s diverse communities to come together to advance shared goals,” Tang said. “Beya’s steadfast commitment to public service, prioritization of residents’ voices, and collaborative approach will drive meaningful progress and long-term improvement across District 4.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her appointment, Alcaraz owned and operated a pet supply store called the Animal Connection in her neighborhood. She sold the business in 2025 and, more recently, taught art and music lessons for children. She was not a major public voice in the recall election.[aside postID=news_12062042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-24-BL_qed.jpg']Following the successful recall, many speculated over who the mayor might pick to steer the Sunset forward. Lurie could use another vote on the Board of Supervisors to help pass his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which would increase height and density regulations to make way for thousands of new homes on the westside. Some recall supporters and Sunset residents have challenged the plan, saying it poses threats to the community, and were eager to see someone appointed who would oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she supports bringing more housing to the Sunset, but could introduce amendments to the current plan that’s under deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alcaraz comes to the position with relatively little experience in governance or campaigning, she also brings little political baggage. Some recall supporters, such as local business owner Albert Chow, had also put their names out for Lurie’s consideration, but could have been controversial due to their direct ties to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s received early support from some of the neighborhood’s Chinese Americans, who played a pivotal role in the recall election, and business leaders like Ed Siu, chairman of the Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961411 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses is photographed as other people pass on a busy city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, stands on a busy corner of Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a former small business owner, Beya knows firsthand the challenges local merchants face and the vital role they play in keeping our neighborhoods strong and vibrant,” Siu said in a statement. “Beya also has deep respect and understanding for the needs and values of our Chinese community here in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz has not shared how she voted in the recall election. But at a night market shortly after, she directly approached the mayor and said she wanted to be his pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This neighborhood deserves to be represented by one of its own. Someone grounded in people, not politics. Someone who can bring a fresh perspective to City Hall and who’s ready to put in the work,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz will serve as supervisor until the next local election in June 2026, when voters will decide if she or someone else will permanently hold the District 4 seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new supervisor will have to guide the divided community through an ongoing battle over the Great Highway, which led to Engardio’s fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, voters across the city approved a ballot measure that closed off the Upper Great Highway to make way for a beachside park now known as Sunset Dunes. But the majority of voters in the Sunset, who live closest to the park, voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who supported the recall said that the change has affected their commute times — even though a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency study shows traffic has not significantly changed since the road closure — and that they felt their voices were not represented by their supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she believed the city’s former compromise to allow cars on the Great Highway on weekdays, but close it off for recreation on the weekends, worked well and would be open to revisiting the issue to bring cars back to the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents are already nervously anticipating the new supervisor’s plans for the Great Highway, but welcoming her with cautious optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged that she wants to engage directly with her constituents rather than prescribing top-down solutions from City Hall,” Lucas Lux, president of Friends of Sunset Dunes, said in a statement. “We want to be crystal clear: Allowing cars on the park in any way is not a ‘compromise.’ It’s a park closure … Our community deserves better: a permanent coastal park that San Francisco can be proud of, not a return to a halfway measure that left our neighborhood embroiled in argument for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Lopez, a lifetime Sunset resident who runs two bars in the neighborhood, said he was initially against the park and closing off the Great Highway. But since it’s open, he said he frequently visits with his baby and enjoys the open space. Still, he’s sympathetic to the drivers who have had their commutes to work affected by the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes the idea of having a local resident and small business owner step into City Hall to represent the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything she said in her speech really resonated with me,” said Lopez, who attended the press conference on Thursday. “The Sunset was a forgotten neighborhood for a really long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alcaraz’s top priorities, and toughest tests, will be uniting the Sunset after the tense election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sunset has shown that we are ready to rally from the ground up. In the spirit of healing and moving forward, I will work to bring all the residents of this district together to secure the future of the Sunset,” she said. “This is our chance to have a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Following the successful recall, many speculated over who the mayor might pick to steer the Sunset forward. Lurie could use another vote on the Board of Supervisors to help pass his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which would increase height and density regulations to make way for thousands of new homes on the westside. Some recall supporters and Sunset residents have challenged the plan, saying it poses threats to the community, and were eager to see someone appointed who would oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she supports bringing more housing to the Sunset, but could introduce amendments to the current plan that’s under deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alcaraz comes to the position with relatively little experience in governance or campaigning, she also brings little political baggage. Some recall supporters, such as local business owner Albert Chow, had also put their names out for Lurie’s consideration, but could have been controversial due to their direct ties to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s received early support from some of the neighborhood’s Chinese Americans, who played a pivotal role in the recall election, and business leaders like Ed Siu, chairman of the Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961411 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses is photographed as other people pass on a busy city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, stands on a busy corner of Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a former small business owner, Beya knows firsthand the challenges local merchants face and the vital role they play in keeping our neighborhoods strong and vibrant,” Siu said in a statement. “Beya also has deep respect and understanding for the needs and values of our Chinese community here in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz has not shared how she voted in the recall election. But at a night market shortly after, she directly approached the mayor and said she wanted to be his pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This neighborhood deserves to be represented by one of its own. Someone grounded in people, not politics. Someone who can bring a fresh perspective to City Hall and who’s ready to put in the work,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz will serve as supervisor until the next local election in June 2026, when voters will decide if she or someone else will permanently hold the District 4 seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new supervisor will have to guide the divided community through an ongoing battle over the Great Highway, which led to Engardio’s fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, voters across the city approved a ballot measure that closed off the Upper Great Highway to make way for a beachside park now known as Sunset Dunes. But the majority of voters in the Sunset, who live closest to the park, voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who supported the recall said that the change has affected their commute times — even though a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency study shows traffic has not significantly changed since the road closure — and that they felt their voices were not represented by their supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she believed the city’s former compromise to allow cars on the Great Highway on weekdays, but close it off for recreation on the weekends, worked well and would be open to revisiting the issue to bring cars back to the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents are already nervously anticipating the new supervisor’s plans for the Great Highway, but welcoming her with cautious optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged that she wants to engage directly with her constituents rather than prescribing top-down solutions from City Hall,” Lucas Lux, president of Friends of Sunset Dunes, said in a statement. “We want to be crystal clear: Allowing cars on the park in any way is not a ‘compromise.’ It’s a park closure … Our community deserves better: a permanent coastal park that San Francisco can be proud of, not a return to a halfway measure that left our neighborhood embroiled in argument for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Lopez, a lifetime Sunset resident who runs two bars in the neighborhood, said he was initially against the park and closing off the Great Highway. But since it’s open, he said he frequently visits with his baby and enjoys the open space. Still, he’s sympathetic to the drivers who have had their commutes to work affected by the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes the idea of having a local resident and small business owner step into City Hall to represent the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything she said in her speech really resonated with me,” said Lopez, who attended the press conference on Thursday. “The Sunset was a forgotten neighborhood for a really long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alcaraz’s top priorities, and toughest tests, will be uniting the Sunset after the tense election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sunset has shown that we are ready to rally from the ground up. In the spirit of healing and moving forward, I will work to bring all the residents of this district together to secure the future of the Sunset,” she said. “This is our chance to have a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie took a victory lap on Thursday after successfully convincing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Donald Trump to walk back plans\u003c/a> for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">federal immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in San Francisco — with some observers praising his political acumen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several city leaders are angered by the mayor telling the president during a late-night phone call this week that he still welcomes support from other federal law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing neighborhoods with dense immigrant populations were quick to criticize Lurie for calling for additional federal law enforcement under the Trump administration, worried such cooperation could ultimately lead to more immigration-related arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the diverse Mission District, has been particularly vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take issue with the mayor meeting with Pam Bondi and his statements to welcome ATF, FBI, DEA under Trump’s leadership, because they’ve all been deputized to carry out immigration enforcement,” Fielder said. “They are looking for any reason to criminalize immigrants, and lumping them in with drug dealers is only helping them with that task of having a mass deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lurie, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">refrained from saying Trump’s name publicly\u003c/a>, said he spoke directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi about working with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF on drug enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Lurie said in a speech announcing Trump had changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s swift pivot, after weeks of threatening to send in the National Guard, comes amid a backdrop of increasing arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often directly outside San Francisco’s immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after Lurie’s press conference on Thursday, announcing that Trump had backed off, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, told reporters that one of his constituents had recently been arrested by ICE outside the city’s immigration courthouse.[aside postID=news_12061545 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“A man from Pakistan, which was the home country where my family is originally from, was detained at immigration court. These tactics create trauma and erode trust in the public institutions intended to serve and protect all residents,” Mahmood said. “[Trump] may be holding back for now, but whether it’s 100 agents or one, this is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the mayor’s dealings with the Trump administration come as a relief to many who worried troops on the ground in San Francisco would only inspire more fear and chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie deserves credit. There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. But the city also can’t interfere with these agencies operating in San Francisco, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on May 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city already partners with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/hendricks-sf-fentanyl-sanctuary\">multi-agency crackdown on fentanyl dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>. These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. Fentanyl is a scourge in our city, and we will work with anybody that will help us end the fentanyl crisis on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his address Thursday, Lurie stood flanked by the city’s public safety leaders, who supported the mayor’s calls for more cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies on drug issues. Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">posted to Truth Social, praising Lurie\u003c/a> for the city’s progress on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside City Hall, at a rally with labor unions, nurses echoed Fielder’s concerns. Many feared that immigrants with no connections to the drug trade could be targeted and racially profiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said increasing law enforcement to handle street-level drug challenges, including fentanyl dealing and overdoses, could have adverse public health effects.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']“It would just exacerbate the problem,” said Amy Erb, a registered ICU nurse in San Francisco and member of the California Nurses Association board of directors. “If we need any help from the feds, it’s to help give us health care, housing and education. Things that would support this community so that those who have been displaced won’t seek to escape with drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Lurie’s announcement that the National Guard was called off, Fielder and other supervisors on Thursday announced legislation to increase funding for legal aid and other services for the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor can’t have it both ways,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton, echoing Fielder’s concerns. “We have a moral obligation to not allow for federal troops or anyone to come in and attack our communities. We know that the leadership of this country right now at the federal level, most certainly, wants to attack our residents here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDaniel, the San Francisco State professor, said Lurie’s strategy with Trump is also enhanced by the fact that the mayor comes from a wealthy background and has strong business ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many leaders in our country who are not given that benefit of the doubt from Trump. People like our former mayor, London Breed, who also had some working relationships with Marc Benioff,” McDaniel said. He also warned that Trump’s good graces are often slippery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is known for turning on people with the slightest provocation,” he said, “or even lack thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the diverse Mission District, has been particularly vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take issue with the mayor meeting with Pam Bondi and his statements to welcome ATF, FBI, DEA under Trump’s leadership, because they’ve all been deputized to carry out immigration enforcement,” Fielder said. “They are looking for any reason to criminalize immigrants, and lumping them in with drug dealers is only helping them with that task of having a mass deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lurie, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">refrained from saying Trump’s name publicly\u003c/a>, said he spoke directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi about working with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF on drug enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Lurie said in a speech announcing Trump had changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s swift pivot, after weeks of threatening to send in the National Guard, comes amid a backdrop of increasing arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often directly outside San Francisco’s immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after Lurie’s press conference on Thursday, announcing that Trump had backed off, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, told reporters that one of his constituents had recently been arrested by ICE outside the city’s immigration courthouse.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A man from Pakistan, which was the home country where my family is originally from, was detained at immigration court. These tactics create trauma and erode trust in the public institutions intended to serve and protect all residents,” Mahmood said. “[Trump] may be holding back for now, but whether it’s 100 agents or one, this is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the mayor’s dealings with the Trump administration come as a relief to many who worried troops on the ground in San Francisco would only inspire more fear and chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie deserves credit. There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. But the city also can’t interfere with these agencies operating in San Francisco, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on May 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city already partners with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/hendricks-sf-fentanyl-sanctuary\">multi-agency crackdown on fentanyl dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>. These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. Fentanyl is a scourge in our city, and we will work with anybody that will help us end the fentanyl crisis on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his address Thursday, Lurie stood flanked by the city’s public safety leaders, who supported the mayor’s calls for more cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies on drug issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s another recall election in the Bay Area. This time, it’s in San Francisco’s Sunset District on the city’s west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in District 4 have until Tuesday, Sept. 16 to vote in a special recall election for Supervisor Joel Engardio, who faces backlash from constituents after supporting Prop. K, which closed a portion of the Great Highway for a new park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9662689086\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054762/san-francisco-sf-recall-supervisor-joel-engardio-special-election\">Your Guide to the Special Recall Election of San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:35] So Sydney, tell me a little bit about where you went out to on Saturday. Where’d you go and who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] I followed Supervisor Joel Engardio around in one of his door-knocking shifts. He has been doing this pretty much every day for several hours a day for the last few weeks and months even, trying to convince voters to vote no on the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] Oh, hello. Hi, I’m Joel. I’m the city supervisor at City Hall and I’m just checking to see if you have questions or concerns. Oh, hi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] It’s strategic. You know, if they know someone is already planning to vote one way or another in the recall, you know, skip that house, kind of maximize your time out there to focus on households where people might be undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] No, any opinion on the recall election? No, well, I’ll leave a little flyer here just to explain it. It’s in about 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] And following the recall at all, you know that there are some angry voters out there too, or at least one in particular, I know, who recognized Joel as soon as we got to his house. And he was very frustrated about traffic and pretty much slammed the door in our face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Does it get easier kind of dealing with those after a little while or?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 3 \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] You’ll get yelled at, but then you’ll have multiple people say they support you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] I would say the majority, actually, of people that we talked to were curious, and, you know, there were certainly some people that said, oh, I actually just don’t really know much about this recall or what it’s about, and you know Joel had an opportunity to explain from his perspective what was going on. There were certainly people that came away from that conversation being like, well, you know I guess I’ll vote no on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:38] It’s a no in this house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh it is! A no yeah well thank you yeah appreciate that!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] I mean they’re stuck with what they’ve got right yeah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] One of the neighbors that we spoke to was Jeff Roberts. He was working in his garage and Joel stopped by and introduced himself, asked if he had any concerns. Jeff said he was ultimately voting no against the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:02] He was elected on valid merits, and if he does one thing that people don’t like, it’s not necessarily enough to make a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] You know, he likes having more park space and actually has friends who have created art installations that are now at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And I love that and I ride bikes a lot around here so I like the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:32] It seems like it was an interesting experience being out there with Joel Engardio. He represents district four, of course. I wonder if you can tell me a little bit more about this corner of San Francisco. How might you describe it, especially in comparison to other parts of the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] I mean, I think for folks who are not familiar with San Francisco, the sunset is probably not what they initially think of. It’s a really beautiful, quiet residential neighborhood, a lot of single-family homes, a lot a multi-generational households, it has a really large Chinese American population, a lot surfers, people who commute by car. It’s just not what you picture when you think of like downtown or Soma with these like big skyscrapers. It is a community that has this reputation of maybe being a little bit quiet, but also very organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:31] D4 is the Chinese barometer, right? That is independent, tends to be very populist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] David Ho is a political consultant who works in San Francisco. He is an expert on Asian-American communities and voters here in the Bay Area. He also actually grew up in the sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Most people have multiple cars, right? They have intergeneration households. So that really clashes with some of the prevalence on the East side politics around urbanist agenda, you know, like open space, you know transit equity, you know more housing, up zoning, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] He has described the sunset as a place where people kind of just want to do their thing and live their life. And the closure of the road that created Sunset Dunes represented a big change that some residents felt they were not a part of the conversation that led to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Exactly why we’re talking now, Sydney, there is this recall of the District Four Supervisor, Joel Engardio, who, as we were just talking about, is kind of out there fighting for his job right now. And I do wanna ask, like, I guess if you could tell me more about Joel Engardeo and why he is now sort of the latest person to face a recall in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:50] Joel Engardio actually ran for supervisor multiple times, was unsuccessful. And in 2022, Engardia was very supportive of the successful recalls of district attorney Chesa Boudin and three members of the Board of Education and actually sort of revived his political prominence by working with some of these pro-recall groups and supporting them. And then Engardio won his seat on the board of supervisors that same year. A couple years later, he came out in support of Proposition K. This was a ballot measure which permanently closed this portion of the Great Highway off to cars and made what we now call Sunset Dunes into a permanent park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Before Prop K, the upper portion of the Great Highway was only closed to cars on weekends. And Gardio and other supporters of Prop K pointed to the park’s popularity on those days and also the erosion already threatening parts of the highway. And then, last November, San Francisco voters approved Prop K with nearly 55% of the vote. But people who lived near the Great highway Mostly voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:25] Why a recall? Why is Joel Engardio in particular sort of a target here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] Supporters of the recall feel, quote unquote, betrayed by Joel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] He promised transparency and listening to his constituents and students, including myself and my family, but what we got instead was silence and action taken behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] I spoke with people like Julia Quon, who is a resident in the Sunset and a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club, which is one of the biggest funders supporting the recall. And she said that for people like her and her family, the park has, you know, hurt commute times, and they also felt that they were not included or given enough opportunity to be a part of the conversation of even getting Prop K on the ballot to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] So he shut down the Upper Great Highway. I have to go from where I live in the sunset to Kaiser on Geary. Usually this takes 25 to 30 minutes. Now it takes 45 minutes to 65 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:36] There are also some supporters of the recall who distrust some of the people who are supporting Joel, and in particular, a couple of billionaires who are putting a lot of money into this race in order to keep him in office. And then you have some supporters who are also hesitant about some of the plans to up zone parts of the West Side and introduce more housing, particularly along transit and merchant corridors. And so I think the the supporters of the recall kind of fall into those buckets\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] Sunset Dunes has been open since April now, so it’s been a couple of months. I mean, what has the impact been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:35] You know, there were a lot of concerns about traffic and about how this might affect local businesses. SFMTA did do a study both before the road closure and this year after. The initial study expected some delays and the study that came out this year pretty much aligned with that. It showed pretty minimal impacts. I should point out though, there are residents who say that that’s not their lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. Where we.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:08] At a public meeting just a couple of weeks ago, one resident who lives on La Playa was saying that she is dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour all the time, and that this was a direct result of this park and road closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:22] And I really would hope you would listen to the actual residents of this district. We want Joel Engardio to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] The other concern that was you know pretty elevated before the park was closed was just what impact it would have on businesses and I’ve spoken actually with a couple business owners who have said that their business is up and that they’re getting more people walking through the avenues you know stopping for a coffee or lunch. I think it’s hard to say after just a few months, you know, what the overall impact of this park is. But that has been what we’ve been hearing from voters and people who live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] Sydney, how has Engardio responded to the recall effort?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] Joel supports the park for a number of reasons, and he still stands by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] As the park becomes more popular and as we see that the traffic Carmageddon everyone feared never materialized, those two talking points aren’t as salient in recalling me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] He also disagrees with this idea that it was done without the community’s input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:32] My recall is over putting something on the ballot. I don’t have the power to close a road or create a park. I can only join three other supervisors to put something on a ballot, which is what I did. So I supported democracy. I supported giving people a choice. I supported letting people vote on an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:50] You know, I think he has said that there’s been many conversations that he’s met with residents one on one. He has basically responded by trying to interact with as many voters as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] They’re trying to recall me, people are mad about the Great Highway, but I’m up for election next year so you could wait a year and kind of look at me against all the other candidates and judge me on all the issues next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:16] This conversation and this recall really seems to be centered around this park, but even if Engardio is successfully recalled, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the park is going to close, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] Correct. Recalling Joel Engardio will simply recall Joel Engardo. The mayor will be able to appoint someone to fill that seat, and then the district will have an election next year for the supervisor. But to reopen the Great Highway to Cars, that would take a whole other ballot measure, because that was something that voters passed. This was on the ballot. This was an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:59] We have been talking about, Sydney, how this isn’t the first recall San Francisco has seen in recent years. In fact, we had the three school board members. We had former district attorney Chase Boudin back in 2022 who were recalled in San Francisco. What do you think makes this particular recall maybe a little different than the others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:22] Definitely compared to some of the earlier recalls we saw in like 2022, this one here in the Sunset District does not cut across ideological lines quite as clearly. And also that this took off largely because of one issue, you know, the park. I did not cover the recall of the district attorney, but from following it as a resident, it was, I think, a little bit more clear what different sides represented. And I think the recall attempt of Gavin Newsom is an even better example. He was able to say, hey, my opponents here are Republicans, people who don’t represent the values of California and Democrats and progress, democracy, all these things. Here in San Francisco, like, it’s very blue. Joel Engardio has gotten support from members of the Board of Supervisors and Nancy Pelosi and, you know, Senator Scott Weiner, but there’s also plenty of Democrats who have not rallied in support of Joel Engardio. One thing that’s really striking is just how the pro-recall group… Has raised only a fraction of the amount of money as the campaign to keep Joel and Gardio in office. That is unique. And I think what that shows is that you don’t necessarily need a mega-billionaire funding your campaign in order for a recall to get on a ballot and in order for a recalled to present a real threat to a candidate. I think that that is potentially alarming for other candidates. You know, you could potentially take a risky policy position and face a recall because of it. That is a different type of politics, maybe, than we’ve been used to for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:27] What does this recall do you think mean for those of us who are not in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] I met people who were at the park with their kids, who lived in the neighborhood, you know, were enjoying the day. But I met a lot of people who traveled from other parts of the city to the park, and several people who came over from the East Bay. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:35] So Sydney, tell me a little bit about where you went out to on Saturday. Where’d you go and who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] I followed Supervisor Joel Engardio around in one of his door-knocking shifts. He has been doing this pretty much every day for several hours a day for the last few weeks and months even, trying to convince voters to vote no on the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] Oh, hello. Hi, I’m Joel. I’m the city supervisor at City Hall and I’m just checking to see if you have questions or concerns. Oh, hi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] It’s strategic. You know, if they know someone is already planning to vote one way or another in the recall, you know, skip that house, kind of maximize your time out there to focus on households where people might be undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] No, any opinion on the recall election? No, well, I’ll leave a little flyer here just to explain it. It’s in about 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] And following the recall at all, you know that there are some angry voters out there too, or at least one in particular, I know, who recognized Joel as soon as we got to his house. And he was very frustrated about traffic and pretty much slammed the door in our face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Does it get easier kind of dealing with those after a little while or?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 3 \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] You’ll get yelled at, but then you’ll have multiple people say they support you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] I would say the majority, actually, of people that we talked to were curious, and, you know, there were certainly some people that said, oh, I actually just don’t really know much about this recall or what it’s about, and you know Joel had an opportunity to explain from his perspective what was going on. There were certainly people that came away from that conversation being like, well, you know I guess I’ll vote no on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:38] It’s a no in this house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh it is! A no yeah well thank you yeah appreciate that!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] I mean they’re stuck with what they’ve got right yeah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] One of the neighbors that we spoke to was Jeff Roberts. He was working in his garage and Joel stopped by and introduced himself, asked if he had any concerns. Jeff said he was ultimately voting no against the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:02] He was elected on valid merits, and if he does one thing that people don’t like, it’s not necessarily enough to make a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] You know, he likes having more park space and actually has friends who have created art installations that are now at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And I love that and I ride bikes a lot around here so I like the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:32] It seems like it was an interesting experience being out there with Joel Engardio. He represents district four, of course. I wonder if you can tell me a little bit more about this corner of San Francisco. How might you describe it, especially in comparison to other parts of the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] I mean, I think for folks who are not familiar with San Francisco, the sunset is probably not what they initially think of. It’s a really beautiful, quiet residential neighborhood, a lot of single-family homes, a lot a multi-generational households, it has a really large Chinese American population, a lot surfers, people who commute by car. It’s just not what you picture when you think of like downtown or Soma with these like big skyscrapers. It is a community that has this reputation of maybe being a little bit quiet, but also very organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:31] D4 is the Chinese barometer, right? That is independent, tends to be very populist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] David Ho is a political consultant who works in San Francisco. He is an expert on Asian-American communities and voters here in the Bay Area. He also actually grew up in the sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Most people have multiple cars, right? They have intergeneration households. So that really clashes with some of the prevalence on the East side politics around urbanist agenda, you know, like open space, you know transit equity, you know more housing, up zoning, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] He has described the sunset as a place where people kind of just want to do their thing and live their life. And the closure of the road that created Sunset Dunes represented a big change that some residents felt they were not a part of the conversation that led to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Exactly why we’re talking now, Sydney, there is this recall of the District Four Supervisor, Joel Engardio, who, as we were just talking about, is kind of out there fighting for his job right now. And I do wanna ask, like, I guess if you could tell me more about Joel Engardeo and why he is now sort of the latest person to face a recall in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:50] Joel Engardio actually ran for supervisor multiple times, was unsuccessful. And in 2022, Engardia was very supportive of the successful recalls of district attorney Chesa Boudin and three members of the Board of Education and actually sort of revived his political prominence by working with some of these pro-recall groups and supporting them. And then Engardio won his seat on the board of supervisors that same year. A couple years later, he came out in support of Proposition K. This was a ballot measure which permanently closed this portion of the Great Highway off to cars and made what we now call Sunset Dunes into a permanent park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Before Prop K, the upper portion of the Great Highway was only closed to cars on weekends. And Gardio and other supporters of Prop K pointed to the park’s popularity on those days and also the erosion already threatening parts of the highway. And then, last November, San Francisco voters approved Prop K with nearly 55% of the vote. But people who lived near the Great highway Mostly voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:25] Why a recall? Why is Joel Engardio in particular sort of a target here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] Supporters of the recall feel, quote unquote, betrayed by Joel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] He promised transparency and listening to his constituents and students, including myself and my family, but what we got instead was silence and action taken behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] I spoke with people like Julia Quon, who is a resident in the Sunset and a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club, which is one of the biggest funders supporting the recall. And she said that for people like her and her family, the park has, you know, hurt commute times, and they also felt that they were not included or given enough opportunity to be a part of the conversation of even getting Prop K on the ballot to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] So he shut down the Upper Great Highway. I have to go from where I live in the sunset to Kaiser on Geary. Usually this takes 25 to 30 minutes. Now it takes 45 minutes to 65 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:36] There are also some supporters of the recall who distrust some of the people who are supporting Joel, and in particular, a couple of billionaires who are putting a lot of money into this race in order to keep him in office. And then you have some supporters who are also hesitant about some of the plans to up zone parts of the West Side and introduce more housing, particularly along transit and merchant corridors. And so I think the the supporters of the recall kind of fall into those buckets\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] Sunset Dunes has been open since April now, so it’s been a couple of months. I mean, what has the impact been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:35] You know, there were a lot of concerns about traffic and about how this might affect local businesses. SFMTA did do a study both before the road closure and this year after. The initial study expected some delays and the study that came out this year pretty much aligned with that. It showed pretty minimal impacts. I should point out though, there are residents who say that that’s not their lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. Where we.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:08] At a public meeting just a couple of weeks ago, one resident who lives on La Playa was saying that she is dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour all the time, and that this was a direct result of this park and road closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:22] And I really would hope you would listen to the actual residents of this district. We want Joel Engardio to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] The other concern that was you know pretty elevated before the park was closed was just what impact it would have on businesses and I’ve spoken actually with a couple business owners who have said that their business is up and that they’re getting more people walking through the avenues you know stopping for a coffee or lunch. I think it’s hard to say after just a few months, you know, what the overall impact of this park is. But that has been what we’ve been hearing from voters and people who live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] Sydney, how has Engardio responded to the recall effort?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] Joel supports the park for a number of reasons, and he still stands by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] As the park becomes more popular and as we see that the traffic Carmageddon everyone feared never materialized, those two talking points aren’t as salient in recalling me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] He also disagrees with this idea that it was done without the community’s input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:32] My recall is over putting something on the ballot. I don’t have the power to close a road or create a park. I can only join three other supervisors to put something on a ballot, which is what I did. So I supported democracy. I supported giving people a choice. I supported letting people vote on an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:50] You know, I think he has said that there’s been many conversations that he’s met with residents one on one. 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