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The proposal is expected to impact about 50 bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \u003ca href=\"https://no-smoke.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/SmokefreeOutdoorDining.pdf\">Bay Area cities\u003c/a>, including Oakland and San José, have passed similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCSF researchers supporting the legislation point to studies that showed sales for hospitality businesses did not drop when bars and other venues banned outdoor smoking, and noted that some studies found a positive impact for some venues because they attracted customers who avoided places where there was smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the ban also said smoking on patios exposes workers to smoke. 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The proposal is expected to impact about 50 bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \u003ca href=\"https://no-smoke.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/SmokefreeOutdoorDining.pdf\">Bay Area cities\u003c/a>, including Oakland and San José, have passed similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-7-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCSF researchers supporting the legislation point to studies that showed sales for hospitality businesses did not drop when bars and other venues banned outdoor smoking, and noted that some studies found a positive impact for some venues because they attracted customers who avoided places where there was smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the ban also said smoking on patios exposes workers to smoke. 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But on Monday, a committee of city supervisors will consider eliminating the exception for patio smoking, and join over 50 other cities in the Bay Area with similar bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal has sparked a heated debate between patrons and bar owners, who say their businesses are already hurting, and public health experts — who say anti-smoking laws have played a significant role in reducing tobacco consumption from 42% to less than 15% nationally, since the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Rather than allowing or even encouraging this behavior, we should take every effort to try to educate the public, and to try to protect both the customers as well as the employees of these establishments,” Dr. John Maa, a surgeon at Chinese Hospital, said. “We want to reduce their risks of heart disease, of stroke, and of cancers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maa is the former president of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society, which co-sponsored the proposal, along with major medical groups such as the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maa said the ban builds off of a 2014 city law, which prohibited outdoor smoking at restaurants, but granted an exception for bars and taverns with outdoor patios after pushback from bar owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pushback has carried over into this fight: more than 2,000 small business owners and residents have signed an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/small-businesses-and-residents-of-san-francisco-oppose-the-smoke-free-places-ordinance\">petition\u003c/a> opposing the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we respect the Board’s concern for public health, we believe this legislation is misguided in its scope, timing, and priorities — and we urge the Board to reject it,” the petition reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/PXL_20260515_172446739-scaled-e1778890672540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1506\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lex Montiel, who owns and operates the San Francisco Eagle, said he’s worried about the indirect impact the city’s proposed anti-smoking ordinance would have on business, on May 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Desmond Meagley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lex Montiel, who owns and operates the San Francisco Eagle, said he’s worried about the indirect impact the ordinance would have on business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eagle is a historic leather bar in SoMa, with a large covered patio — an important draw for customers, many of whom enjoy cigars and cigarettes in the space, Montiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since COVID, the bar’s economic position has been tenuous, he said, and his clientele relies on the covered patio to provide them a space to dress freely and socialize with others in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [a customer] is smoking and we have to push them out to the street on a jockstrap, we definitely would lose that customer,” he said. “We will not be able to offer a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montiel said the city is “overreaching” with the ban. While the health of his clientele and his employees is important to him, he said, he doubts that his employees are exposed to dangerous levels of secondhand smoke while at work. Montiel said that he hasn’t received complaints, and he is “very, very strict” about preventing smoking and vaping inside the bar.[aside postID=news_12068987 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/zyngetty.jpg']Maa said Montiel’s claims, and other arguments against the ban, are based on misinformation. He pointed to decades of public health research, which shows that whenever someone smokes outside, others around them risk inhaling particles in concentrations that can increase the risk of disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the tobacco industry has “targeted” the LGBTQ+ community and other minority groups in their marketing, and credited the San Francisco-based nonprofit LGBTQ Minus Tobacco for their contributions to “championing” the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only a small incremental step forward — that over 400 cities in America have already done,” he said. “San Francisco is simply trying to catch up with the rest of the nation here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Maa said, it’s hard to evaluate whether changing the law will also change the behavior of existing smokers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who wrote and sponsored the legislation, said she knows her proposal has been controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As with all things in San Francisco, everybody has an opinion,” she said. Some of the messages she’s received, however, have been “ very personal, very toxic” and, in some cases, threatening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told KQED that she empathizes with the concerns of both smokers and business owners, but nonetheless, “there’s no question” that “secondhand smoke causes cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faces its first hurdle in front of the city’s Land Use and Transportation Committee on May 18. To pass, it must be approved by at least two members of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors this week uniformly decried local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in March, when the agency forcibly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">detained a woman\u003c/a> at San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15415210&GUID=07BF3D55-6A67-45A9-AE71-BA6842A1641F\">resolution\u003c/a> condemning the incident “and any further enforcement” in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes amid a widespread immigration crackdown nationwide and simmering tensions over the city’s sanctuary policies, which prevent local law enforcement from assisting in federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there are public incidents that might alter public perception, it is important for the board and us as a city to clarify and double down on our intent… to ensure that residents, immigrants and refugees around San Francisco know that we are a sanctuary city,” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, a sponsor of the resolution, said at a recent public meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the evening of March 22, Angelina Lopez-Jimenez was traveling from SFO to Miami with her young daughter. Video footage from bystanders shows ICE agents in plain clothes aggressively handcuffing Lopez-Jimenez, who lived in Contra Costa County with her child and was born in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-scaled.jpg\" alt='Two people speak into news microphones as a crowd of protesters surrounds them. A sign says \"ICE out of SF\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Valdez, left, executive director of Mission Action, and Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco public defender’s office, speak as protesters gather outside the San Francisco Police Department headquarters on March 25, 2026. They criticized the SFPD’s presence at the scene where ICE officers arrested a mother at San Francisco International Airport. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun /Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The video shows the mother on the ground crying before agents force her into a wheelchair. Within two days after the arrest, Lopez-Jimenez and her daughter were deported to Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said that the mother and daughter had received a final order of removal from an immigration judge in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While being escorted to the international terminal for processing, Lopez-Jimenez attempted to flee and resisted law enforcement officers. ICE is working as quickly as possible to repatriate the family unit to their home country of Guatemala,” the agency said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2036158826341077203\">post\u003c/a> on social media shortly after the incident.[aside postID=news_12082287 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250820-ICEActivity-05_qed.jpg']The new resolution urges Congress to fully fund the Transportation and Security Agency (TSA) and withhold funding to ICE. Around the country, TSA agents went without pay during a partial government shutdown and the Trump Administration responded by sending ICE agents to airports to conduct security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO works with a private contractor for security screening rather than government-paid TSA agents, so ICE agents did not replace security officials there. But that security structure does not prevent ICE from being at the airport and supervisors cannot bar them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials across the Bay Area have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">raised safety and privacy concerns\u003c/a> since the March 22 arrest at SFO, which reporting from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> revealed was prompted after TSA tipped off ICE about Lopez-Jimenez’s travel plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest also sparked criticism of San Francisco police, who are shown in the video in significant numbers blocking bystanders from interfering with ICE agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were present solely in a public safety capacity, and their positioning on scene was for crowd management and deescalation only,” SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said in a letter to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who chairs the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. “To be clear, there was no planning or coordination with federal agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department Chief Derrick Lew addresses the press at SFPD Headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The resolution adopted on Tuesday was an amended version of an original proposal, which previously stated that SFPD “formed a barrier around the ICE agents, without requesting to see proper documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushback from law enforcement officials who described that framing as a mischaracterization, supervisors on the public safety committee pushed forward the amended version, which changed the language to say that officers “responded to a 911 call for service, made contact with the involved parties and confirmed the individuals were ICE agents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, who put forward the amendments, urged his colleagues on the board to be cautious with the language in the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a legal obligation to do the work that police departments have to do. That doesn’t mean that we are facilitating or doing the federal government’s job,” he said at a recent Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee meeting. “So we have to walk a fine line on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco avoided an immigration enforcement crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">planned to send National Guard troops\u003c/a> to the Bay Area, but later pivoted after saying he had conversations with tech billionaires Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">who walked back his previous support for the deployment\u003c/a>) and Mayor Daniel Lurie. Still, ICE has continued to make arrests in the city and broader Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is arrested as he stands with other demonstrators blocking the road in front of San Francisco International terminal during ICE Out of San Francisco protest at SFO on May Day at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, May 1, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests against ICE actions in San Francisco have taken place alongside increased enforcement. Multiple current and former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082129/bay-area-elected-officials-among-several-arrested-at-may-day-protest-at-sfo\">supervisors were arrested at SFO\u003c/a> during a May Day rally where demonstrators holding signs, some reading “support workers not ICE,” blocked off a roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said at a later May Day rally that he appreciated seeing his colleagues in leadership positions supporting airport employees and other protestors demanding protections for workers and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t divorce workers’ rights, inequality, immigration and the federal government. They’re all intertwined,” Mahmood said. “You can’t have justice on one issue without justice on another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new resolution urges Congress to fully fund the Transportation and Security Agency (TSA) and withhold funding to ICE. Around the country, TSA agents went without pay during a partial government shutdown and the Trump Administration responded by sending ICE agents to airports to conduct security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO works with a private contractor for security screening rather than government-paid TSA agents, so ICE agents did not replace security officials there. But that security structure does not prevent ICE from being at the airport and supervisors cannot bar them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials across the Bay Area have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">raised safety and privacy concerns\u003c/a> since the March 22 arrest at SFO, which reporting from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> revealed was prompted after TSA tipped off ICE about Lopez-Jimenez’s travel plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest also sparked criticism of San Francisco police, who are shown in the video in significant numbers blocking bystanders from interfering with ICE agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were present solely in a public safety capacity, and their positioning on scene was for crowd management and deescalation only,” SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said in a letter to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who chairs the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. “To be clear, there was no planning or coordination with federal agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260203-Teen-Shooting-Arrest-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department Chief Derrick Lew addresses the press at SFPD Headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The resolution adopted on Tuesday was an amended version of an original proposal, which previously stated that SFPD “formed a barrier around the ICE agents, without requesting to see proper documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushback from law enforcement officials who described that framing as a mischaracterization, supervisors on the public safety committee pushed forward the amended version, which changed the language to say that officers “responded to a 911 call for service, made contact with the involved parties and confirmed the individuals were ICE agents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, who put forward the amendments, urged his colleagues on the board to be cautious with the language in the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a legal obligation to do the work that police departments have to do. 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Still, ICE has continued to make arrests in the city and broader Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/MayDaySFGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is arrested as he stands with other demonstrators blocking the road in front of San Francisco International terminal during ICE Out of San Francisco protest at SFO on May Day at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, May 1, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protests against ICE actions in San Francisco have taken place alongside increased enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cp>As fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries become more common, San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bilal-mahmood\">Bilal Mahmood\u003c/a> and the Fire Department are introducing legislation to outlaw uncertified batteries and devices in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood drafted the legislation in response to a fire started by a lithium-ion battery that ripped through a Tenderloin apartment building in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068668/after-tenderloin-apartment-fire-rent-controlled-tenants-fear-theyre-being-pushed-out\">December\u003c/a>, displacing dozens of families in Mahmood’s district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is part of a growing trend in San Francisco. According to a press release from Mahmood’s office, the city saw 120 lithium-ion battery-related incidents from 2024 to 2025, with dozens concentrated in and around the Tenderloin, and Fire Department data shows related structure fires have been on the rise for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities are also seeing increases in lithium-ion battery fires; in San José, officials raised warnings about buying, storing and charging devices with the batteries after a man \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078862/fire-bike-officials-urge-caution-after-e-bike-fire-death-in-san-jose\">died\u003c/a> in an apartment fire on Friday linked to an e-bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to e-bikes, lithium-ion batteries can be found in common household items such as phones, computers and cordless vacuums. 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After that, “the fire is off and running very quickly,” releasing clouds of toxic smoke that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DW1Yb9uDpYw/\">pose a danger\u003c/a> to firefighters and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11100824 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/25114840899_e4ac084aab_o-e1765481604471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1398\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Fire Department Engine 13. \u003ccite>(Alexander Russy/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only do they start fast, but they are hard to put out. The fire becomes more difficult to extinguish because “we’re kind of fighting the casing of the battery,” Elias said, referring to a plastic coating designed to keep water out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batteries sold commercially in the U.S. are often tested and certified by labs such as UL Solutions to ensure they meet safety standards. But the San Francisco Fire Department found that many of the city’s battery-sparked blazes were caused by non-certified lithium-ion batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2025/06/30/the-dangers-of-low-cost-electric-bikes-what-youre-really-getting-for-500/\">Consumer watchdogs and reviewers\u003c/a> have noted that while fires caused by devices like e-bikes are still relatively rare, some budget models with less reputable, unbranded parts are more likely to include dangerous non-certified batteries.[aside postID=news_12078862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/250724-MARIN-EBIKES-MD-06_qed.jpg']“The problem here is not e-bikes and scooters, the problem is when people are using non-UL certified batteries in them,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ordinance, which was set to be introduced at Tuesday afternoon’s Board of Supervisors meeting, aims to solve this problem upstream by prohibiting the sale of uncertified lithium-ion batteries, authorizing enforcement by the San Francisco Fire Department and establishing penalties of up to $1,000 per violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glen Martin, the owner of In and Out E-Bike Repair in the Mission District, believes this legislation will have a positive impact. “I think the highest standards need to be employed behind these batteries,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is a state law in California that regulates lithium-ion batteries, Mahmood said his law would go further by regulating the online delivery component and giving the fire chief authority to issue citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the new legislation, the Fire Department is working hard to increase public awareness around lithium-ion battery safety and telling citizens to spot fires early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department \u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/safety-resources-and-information/lithium-ion-battery-safety\">recommends\u003c/a> taking precautions such as only using the manufacturer’s charger, storing your e-bikes and scooters away from exits, and charging on flat, non-combustible surfaces out of direct sunlight (i.e., don’t leave your phone on the bed while it’s charging). If you hear popping or hissing, see a bulging battery or feel the device temperature rising, you may be in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aaliahmad\">\u003cem>Ayah Ali-Ahmad\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Supervisor Jackie Fielder is taking a leave of absence from City Hall due to an unspecified mental health condition, according to her office, capping a weekend of confusion and concern for the District 9 representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday afternoon, Fielder told reporters she had checked into a hospital and would resign from her post. About 48 hours later, representatives from her office said she could still decide to remain in her position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has not resigned. Supervisor Fielder is currently navigating a mental health condition and needs time and space to recover before making any major decisions,” said Sasha Gaona, chief of staff for Fielder’s office. “She wants to regain stable health so she can thoughtfully and responsibly consider her options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 2024, Fielder represents the Mission, Portola and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. She is widely viewed as the most progressive member of a Board of Supervisors that is dominated by moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before announcing her medical leave, Fielder had been absent from multiple Board of Supervisors and committee meetings in the last month. The full board is currently on a spring recess and will not reconvene until April 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie released a statement wishing Fielder a speedy recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073557 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference on Feb. 13, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She is a dedicated advocate for her community,” Lurie said. “I am encouraging everyone to give her the time and space to get better so she can do that work fully, and I’m wishing her strength and all the best for her health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Fielder were to resign, Lurie would select her appointment, extending his influence over the Board of Supervisors. Rumors have already circulated about potential replacements and how Lurie could bring the board’s political tilt closer to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be his third supervisorial appointment since he took office. In November, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063157/lurie-names-29-year-old-isabella-beya-alcaraz-as-san-francisco-supervisor\">appointed Beya Alcaraz\u003c/a> to replace recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio in the Sunset District. But the young Filipina supervisor quickly resigned after reporting showed she had potentially attempted to skirt taxes for the pet shop she ran in the neighborhood. Lurie later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065576/sf-mayor-lurie-appoints-city-college-trustee-alan-wong-as-sunset-district-supervisor\">appointed Alan Wong\u003c/a>, who is now running for a permanent seat to represent the westside district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, a Latina and indigenous woman, has been one of the most vocal supervisors opposing President Donald Trump’s agenda around issues such as immigration enforcement and federal funding cuts. She’s drawn a stark contrast to several of her more moderate colleagues and particularly Lurie, who has often refrained from speaking publicly about Trump.[aside postID=news_12061453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Jen Snyder, a progressive political strategist with Red Bridge Strategies, said District 9 voters would likely reject a moderate supervisor if Fielder resigns and Lurie has the opportunity to fill her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“District 9 is progressive. And there is an army of volunteers and neighbors who will make sure that it remains that way regardless of what Jackie chooses to do,” Snyder said. “I’m positive that a big part of Jackie’s leave of absence will be considering what is best for her district, which she cares deeply for. But just a reminder that it wasn’t just Jackie that won. It was her unapologetically progressive platform that won an astounding majority of votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Aaron Peskin said he hopes that Fielder gets the help and support she needs, and ultimately that she chooses to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I respect any decision she makes. And I have every confidence that the sophisticated progressive voters of District 9 will ultimately, as they have for decades, will elect progressive supervisors no matter who the mayor should appoint,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, remarks poured in from community groups and political leaders across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Native community is sending you prayers during your healing. We look forward to you coming back to work soon to lead and protect our families in our community,” reads a statement from the American Indian Cultural Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand unequivocally with Supervisor Fielder and offer her our full support. We are holding her in our hearts and surrounding her with strength, care and deep respect, and we call on the community to do the same,” the Latino Task Force said in a statement. “We encourage her to prioritize her health and not feel pressure to make decisions about her role during an acute health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051931 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at an event celebrating the creation of a union by the workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s colleagues on the Board of Supervisors also wished her healing over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Fielder has been a powerful leader on civil rights, immigration and for working people, and I’ve valued the chance to work with her and learn from her leadership on those issues,” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood said in a statement. “Whatever path she chooses, I know she will remain a fierce advocate for those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, another progressive member of the board who is also running to represent San Francisco in Congress, said in a statement, “We will support Supervisor Fielder and her team during this time to make decisions that are in the best interest of Supervisor Fielder’s health and the people she represents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a candidate for California’s 11th Congressional District, participates in a forum with other candidates at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a tough world we’re in, in terms of the political world, and it’s intense, it’s spirited, and there’s all that, but at the end of the day, there are real humans behind these decisions,” Supervisor Danny Sauter told KQED on Monday. “Supervisor Fielder is a good person who cares about her community, and I want her to take time to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s staff said they would continue to meet with constituents during her medical leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On matters of her personal health, we respectfully ask the press to give her the privacy and space necessary for healing, and not to report on unsubstantiated rumors,” Fielder’s aides said in a statement. “We urge everyone to treat this situation with the same respect and sensitivity as they would if she were recovering from any other medical emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Supervisor Jackie Fielder is taking a leave of absence from City Hall due to an unspecified mental health condition, according to her office, capping a weekend of confusion and concern for the District 9 representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday afternoon, Fielder told reporters she had checked into a hospital and would resign from her post. About 48 hours later, representatives from her office said she could still decide to remain in her position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has not resigned. Supervisor Fielder is currently navigating a mental health condition and needs time and space to recover before making any major decisions,” said Sasha Gaona, chief of staff for Fielder’s office. “She wants to regain stable health so she can thoughtfully and responsibly consider her options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 2024, Fielder represents the Mission, Portola and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. She is widely viewed as the most progressive member of a Board of Supervisors that is dominated by moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before announcing her medical leave, Fielder had been absent from multiple Board of Supervisors and committee meetings in the last month. The full board is currently on a spring recess and will not reconvene until April 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie released a statement wishing Fielder a speedy recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073557 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference on Feb. 13, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She is a dedicated advocate for her community,” Lurie said. “I am encouraging everyone to give her the time and space to get better so she can do that work fully, and I’m wishing her strength and all the best for her health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Fielder were to resign, Lurie would select her appointment, extending his influence over the Board of Supervisors. Rumors have already circulated about potential replacements and how Lurie could bring the board’s political tilt closer to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be his third supervisorial appointment since he took office. In November, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063157/lurie-names-29-year-old-isabella-beya-alcaraz-as-san-francisco-supervisor\">appointed Beya Alcaraz\u003c/a> to replace recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio in the Sunset District. But the young Filipina supervisor quickly resigned after reporting showed she had potentially attempted to skirt taxes for the pet shop she ran in the neighborhood. Lurie later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065576/sf-mayor-lurie-appoints-city-college-trustee-alan-wong-as-sunset-district-supervisor\">appointed Alan Wong\u003c/a>, who is now running for a permanent seat to represent the westside district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, a Latina and indigenous woman, has been one of the most vocal supervisors opposing President Donald Trump’s agenda around issues such as immigration enforcement and federal funding cuts. She’s drawn a stark contrast to several of her more moderate colleagues and particularly Lurie, who has often refrained from speaking publicly about Trump.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jen Snyder, a progressive political strategist with Red Bridge Strategies, said District 9 voters would likely reject a moderate supervisor if Fielder resigns and Lurie has the opportunity to fill her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“District 9 is progressive. And there is an army of volunteers and neighbors who will make sure that it remains that way regardless of what Jackie chooses to do,” Snyder said. “I’m positive that a big part of Jackie’s leave of absence will be considering what is best for her district, which she cares deeply for. But just a reminder that it wasn’t just Jackie that won. It was her unapologetically progressive platform that won an astounding majority of votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Aaron Peskin said he hopes that Fielder gets the help and support she needs, and ultimately that she chooses to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I respect any decision she makes. And I have every confidence that the sophisticated progressive voters of District 9 will ultimately, as they have for decades, will elect progressive supervisors no matter who the mayor should appoint,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, remarks poured in from community groups and political leaders across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Native community is sending you prayers during your healing. We look forward to you coming back to work soon to lead and protect our families in our community,” reads a statement from the American Indian Cultural Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand unequivocally with Supervisor Fielder and offer her our full support. We are holding her in our hearts and surrounding her with strength, care and deep respect, and we call on the community to do the same,” the Latino Task Force said in a statement. “We encourage her to prioritize her health and not feel pressure to make decisions about her role during an acute health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051931 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250812-TNDC-UNION-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks at an event celebrating the creation of a union by the workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s colleagues on the Board of Supervisors also wished her healing over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Fielder has been a powerful leader on civil rights, immigration and for working people, and I’ve valued the chance to work with her and learn from her leadership on those issues,” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood said in a statement. “Whatever path she chooses, I know she will remain a fierce advocate for those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, another progressive member of the board who is also running to represent San Francisco in Congress, said in a statement, “We will support Supervisor Fielder and her team during this time to make decisions that are in the best interest of Supervisor Fielder’s health and the people she represents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-37-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a candidate for California’s 11th Congressional District, participates in a forum with other candidates at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a tough world we’re in, in terms of the political world, and it’s intense, it’s spirited, and there’s all that, but at the end of the day, there are real humans behind these decisions,” Supervisor Danny Sauter told KQED on Monday. “Supervisor Fielder is a good person who cares about her community, and I want her to take time to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s staff said they would continue to meet with constituents during her medical leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On matters of her personal health, we respectfully ask the press to give her the privacy and space necessary for healing, and not to report on unsubstantiated rumors,” Fielder’s aides said in a statement. “We urge everyone to treat this situation with the same respect and sensitivity as they would if she were recovering from any other medical emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055982/supervisors-proposal-seeks-to-address-housing-death-spiral-in-san-francisco\">infamously slow\u003c/a> building permitting process may be getting faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city study published Thursday found that between January 2024 and August 2025, the timeline on permit approvals for new housing in San Francisco was cut by half — from an average of 605 days down to around 280 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And permit applications that were filed within that 19-month window had even shorter turnaround times, at 114 days on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has addressed much of the “low-hanging fruit” to speed up its operation over the last two years, said San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who commissioned the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said the city still has a backlog of years-old permit applications, and tens of thousands of entitled units without approval to build — issues he said could require a ballot measure to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also now getting to this point where, despite all of those changes, we’re still the slowest city to build,” he said. “We have to now take a stab at the harder problems, including Charter reform, to enable us to be able to make those changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city leaders have lambasted San Francisco’s permitting process as disjointed and archaic. 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In February, his office introduced an online portal that allows people to apply for certain types of permits. The state also passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">new laws in 2023\u003c/a> aimed at expediting the application review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a marked improvement, Mahmood said the process still takes significantly longer than other cities analyzed in the report — including San Diego, where permitting approvals took an average of 134 days, and Austin, Texas, where the same process spanned just 91 days.[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']“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",
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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. We can’t have roads being blocked,” said Sam Gebler, the president of San Francisco Firefighters Local 798.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting also featured lengthy public comment with many speakers largely expressing their opposition to Waymo over safety and other concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Hardy, the regional vice president of SEIU 1021, read a statement written by her daughter, who said her dog, Leo, was hit and killed by a Waymo in the city’s Western Addition neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristin Hardy, region vice president for SEIU 1021, speaks on behalf of her daughter, Kayla Craig, whose dog, Leo, had to be put down after being hit by a Waymo, 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>“When a self-driving car makes a mistake, who suffers? 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. We can’t have roads being blocked,” said Sam Gebler, the president of San Francisco Firefighters Local 798.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting also featured lengthy public comment with many speakers largely expressing their opposition to Waymo over safety and other concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Hardy, the regional vice president of SEIU 1021, read a statement written by her daughter, who said her dog, Leo, was hit and killed by a Waymo in the city’s Western Addition neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260302-WAYMOOUTAGEREPORT-42-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristin Hardy, region vice president for SEIU 1021, speaks on behalf of her daughter, Kayla Craig, whose dog, Leo, had to be put down after being hit by a Waymo, 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>“When a self-driving car makes a mistake, who suffers? 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"content": "\u003cp>A circuit breaker issue sparked a fire at an indoor substation in the South of Market neighborhood in December, which subsequently cut off power for hundreds of thousands of San Francisco residents. That’s according to officials at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">Pacific Gas & Electric\u003c/a> Company, the city’s main power supplier, who gave a report during a public hearing on Thursday about widespread power outages that left swaths of the city in the dark for days this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors, residents and merchants drilled representatives from PG&E about what happened when the circuit breaker failure and fire generated a multi-day power outage impacting about 130,000 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear, that is not a blip. That is not weathering a storm. 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. An investigation into the initial fire and power failure, as well as follow-up power outages in the following days, is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Sumeet Singh speaks during a press conference at a PG&E substation on Mission and 8th Streets in San Francisco on Dec. 22, 2025, after a fire at the site over the weekend contributed to a major citywide power outage. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to be very clear that we take responsibility for the outage that took place last December, and our response to that outage … was unacceptable,” said Sumeet Singh, PG&E CEO, at the hearing. “We are bringing in another third party that’s focused specifically on how we can improve our restoration time estimates during large localized events, particularly when operating conditions are otherwise normal. But in the meantime, we have already implemented a rapid escalation process for large-impact localized events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E leaders said that immediately following reports of the fire at the substation, customers were sent automatic updates on restoration times. But due to the complexity of the fire activity at the substation, the power company issued multiple inaccurate estimates for when lights might come back on, frustrating many residents and sending some businesses into a spiral over whether they could ask their staff to return or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are reviewing our process around automatic customer notification to improve clarity, consistency and accuracy within language messages,” Singh said. “We obviously don’t experience the substation outages to this level, which ends up impacting multiple distribution circuits and lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Fire Commission meeting, Fire Chief Dean Crispen said communication with PG&E during the crisis was OK, but many challenges remain with the overall system.[aside postID=news_12071937 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-22-BL_qed.jpg']“There clearly needs to be some upgrades to some of their infrastructure,” Crispen said. “That’s a big challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power outages in December caused severe disruptions across the city, affecting households, restaurants and even City Hall. Shortly after the power outages began, PG&E offered customers relief in the form of reimbursements and some hotel stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at PG&E on Thursday said the company provided automatic bill credits totalling $50 million to all impacted customers. 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. It does not mean an opaque claims process that’s slow, confusing and difficult to navigate,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the electrical failures, which were in some cases caused by a fire, some city supervisors have suggested breaking ties with PG&E. The city is actively exploring options for a public utility alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072113\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-TEEN-SHOOTING-ARREST-MD-10-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-TEEN-SHOOTING-ARREST-MD-10-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-TEEN-SHOOTING-ARREST-MD-10-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-TEEN-SHOOTING-ARREST-MD-10-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood addresses the press at SFPD Headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re a city that’s prone to earthquakes and fires. That could have been much worse,” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s director of the Department of Emergency Management, Mary Ellen Carroll, said that despite how many residents were impacted, “this was a relatively small event for the larger population of San Francisco. But even on a relatively smaller type event, the impacts were significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, she said, “We need better coordination and communication with PG&E as the energy provider and the city … Within PG&E, there was issues of communication within the organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood is sponsoring a separate hearing with PG&E, set to take place on March 2 at the Land Use and Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Waymo driverless taxi drives through Downtown San Francisco, California, on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/SF Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That hearing will focus on robotaxis, such as Waymos, which stalled in the street and caused traffic jams blocking public safety responders during the December power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This wasn’t just one of those outages where the most difficult consequence is resetting your alarm clock. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A circuit breaker issue sparked a fire at an indoor substation in the South of Market neighborhood in December, which subsequently cut off power for hundreds of thousands of San Francisco residents. That’s according to officials at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">Pacific Gas & Electric\u003c/a> Company, the city’s main power supplier, who gave a report during a public hearing on Thursday about widespread power outages that left swaths of the city in the dark for days this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors, residents and merchants drilled representatives from PG&E about what happened when the circuit breaker failure and fire generated a multi-day power outage impacting about 130,000 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear, that is not a blip. That is not weathering a storm. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. An investigation into the initial fire and power failure, as well as follow-up power outages in the following days, is still underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251222-PGEUpdates-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Sumeet Singh speaks during a press conference at a PG&E substation on Mission and 8th Streets in San Francisco on Dec. 22, 2025, after a fire at the site over the weekend contributed to a major citywide power outage. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to be very clear that we take responsibility for the outage that took place last December, and our response to that outage … was unacceptable,” said Sumeet Singh, PG&E CEO, at the hearing. “We are bringing in another third party that’s focused specifically on how we can improve our restoration time estimates during large localized events, particularly when operating conditions are otherwise normal. But in the meantime, we have already implemented a rapid escalation process for large-impact localized events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E leaders said that immediately following reports of the fire at the substation, customers were sent automatic updates on restoration times. But due to the complexity of the fire activity at the substation, the power company issued multiple inaccurate estimates for when lights might come back on, frustrating many residents and sending some businesses into a spiral over whether they could ask their staff to return or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are reviewing our process around automatic customer notification to improve clarity, consistency and accuracy within language messages,” Singh said. “We obviously don’t experience the substation outages to this level, which ends up impacting multiple distribution circuits and lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Fire Commission meeting, Fire Chief Dean Crispen said communication with PG&E during the crisis was OK, but many challenges remain with the overall system.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There clearly needs to be some upgrades to some of their infrastructure,” Crispen said. “That’s a big challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power outages in December caused severe disruptions across the city, affecting households, restaurants and even City Hall. Shortly after the power outages began, PG&E offered customers relief in the form of reimbursements and some hotel stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at PG&E on Thursday said the company provided automatic bill credits totalling $50 million to all impacted customers. 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. It does not mean an opaque claims process that’s slow, confusing and difficult to navigate,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the electrical failures, which were in some cases caused by a fire, some city supervisors have suggested breaking ties with PG&E. 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That could have been much worse,” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s director of the Department of Emergency Management, Mary Ellen Carroll, said that despite how many residents were impacted, “this was a relatively small event for the larger population of San Francisco. But even on a relatively smaller type event, the impacts were significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, she said, “We need better coordination and communication with PG&E as the energy provider and the city … Within PG&E, there was issues of communication within the organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood is sponsoring a separate hearing with PG&E, set to take place on March 2 at the Land Use and Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/231102-DriverlessTaxi-15-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Waymo driverless taxi drives through Downtown San Francisco, California, on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/SF Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That hearing will focus on robotaxis, such as Waymos, which stalled in the street and caused traffic jams blocking public safety responders during the December power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This wasn’t just one of those outages where the most difficult consequence is resetting your alarm clock. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco could see taller and more dense buildings in the city’s north and west side after the Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ plan last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some believe it will lead to more housing and lower rents, while others worry that new construction will change their neighborhoods and lead to displacement. But how soon — and how much — could it really change the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/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=KQINC4340668956&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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? 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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? 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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. 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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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