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Authorities said he threw a Molotov cocktail at the CEO’s Russian Hill home before threatening to burn down OpenAI’s Mission Bay building early Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was harmed in either of the incidents. Moreno-Gama’s attorneys said that there was some damage to a gate at Altman’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel is entitled to due process and fair proceedings. 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He said they did not assess that there was any specific threat toward the named people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We interpret this behavior for just what it is, an attempt on Mr. Altman’s life,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said at a press conference on Monday. “It’s an extreme danger to those around him and those who work for his company. My office will prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno-Gama faces a slew of charges in San Francisco Superior Court in addition to attempted murder and arson, including possession of a destructive device, exploding or igniting a destructive device with the intent to murder. If found guilty, Moreno-Gama could face 19 years to life in prison, Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, Moreno-Gama is charged with attempted damage and destruction of property by means of explosives and possession of an unregistered firearm.[aside postID=news_12079446 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/111623_Sam-Altman_AP_CM_01.jpeg'] U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said the DOJ’s investigation is still developing, but if evidence shows Moreno-Gama attempted to execute the attacks to sway public policy, or coerce government or public officials, it could be treated as an act of domestic terrorism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is okay to disagree, it is okay to debate, this is a country that was built on both,” Missakian said. “But remember, the truth is often found in that very narrow space where two competing ideas come together and clash, and we will not tolerate any attempt to change the way Americans live and work or think through fear or violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months leading up to Friday’s attack, a person writing under the \u003ca href=\"https://morenogama.substack.com/p/ai-existential-risk-is-real\">same name \u003c/a>as Moreno-Gama published a series of posts on Substack about the danger of artificial intelligence, calling it an existential threat, and referring to Altman as a pathological liar. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials and representatives of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/presidio\">Presidio\u003c/a> Trust are hopeful that little will change for the famous national park site after President Donald Trump fired the entire board that oversees it last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden appointed all six members of the Presidio Trust board. A seventh seat, which is supposed to be filled by a Department of the Interior appointee, was already vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board members’ firing was “expected,” said Lisa Petrie, a spokesperson for the trust — as is their coming replacement by Trump appointees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve expected a board transition for a year, as the board is appointed by the President,” Petrie wrote in a statement. “The terms of three of our board members had expired nearly a year ago, and we fully anticipated a change in the board around this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following their firing, several former board members expressed appreciation for their time with the Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been a passion and a pleasure to serve on the board of the Presidio Trust,” former Chair Mark Buell wrote. “The Presidio is the most successful example of a Post to Park conversion in the country and should serve as a model for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs on Crissy Field at Presidio of San Francisco on Feb. 20, 2025, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust, which Congress formed in 1996 to manage and protect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972756/the-hidden-history-of-fort-scott-in-san-franciscos-presidio\">historic 1,500-acre park\u003c/a> on the site of a former Army base that looks out on the Golden Gate Bridge, has been a target of Trump’s since he took office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of four agencies named in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">Trump’s February 2025 “Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” executive order\u003c/a>, which calls for shrinking agencies that the administration deems unnecessary to “minimize government waste and abuse.” They were ordered to eliminate their non-statutory operations “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” and reduce their statutory function to the minimum required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Presidio doesn’t rely on federal funding for its operations. It was created by the Presidio Trust Act, which gives it power to manage properties — and, therefore, the ability to sustain itself using the revenue from its rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Presidio hasn’t received regular appropriations from Congress since 2013. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029839/san-franciscos-presidio-trust-defends-existence-response-trump-order\">A report filed last year in response\u003c/a> to Trump’s executive order defended the trust’s work and explained its financial independence.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']“So I think that understanding will make all the difference,” said Christine Lehnertz, CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, which works closely with the Presidio Trust. “There’s not a budget to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district includes the Presidio, said he is surprised the president didn’t fire the board sooner, as half of their terms were set to expire nearly a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s thanks to work by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who helped create the Presidio Trust, that the organization can survive Trump’s budget attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi wrote in a statement to KQED that she is disappointed by the firings but said “previous Republican appointees to the Board have respected the Presidio,” and she hopes Trump’s will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of any new Board’s composition, I have every confidence that the Presidio Trust will continue to be protected by the strength of the legislation which created it,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new members of the board have yet to be appointed, but according to Petrie, the park’s operations will not be affected by being without a board temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The park and the agency will continue to run normally,” Petrie wrote. “The board provides overall governance and major policy decisions, but staff manage daily park operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrill said he plans to hold the new board members accountable, whoever they may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see people who love the Presidio, who believe in conservation, who have strong fiscal management, and who really love San Francisco and understand the importance of the Presidio to not only San Franciscans, but to the 7 million visitors nationwide who come through the gates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House did not commit to a timeline for the appointment of new board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\"> View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have gotten a lot of questions about street names in the western part of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> — the Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do the streets appear to follow an alphabetical pattern, only to break it often? Where do the names come from in the first place? Who chose them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers are both more complicated (of course) and less logical than you might imagine. It all goes back — like so many things in San Francisco history — to the time right after the 1906 earthquake and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, the primary means of communication was the mail. But delivering the mail to the correct recipient was a challenge because there were many repetitive street names or ones that were easy to confuse in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there were four Church streets — basically, anytime someone built a church, they’d name the street adjacent “Church Street”. And three sections of the city were named with numerical values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were numbered avenues out in the Richmond and Sunset, numerical streets downtown, and back then, the Bayview also went by numerical avenues, with “South” appended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1602px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1602\" height=\"1180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th.jpg 1602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th-1536x1131.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archival image of the Richmond District at Balboa and 32nd Avenue \u003ccite>(via Open SF History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ZIP codes had not been invented yet, so you can imagine the mess a mail carrier faced when trying to deliver a letter to 203 Church St. or 452 Fourth Ave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The post office was unhappy,” said John Freeman, an amateur historian and member of the Western Neighborhood Association. He wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/street-names.php\">several articles\u003c/a> about the history behind San Francisco street names. “We’re rebuilding a lot of San Francisco. There’s new streets. So, it’s the perfect time to go and attack a problem that had just grown since the 1850s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1909, city leaders appointed a commission to come up with new names for the numbered avenues in both the western neighborhoods and the Bayview.[aside postID=news_12074947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260221-SUNNYSIDECONSERVATORY00252_TV-KQED.jpg']In the Richmond and Sunset, the committee decided to honor the city’s Spanish heritage by naming streets after famous Spanish explorers or anyone who had an outsized influence in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planned for the names to go alphabetically from First Avenue (what’s now Arguello) out to 26th Avenue. Then the alphabet would start over, but the following 26 streets would be named for saints. So, 27th Ave would have been San Antonio, 28th would become San Benito, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the proposal was put forward, outraged locals pushed back against the naming scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country had just fought the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, and some residents found the idea of naming streets after Spaniards unpatriotic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suddenly it starts getting the ire of the locals who had community meetings and started saying, you know, we don’t want to be named after those lowlife Spaniards,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much opposition that the committee gave up the scheme. They settled on renaming “First Avenue” to “Arguello” and the street just before the beach “La Playa,” which means “the beach” in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond District and Ocean Beach in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They left the numbered avenues, but used the alphabetical Spanish explorer idea for streets running east and west, instead. For some reason, residents didn’t oppose this slightly different approach. That’s how we got names like Anza, Balboa, and Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, nothing is simple. Even though they had generally settled on an alphabetical scheme that would extend out into the Sunset, there were already problems. First, the committee didn’t want to change the names of streets that extended out from downtown — like Geary, California and Sacramento streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the alphabet starts mid-Richmond and goes south from there. “D Street” had already been renamed Fulton because it extended from downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets that would have been “E, F, and G” were taken up by Golden Gate Park, which had been developed but was still nascent. Once on the other side of the park, the pattern should have started up again with H street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta realize this is 1909, and we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,” Freeman said. “So they’re naming all kinds of things after Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1755px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079492 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1755\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a.jpg 1755w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1755px) 100vw, 1755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of San Francisco, circa 1909 \u003ccite>(Courtesy Carolyn Karis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>H street was a prominent boulevard edging Golden Gate Park, so they decided, “We’ll take out the H and will make it Lincoln. So already the game is getting changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Sunset residents had convened their own committee to come up with more “patriotic” names for Sunset streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irving Street is named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving\">Washington Irving\u003c/a>, a writer. Judah Street is named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah\">Theodore Judah\u003c/a>, a civil engineer largely responsible for the design and construction of the transcontinental railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the clever engineer, and nobody honored him for anything,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mexican_War_Journal_and_Letters_of_R.html?id=UzaRMQEACAAJ\">Kirkham\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ware_Lawton\">Lawton \u003c/a>were military officers and thus deemed appropriate by the neighborhood groups. But after Lawton comes Moraga, named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Moraga\">José Joaquín Moraga\u003c/a>, a Spanish explorer. So, we’re back to the pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691-1536x766.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Irving, circa. 1860-1865. \u003ccite>(Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images/via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/parkside-district.php\"> big development company \u003c/a>was already using the Spanish explorer naming convention, so the neighbors gave up fighting to change those names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not many people lived that far out into the Sunset yet, anyway. Apart from the “Americanized” interlude from Lincoln to Kirkham, the pattern of Spanish explorers continued, with the exception of “X” and “Z.” X was going to be Xavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the committee ended up skipping an X-named street altogether when people claimed no one would be able to pronounce Xavier. Z street became Sloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Logic kind of falls to the side,” Freeman said of the whole naming fiasco. “But it’s a good story because what they were trying to do didn’t work real well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"episode-transcript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you travel from north to south on the west side of San Francisco – through the Richmond District, across Golden Gate Park, all the way through the Sunset – you may notice the streets running east to west follow a naming convention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Computerized voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anza. Balboa. Cabrillo. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A … B… C… And further south.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Computerized voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quintara. Rivera. Santiago. Taraval.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Q … R… S… T… They’re alphabetized! A to Z! Well, almost…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s no D and no E. There is a Fulton but then there’s no G or H. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is Carolyn Karras. (Care-as)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I live in Ingleside Terraces in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s a librarian and she’s into San Francisco history. So when a friend asked her about why a few of the letters are missing, she was frustrated when the answer didn’t turn up in some of the usual places she thought to look.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis: \u003c/b>It just seems like the order should be complete once you start it, it should end up being complete. So what happened to those street names since it seemed to go from A to at least Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here with some answers for Carolyn is Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. Hey, Katrina!\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, Olivia. I gotta say, I’m excited to answer this question because it’s my home turf. I grew up in the Richmond District and went to school in the Sunset and I’ve wondered about this naming situation too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> OK, start at the beginning, when did San Francisco start naming it’s streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Always street names, but not always a lot of logic to the names. There were a lot of duplicates, which was confusing to people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can you give me some examples of the kind of things that were confusing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, so there were 4 Church streets at one point. Any time there was a church, the locals would call the alley behind in Church Lane or Church way… you get the idea. But most confusing of all, there were three sets of ordinal numbered streets. Like today, there were the numbered Avenues out west, and the numbered streets downtown, but there were also numbered streets in the Bayview, those just had “South” appended to them. So, Bayview had 9th avenue South, for example.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It reminds me a lot of modern-day Washington D.C. If you get the cardinal direction wrong on the street name, you can wind up in the completely wrong place….\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And remember, this was a time when people primarily communicated by post. The mail came several times a day…and postal codes had not been invented yet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So confusing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then 1906 earthquake happens. Things are in shambles. But it’s also an opportunity to make some changes. I spoke to John Freeman about all this. He’s a retired high school teacher, amateur historian and life-long Richmond District resident. He says one group in particular was not happy with the street name situation in SF.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the post office was unhappy. We’re rebuilding a lot of San Francisco. There’s new streets, there’s new widening of streets and all that kind of stuff. So the perfect time to go and attack a problem that had just grown like over, you know, since the 1850s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Right, so in 1909 they put together a committee of folks to look at this naming issue. It’s got a couple Board of Supervisors on it, a historian and someone from the post office. Pretty small group. And they’ve got this idea to rename the Richmond District avenues to honor San Francisco’s history…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This of course, was a time when the whole thing of Spanish, that time period of the development of California was very romanticized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, so like Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All explorers with some degree of connection to SF. And The idea, was to actually name all the ordinal streets using this scheme. So, First Avenue would become Arguello, second Balboa, third Cabrillo, etc. They’d do that all the way out to 26th and then they’d start over alphabetically, but add San or Santa. So, 27th Ave would have been San Antonio, 28th would become San Benito, etc.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s strange because the actual Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo streets run east west. And the avenues are still numbered even today. What happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John says the committee started sharing their ideas with the press and when residents of the Richmond and Sunset districts heard about it, they were pissed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Feeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It starts getting the ire of the locals who had community meetings and started saying, you know, we don’t want to be named after those lowlife Spaniards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s harsh.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, well, xenophobia was alive and well back then too. But also, you have to remember in 1909 the Spanish-American war had just ended 10 years before. Of course, that was actually fought in the Philippines. And as a west coast port, San Francisco had a big role in that war. People here would have known folks fighting…it felt like recent history to many people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So what happens with the whole naming conundrum then?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, the committee backs off and says fine, we won’t change the names of the Avenues. To save face, they kept Arguello, which is basically First Avenue now. And they kept La Playa, the last name before the beach, which also means “beach” in Spanish. And then they used the Spanish name scheme going east west instead. Of course, they had to come up with a new A street because Arguello was already taken, so that’s how we got Anza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Feeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anza of course, he is definitely here. He explores the whole coast. He actually goes out and, you know, the only way he’s going to get through it, he went along to the actual ocean beach and then he comes inland and he did see as much as he possibly could. So he’s a legitimate early explorer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But, as Carolyn points out, they didn’t really follow the pattern going east west either. Why not?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically local politics. So, it had been agreed that any streets that extended out west from Downtown would not be changed. So, streets like California and Sacramento stayed the same. Geary Boulevard was sacrosanct. So this naming starts south of Geary. We get A, B, C and then what would have been D is actually “Fulton street.” That’s because it was a street extending from downtown, so they didn’t want to change it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since they had an F, they just kept going, except G was basically Golden Gate Park, which had been established in 1870, but was still nascent. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That brings us to H street, which should have run next to the park on the south side. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s supposed to go all the way out to Sloat in alphabetical pattern. Well, h then this is eight nine, and we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, so they’re naming all kinds of things after Abraham Lincoln. What a wonderful thing we’ll do away with those four little alleys down south of market that were named after Lincoln. And we’ll name this Grand Boulevard that is going to go alongside Golden Gate Park. We’ll take out the H and will make it Lincoln. So already the game is getting changed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK…but Irving, Judah, Kirkum, Lawton…also not Spanish names.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Correct. This is where more local politics came into play. There was a very active group of residents in the inner Sunset who DID NOT want Spanish names. They wanted “American” names. So they lobbied hard for Irving…after washington Irving the writer. Judah…for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theodore Judah\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a civil engineer largely responsible for the design and construction of the transcontinental railroad.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He was the clever engineer and nobody honored him for anything.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mexican_War_Journal_and_Letters_of_R.html?id=UzaRMQEACAAJ\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kirkham\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ware_Lawton\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawton \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">were military officers and thus deemed appropriate by the neighborhood groups. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But after Lawton comes Moraga, named for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Moraga\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José Joaquín Moraga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Spanish explorer. So, we’re back to the pattern. What happened?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Development. The Parkside [Realty Company] owned a lot of land in the outer Sunset and they were developing plots to sell. They’d already started naming the streets in their section according to the proposed Spanish explorer scheme. So we basically have Spanish names all the way out to Y.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s no X or Z street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yep, more racism. X was supposed to Xavier Street, but the committee didn’t think anyone could pronounce it, so they just skipped it. And many of those other names aren’t actually Spanish explorers anyway. Taravel was a Native American guide who was part of the Anza expedition. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So we have alphabetical-ish, Spanish-ish street names.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Totally. And, they were trying to work fast because they had to have it all done by the end of 1909 when the mayoral administration changed. So, maps after 1910 show the new names.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Our question asker Carolyn actually mentioned an old map she’d found… \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">W\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e have a couple of older maps that we were looking at and one of them is 1909 map that we picked up somewhere and that has the letters. So it says like ABC above the park and then below the park, it just has the letter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So presumably this was printed between the time when the plan for the alphabetical streets was made, and when the final names hadn’t been chosen yet. So, this is actually a very cool little piece of history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, a little time capsule window into the past. Thanks for all your reporting on this, Katrina.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My pleasure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to Carolyn Karras for asking this week’s question. You selected it in one of our monthly voting rounds and hey – our April voting round is now up and has some good questions…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How many Bay food businesses are still in business after 10 years?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why does the SF Parks and Recreation still manage properties outside of the city limits?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m curious about the history of Bay Area communal living and what makes things a communal living situation vs cult.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which of those do you want to hear on the show? Cast your vote at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">BayCurious.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And while you’re there, sign up for our monthly newsletter where we answer even more listener questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by… and me Olivia Allen-Price. With extra support from … and everyone on Team KQED. 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/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a good one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, the primary means of communication was the mail. But delivering the mail to the correct recipient was a challenge because there were many repetitive street names or ones that were easy to confuse in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there were four Church streets — basically, anytime someone built a church, they’d name the street adjacent “Church Street”. And three sections of the city were named with numerical values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were numbered avenues out in the Richmond and Sunset, numerical streets downtown, and back then, the Bayview also went by numerical avenues, with “South” appended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1602px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1602\" height=\"1180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th.jpg 1602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Balboa-24th-1536x1131.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archival image of the Richmond District at Balboa and 32nd Avenue \u003ccite>(via Open SF History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ZIP codes had not been invented yet, so you can imagine the mess a mail carrier faced when trying to deliver a letter to 203 Church St. or 452 Fourth Ave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The post office was unhappy,” said John Freeman, an amateur historian and member of the Western Neighborhood Association. He wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/street-names.php\">several articles\u003c/a> about the history behind San Francisco street names. “We’re rebuilding a lot of San Francisco. There’s new streets. So, it’s the perfect time to go and attack a problem that had just grown since the 1850s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1909, city leaders appointed a commission to come up with new names for the numbered avenues in both the western neighborhoods and the Bayview.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the Richmond and Sunset, the committee decided to honor the city’s Spanish heritage by naming streets after famous Spanish explorers or anyone who had an outsized influence in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planned for the names to go alphabetically from First Avenue (what’s now Arguello) out to 26th Avenue. Then the alphabet would start over, but the following 26 streets would be named for saints. So, 27th Ave would have been San Antonio, 28th would become San Benito, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the proposal was put forward, outraged locals pushed back against the naming scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country had just fought the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, and some residents found the idea of naming streets after Spaniards unpatriotic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Suddenly it starts getting the ire of the locals who had community meetings and started saying, you know, we don’t want to be named after those lowlife Spaniards,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much opposition that the committee gave up the scheme. They settled on renaming “First Avenue” to “Arguello” and the street just before the beach “La Playa,” which means “the beach” in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1290352821-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond District and Ocean Beach in San Francisco, CA \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They left the numbered avenues, but used the alphabetical Spanish explorer idea for streets running east and west, instead. For some reason, residents didn’t oppose this slightly different approach. That’s how we got names like Anza, Balboa, and Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, nothing is simple. Even though they had generally settled on an alphabetical scheme that would extend out into the Sunset, there were already problems. First, the committee didn’t want to change the names of streets that extended out from downtown — like Geary, California and Sacramento streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the alphabet starts mid-Richmond and goes south from there. “D Street” had already been renamed Fulton because it extended from downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets that would have been “E, F, and G” were taken up by Golden Gate Park, which had been developed but was still nascent. Once on the other side of the park, the pattern should have started up again with H street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta realize this is 1909, and we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,” Freeman said. “So they’re naming all kinds of things after Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1755px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079492 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1755\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a.jpg 1755w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/1909-map_a-1536x1118.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1755px) 100vw, 1755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of San Francisco, circa 1909 \u003ccite>(Courtesy Carolyn Karis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>H street was a prominent boulevard edging Golden Gate Park, so they decided, “We’ll take out the H and will make it Lincoln. So already the game is getting changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Sunset residents had convened their own committee to come up with more “patriotic” names for Sunset streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irving Street is named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving\">Washington Irving\u003c/a>, a writer. Judah Street is named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah\">Theodore Judah\u003c/a>, a civil engineer largely responsible for the design and construction of the transcontinental railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the clever engineer, and nobody honored him for anything,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mexican_War_Journal_and_Letters_of_R.html?id=UzaRMQEACAAJ\">Kirkham\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ware_Lawton\">Lawton \u003c/a>were military officers and thus deemed appropriate by the neighborhood groups. But after Lawton comes Moraga, named for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Moraga\">José Joaquín Moraga\u003c/a>, a Spanish explorer. So, we’re back to the pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1400903691-1536x766.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Irving, circa. 1860-1865. \u003ccite>(Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images/via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/parkside-district.php\"> big development company \u003c/a>was already using the Spanish explorer naming convention, so the neighbors gave up fighting to change those names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not many people lived that far out into the Sunset yet, anyway. Apart from the “Americanized” interlude from Lincoln to Kirkham, the pattern of Spanish explorers continued, with the exception of “X” and “Z.” X was going to be Xavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the committee ended up skipping an X-named street altogether when people claimed no one would be able to pronounce Xavier. Z street became Sloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Logic kind of falls to the side,” Freeman said of the whole naming fiasco. “But it’s a good story because what they were trying to do didn’t work real well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"episode-transcript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you travel from north to south on the west side of San Francisco – through the Richmond District, across Golden Gate Park, all the way through the Sunset – you may notice the streets running east to west follow a naming convention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Computerized voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anza. Balboa. Cabrillo. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A … B… C… And further south.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Computerized voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quintara. Rivera. Santiago. Taraval.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Q … R… S… T… They’re alphabetized! A to Z! Well, almost…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s no D and no E. There is a Fulton but then there’s no G or H. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is Carolyn Karras. (Care-as)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I live in Ingleside Terraces in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s a librarian and she’s into San Francisco history. So when a friend asked her about why a few of the letters are missing, she was frustrated when the answer didn’t turn up in some of the usual places she thought to look.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carolyn Karis: \u003c/b>It just seems like the order should be complete once you start it, it should end up being complete. So what happened to those street names since it seemed to go from A to at least Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here with some answers for Carolyn is Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. Hey, Katrina!\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, Olivia. I gotta say, I’m excited to answer this question because it’s my home turf. I grew up in the Richmond District and went to school in the Sunset and I’ve wondered about this naming situation too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> OK, start at the beginning, when did San Francisco start naming it’s streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Always street names, but not always a lot of logic to the names. There were a lot of duplicates, which was confusing to people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can you give me some examples of the kind of things that were confusing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, so there were 4 Church streets at one point. Any time there was a church, the locals would call the alley behind in Church Lane or Church way… you get the idea. But most confusing of all, there were three sets of ordinal numbered streets. Like today, there were the numbered Avenues out west, and the numbered streets downtown, but there were also numbered streets in the Bayview, those just had “South” appended to them. So, Bayview had 9th avenue South, for example.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It reminds me a lot of modern-day Washington D.C. If you get the cardinal direction wrong on the street name, you can wind up in the completely wrong place….\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And remember, this was a time when people primarily communicated by post. The mail came several times a day…and postal codes had not been invented yet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So confusing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then 1906 earthquake happens. Things are in shambles. But it’s also an opportunity to make some changes. I spoke to John Freeman about all this. He’s a retired high school teacher, amateur historian and life-long Richmond District resident. He says one group in particular was not happy with the street name situation in SF.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the post office was unhappy. We’re rebuilding a lot of San Francisco. There’s new streets, there’s new widening of streets and all that kind of stuff. So the perfect time to go and attack a problem that had just grown like over, you know, since the 1850s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Right, so in 1909 they put together a committee of folks to look at this naming issue. It’s got a couple Board of Supervisors on it, a historian and someone from the post office. Pretty small group. And they’ve got this idea to rename the Richmond District avenues to honor San Francisco’s history…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This of course, was a time when the whole thing of Spanish, that time period of the development of California was very romanticized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, so like Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All explorers with some degree of connection to SF. And The idea, was to actually name all the ordinal streets using this scheme. So, First Avenue would become Arguello, second Balboa, third Cabrillo, etc. They’d do that all the way out to 26th and then they’d start over alphabetically, but add San or Santa. So, 27th Ave would have been San Antonio, 28th would become San Benito, etc.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s strange because the actual Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo streets run east west. And the avenues are still numbered even today. What happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John says the committee started sharing their ideas with the press and when residents of the Richmond and Sunset districts heard about it, they were pissed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Feeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It starts getting the ire of the locals who had community meetings and started saying, you know, we don’t want to be named after those lowlife Spaniards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s harsh.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, well, xenophobia was alive and well back then too. But also, you have to remember in 1909 the Spanish-American war had just ended 10 years before. Of course, that was actually fought in the Philippines. And as a west coast port, San Francisco had a big role in that war. People here would have known folks fighting…it felt like recent history to many people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So what happens with the whole naming conundrum then?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, the committee backs off and says fine, we won’t change the names of the Avenues. To save face, they kept Arguello, which is basically First Avenue now. And they kept La Playa, the last name before the beach, which also means “beach” in Spanish. And then they used the Spanish name scheme going east west instead. Of course, they had to come up with a new A street because Arguello was already taken, so that’s how we got Anza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Feeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anza of course, he is definitely here. He explores the whole coast. He actually goes out and, you know, the only way he’s going to get through it, he went along to the actual ocean beach and then he comes inland and he did see as much as he possibly could. So he’s a legitimate early explorer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But, as Carolyn points out, they didn’t really follow the pattern going east west either. Why not?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically local politics. So, it had been agreed that any streets that extended out west from Downtown would not be changed. So, streets like California and Sacramento stayed the same. Geary Boulevard was sacrosanct. So this naming starts south of Geary. We get A, B, C and then what would have been D is actually “Fulton street.” That’s because it was a street extending from downtown, so they didn’t want to change it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since they had an F, they just kept going, except G was basically Golden Gate Park, which had been established in 1870, but was still nascent. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That brings us to H street, which should have run next to the park on the south side. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s supposed to go all the way out to Sloat in alphabetical pattern. Well, h then this is eight nine, and we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, so they’re naming all kinds of things after Abraham Lincoln. What a wonderful thing we’ll do away with those four little alleys down south of market that were named after Lincoln. And we’ll name this Grand Boulevard that is going to go alongside Golden Gate Park. We’ll take out the H and will make it Lincoln. So already the game is getting changed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK…but Irving, Judah, Kirkum, Lawton…also not Spanish names.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Correct. This is where more local politics came into play. There was a very active group of residents in the inner Sunset who DID NOT want Spanish names. They wanted “American” names. So they lobbied hard for Irving…after washington Irving the writer. Judah…for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theodore Judah\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a civil engineer largely responsible for the design and construction of the transcontinental railroad.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Freeman:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He was the clever engineer and nobody honored him for anything.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mexican_War_Journal_and_Letters_of_R.html?id=UzaRMQEACAAJ\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kirkham\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ware_Lawton\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawton \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">were military officers and thus deemed appropriate by the neighborhood groups. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But after Lawton comes Moraga, named for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Moraga\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José Joaquín Moraga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Spanish explorer. So, we’re back to the pattern. What happened?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Development. The Parkside [Realty Company] owned a lot of land in the outer Sunset and they were developing plots to sell. They’d already started naming the streets in their section according to the proposed Spanish explorer scheme. So we basically have Spanish names all the way out to Y.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s no X or Z street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yep, more racism. X was supposed to Xavier Street, but the committee didn’t think anyone could pronounce it, so they just skipped it. And many of those other names aren’t actually Spanish explorers anyway. 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"content": "\u003cp>When pro-Palestinian student protests swept college campuses across the country two years ago, the movement at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> was an outlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, many of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">campus encampments and demonstrations\u003c/a> against Israel’s war on Gaza had led to clashes with administrators or violent crackdowns by law enforcement. Meanwhile, at SF State, President Lynn Mahoney sat down in front of hundreds on Malcolm X Plaza for what was believed to have been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985130/sfsu-president-begins-negotiations-with-campus-gaza-protesters\">first-of-its-kind public negotiation session\u003c/a> between school leaders and students, which led to a change to the school’s endowment investment policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of the only schools in the entire nation that got divestment,” said Sam Silva, a graduate student in SF State’s communication studies department. “That is a pretty huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Mahoney again sat across from a panel of five students to negotiate on a package of broader demands, including protections for undocumented students, transparency around campus funding cuts and improvements to dorm conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFSU Student Union won the session, one of the advocacy groups that led the university’s pro-Palestinian protest movement in 2024. Since the organization has evolved, applying the lessons learned two years ago to their continued push to represent students before campus administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have learned from the encampment, and learned how to win,” said Brian Yan, a media liaison for the Student Union. Last semester, he said, more than 180 students, graduate students and workers gathered for a Student Union “general assembly” to begin discussing the demands they negotiated this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079189 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU President Lynn Mahoney speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that we need as many students as we can possibly get,” he said. “When you see almost 200 people sitting right outside your building, saying, ‘If we don’t get [a negotiating session] we will escalate,’ I think that compels administrators to come out and bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the group has focused on broadening campus support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At weekly general meetings, leaders share updates, host trainings and discuss relevant news and articles. Throughout the 2025-26 school year, the organization has also built up at least nine smaller department unions, which aim to engage a wider swath of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of students in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts launched a \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ncPsxmp99mU4e7SOPGnyq\">podcast\u003c/a> that ran six episodes last year, amplifying the Student Union and its departments’ platforms. Students also chat and share updates on a Substack page and Slack channel.[aside postID=news_12002307 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011-1020x680.jpg']“We have our student government, and I think that functions kind of like the government. Our job is to really try to talk to the students on campus and figure out what issues they’re actually facing and how we can address them in a way that a union might, with a mass movement,” said Kenna Klop-Packel, a member of the Student Union’s leadership team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klop-Packel said she was already part of a student group called Mathematistas, which focused on community-building and gender equity in the math department. In the fall, the organization added the broader interests of the Student Union to its focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw, and I think the people around me also saw that this is one way that we could support equity in mathematics,” Klop-Packel said, adding that many of the organizations’ goals aligned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the math department, Klop-Packel said calculus class sizes have tripled in recent years. Other courses have more limited availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are going to first fall through the cracks are the people who already didn’t feel at home in the math department,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math union meets weekly, and in addition to the Mathematistas’ former community building and department-specific events, it now also “practices classroom conversations, how to explain to our classmates about these issues, and what the Student Union is doing, how we’re fighting back,” Klop-Packel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student demands are displayed on a banner while a student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the first public negotiation session in 2024, representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment urged changes to the university’s endowment investment policy and asked administrators to declare a genocide in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That August, the campus announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">would divest from four companies\u003c/a>: weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar. In December, it adopted a new investment policy with limitations on companies that profit from weapons manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Student Union launched its second major negotiating campaign with a series of general assemblies. That led to the list of five demands, including increased budget transparency, that students sent to administrators in March and discussed with Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vi Lee, another member of the Student Union’s leadership team, said the focus on campus finances was a “logical next step” for the group, which formed the year before the pro-Palestinian protest movement in response to tuition hikes across the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079190 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU Provost Amy Sueyoshi speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those issues had not gone away, they’d only gotten worse,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2019 and 2024, the campus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">cut more than 1,000 course sections\u003c/a> and let go of 155 lecturers whose positions rely on those classes. In December, it offered buyouts to tenured and tenure-track faculty who have worked at the school for at least five years in the face of a $20 million budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/114511/news/campus/sfsu-offers-buyouts-to-all-tenure-track-and-tenured-faculty/\">according to the \u003cem>Golden Gate Xpress\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a student news outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2027, SF State plans to discontinue or suspend a dozen undergraduate degree programs as well as a handful of master’s programs and minors. University spokesperson Bobby King said those cuts are meant to realign resources with enrollment demand and aren’t related to the budget. A decade ago, enrollment hovered just under 30,000 students, down to just over 20,700 this year, according to campus data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk through the San Francisco State University campus on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students have asked for the university to halt future class and program cuts and provide transparency around the budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also brought forward four other wide-ranging demands: changes to the school’s policies surrounding AI, a public statement affirming that the school won’t hand over to the federal government the names of students and faculty who participate in political actions, new protections for students against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and improved conditions in dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the list represents students’ “collective working and educational issues on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hourlong session, no campus policy changes were made. Afterward, however, Mahoney said she believed some of the students’ demands would bring about changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079187 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we do need to set rules for AI, and I think students and faculty and staff have to participate in those rules. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Mahoney again sat across from a panel of five students to negotiate on a package of broader demands, including protections for undocumented students, transparency around campus funding cuts and improvements to dorm conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFSU Student Union won the session, one of the advocacy groups that led the university’s pro-Palestinian protest movement in 2024. Since the organization has evolved, applying the lessons learned two years ago to their continued push to represent students before campus administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have learned from the encampment, and learned how to win,” said Brian Yan, a media liaison for the Student Union. Last semester, he said, more than 180 students, graduate students and workers gathered for a Student Union “general assembly” to begin discussing the demands they negotiated this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079189 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU President Lynn Mahoney speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that we need as many students as we can possibly get,” he said. “When you see almost 200 people sitting right outside your building, saying, ‘If we don’t get [a negotiating session] we will escalate,’ I think that compels administrators to come out and bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the group has focused on broadening campus support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At weekly general meetings, leaders share updates, host trainings and discuss relevant news and articles. Throughout the 2025-26 school year, the organization has also built up at least nine smaller department unions, which aim to engage a wider swath of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of students in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts launched a \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ncPsxmp99mU4e7SOPGnyq\">podcast\u003c/a> that ran six episodes last year, amplifying the Student Union and its departments’ platforms. Students also chat and share updates on a Substack page and Slack channel.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have our student government, and I think that functions kind of like the government. Our job is to really try to talk to the students on campus and figure out what issues they’re actually facing and how we can address them in a way that a union might, with a mass movement,” said Kenna Klop-Packel, a member of the Student Union’s leadership team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klop-Packel said she was already part of a student group called Mathematistas, which focused on community-building and gender equity in the math department. In the fall, the organization added the broader interests of the Student Union to its focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw, and I think the people around me also saw that this is one way that we could support equity in mathematics,” Klop-Packel said, adding that many of the organizations’ goals aligned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the math department, Klop-Packel said calculus class sizes have tripled in recent years. Other courses have more limited availability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that are going to first fall through the cracks are the people who already didn’t feel at home in the math department,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math union meets weekly, and in addition to the Mathematistas’ former community building and department-specific events, it now also “practices classroom conversations, how to explain to our classmates about these issues, and what the Student Union is doing, how we’re fighting back,” Klop-Packel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student demands are displayed on a banner while a student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the first public negotiation session in 2024, representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment urged changes to the university’s endowment investment policy and asked administrators to declare a genocide in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That August, the campus announced it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">would divest from four companies\u003c/a>: weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar. In December, it adopted a new investment policy with limitations on companies that profit from weapons manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Student Union launched its second major negotiating campaign with a series of general assemblies. That led to the list of five demands, including increased budget transparency, that students sent to administrators in March and discussed with Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vi Lee, another member of the Student Union’s leadership team, said the focus on campus finances was a “logical next step” for the group, which formed the year before the pro-Palestinian protest movement in response to tuition hikes across the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079190 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFSU Provost Amy Sueyoshi speaks with a student negotiating team in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those issues had not gone away, they’d only gotten worse,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2019 and 2024, the campus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">cut more than 1,000 course sections\u003c/a> and let go of 155 lecturers whose positions rely on those classes. In December, it offered buyouts to tenured and tenure-track faculty who have worked at the school for at least five years in the face of a $20 million budget deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/114511/news/campus/sfsu-offers-buyouts-to-all-tenure-track-and-tenured-faculty/\">according to the \u003cem>Golden Gate Xpress\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a student news outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2027, SF State plans to discontinue or suspend a dozen undergraduate degree programs as well as a handful of master’s programs and minors. University spokesperson Bobby King said those cuts are meant to realign resources with enrollment demand and aren’t related to the budget. A decade ago, enrollment hovered just under 30,000 students, down to just over 20,700 this year, according to campus data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk through the San Francisco State University campus on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students have asked for the university to halt future class and program cuts and provide transparency around the budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also brought forward four other wide-ranging demands: changes to the school’s policies surrounding AI, a public statement affirming that the school won’t hand over to the federal government the names of students and faculty who participate in political actions, new protections for students against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and improved conditions in dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the list represents students’ “collective working and educational issues on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hourlong session, no campus policy changes were made. Afterward, however, Mahoney said she believed some of the students’ demands would bring about changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079187 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260408-SFSUNegotiations-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student negotiating team speaks with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney and Provost Amy Sueyoshi in Malcolm X Plaza at San Francisco State University on April 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think we do need to set rules for AI, and I think students and faculty and staff have to participate in those rules. I also think we need to continue to work really closely with our undocumented students and their allies to do the best we can for them at a hard moment,” she told KQED. “I think that there’s a lot of agreement. There will not be full agreement, but hopefully enough that the students continue what they’ve always done here, which is work really hard to leave San Francisco State better than they found it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Union plans to hold another general assembly to debrief the negotiations and determine next steps next week. But, Yan said, the Wednesday session had already accomplished at least one of the group’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single student can see what administrators say, and hold them to account when they do make proposals … when they lie, when they make up excuses, and see when they’re not providing enough for their students,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alex Caffee walks through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, to go surfing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Caffee was starting his morning like any other, with a trip to Ocean Beach in San Francisco to catch some waves. In a wetsuit, a surfboard at his side, he walked over from his home a few blocks away in the Sunset District, passing through Sunset Dunes, the park that opened last April on what used to be the Upper Great Highway to much fanfare and controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been great for the community,” Caffee said just days before Sunset Dunes’ one-year anniversary on April 12. “I just had a kid with my wife, and so it’s important for us to have a safe space where we can go to bring her and hang out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year into the park’s existence, the traffic woes that prompted resistance to its creation haven’t fully materialized, city data shows, and hundreds of thousands of people have visited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as Sunset Dunes’ future looks increasingly solid, its existence is shaping local political debates, and opponents remain hopeful they can bring cars back at least part of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has fans across the Bay Area, but locally, it’s been mired in controversy since voters citywide in 2024 approved Proposition K, removing cars from a 2-mile stretch of road to make way for the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-17-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-17-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-17-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-17-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor jogs through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The majority of residents who live closest to the park voted against it. Since then, it’s become a lightning rod issue in the otherwise quiet and residential neighborhood, driving a successful recall against former Supervisor Joel Engardio, who publicly supported the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the resistance for many angry locals was traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The traffic is just bumper- to-bumper all the way up to 19th Avenue. It didn’t used to be like that. You can’t get around,” a Sunset resident named John So told KQED while on a walk at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While congestion on the avenues varies, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that traffic on the major roads in the Sunset is actually below pre-pandemic levels, and other analyses have found minimal impacts on average commute speeds.[aside postID=news_12069580 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg']The city has been working to install new traffic signals to improve the flow of cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents like Haley Demay were initially skeptical, but have since warmed up to the park. She likes walking her dog there. Still, she is sympathetic to the traffic complaints she hears and supports a compromise where cars could be back on the road on weekdays, with the highway remaining a park on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I commute to Palo Alto, and I leave really early, so I really don’t hit much traffic, but my husband works downtown, and he has noticed a lot more traffic,” Demay said. “I do enjoy the park, but I do also from time to time think, ‘Man, I wish it was back open to cars.’ It was just such a smooth, easy commute going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the recall election, efforts to put cars back on the Great Highway have largely been unsuccessful. A judge in January dismissed a lawsuit from a group of residents looking to overturn Proposition K, and current Supervisor Alan Wong was unable to get enough colleagues on the Board of Supervisors to back his ballot measure proposal to put a compromise before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts continue, however, and a citizen-led ballot initiative is currently underway. They need to collect at least 10,000 signatures to put the fate of Sunset Dunes before voters, again, in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s been almost two years now from when Prop. K passed to now, and that anger has not really subsided,” said Albert Chow, a local hardware store owner who led the recall of Engardio and is now running for District 4 supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been gathering signatures for the compromise ballot measure while campaigning for his own seat on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing kind of a situation,” said Chow, who was a plaintiff in the lawsuit to overturn Proposition K. The group has not appealed the judge’s decision. “It’s more like bringing the neighborhood back to some peace, but also to respect what the Sunset Dunes park has become.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the park point to the longer-term challenge with the land underneath the Great Highway, which is falling into the ocean due to climate change. The lower portion of the road is already closed due to coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset voters have another important election ahead, over who will be their next permanent supervisor, and the issue of the Great Highway has again become a key issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors spend time at Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the five candidates running, only one, Jeremy Grecco, said he supports keeping Sunset Dunes open as a park permanently. The remaining five candidates — current Supervisor Alan Wong, Natalie Gee, Albert Chow and David Lee — said they all opposed Proposition K and would support finding a way to bring cars back to the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, getting anything on the ballot — and passed — could be a challenge, and the park is here to stay for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we can be able to have a vote on it and be able to move forward after that, whatever the outcome is,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 4 supervisor frequently jogs along the trail in Sunset Dunes, but feels it’s feasible to exercise while cars share the road, too. He also has previously said he has new safety concerns about other streets in the neighborhood now that traffic has shifted away from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for SFMTA said that “early data suggests that the closure has not adversely affected roadway safety,” however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nearby residents Yin Hone Ho and Ngan Kyaung Chin walk through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many park supporters believe Sunset Dunes creates a safe space for cycling, strolling and skateboarding and other recreational activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired couple Yin Hone Ho and Ngan Kyaung Chin visit Sunset Dunes every day. They moved to the neighborhood in the 1990s, and said it’s been a great setting for their daily exercise routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, me and my wife come here and walk for one and a half hours. We get our 10,000 steps,” Ho said. His solution to the traffic debate? More people should carpool and take public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Sunset Dunes, an advocacy group for the park, claims that 39,800 people visit the park weekly, on average, and that more than 1.7 million people utilized it during its first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, the space has been a venue for art walks, holiday festivities, fitness classes and other community events. Many local businesses have also reported that sales are up, pointing to increased foot traffic along business corridors near the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benny Bermudez visited Sunset Dunes with his partner to celebrate his birthday recently. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The city has been working to install new traffic signals to improve the flow of cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents like Haley Demay were initially skeptical, but have since warmed up to the park. She likes walking her dog there. Still, she is sympathetic to the traffic complaints she hears and supports a compromise where cars could be back on the road on weekdays, with the highway remaining a park on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I commute to Palo Alto, and I leave really early, so I really don’t hit much traffic, but my husband works downtown, and he has noticed a lot more traffic,” Demay said. “I do enjoy the park, but I do also from time to time think, ‘Man, I wish it was back open to cars.’ It was just such a smooth, easy commute going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the recall election, efforts to put cars back on the Great Highway have largely been unsuccessful. A judge in January dismissed a lawsuit from a group of residents looking to overturn Proposition K, and current Supervisor Alan Wong was unable to get enough colleagues on the Board of Supervisors to back his ballot measure proposal to put a compromise before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts continue, however, and a citizen-led ballot initiative is currently underway. They need to collect at least 10,000 signatures to put the fate of Sunset Dunes before voters, again, in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s been almost two years now from when Prop. K passed to now, and that anger has not really subsided,” said Albert Chow, a local hardware store owner who led the recall of Engardio and is now running for District 4 supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been gathering signatures for the compromise ballot measure while campaigning for his own seat on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing kind of a situation,” said Chow, who was a plaintiff in the lawsuit to overturn Proposition K. The group has not appealed the judge’s decision. “It’s more like bringing the neighborhood back to some peace, but also to respect what the Sunset Dunes park has become.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the park point to the longer-term challenge with the land underneath the Great Highway, which is falling into the ocean due to climate change. The lower portion of the road is already closed due to coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset voters have another important election ahead, over who will be their next permanent supervisor, and the issue of the Great Highway has again become a key issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-21-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors spend time at Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the five candidates running, only one, Jeremy Grecco, said he supports keeping Sunset Dunes open as a park permanently. The remaining five candidates — current Supervisor Alan Wong, Natalie Gee, Albert Chow and David Lee — said they all opposed Proposition K and would support finding a way to bring cars back to the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, getting anything on the ballot — and passed — could be a challenge, and the park is here to stay for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we can be able to have a vote on it and be able to move forward after that, whatever the outcome is,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 4 supervisor frequently jogs along the trail in Sunset Dunes, but feels it’s feasible to exercise while cars share the road, too. He also has previously said he has new safety concerns about other streets in the neighborhood now that traffic has shifted away from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for SFMTA said that “early data suggests that the closure has not adversely affected roadway safety,” however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-12-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nearby residents Yin Hone Ho and Ngan Kyaung Chin walk through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many park supporters believe Sunset Dunes creates a safe space for cycling, strolling and skateboarding and other recreational activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired couple Yin Hone Ho and Ngan Kyaung Chin visit Sunset Dunes every day. They moved to the neighborhood in the 1990s, and said it’s been a great setting for their daily exercise routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, me and my wife come here and walk for one and a half hours. We get our 10,000 steps,” Ho said. His solution to the traffic debate? More people should carpool and take public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Sunset Dunes, an advocacy group for the park, claims that 39,800 people visit the park weekly, on average, and that more than 1.7 million people utilized it during its first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, the space has been a venue for art walks, holiday festivities, fitness classes and other community events. Many local businesses have also reported that sales are up, pointing to increased foot traffic along business corridors near the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benny Bermudez visited Sunset Dunes with his partner to celebrate his birthday recently. The couple lives in Daly City with their children, and said they come out several times a month to play outside by the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karla Valencia (left) and Benny Bermudez, from Daly City, walk through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like this is all positive energy. 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They allege that the city “manufactured” an emergency to remove the structure without a full environmental review, as it prepares for a major redevelopment of the Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055237\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vaillancourt Fountain in the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2025. The 40-foot concrete fountain was designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt and installed in 1971. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no emergency,” said Susan Brandt-Hawley, an attorney who is representing the Friends of the Plaza group. “Yes, the fountain’s condition requires action. But our argument is, the city has conceded that adequate security can keep the public out of the fountain, and then there’s no danger to the public. The legal case can go ahead to see whether public CEQA review is required or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hearing, Brandt-Hawley argued that disassembly could cause irreparable harm. Instead, she argued, the city could prevent endangering the public through less invasive means, like security by city park rangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recreation and Park project manager Eoanna Goodwin estimated in court records that providing such security would cost at least $887,000 over 18 months.[aside postID=news_12069424 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-10-BL-KQED.jpg']The hulking concrete structure, built in 1971 in the shadow of the towering Embarcadero Freeway, has long been controversial; since its debut, some residents have deemed it an eyesore, while\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055275/this-fountain-looms-over-sfs-skateboarding-scene-a-growing-few-are-trying-to-save-it\"> skaters consider it a landmark\u003c/a> of their sport’s history in San Francisco. And historians say it’s long been a destination for civic engagement and an emblem of modernist architecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a good place for gathering — for protests, for shows,” said Pretty Sims, whose punk band False Flag held a performance in front of the fountain, partly in protest of the removal last week. “U2 has played there. There’s been so many protests that have happened in Embarcadero Plaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have been fighting to keep the fountain in place since 2024, when the city first unveiled plans to redevelop the Embarcadero Plaza as a waterfront park — without the structure. Tensions escalated last year, though, after the Recreation and Parks Department was granted an emergency exemption to the California Environmental Quality Act, easing its path to remove the historic fountain without the long and often cumbersome community engagement process usually required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the Recreation and Park Department sought an emergency exception to the CEQA process after an engineering firm it contracted to \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c806e5734c4e2faa1db54c9/t/68a80fea9a2a9f2b6e2a55e2/1755844586236/20250602+Vaillancourt+Fountain+Conditions+Assessment+Final.pdf\">assess the fountain\u003c/a> found widespread corrosion of the structural steel and concrete, creating a risk of collapse, especially during seismic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the report, the fountain was deemed an imminent safety risk and slated for emergency removal. In November, that plan was approved by the city’s Arts Commission, which oversees the fountain as part of the city’s Civic Art Collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055236 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vaillancourt Fountain in the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modernist conservation nonprofit Docomomo \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">US/Northern California\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069424/iconic-often-reviled-sf-fountain-is-down-to-its-last-chance-to-stave-off-removal\">appealed to the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> to halt the removal and require a full environmental review in January, alleging that city officials invoked the emergency exception to skirt the CEQA process as they prepared for the major transformation of Embarcadero Plaza. 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On a 2003 tour of the homes on Alamo Square’s Postcard Row — covered in \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.sfsu.edu/archive/archive/sp_sum_03/kirkeberg.html\">a \u003cem>San Francisco State Magazine \u003c/em>article\u003c/a> about the course — he told his class that in 1894, a famed Victorian on the street sold for just $4,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Cunningham, an alumna of the university’s Geography Department, said Kirkeberg roamed the halls “like a magical geography fairy godmother,” handing out free pastries and donning a different necktie each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of each semester, he was known to pin up the ties he’d worn to class — he never wore one of his 600 twice in one session — and ask students to vote for their favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His joy and care was contagious, and every day that I saw Max, I knew was going to be a good day,” Cunningham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Nancy Wilkinson, who shared an office with Kirkeberg for more than 10 years, said watching him work shaped her teaching style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg founded and led the St. Francis Lutheran Church and SFSU Geography Department AIDS Walk team. The group competed in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for decades, raising more than $1 million for AIDS research and care. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrea Dransfield Kraus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After every class that he taught, Max would come back to the office, and he’d pull out a little notebook, and he would start writing down, ‘This was the class today, this was a topic and this is what went well and this what I would change next time,’” she said. “Seeing somebody that was still both that excited and that devoted to teaching after all those years was just the coolest inspiration for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described Kirkeberg’s class as a “cult classic.” “Once people had heard about it, they really sought out and tried to take [it],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was also always willing to lead a neighborhood tour outside of class for visiting alumni, or a colleague — like Wilkinson — whose in-laws were in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was my witness at my wedding at City Hall; Max held the baby shower for my first kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1933 in a small town in southern Iowa, Kirkeberg attended Augustana College in Illinois, where he majored in geography, history and political science. After being drafted into the Army, he went on to get a graduate degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/max-kirkeberg-scholarship\">biography on San Francisco State’s website\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12061272 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg']Once he was in San Francisco, according to his bio, Kirkeberg came out as a gay man. And at SF State, he found a family of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Max in the courtyard at SFSU,” said Kirkeberg’s husband, Gabriel Proo, who was celebrating the graduation of a former student of Kirkeberg’s at the time. “She would complain about him, because he’d make fun of her for arriving late … and I said, ‘Joan, you never told me he was gay.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proo said the two realized they had much in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both had this great passion for San Francisco — the freedom, the architecture, the history … the beauty of the city, the climate,” Proo said. “He was just so in love with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg could often be found spending long days in the College of Health and Social Sciences building, digitizing his massive archive of photographs documenting San Francisco’s ever-shifting landscape. Nearly 60,000 slides of his work, collected through his field classes, walking tours and related lectures, are cataloged through SF State as \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg\">the Max Kirkeberg Collection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive includes collections dedicated to different parts of the Mission District and Bernal Heights, various city neighborhoods, as well as the Castro Theatre and Alcatraz Island. It’s listed on the San Francisco Public Library site and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190818194309/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/alemanyislais.jpg\">has been used\u003c/a> for smaller \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190718181152/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/montcalmperalta93.jpg\">neighborhood history projects\u003c/a>, like one by residents of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190325215116/https:/www.bernalhistoryproject.org/\">Bernal Heights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/11363?vpage=1\">his former home\u003c/a> — that began in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As he toured San Francisco’s many neighborhoods repeatedly, he became aware that the city, like most cities, was changing,” an introduction to the collection reads. “Gentrification, ethnic succession, industrial abandonment or conversion, the shift in workforce demographics, the rise and decline of the hippy era, the growth of gay San Francisco, and countless other socio-economic factors and events contributed to this change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg officially retired as a professor in 2002 but continued to teach “San Francisco on Foot” and a series of shorter, neighborhood-specific walking tour courses for adults through SF State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg 1392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north at the east side of the Castro; Note the laundromat at the middle of the scene. As Castro gentrifies, laundromats on the main streets disappear. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaqcueline Proctor, one of his OLLI students, said she began taking classes at the university specifically to enroll in one of Kirkeberg’s courses in the late 2000s. She took nearly every one he offered in the ensuing years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just extraordinary,” Proctor told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her favorites were a course chronicling the redevelopment of Moscone Center and the surrounding area, and another on the commercial corridor of Valencia Street. Now lined with upscale consignment shops and trendy wine bars and restaurants, the street was home to a number of mortuaries 100 years ago, when a streetcar ran down the common funeral procession route to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg’s six-week OLLI sessions usually focused on a single city district, Proctor said, during which he would alternate between classroom lectures featuring his tens of thousands of photos of the city and adventures to those places, sprinkling in little-known history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the fun things I really learned living in the city and doing all the walking is that all the commercial streets are in the valleys,” she said. “I live by West Portal, and it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, West Portal’s pretty flat, but everything around it is uphill.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SF State magazine story, Kirkeberg taught that people don’t like to shop — or tour — uphill. The magazine said he had a rule against inclines in his courses’ routes, though Proctor remembers a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg, left, with St. Francis Lutheran Pastor Jim DeLange. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Wagner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Easygoing, warm and funny, Kirkeberg created a community among his students, Proctor said. A group of about five of them still meet for walks weekly, years after he retired fully and moved to Oregon in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much everybody in the class did all his classes,” Porter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Scalf, another former OLLI student, said that even after Kirkeberg moved away, he and “a bunch of us ‘Max groupies’” would gather for lunch in the Castro when he visited San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy is also still felt across the San Francisco State campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he and Proo \u003ca href=\"https://develop.sfsu.edu/news/angela-tafur-first-kirkeberg-scholar-leads-with-purpose\">established the Max Kirkeberg Scholarship\u003c/a>, an annual grant awarded to a School of the Environment student whose work aligns “with the dedication to the lived and changing environment of the Bay Area,” according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1415px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1415\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg 1415w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1415px) 100vw, 1415px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penitentiary sign at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1981. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation college student, Max’s scholarship has helped me fund my last semesters of college, leading me closer to my goal in being the first in my family to graduate,” said Angela Tafur, who was the inaugural recipient of the scholarship last spring. “I cannot wait to see how future SFSU students will benefit. … His legacy and passion for geography lives on in this department in many wonderful ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg also founded and led a team in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for 40 years, merging two of his communities: the SF State Geography Department and his congregation at St. Francis Lutheran Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said that the young people at the university would walk, and the old people had money,” Proo said. “That was a good combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, the team raised more than a million dollars, about a third of which Proo said Kirkeberg solicited himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1518px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1518\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg 1518w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1979 telephoto from the 20th floor of 100 Van Ness of the Alamo Square area, east of Alamo Square. The street running along the left side is Hayes Street. Trees in the upper middle are from Alamo Square. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Max was truly a larger-than-life figure whose presence could be felt across campus, in the church, and throughout the broader community,” said Andrea Dransfield Kraus, an SF State Geography Department alumna and the team’s co-captain for many years. “Max’s commitment to community, remembrance, and collective action touched countless lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kirkeberg, the AIDS crisis was personal; he lost his former partner and multiple friends to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max made our AIDS Walk team as large as possible, raising tens of thousands of dollars each year,” said Valerie Wagner, the St. Francis congregation’s president. She noted that the team often finished among the likes of Chevron and Bank of America in the walk’s top fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was a devoted member of the church and a weekly volunteer at its Sunday morning free breakfast program, Wagner said, adding that he “once organized a bus tour for the congregation so he could show us notable sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was Lutheran to the core, as a Norwegian-Swede from Iowa but also a very cool San Franciscan,” she said on behalf of the congregation. “We will all miss Max very much and are deeply grateful for his leadership and witness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>April 16: A previous version of this story misidentified SFSU professor Nancy Wilkinson as Laura Wilkinson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Cunningham, an alumna of the university’s Geography Department, said Kirkeberg roamed the halls “like a magical geography fairy godmother,” handing out free pastries and donning a different necktie each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of each semester, he was known to pin up the ties he’d worn to class — he never wore one of his 600 twice in one session — and ask students to vote for their favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His joy and care was contagious, and every day that I saw Max, I knew was going to be a good day,” Cunningham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Nancy Wilkinson, who shared an office with Kirkeberg for more than 10 years, said watching him work shaped her teaching style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Kirkeberg-AIDS-walk-1_a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg founded and led the St. Francis Lutheran Church and SFSU Geography Department AIDS Walk team. The group competed in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for decades, raising more than $1 million for AIDS research and care. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrea Dransfield Kraus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After every class that he taught, Max would come back to the office, and he’d pull out a little notebook, and he would start writing down, ‘This was the class today, this was a topic and this is what went well and this what I would change next time,’” she said. “Seeing somebody that was still both that excited and that devoted to teaching after all those years was just the coolest inspiration for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described Kirkeberg’s class as a “cult classic.” “Once people had heard about it, they really sought out and tried to take [it],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was also always willing to lead a neighborhood tour outside of class for visiting alumni, or a colleague — like Wilkinson — whose in-laws were in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was my witness at my wedding at City Hall; Max held the baby shower for my first kid,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1933 in a small town in southern Iowa, Kirkeberg attended Augustana College in Illinois, where he majored in geography, history and political science. After being drafted into the Army, he went on to get a graduate degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/max-kirkeberg-scholarship\">biography on San Francisco State’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once he was in San Francisco, according to his bio, Kirkeberg came out as a gay man. And at SF State, he found a family of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Max in the courtyard at SFSU,” said Kirkeberg’s husband, Gabriel Proo, who was celebrating the graduation of a former student of Kirkeberg’s at the time. “She would complain about him, because he’d make fun of her for arriving late … and I said, ‘Joan, you never told me he was gay.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proo said the two realized they had much in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both had this great passion for San Francisco — the freedom, the architecture, the history … the beauty of the city, the climate,” Proo said. “He was just so in love with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg could often be found spending long days in the College of Health and Social Sciences building, digitizing his massive archive of photographs documenting San Francisco’s ever-shifting landscape. Nearly 60,000 slides of his work, collected through his field classes, walking tours and related lectures, are cataloged through SF State as \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg\">the Max Kirkeberg Collection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive includes collections dedicated to different parts of the Mission District and Bernal Heights, various city neighborhoods, as well as the Castro Theatre and Alcatraz Island. It’s listed on the San Francisco Public Library site and \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190818194309/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/alemanyislais.jpg\">has been used\u003c/a> for smaller \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190718181152/http:/bernalhistoryproject.org/image.php?img=/images/montcalmperalta93.jpg\">neighborhood history projects\u003c/a>, like one by residents of \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190325215116/https:/www.bernalhistoryproject.org/\">Bernal Heights\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/kirkeberg/11363?vpage=1\">his former home\u003c/a> — that began in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As he toured San Francisco’s many neighborhoods repeatedly, he became aware that the city, like most cities, was changing,” an introduction to the collection reads. “Gentrification, ethnic succession, industrial abandonment or conversion, the shift in workforce demographics, the rise and decline of the hippy era, the growth of gay San Francisco, and countless other socio-economic factors and events contributed to this change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg officially retired as a professor in 2002 but continued to teach “San Francisco on Foot” and a series of shorter, neighborhood-specific walking tour courses for adults through SF State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1.jpg 1392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Castro1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north at the east side of the Castro; Note the laundromat at the middle of the scene. 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Now lined with upscale consignment shops and trendy wine bars and restaurants, the street was home to a number of mortuaries 100 years ago, when a streetcar ran down the common funeral procession route to Colma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg’s six-week OLLI sessions usually focused on a single city district, Proctor said, during which he would alternate between classroom lectures featuring his tens of thousands of photos of the city and adventures to those places, sprinkling in little-known history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the fun things I really learned living in the city and doing all the walking is that all the commercial streets are in the valleys,” she said. “I live by West Portal, and it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, West Portal’s pretty flat, but everything around it is uphill.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SF State magazine story, Kirkeberg taught that people don’t like to shop — or tour — uphill. The magazine said he had a rule against inclines in his courses’ routes, though Proctor remembers a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SFState-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkeberg, left, with St. Francis Lutheran Pastor Jim DeLange. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Wagner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Easygoing, warm and funny, Kirkeberg created a community among his students, Proctor said. A group of about five of them still meet for walks weekly, years after he retired fully and moved to Oregon in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much everybody in the class did all his classes,” Porter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Scalf, another former OLLI student, said that even after Kirkeberg moved away, he and “a bunch of us ‘Max groupies’” would gather for lunch in the Castro when he visited San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy is also still felt across the San Francisco State campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he and Proo \u003ca href=\"https://develop.sfsu.edu/news/angela-tafur-first-kirkeberg-scholar-leads-with-purpose\">established the Max Kirkeberg Scholarship\u003c/a>, an annual grant awarded to a School of the Environment student whose work aligns “with the dedication to the lived and changing environment of the Bay Area,” according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1415px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1415\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland.jpg 1415w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/alcatrazisland-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1415px) 100vw, 1415px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penitentiary sign at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1981. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation college student, Max’s scholarship has helped me fund my last semesters of college, leading me closer to my goal in being the first in my family to graduate,” said Angela Tafur, who was the inaugural recipient of the scholarship last spring. “I cannot wait to see how future SFSU students will benefit. … His legacy and passion for geography lives on in this department in many wonderful ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg also founded and led a team in San Francisco’s annual AIDS Walk for 40 years, merging two of his communities: the SF State Geography Department and his congregation at St. Francis Lutheran Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said that the young people at the university would walk, and the old people had money,” Proo said. “That was a good combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, the team raised more than a million dollars, about a third of which Proo said Kirkeberg solicited himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1518px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1518\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq.jpg 1518w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AlamoSq-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1979 telephoto from the 20th floor of 100 Van Ness of the Alamo Square area, east of Alamo Square. The street running along the left side is Hayes Street. Trees in the upper middle are from Alamo Square. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Max Kirkeberg Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Max was truly a larger-than-life figure whose presence could be felt across campus, in the church, and throughout the broader community,” said Andrea Dransfield Kraus, an SF State Geography Department alumna and the team’s co-captain for many years. “Max’s commitment to community, remembrance, and collective action touched countless lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kirkeberg, the AIDS crisis was personal; he lost his former partner and multiple friends to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max made our AIDS Walk team as large as possible, raising tens of thousands of dollars each year,” said Valerie Wagner, the St. Francis congregation’s president. She noted that the team often finished among the likes of Chevron and Bank of America in the walk’s top fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkeberg was a devoted member of the church and a weekly volunteer at its Sunday morning free breakfast program, Wagner said, adding that he “once organized a bus tour for the congregation so he could show us notable sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Max was Lutheran to the core, as a Norwegian-Swede from Iowa but also a very cool San Franciscan,” she said on behalf of the congregation. “We will all miss Max very much and are deeply grateful for his leadership and witness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>April 16: A previous version of this story misidentified SFSU professor Nancy Wilkinson as Laura Wilkinson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco filmmaker and journalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066917/sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-convicted-of-manslaughter-not-murder-in-2016-shooting\">Kevin Epps\u003c/a> was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison on Wednesday, nearly a decade after he shot and killed a relative by marriage during an altercation at his family’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-running case stems from the October 2016 shooting death of Marcus Polk, Epps’ former partner’s ex-brother-in-law, as Polk allegedly tried to force his way into the Glen Park home. At trial last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066373/murder-trial-of-sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-will-swing-on-question-of-self-defense\">Epps argued self-defense\u003c/a> while prosecutors had pushed for a harsher first-degree murder conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Epps was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066917/sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-convicted-of-manslaughter-not-murder-in-2016-shooting\">convicted of voluntary manslaughter\u003c/a> and two counts of possession of a firearm as a felon, since he was barred from possessing the gun due to a nonviolent felony on his record from 15 years prior. The jury found that he did not act with malice when he shot Polk, but he was still not justified in acting in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the sentencing hearing on Wednesday at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, Epps cried as he read a statement accepting responsibility and expressing remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no excuse for what I’ve done,” he said. “I pray for Mr. Polk’s family and ask for forgiveness every day of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several supporters spoke about Epps’ work in San Francisco community organizations, and his 12-year-old daughter begged the judge for leniency through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk’s loved ones, meanwhile, described Epps as abusive and said he did not need to shoot Polk that day in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps (left) embraces his mother Brenda Epps (right) at the Superior Court of San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2025, after a jury found him not guilty of the murder of Marcus Polk. A jury did find Epps guilty of voluntary manslaughter. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He killed our dad in cold blood for no reason,” said Polk’s oldest daughter, Jazmine Polk. “Kevin caused so much chaos … a permanent shadow over our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the sentence was read, Epps’ supporters and family cried out as he was taken back into custody. The move surprised Epps’ defense team, who had asked for no prison time and said they plan to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 shooting occurred after Polk came to the home of his ex-wife’s sister, Maryam Jhan. Jhan, Epps’ former partner, lived in the home with their two children. At one time, Epps also resided there, though the timeline was contested at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residence was a gathering place for Jhan’s extended family — her sister, Starr Gul, and the three children she had with Polk were often present. Prosecutors said Jhan also allowed Polk, who was unhoused and recently out of jail at the time, to come over to visit his children, take showers and watch television on a fairly regular basis.[aside postID=news_12066917 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00054seqn_TV_qed.jpg']Defense attorneys said during the trial that Polk had come to the home the night before the shooting and banged on the door. Epps turned him away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, he returned, high on methamphetamine and cannabis, and was told to leave again. He entered the house anyway, and shortly after, Epps shot him in the left arm and torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps’ defense attorneys said he was acting in self-defense, telling the jury that Polk had been acting “erratically” and threatening to “air out” Epps. Polk had just gotten into a verbal altercation with maintenance workers out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors posed a different narrative: They argued that Epps was motivated by a simmering dispute between the men over how frequently Polk visited the house. Attorneys were not allowed to present his criminal history to the jury, but Polk was a registered sex offender and had prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father made many mistakes, but he always faced the consequences,” Jazmine, Polk’s oldest daughter, said ahead of the sentencing on Wednesday. “He would tell the best stories, cook the best burgers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said one of their favorite places to be together was the Glen Park home, where she said Polk visited often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To claim that Epps didn’t know my dad or was scared of him was not true,” Jazmine Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Kevin Epps rally outside of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In asking for a noncustodial sentence, Epps’ defense attorneys had argued that the gun possession charge should serve as the principal term, carrying the greatest punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have many thoughts about Mr. Epps’ possession of that illegal gun that night, but to conclude that that is the principal crime here, would diminish the killing of a man — [who] amongst everyone who appears here today … is probably the least empowered in our society,” Judge Brian Ferrall said. “A person on parole, addicted to drugs, unhoused, unemployed, no real resources and armed with a remote control at the moment of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps had faced several potential aggravating sentencing factors weighed separately from the main charges, but the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision on those. They were dismissed and not considered in the sentence on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also granted a defense motion to not consider his prior residential burglary conviction from 1997 as a strike, which could have added several years to his sentence.[aside postID=news_12078050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/025_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021_qed-1020x679.jpg']Epps’ arrest in connection with the shooting in 2016 caught the attention of many who knew him for his series of documentaries on the experience of Black San Franciscans in the early 2000s. He broke through with his 2003 feature documentary \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point\u003c/em>, which traced the trajectory of the area where he grew up from a place of shipyard opportunity for Black workers to a crime-plagued neighborhood of systemic neglect. The film resonated widely in San Francisco, playing at the Metreon 16 megaplex downtown for multiple weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary, which screened at film festivals worldwide, also caught the attention of acclaimed director Spike Lee, who teamed up with Epps to film \u003cem>Sucker Free City\u003c/em> in San Francisco. Originally conceived as a TV series for Showtime, the story of three young men of different ethnicities pulled into a life of crime was adapted into a feature film, set in Visitacion Valley, Hunters Point and the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a director, Epps went on to make the documentaries \u003cem>Rap Dreams \u003c/em>(2006), \u003cem>The Black Rock AKA Black Alcatraz \u003c/em>(2009), and \u003cem>Hippie Hill\u003c/em> (2018). In 2012, he released \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point 2\u003c/em>, a follow-up to his debut film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the 2016 shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón elected not to charge Epps, saying there was insufficient evidence, but in 2019, Epps was arrested again and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps was granted bail in 2020, a highly unusual move in a murder case, after hundreds, including Jhan, petitioned the court. He has spent most of the years since then out of custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, he took over as the executive editor of the \u003cem>San Francisco Bay View \u003c/em>newspaper, and last year he earned an award from the Northern California chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists for bringing “fresh energy, multimedia storytelling and digital innovation to one of the Bay Area’s last Black-owned newspapers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I genuinely wish you the best,” Ferrall told Epps after reading the sentence. “I know you will do good for the community when you come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">\u003cem>Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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