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"content": "\u003cp>The state Assembly on Thursday voted to approve a pilot toll and reservation program for the famously crooked section of San Francisco’s Lombard Street in a bid to reduce crowds and ease traffic on the world-renowned thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 600-foot-long stretch of Lombard attracts more than 2 million visitors a year, creating lines of cars that stretch for blocks and clog the Russian Hill neighborhood, said Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1605\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1605\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new toll system is not expected to be in place before 2020, officials said, and it’s not clear how much the fee would be. San Francisco transportation officials have proposed requiring visitors to make a reservation online and pay $5 for each vehicle — another plan calls for online reservations and a $10 charge on weekends and holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Greg Brundage, Lombard Hill Improvement Association']‘The cars really impact the neighborhood because they line up, they back up, they are sitting idling.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has become increasingly difficult to manage the crowds and traffic congestion at the crooked street,” Ting said in a statement. “Neither the presence of parking enforcement officers, nor the closure of the crooked segment has changed the current situation. AB 1605 offers a solution worth trying to improve public safety and the quality of life for residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly vote 51-18 to pass the bill, which the state Senate will consider next. The legislation was necessary because existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say Lombard Street, with its unique hairpin turns, feels more like an overcrowded amusement park than a neighborhood street. For years, they’ve urged officials to deal with the traffic jams, trash and trespassing by visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cars really impact the neighborhood because they line up, they back up, they are sitting idling,” said Greg Brundage, president of the Lombard Hill Improvement Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who represents the district that includes the crooked part of Lombard Street, said the toll would help sustain the reservation system and help pay for more traffic control officers and police patrols in the area, as well as tourism ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pilot program but it’s something we must try to address the traffic congestion,” Stefani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco County Transportation Authority \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/projects/lombard-crooked-street-study\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concluded in a 2017 study\u003c/a> that managing access to Lombard Street had become necessary and recommended a reservation and pricing system. The agency is conducting another study reviewing technology options for the system as well as hours of operation, price level and exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Tourists take photos while driving down Lombard Street on May 20, 2014 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists-1200x824.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Lombard-Street-Tourists.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists take photos while driving down Lombard Street on May 20, 2014, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents built the iconic turns on the red brick road in 1922 because its 27-degree grade was too steep for the era’s cars to climb. Neighbors added lush gardens filled with hydrangeas and roses 30 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeping views and the fact that a cable car stops at the top of the street contributed to its popularity. Its worldwide fame only grew after it was featured in movies and commercials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brundage, who has lived on the street for 22 years, said dealing with the traffic jams is half the problem. He also would like to see something done about the buses that drop off tourists, but is glad to see some progress on addressing the traffic situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>This past weekend, the titans of fly fishing flocked to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with waders and rods to compete in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Spey-O-Rama\u003c/a>, the world championship of long-distance Spey casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://streamsideorvis.com/2018/02/spey-casting-basics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spey casting\u003c/a> is named for the River Spey in Scotland, where anglers developed techniques nearly two centuries ago to send their lines dozens of feet over the water to hook salmon and sea trout. It’s now become an international sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Libby Wolfensperger, tournament chair\"]'When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once every year all the ninja warriors of Spey casting are converging for Spey-O-Rama,” said Xavier Carbonnet with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club\u003c/a>, which hosts the three-day event at their ponds. “These are some of the longest casts in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, anglers from 14 countries — including the U.K., Russia, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Canada and the U.S. — competed for the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tournament, competitors wade thigh-deep into the water and have six minutes to complete a series of two-handed casts from both their strong and weak sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highlight for many spectators is the Snake Roll, in which the caster loops the rod through the air in a circular motion, animating the line above the water, before drawing back and shooting it forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re making these beautiful sweeping motions that are extended through the rod and the line,” said tournament chair Libby Wolfensperger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the clock times out, the longest of each of the four types of cast are tallied into a single score. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prizes — which this year included glass trophies, handmade fishing reels and bottles of aged Scotch — are awarded for total score as well as the longest cast in men’s, women’s and senior divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champions took home trophies, handmade fishing reels and top-shelf Scotch for their victories on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s men’s champion Gerard Downey of Ireland picked up his sixth Spey-O-Rama title and made the longest cast of the tournament at 191 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior division champion Martin Kiely broke the tournament record for ages 55 and up with a cast of 169 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1200x970.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama men's champs, (L-R) Tommy Aarkvisla (2nd), Gerard Downey (1st), Zach Zack Williams (3rd). 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]an Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Ed Reiskin is on his way out. Mayor London Breed wants to launch a national search for a “visionary” new leader for an agency that’s been beset by missteps, mishaps and an occasional tragedy, especially when it comes to running its Muni transit service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only question now is: Where will the city find someone to tackle the problems at the SFMTA?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even agency critics concede the organization faces a dauntingly complex series of challenges. The agency manages the Bay Area’s busiest transit system while at the same time overseeing operations and design of the street network in a city with a quickly expanding population and rapidly changing modes of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, he’s a good, smart, competent man with an impossible job,” Supervisor Aaron Peskin said after Reiskin announced Monday he’d be departing the SFMTA this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, a frequent Muni critic who chairs a Board of Supervisors committee on transportation and also heads the San Francisco County Transportation Authority board, said the SFMTA is “larger than any human being, no matter how smart or hard-working they may be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for cyclists, pedestrians and transit riders said Reiskin deserves credit for improving conditions for those who use San Francisco streets, but that much more remains to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Wiedenmeier, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, said while the city became a safer place for cyclists during Reiskin’s tenure, “We are not the city we need to be when it comes to safely moving around folks on foot, on bike and on transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ed was someone who had his eyes on what needs to happen on our streets for pedestrian safety,” said Jodie Medeiros, executive director of Walk San Francisco. She added that Reiskin was instrumental in the city’s adoption of Vision Zero, its program to eliminate traffic fatalities — a goal the city is still far from achieving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Transit Riders spokeswoman Cat Carter said Reiskin was responsible for improvements in bus service that has driven sharp ridership increases on two of Muni’s busiest lines, the 14-Mission and 5-Fulton. But she said that with increasing congestion in the city, the agency has reached a point “where we need more transparency, more honesty about what the agency can and cannot do” to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Right Time for a Change’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Reiskin announced the impending end of his eight-year tenure in a brief message to SFMTA employees that came on the heels of the agency’s most recent mini-disaster: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Muni-suffers-widespread-subway-delays-commuters-13798160.php?psid=1GAfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday’s daylong shutdown\u003c/a> of Muni’s downtown subway service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, often described as an unassuming leader who actually uses the trains, buses and bike lanes his agency is responsible for, noted his current contract is up in August “and it’s become clear that this is the right time for a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made it clearest was a letter from Mayor Breed to the SFMTA board of directors chastising the agency for its response to the Friday incident and a series of episodes that have hampered Muni service over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed faulted agency leadership for failing to plan for emergencies like the Friday shutdown and for stumbling in its responsibility to inform the public adequately about service disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that we have contingency plans,” Breed said at a City Hall media briefing after her letter was released. “It’s important to make sure that every step of the way, we’re communicating with the public so that they know exactly what they can expect to do as a result. And it’s important to make sure that they know that we are prepared to deal with any challenge that comes our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin’s departure was foreshadowed last summer by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-transit-chief-apologizes-for-Muni-delays-13172887.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a public rebuke\u003c/a> from the mayor, which came after Muni experienced major service problems during and after a project to refurbish the light-rail system’s Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $40 million project required the tunnel between the east and west sides of the city to be shut down for two months, but Muni assured riders it would make up for missed train runs with a substitute bus service. But Muni didn’t have enough drivers or vehicles to operate the replacement service and the system’s citywide performance suffered as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other problems followed, including the death of a worker on the Twin Peaks Tunnel project; damage to trackside equipment in the tunnel, which Muni blamed on the project contractor, that compromised service after it reopened; continuing delays on the agency’s $1.6 billion Central Subway that could postpone its opening until next year; and charges of sexual harassment and racial discrimination in the agency that forces out two senior managers and prompted Breed to appoint an ombudsperson to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Shocking Video and a Subway Mess\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>All of that was just a prelude for last week when, leading up to Friday’s subway mess, Muni was forced to confront video of an elderly patron being \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/exclusive-video-emerges-of-woman-bodily-caught-in-muni-door-and-dragged-to-tracks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dragged down a downtown Muni Metro platform\u003c/a> by a malfunctioning door on one of its brand-new light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/OLAhhPLZ8K4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident — along with other questions about the cars’ mechanical performance — prompted the Board of Supervisors, sitting as the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board, to hold off on approving $63 million earmarked for buying more of the light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it off, Muni was forced to cancel hundreds of runs last Monday and Tuesday because drivers were turning down overtime to put pressure on the city during contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin called the situation “a perfect storm” for Reiskin and said he felt bad for the Muni chief “as someone I know and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like Mayor Breed, Peskin questioned the SFMTA’s competence both in handling the recent black eyes and explaining them to people outside the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as the furor built over the malfunctioning doors on the new light-rail vehicles, he told Reiskin and Muni operations chief Julie Kirschbaum that “they really needed to get ahead of the story and be honest with the riders and elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Peskin said, “They were just kind of, as the mayor said in her letter, paralyzed. … When they kind of obfuscated and danced around things, it just compounded the problem and increased the level of frustration” with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as city officials begin the search for the next SFMTA boss, they should also consider the agency’s current governance structure. Peskin, who was an author of a 2007 ballot measure that gave the SFMTA a high degree of independence from direct Board of Supervisors’ and mayoral oversight — and meddling — has been talking about changing that structure for the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing sentiment at the Board of Supervisors that the board should take back some of its powers and oversight authorities,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter, of the San Francisco Transit Riders, said worsening conditions on the city streets will require the next SFMTA chief to focus on improving Muni and to do it quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see record traffic congestion in the city, just choking the city and choking people’s access to jobs and families and cultural experiences,” Carter said. “So we do need some visionary leadership to say we do need to put transit first, that transit needs to be efficient and reliable so it can compete with private vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiedenmeier, of the bicycle coalition, said he thinks Breed and the SFMTA need to broaden their search for a new director beyond U.S. borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are people who lead transportation policy and manage transportation agencies across the globe that would find this job in San Francisco attractive,” Wiedenmeier said. “And they would have ideas and experience to bring to bear that could help us really evolve into the city that San Franciscans deserve when it comes to our transportation system and the safety of our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>What comes with the check at almost every Chinese restaurant? Fortune cookies. Like orange slices after a blood draw or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731290/how-bill-grahams-nazi-escape-might-explain-his-fillmore-apples\">apples at San Francisco’s Fillmore\u003c/a>, they’re a given. But how did they come to be? Are they really Chinese? And if so, why do they serve them at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.japaneseteagardensf.com/\">Japanese Tea Garden\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11742906\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea cookies and green tea served at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a chilly morning, I meet Steven Pitsenbarger at the front gate of the Tea Garden. He’s a gardener here and a bit of a historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people put the Japanese Tea Garden in the same box as Alcatraz or Fisherman’s Wharf,” Pitsenbarger says. “But we are really a gem that’s for San Francisco — just as much as it’s for the tourists.”\u003cbr>\n[baycuriousbug]\u003cbr>\nHe tells me the garden was originally an exhibit in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.outsidelands.org/1894_midwinter_fair.php\"> California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, \u003c/a>then tended by a landscape architect named Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an early immigrant from Japan,” says Pitsenbarger. “He came a decade before most Japanese immigrants came. A lot of folks came in the late 1880s and 1890s. But he came in 1878.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagiwara started serving visitors fortune cookies along with green tea in the garden’s tea house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11743019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924.\" width=\"324\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1020x1337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-915x1200.jpg 915w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1920x2517.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The story that I understand is he took a Japanese cookie, senbei, and he got the idea to put a little note in it, and originally started making the cookies by hand here with just a little flat press,” says Pitsenbarger. “They would fold the cookies while they were still fresh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow. So this could be the birthplace of the fortune cookie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Author Jennifer 8. Lee says of the fortune cookie']‘I like to say that the Japanese invented them, the Chinese popularized them, but the Americans ultimately consume them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t see anything that marked this historical culinary invention until we went to the gift shop. Mounted to the top of a display case are two small black iron presses with long, thin handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re called kata, and are used to make senbei or Japanese crackers. Inside they’re engraved with an H and an M — inverted they would appear on the cookies as MH for \u003ca href=\"https://hanascape.com/japanese-tea-garden\">Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you came to the garden while he was managing it, everything had his name on it. Napkins would say M. Hagiwara. There would be pots in the garden with M. Hagiwara … tea pots, tea cups. His name was everywhere, and the fortune cookie is one of those things that helped to spread his popularity,” Pitsenbarger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And make the cookies popular, too. But since each fortune cookie was being made by hand, demand became too much for the Hagiwara family. Makoto asked a local confectionary shop, Benkyodo, to take over making the cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-861x1200.jpg 861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benkyodo on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suyeichi Okamura opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com/\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in 1906 and after a few moves, it’s located today at Sutter and Buchanan in San Francisco’s Japantown. His grandson, Gary T. Ono, is the family’s historian and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2007/10/31/fortune-cookie/\">written articles\u003c/a> about his family’s connection to the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-160x245.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1020x1564.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-783x1200.jpg 783w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1920x2944.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono’s grandfather, Suyeichi Okamura, opened Benkyodo in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to visit Ono in Los Angeles, in his apartment in Little Tokyo. A giant foam fortune cookie hangs in the living room, and the fortune poking out of it reads: “Made In Japan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ono drags out a heavy suitcase from a closet and pulls out several kata wrapped in newspaper. They sport the familiar initials: MH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a service person to Makoto Hagiwara,” Ono says. “And advised Hagiwara in converting the taste (of the fortune cookie) to something more palatable to American tastes. So they came up with a vanilla extract flavor that we know today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 203px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flat-iron press, called a kata, was originally used to make fortune cookies for the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. The initials MH stand for creator Makoto Hagiwara. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says Benkyodo helped develop a machine to mass produce the cookies for the garden, sometime around 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono holds two kata from his grandfather’s bakery, Benkyodo. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ono isn’t the only one to make family claims to the origins of the fortune cookie: A few Chinese companies have also claimed the invention, as has another Japanese sweet-maker in Los Angeles called \u003ca href=\"http://www.fugetsu-do.com/history.htm\">Fugetsu-Do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Kito owns Fugetsu-Do, just down the street from Gary Ono in Los Angeles. Brian’s grandfather opened Fugetsu-Do in 1903, three years before Benkyodo opened in San Francisco. And Gary says Brian heard similar stories about his grandfather creating the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were never confrontational about it or argumentative. We didn’t know precisely that our grandparents did this or did that,” Ono says. “[Brian] even said, ‘Well, if it wasn’t my grandfather, I hope it’s your grandfather.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Jhmz2Al_pjA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Jennifer 8. Lee says you can probably trace the history of fortune cookies in America back to L.A. and San Francisco. But as a concept, they go back to Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Japan they’re called tsujiura senbei or bell crackers,” says Lee, who traced the history of the American fortune cookie in her book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures In the World of Chinese Food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee writes about Yasuko Nakamachi, a Japanese researcher whom she met through Gary Ono. Nakamachi was investigating the connection between the fortune cookies she saw in New York with a cracker made in Kyoto. She unearthed a copy of a woodblock print from 1878 of a Japanese man grilling fortune cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 515px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg 515w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Japanese woodblock print showing fortune cookies being grilled dates back to 1878. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy; Gary Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Around the shrine in downtown Kyoto, there are actually a bunch of families that still make ‘fortune cookies’ in the Japanese tradition,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they’re actually bigger and browner. They’re made with miso paste and sesame, so much nuttier than the American versions, which tend to be yellow and buttery, reflecting the American palate,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cookies also have fortunes, but not inside. Instead they’re pinched in the fold. They look almost exactly the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how did this American adaptation of a Japanese cracker become so associated with Chinese restaurants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Japanese first came to the U.S., a lot of them actually ran Chinese restaurants, because back in the 1910s and 1920s Americans were not eating sushi,” says Lee. “You had Japanese opening Chinese restaurants because that was familiar, with chop suey and chow mein and egg fu yung.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='golden-state-plate' label='More stories from the Golden State Plate series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this mix of Japanese families opening Chinese restaurants, they began serving fortune cookies as a form of dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back then, they were not called fortune cookies, they were called fortune tea cakes, which is actually a better reflection of their name in Japanese,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakeries like Benkyodo and Fugetso-Do manufactured fortune cookies for decades until 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering people of Japanese descent into internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortune cookie makers were among those interned. During World War II, Chinese restaurants surged in popularity and began manufacturing cookies “en masse,” Lee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that the Japanese invented them, the Chinese popularized them, but the Americans ultimately consume them,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family was lucky. After being released from the camps, they resumed their business in San Francisco and reclaimed their property. But others weren’t: Many Japanese confectionaries stopped making the cookies after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family connection to the fortune cookie lives on at the \u003ca href=\"https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2010/07/origins-of-a-fortune-cookie.html\">Smithsonian\u003c/a>‘s National Museum of American History, where three of Benkyodo’s katas now reside.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742907 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the fortune cookies served at the Japanese Tea Garden? They now come from \u003ca href=\"http://www.meemeebakery.com/\">Mee Mee Bakery\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What comes with the check at almost every Chinese restaurant? Fortune cookies. Like orange slices after a blood draw or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731290/how-bill-grahams-nazi-escape-might-explain-his-fillmore-apples\">apples at San Francisco’s Fillmore\u003c/a>, they’re a given. But how did they come to be? Are they really Chinese? And if so, why do they serve them at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.japaneseteagardensf.com/\">Japanese Tea Garden\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11742906\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea cookies and green tea served at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a chilly morning, I meet Steven Pitsenbarger at the front gate of the Tea Garden. He’s a gardener here and a bit of a historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people put the Japanese Tea Garden in the same box as Alcatraz or Fisherman’s Wharf,” Pitsenbarger says. “But we are really a gem that’s for San Francisco — just as much as it’s for the tourists.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nHe tells me the garden was originally an exhibit in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.outsidelands.org/1894_midwinter_fair.php\"> California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, \u003c/a>then tended by a landscape architect named Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an early immigrant from Japan,” says Pitsenbarger. “He came a decade before most Japanese immigrants came. A lot of folks came in the late 1880s and 1890s. But he came in 1878.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagiwara started serving visitors fortune cookies along with green tea in the garden’s tea house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11743019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924.\" width=\"324\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1020x1337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-915x1200.jpg 915w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1920x2517.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The story that I understand is he took a Japanese cookie, senbei, and he got the idea to put a little note in it, and originally started making the cookies by hand here with just a little flat press,” says Pitsenbarger. “They would fold the cookies while they were still fresh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t see anything that marked this historical culinary invention until we went to the gift shop. Mounted to the top of a display case are two small black iron presses with long, thin handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re called kata, and are used to make senbei or Japanese crackers. Inside they’re engraved with an H and an M — inverted they would appear on the cookies as MH for \u003ca href=\"https://hanascape.com/japanese-tea-garden\">Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you came to the garden while he was managing it, everything had his name on it. Napkins would say M. Hagiwara. There would be pots in the garden with M. Hagiwara … tea pots, tea cups. His name was everywhere, and the fortune cookie is one of those things that helped to spread his popularity,” Pitsenbarger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And make the cookies popular, too. But since each fortune cookie was being made by hand, demand became too much for the Hagiwara family. Makoto asked a local confectionary shop, Benkyodo, to take over making the cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-861x1200.jpg 861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benkyodo on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suyeichi Okamura opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com/\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in 1906 and after a few moves, it’s located today at Sutter and Buchanan in San Francisco’s Japantown. His grandson, Gary T. Ono, is the family’s historian and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2007/10/31/fortune-cookie/\">written articles\u003c/a> about his family’s connection to the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-160x245.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1020x1564.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-783x1200.jpg 783w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1920x2944.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono’s grandfather, Suyeichi Okamura, opened Benkyodo in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to visit Ono in Los Angeles, in his apartment in Little Tokyo. A giant foam fortune cookie hangs in the living room, and the fortune poking out of it reads: “Made In Japan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ono drags out a heavy suitcase from a closet and pulls out several kata wrapped in newspaper. They sport the familiar initials: MH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a service person to Makoto Hagiwara,” Ono says. “And advised Hagiwara in converting the taste (of the fortune cookie) to something more palatable to American tastes. So they came up with a vanilla extract flavor that we know today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 203px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flat-iron press, called a kata, was originally used to make fortune cookies for the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. The initials MH stand for creator Makoto Hagiwara. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says Benkyodo helped develop a machine to mass produce the cookies for the garden, sometime around 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. 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We didn’t know precisely that our grandparents did this or did that,” Ono says. “[Brian] even said, ‘Well, if it wasn’t my grandfather, I hope it’s your grandfather.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jhmz2Al_pjA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jhmz2Al_pjA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Author Jennifer 8. Lee says you can probably trace the history of fortune cookies in America back to L.A. and San Francisco. But as a concept, they go back to Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Japan they’re called tsujiura senbei or bell crackers,” says Lee, who traced the history of the American fortune cookie in her book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures In the World of Chinese Food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee writes about Yasuko Nakamachi, a Japanese researcher whom she met through Gary Ono. Nakamachi was investigating the connection between the fortune cookies she saw in New York with a cracker made in Kyoto. She unearthed a copy of a woodblock print from 1878 of a Japanese man grilling fortune cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 515px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg 515w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Japanese woodblock print showing fortune cookies being grilled dates back to 1878. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy; Gary Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Around the shrine in downtown Kyoto, there are actually a bunch of families that still make ‘fortune cookies’ in the Japanese tradition,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they’re actually bigger and browner. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this mix of Japanese families opening Chinese restaurants, they began serving fortune cookies as a form of dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back then, they were not called fortune cookies, they were called fortune tea cakes, which is actually a better reflection of their name in Japanese,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakeries like Benkyodo and Fugetso-Do manufactured fortune cookies for decades until 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering people of Japanese descent into internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortune cookie makers were among those interned. During World War II, Chinese restaurants surged in popularity and began manufacturing cookies “en masse,” Lee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that the Japanese invented them, the Chinese popularized them, but the Americans ultimately consume them,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family was lucky. After being released from the camps, they resumed their business in San Francisco and reclaimed their property. But others weren’t: Many Japanese confectionaries stopped making the cookies after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family connection to the fortune cookie lives on at the \u003ca href=\"https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2010/07/origins-of-a-fortune-cookie.html\">Smithsonian\u003c/a>‘s National Museum of American History, where three of Benkyodo’s katas now reside.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742907 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Port Commission on Tuesday gave the city the green light to build a temporary multiservice homeless shelter on a large Embarcadero lot near the Bay Bridge, a move fiercely contested by neighborhood residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='navigation-center' label='Navigation Centers in San Francisco']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/32968?view_id=92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than five hours\u003c/a> of impassioned public comment from supporters and opponents, the four commissioners in attendance voted unanimously to lease the 2.3-acre site to the city for its proposed Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I see today is just the beginning of a journey,” said Commissioner Doreen Woo Ho, stressing that proper execution of the project would be critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reminded concerned residents that the lease is temporary, and that the Port still plans to develop the prime piece of real estate — Seawall Lot 330 — for longer-term, more profitable use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here to hopefully demonstrate that if this navigation center works in this kind of neighborhood, in this kind of city, then it will work everywhere in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 200-bed facility will be the city’s largest navigation center, providing a range of round-the-clock supportive housing and rehabilitative services to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s vote caps a succession of heated, sometimes vitriolic community meetings about the project, attended by staunch advocates for and against the plan. The strongest pushback comes from residents of the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, amid concerns that the facility will transform the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden area and reduce property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides came out in force on Tuesday, packing the commission hall and spilling into a boisterous overflow room. Attendees gave hours of often emotional testimony as their supporters hoisted competing orange and pink signs with messages like “Not good for residents; not good for visitors” and “Hate has no place here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the lease now secured, the city plans to break ground on the center this summer, with hopes of opening it in the early fall, although the expected litigation could delay that schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is leasing the Port-owned land for two years \u003ca href=\"https://sfport.com/sites/default/files/Documents/Item%208A%20SWL%20330%204-18_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for nearly $37,000 a month\u003c/a>, and will have the option of renewing for an additional two years if it can demonstrate the center has helped reduced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last community meeting a week ago, city officials tried to appease opponents by promising dedicated police patrols near the center, splitting the original four-year lease half and scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that did little to allay neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even that I personally am against the navigation center at that particular location,” said Judy Lin, who’s lived in South Beach since 2008. “It’s just the fact that the city has not listened to or addressed any of our concerns when it comes to the size of the facility, the length of the lease, the policies with respect to drug use or curfew or any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said the roughly dozen community meetings she’s attended with city officials felt like “talking into a black hole.” A newly formed neighborhood group she’s part of, called Safe Embarcadero for All, intends to sue the city in a last-ditch attempt to stop the project from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have worked together to come up with a solution that helped the homeless and that the neighborhood can support,” she said. “But instead, the mayor is just ramming this down onto the neighborhood without addressing any of the concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for and against the navigation center pack the hearing room on Tuesday, hoisting competing orange and pink signs, as Port commissioners listen to hours of impassioned testimony. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for supporters of the plan, Tuesday’s vote signaled a major step forward in addressing the city’s worsening homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis belongs to all of us equally, no matter what neighborhood you live in,” said Carmen King, who lives next to a homeless shelter in the Tenderloin and insists that safety has never been an issue. “People die sleeping outdoors, and that’s the real issue here today. … All of us are safer when everyone in San Francisco can sleep indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First proposed in early March by Mayor London Breed, controversy over the center erupted weeks later after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to challenge the plan in court. The group has already hired a local land-use attorney who plans to file an appeal under the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to block construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how to address it. And that makes new legislation, introduced earlier this month by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney — which would require a navigation center in each of San Francisco’s 11 districts — all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately I think this is going to be a positive thing for the many people that it serves,” said Haney, who supports the Embarcadero facility, which will be in his district. “And also for the community. I expect in a year or two the people in this community will look around and say there’s actually less people who are living on the streets in this neighborhood because of this navigation center. And they should be proud they had the opportunity to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco opened its first homeless navigation center in 2015 and currently operates six throughout the city. Unlike traditional shelters, the centers allow occupants to bring pets and don’t make them leave in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed navigation center in the Embarcadero is a critical part of Breed’s campaign pledge to open 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='homelessness' label='Coverage of Homelessness in the Bay Area']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the waterfront shelter plan, including some who live in the neighborhood, have accused opponents of being selfish and heartless. But many of the mostly middle-aged residents who stayed for the duration of the hearing insisted they were in full support of more homeless services. They argued, though, that it was irresponsible of the city to open a large shelter in a neighborhood filled with tourists and families, where homelessness is currently not a major issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually was going to give up my time to speak until I was just called a racist, a bigot, a class elitist for not wanting to give up my backyard for drug use, drug sales, mental illness and busing additional homeless into our neighborhood,” said James Dorsch, who lives a stone’s throw from the site. “Yeah, I don’t think a lot of people would want those things in their backyard. That doesn’t make someone a bigot. That doesn’t make someone a racist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/32968?view_id=92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than five hours\u003c/a> of impassioned public comment from supporters and opponents, the four commissioners in attendance voted unanimously to lease the 2.3-acre site to the city for its proposed Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I see today is just the beginning of a journey,” said Commissioner Doreen Woo Ho, stressing that proper execution of the project would be critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reminded concerned residents that the lease is temporary, and that the Port still plans to develop the prime piece of real estate — Seawall Lot 330 — for longer-term, more profitable use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here to hopefully demonstrate that if this navigation center works in this kind of neighborhood, in this kind of city, then it will work everywhere in the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 200-bed facility will be the city’s largest navigation center, providing a range of round-the-clock supportive housing and rehabilitative services to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s vote caps a succession of heated, sometimes vitriolic community meetings about the project, attended by staunch advocates for and against the plan. The strongest pushback comes from residents of the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, amid concerns that the facility will transform the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden area and reduce property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides came out in force on Tuesday, packing the commission hall and spilling into a boisterous overflow room. Attendees gave hours of often emotional testimony as their supporters hoisted competing orange and pink signs with messages like “Not good for residents; not good for visitors” and “Hate has no place here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the lease now secured, the city plans to break ground on the center this summer, with hopes of opening it in the early fall, although the expected litigation could delay that schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is leasing the Port-owned land for two years \u003ca href=\"https://sfport.com/sites/default/files/Documents/Item%208A%20SWL%20330%204-18_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for nearly $37,000 a month\u003c/a>, and will have the option of renewing for an additional two years if it can demonstrate the center has helped reduced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last community meeting a week ago, city officials tried to appease opponents by promising dedicated police patrols near the center, splitting the original four-year lease half and scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that did little to allay neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even that I personally am against the navigation center at that particular location,” said Judy Lin, who’s lived in South Beach since 2008. “It’s just the fact that the city has not listened to or addressed any of our concerns when it comes to the size of the facility, the length of the lease, the policies with respect to drug use or curfew or any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said the roughly dozen community meetings she’s attended with city officials felt like “talking into a black hole.” A newly formed neighborhood group she’s part of, called Safe Embarcadero for All, intends to sue the city in a last-ditch attempt to stop the project from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have worked together to come up with a solution that helped the homeless and that the neighborhood can support,” she said. “But instead, the mayor is just ramming this down onto the neighborhood without addressing any of the concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/NavCenter2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for and against the navigation center pack the hearing room on Tuesday, hoisting competing orange and pink signs, as Port commissioners listen to hours of impassioned testimony. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for supporters of the plan, Tuesday’s vote signaled a major step forward in addressing the city’s worsening homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis belongs to all of us equally, no matter what neighborhood you live in,” said Carmen King, who lives next to a homeless shelter in the Tenderloin and insists that safety has never been an issue. “People die sleeping outdoors, and that’s the real issue here today. … All of us are safer when everyone in San Francisco can sleep indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First proposed in early March by Mayor London Breed, controversy over the center erupted weeks later after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to challenge the plan in court. The group has already hired a local land-use attorney who plans to file an appeal under the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to block construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how to address it. And that makes new legislation, introduced earlier this month by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney — which would require a navigation center in each of San Francisco’s 11 districts — all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately I think this is going to be a positive thing for the many people that it serves,” said Haney, who supports the Embarcadero facility, which will be in his district. “And also for the community. I expect in a year or two the people in this community will look around and say there’s actually less people who are living on the streets in this neighborhood because of this navigation center. And they should be proud they had the opportunity to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco opened its first homeless navigation center in 2015 and currently operates six throughout the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials presented an updated plan at a community meeting Monday night to address concerns about a proposed Embarcadero navigation center for the homeless, an issue that has become a lightning rod among local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11737778' label='More Coverage From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pressing their case for the multiservice homeless shelter, city officials offered a compromise of sorts, in an effort to appease residents from the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, who have ardently opposed the plan. Officials suggested initially scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then gradually ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also proposed incorporating more community feedback into the facility’s design and ensuring committed police patrols in the area to allay concerns about it transforming the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Loitering and encampments are the main problems around other navigation centers,”Jeff Kositsky, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told meeting attendees. “It has been intermittent and has been addressed as quickly as possible. SFPD will provide an extra level of security not available at other centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky stressed that Dogpatch residents have been very happy with the navigation center in their neighborhood and have even asked the city to extend its lease for an additional three years. That detail, though, did little to assuage opponents, who quickly countered that the more industrial Dogpatch neighborhood was innately more conducive to hosting such a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740498 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local resident Bruce Goldetsky asks meeting attendees on April 15, 2019, to raise their hands if they are “still very concerned” about the proposed Embarcadero Navigation center in their neighborhood. 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Because we’re not comfortable with it being built in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the proposal made up the vast majority of the roughly 100 people who attended the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> would be built in the shadow of the Bay Bridge on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot across from Piers 30-32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a similar meeting earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737778/london-breed-booed-at-heated-meeting-on-proposed-embarcadero-homeless-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared unexpectedly and was promptly booed by opponents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although first proposed in early March by Breed, controversy over the center erupted only a few weeks ago after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to potentially challenge the plan in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740473 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the SAFE Embarcadero navigation center community meeting on April 15, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center community meeting on April 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how best to address it. And that makes new legislation, to be introduced Tuesday by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Forget-the-excuses-new-proposal-requires-13760947.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would require\u003c/a> every district in the city that doesn’t currently have a navigation center to open one within 30 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in San Francisco knows that homelessness is a citywide crisis,” he told KQED before Monday’s meeting. “We have a solution — navigation centers — which have been around now for about five years and have shown that they can be effective in helping us solve this challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he supports the proposed Embarcadero facility, which would be located in his district, despite staunch objections from some of his constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Deue, who has been a South Beach resident since 2002, said she was disappointed with both Breed and Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to put his feet down and say no more in District 6 until you get one [navigation center] in every other district,” Deue said. “Because I just feel like he’s placating us in working with the mayor and just saying, ‘Well after this law gets passed then we’ll go to the other districts.’ No, we have to put our foot down now and say equal distribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six navigation centers\u003c/a> but, Haney notes, they’re located in only three city districts, and conspicuously absent in a number of neighborhoods with large homeless populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>The five-member Port Commission is tentatively scheduled to vote at its April 23 meeting on whether to lease the land to the city, even though Haney requested that the decision be postponed to allow more time for community members to discuss the issue further, his staff said. 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Officials suggested initially scaling back the proposed facility to 130 beds, consistent with the size of other navigation centers, and then gradually ramping up to 200 beds over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also proposed incorporating more community feedback into the facility’s design and ensuring committed police patrols in the area to allay concerns about it transforming the tourist-heavy neighborhood into a dirty, crime-ridden place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Loitering and encampments are the main problems around other navigation centers,”Jeff Kositsky, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told meeting attendees. “It has been intermittent and has been addressed as quickly as possible. SFPD will provide an extra level of security not available at other centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky stressed that Dogpatch residents have been very happy with the navigation center in their neighborhood and have even asked the city to extend its lease for an additional three years. That detail, though, did little to assuage opponents, who quickly countered that the more industrial Dogpatch neighborhood was innately more conducive to hosting such a facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740498 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/navigation-center-20190415a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local resident Bruce Goldetsky asks meeting attendees on April 15, 2019, to raise their hands if they are “still very concerned” about the proposed Embarcadero Navigation center in their neighborhood. 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Because we’re not comfortable with it being built in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the proposal made up the vast majority of the roughly 100 people who attended the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Embarcadero \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> would be built in the shadow of the Bay Bridge on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot across from Piers 30-32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a similar meeting earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737778/london-breed-booed-at-heated-meeting-on-proposed-embarcadero-homeless-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared unexpectedly and was promptly booed by opponents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although first proposed in early March by Breed, controversy over the center erupted only a few weeks ago after a group of neighborhood residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started an online fundraiser\u003c/a> to potentially challenge the plan in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in turn, provoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling fundraiser\u003c/a> among supporters of the proposal, one that quickly eclipsed its rival and has now raised more than $175,000, including major contributions from several high-profile tech CEOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11740473 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the SAFE Embarcadero navigation center community meeting on April 15, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36575__M6A0069-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney listens to the grievances of his constituents at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center community meeting on April 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two fundraisers underscore just how divided San Franciscans are on the issue of homelessness and how best to address it. And that makes new legislation, to be introduced Tuesday by San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, all the more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Forget-the-excuses-new-proposal-requires-13760947.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would require\u003c/a> every district in the city that doesn’t currently have a navigation center to open one within 30 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in San Francisco knows that homelessness is a citywide crisis,” he told KQED before Monday’s meeting. “We have a solution — navigation centers — which have been around now for about five years and have shown that they can be effective in helping us solve this challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he supports the proposed Embarcadero facility, which would be located in his district, despite staunch objections from some of his constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Deue, who has been a South Beach resident since 2002, said she was disappointed with both Breed and Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to put his feet down and say no more in District 6 until you get one [navigation center] in every other district,” Deue said. “Because I just feel like he’s placating us in working with the mayor and just saying, ‘Well after this law gets passed then we’ll go to the other districts.’ No, we have to put our foot down now and say equal distribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six navigation centers\u003c/a> but, Haney notes, they’re located in only three city districts, and conspicuously absent in a number of neighborhoods with large homeless populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>The five-member Port Commission is tentatively scheduled to vote at its April 23 meeting on whether to lease the land to the city, even though Haney requested that the decision be postponed to allow more time for community members to discuss the issue further, his staff said. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed made a surprise appearance at a heated community meeting along the city’s Embarcadero Wednesday night, where hundreds of residents had gathered to either support or oppose the city’s plans for a neighborhood multiservice navigation center for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Homelessness Coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing a packed hall at the Delancey Street Foundation, city officials tried to allay concerns about the mayor’s proposal to open the roughly 225-bed navigation center this summer on a nearby public lot on the Embarcadero, emphasizing that it would be a drug-free site with regular police patrols, and that the community would have a say in the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who live near the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> — which would provide both shelter and rehabilitative services to homeless residents, with the aim of finding permanent housing options — say the city is unfairly targeting their district and rapidly trying to push the plan forward without community input. The shelter, they argue, would compromise the health and safety of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s kinda a fairness issue,” said Jan Duffy, who lives and works blocks from the proposed site. “I have the biggest homeless shelter in the city three blocks from me, as well as another navigation center. 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If you don’t want to hear me, then leave,” said Breed, visibly frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry this issue has divided your community,” she added. “My role is to hear all of you today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the project’s opponents continued to interrupt her, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yimbyaction/status/1113640599335260160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouting\u003c/a> “We live here,” Breed made an effort to continue. “What I am trying to do is to address what we know is the biggest challenge we have in this city,” she said. “So on the one hand you can’t be upset about homelessness, and then when I propose a real solution that’s gonna make a difference, then you’re upset about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed eventually handed over the mic and took a seat for the remainder of the meeting. “I can’t continue, but I will stay and listen to the comments,” she said. “The least we could do is show respect for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1200x807.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center would be built on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot near the intersection of Bryant and Beale streets, across the Embarcadero from Piers 30-32. The parcel is owned by the San Francisco Port Commission, which is tentatively scheduled to vote later this month on leasing the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-800x597.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of the proposed project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Port of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The facility is part of Breed’s goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. Breed said she wants to keep the center on the site for four years, but is flexible on the terms of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six other navigation centers\u003c/a> throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed first announced plans for the new navigation center in March, the proposal garnered a flood of attention last week after a group of residents opposing it started an online fundraiser to pay for a potential legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling themselves “Safe Embarcadero for All,” the loose coalition of residents from Rincon Hill, South Beach and other nearby neighborhoods have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised more than $90,000 online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds, the group said on its GoFundMe page, will be used exclusively for legal costs necessary to block construction of the proposed navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern is safety, not just myself, but my family and other people in the community,” said Wallace Lee, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s really an experiment that the city is putting into a densely populated residential area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As supporters of the proposed shelter rallied behind him. a neighborhood resident who lives a few blocks from the proposed navigation site explained to reporters why he opposed it. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by Thursday, as funds continued to pour in, a dueling GoFundMe campaign in support of the center was launched by William Fitzgerald, a San Francisco community activist with a history of supporting local homeless causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fundraiser, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFER Embarcadero for ALL\u003c/a>, eclipsed its rival within 24 hours, and has now raised nearly $165,000, contributed by more than 1,700 people. Among them are several tech giants, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently contributed $25,000, as well as Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce, and Twilio chief Jeff Lawson, who both gave $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds will be donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>, according to Fitzgerald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening.\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling-1200x839.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/SF-Homeless-Center-Embarcadero-Meeting-Yelling.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees shout at Mayor London Breed during the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center informational meeting on Wednesday evening. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wednesday night’s meeting ended with little resolution or agreement, and a follow-up meeting is scheduled for April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of attendees opposed to the facility, like Diem Tran who lives nearby, left early in frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just hurts that the mayor showed up but I don’t feel like our voices were heard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people representing opposing sides sat down to talk about the issue after the meeting ended, in an effort to find some common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My greatest concern is not your feelings,” April Long, the case manager, said to neighborhood resident Jan Duffy. “It’s the lives of the people who are sleeping outside every night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy responded, “That’s reasonable. Just don’t call me a name. Tell me that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing a packed hall at the Delancey Street Foundation, city officials tried to allay concerns about the mayor’s proposal to open the roughly 225-bed navigation center this summer on a nearby public lot on the Embarcadero, emphasizing that it would be a drug-free site with regular police patrols, and that the community would have a say in the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who live near the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/safe-navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFE Navigation Center\u003c/a> — which would provide both shelter and rehabilitative services to homeless residents, with the aim of finding permanent housing options — say the city is unfairly targeting their district and rapidly trying to push the plan forward without community input. The shelter, they argue, would compromise the health and safety of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s kinda a fairness issue,” said Jan Duffy, who lives and works blocks from the proposed site. “I have the biggest homeless shelter in the city three blocks from me, as well as another navigation center. And now, my only outdoor space, which is the Embarcadero, is going to have another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36379__M6A2274-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting attendees, many of whom live or work near the Embarcadero, listened to presentations by city officials about the proposed navigation center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A rival contingent of attendees — many holding signs reading, “Hate has no home here” and “Being homeless doesn’t mean you matter less” — adamantly defended the planned shelter, and accused opponents of being selfish and not caring about the welfare of the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people’s lives are at risk, when people are dying on the streets, and it is a life and death issue, it is very hard for it to not be charged,” said April Long, a case manager who works with formerly homeless families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees in support of the homeless navigation center hold 'Hate Has No Home Here' signs and cheer for San Francisco Mayor London Breed at a community meeting on April 3, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Hate-Has-No-Home-Signs-Homeless.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees in support of the homeless navigation center hold ‘Hate has no home here’ signs and cheer for San Francisco Mayor London Breed at a community meeting on April 3, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tensions came to a head when Breed arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the meeting, and was greeted by boos from members of the contingent opposing the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want me to talk or not? If you don’t want to hear me, then leave,” said Breed, visibly frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry this issue has divided your community,” she added. “My role is to hear all of you today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the project’s opponents continued to interrupt her, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/yimbyaction/status/1113640599335260160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouting\u003c/a> “We live here,” Breed made an effort to continue. “What I am trying to do is to address what we know is the biggest challenge we have in this city,” she said. “So on the one hand you can’t be upset about homelessness, and then when I propose a real solution that’s gonna make a difference, then you’re upset about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed eventually handed over the mic and took a seat for the remainder of the meeting. “I can’t continue, but I will stay and listen to the comments,” she said. “The least we could do is show respect for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11737941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens-1200x807.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/London-Breed-Listens.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed listens to comments after being shouted down at a community meeting on a proposed homeless navigation center in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center would be built on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot near the intersection of Bryant and Beale streets, across the Embarcadero from Piers 30-32. The parcel is owned by the San Francisco Port Commission, which is tentatively scheduled to vote later this month on leasing the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-800x597.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of the proposed project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Port of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The facility is part of Breed’s goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. Breed said she wants to keep the center on the site for four years, but is flexible on the terms of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">currently operates six other navigation centers\u003c/a> throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed first announced plans for the new navigation center in March, the proposal garnered a flood of attention last week after a group of residents opposing it started an online fundraiser to pay for a potential legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling themselves “Safe Embarcadero for All,” the loose coalition of residents from Rincon Hill, South Beach and other nearby neighborhoods have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safe-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised more than $90,000 online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds, the group said on its GoFundMe page, will be used exclusively for legal costs necessary to block construction of the proposed navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern is safety, not just myself, but my family and other people in the community,” said Wallace Lee, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s really an experiment that the city is putting into a densely populated residential area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36390__M6A2376-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As supporters of the proposed shelter rallied behind him. a neighborhood resident who lives a few blocks from the proposed navigation site explained to reporters why he opposed it. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by Thursday, as funds continued to pour in, a dueling GoFundMe campaign in support of the center was launched by William Fitzgerald, a San Francisco community activist with a history of supporting local homeless causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fundraiser, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAFER Embarcadero for ALL\u003c/a>, eclipsed its rival within 24 hours, and has now raised nearly $165,000, contributed by more than 1,700 people. 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The funds, the group said on its GoFundMe page, will be used exclusively for legal costs necessary to block construction of the proposed navigation center, a facility that Breed wants open by the summer to provide shelter and a range of supportive services to the area’s homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern is safety, not just myself, but my family and other people in the community,” said Wallace Lee, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s really an experiment that the city is putting into a densely populated residential area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its campaign page, the group takes issue with what it calls the city’s rushed process to build the shelter without community support and cites serious concerns about how the project could impact safety and health in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is a very real problem that we all need to help solve,” the group wrote on its campaign page. “However, completely removing meaningful community engagement and Board oversight is no way to achieve a lasting solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is raising funds to retain the San Francisco legal firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.zfplaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zacks, Freedman & Patterson\u003c/a>, and is already looking into whether the center’s fast-paced construction plans may be in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act or other development regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said he hopes to avoid legal action, but because of how fast the city is moving, he said his group needs consider its options and prepare for a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/safer-embarcadero-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dueling GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a> in support of the project had already been launched and quickly eclipsed its rival, raising nearly $90,000 by Friday night. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who gave $10,000, is among the more than 1,100 people who have contributed so far. The funds will be donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>, according to William Fitzgerald, who started the fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s proposed facility of roughly 225 beds would be built on the site of Seawall Lot 330, a 2.3-acre parking lot near the intersection of Bryant and Beale streets, across the Embarcadero from Piers 30-32. The parcel is owned by the San Francisco Port Commission, which is tentatively scheduled to vote next month on leasing the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736644\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map.png 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/map-800x597.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of the proposed project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Port of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed initially said it was “incredibly frustrating and disappointing” that some people in the community were so opposed to the project. 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