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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Yoona Ha\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-building.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, 14 San Francisco technology companies received $1.9 million in tax breaks for setting up shop in the mid-Market Street area. Supporters said it was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Central-Market-Neighborhood-IPO-San-Francisco-Mayor-Ed-Lee-230586501.html\">good investment\u003c/a>, bringing economic development and jobs to an economically depressed strip in the core of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone is certainly coming back to life, and the companies that benefited now employ more than 2,700 workers. But it is less clear that the deal resulted in entry-level jobs for residents of the hardscrabble neighborhood — one of the goals most sought by skeptics of the tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest six of the companies promised a list of community benefits that included an effort to identify qualified job seekers in the Tenderloin and mid-Market area. But the agreements are vaguely worded, the companies have been slow to report their progress to the city, and most were unresponsive to direct questions about employment practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for neighborhood employment say the community benefit agreements — instituted nine months after the April 2011 approval of the tax breaks — lack teeth. The agreements urge companies to forge “meaningful engagement” with the neighborhood by doing things like exploring community training and hiring initiatives, donating computer equipment to schools, encouraging employee tutoring and appointing community liaisons.\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117940 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the City Administrator’s Office requires compliance with only 80 percent of the memorandums’ provisions. While “binding,” the documents call for a “good-faith effort” by companies to follow through on their community obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision asks the companies to “partner” with a program that identifies entry-level jobs for local residents. But signatories — many of whom were late in filing quarterly reports to the city this year — are under no obligation to report whether that resulted in any actual jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a skeptic about the tax breaks, said the loose wording means tech firms got something for nothing. He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. 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He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. The ordinance mandated that an increasing percentage of city residents be hired for city-funded construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, Brightline Defense’s executive director, said the city has been “rolling out a red carpet” for technology companies through special tax treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring programs, he said, should require “job guarantees and a track record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Golden State Warriors)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I could have sworn I just heard someone say, \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors unveiled a new design Tuesday for the team's proposed arena/event center/retail complex on Piers 30-32, just south of the Bay Bridge on the San Francisco waterfront. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/20131112/sf\" target=\"_blank\">a press release\u003c/a>, the team says \"the design incorporates more than a year of feedback from regulatory agencies and citizens\" about the facility, which is now somewhat smaller and not quite as monolithic as earlier designs. The Warriors are taking note of some other feedback on waterfront development, too: last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\" target=\"_blank\">defeat of Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, which if passed would have allowed construction of a big condo project on the Embarcadero just up the street from the Ferry Building. The battle cry of the No on B and C campaign: \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how much more petite — or less wall-like — is the new complex than the old? The original pavilion, a term that the team apparently prefers to \"arena,\" totaled 771,000 gross square feet of event and commercial space; the new design calls from 695,000 square feet. Where the arena was first envisioned as 135 feet high, now it will be 125 feet. When the complex was first proposed, half of the 12.6-acre site was described as open space. Now that's up to 60 percent, 7.6 acres. The design also includes human-friendly features like valet bike parking, a public ramp around the arena, a kayak ramp, and a new public plaza on the Embarcadero at the site's northwest corner. The proposal also calls for a deep-water berth, part of fulfilling use requirements for the waterfront site, and a waterfront fire station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're about building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those changes aside, the Warriors and their allies, including Mayor Ed Lee and a host of business leaders, will still face a nearly certain ballot fight on the waterfront facility. Former Mayor Art Agnos promised as much as soon as the results for Props. B and C were in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Warriors' owners say they're bestowing a gift on the region and criticize Agnos and those who have opposed the arena — mainly neighborhood residents and environmental and waterfront advocates — as \"living in the past.\" Here's co-owner and team CEO Joe Lacob in \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/warriors/2013/11/12/joe-lacob-looks-back-at-first-three-years-as-warriors-owner-looks-ahead-toward-future/\">Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I don’t think most people really want to live in the past. They want to live in a better future. We have to listen to everybody’s view and try to accommodate their views, and we can’t just do what we want to do. We [want] to make it something that for the majority of the people is a better place, a city, a better set of piers. That’s what we’re about: building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also says that the Warriors arena is fundamentally different from the condo project the voters were deciding on when they rejected Props. B and C. In fact, he compares it to arguably \u003cem>the\u003c/em> most iconic of Bay Area landmarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What we’re doing is a much different civic-kind-of goal. Yes, it’s on the waterfront, but we want to create something to be used by so many San Franciscans and Bay Area residents. I hate to equate it to the Golden Gate Bridge, but, in the 1930s, it was thought of negatively. Well, it turns out that it’s a very useful and beautiful thing. People are proud of it, and it represents the city worldwide. I believe this can do the same. There are always going to be naysayers. There are going to be those who don’t want any development. They’d rather let those piers rot or have a new set of taxes levied. We’re going to spend almost $200 million to fix them and set the foundation for this arena. If we put this arena anywhere else, it would cost us $200 million less. This is not economic for us. We’re doing this, because it’s the best location as far as transit, near the new multi-billion TransBay Terminal. We’re fixing something on the pier, which is a great civic gift, frankly. I know some people won’t like the height or this or that, but I wish people would view this practically. It is sitting out on the water. It’s not blocking anybody’s views. We’re creating a 7-acre park for the good of all San Francisco. We’re creating a new San Francisco Fire Department building. That’s not something I wanted to do, but I realize it’s something we need to do to give something back. There is going to be a cruise ship terminal, bike paths, running paths, green areas. ... At the end of the day, I believe that we will have a positive reaction from the city planning department, the mayor, the ex-mayor and the people of the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcb.com/partner/joseph-lacob\" target=\"_blank\">a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist\u003c/a>, told CSN Bay Area that he resents suggestions that he's a wealthy interloper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To be attacked by someone like Art Agnos, who is a voice of the past . . . to say that we are billionaires trying to take over the city is a joke. That's absurd and it's insulting. What is he trying to do for the city? We're trying to do something positive. It is going to be tough. We're going to have to convince him and others – or outvote them – that what we're doing is in the best interest of the majority of San Franciscans and people of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/lacob-hiring-jackson-west-changed-mentality\" target=\"_blank\">the CSN interview\u003c/a> that he recognizes it may take a while to realize his dream of a new arena and that it may never happen at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I guess what I'd say to you is that we have alternatives – I'm not a fool – but we're going to [try] real hard to do this, even though it's more expensive than any other plan by far. It's not even close, and that's just the arena itself, not the surrounding area. 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The Warriors are taking note of some other feedback on waterfront development, too: last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\" target=\"_blank\">defeat of Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, which if passed would have allowed construction of a big condo project on the Embarcadero just up the street from the Ferry Building. The battle cry of the No on B and C campaign: \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how much more petite — or less wall-like — is the new complex than the old? The original pavilion, a term that the team apparently prefers to \"arena,\" totaled 771,000 gross square feet of event and commercial space; the new design calls from 695,000 square feet. Where the arena was first envisioned as 135 feet high, now it will be 125 feet. When the complex was first proposed, half of the 12.6-acre site was described as open space. Now that's up to 60 percent, 7.6 acres. The design also includes human-friendly features like valet bike parking, a public ramp around the arena, a kayak ramp, and a new public plaza on the Embarcadero at the site's northwest corner. The proposal also calls for a deep-water berth, part of fulfilling use requirements for the waterfront site, and a waterfront fire station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're about building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those changes aside, the Warriors and their allies, including Mayor Ed Lee and a host of business leaders, will still face a nearly certain ballot fight on the waterfront facility. Former Mayor Art Agnos promised as much as soon as the results for Props. 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They’d rather let those piers rot or have a new set of taxes levied. We’re going to spend almost $200 million to fix them and set the foundation for this arena. If we put this arena anywhere else, it would cost us $200 million less. This is not economic for us. We’re doing this, because it’s the best location as far as transit, near the new multi-billion TransBay Terminal. We’re fixing something on the pier, which is a great civic gift, frankly. I know some people won’t like the height or this or that, but I wish people would view this practically. It is sitting out on the water. It’s not blocking anybody’s views. We’re creating a 7-acre park for the good of all San Francisco. We’re creating a new San Francisco Fire Department building. That’s not something I wanted to do, but I realize it’s something we need to do to give something back. There is going to be a cruise ship terminal, bike paths, running paths, green areas. ... 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And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. 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It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. 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My eyeball view of the weather — rain? what rain? — seems to be confirmed by weather reports, too. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's hourly report on regional rainfall\u003c/a> shows next to nothing in the way of precipitation: one-hundredth of an inch in Concord is the big dousing of the morning so far. The airports in Oakland and San Francisco have reported a trace of rain — the same as I saw in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)\u003c/a>, an unofficial reporting system of volunteer weather observers, shows a handful of reports of .01 and .02 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, 2013 moves on, the driest calendar year so far for San Francisco (and probably the rest of the region) since 1849, the year weather record-keeping started in the city. Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-on-course-for-driest-year-on-record-4971192.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Fimrite sums up\u003c/a> where we are as of this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>No rain at all fell in San Francisco in October and only 3.95 inches has fallen since Jan. 1, the smallest amount of precipitation to date since record keeping began 164 years ago, according to the National Weather Service....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"It's absolutely dry,\" said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster. \"We just went through October where there was no measurable precipitation in downtown San Francisco. That's only happened seven times since records started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous record dry year was in 1976, when 5.57 inches of rain fell in San Francisco over the 311 days between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7. Meteorologists use San Francisco as a benchmark because it has the longest consecutive rainfall record in the state, going back to 1849-50.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's bone-dry conditions have some water managers preparing to resort to \"cloud-seeding\" in order to sprout more precipitation. KQED's Mina Kim spoke on Tuesday with Jeffrey Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119868729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all is lost for the coming rain year. We're at the very beginning of the rainy season, and as forecaster and local precipitation historian Jan Null points out, two of San Francisco's wettest winters followed completely dry Octobers.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But for now, there's worse to come. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's Bay Area office in Monterey warns\u003c/a> in its current forecast discussion that today's non-rain event is likely to be followed by warm, dry, windy conditions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE WEEK NOW APPEARS TO BE FIRE WEATHER\u003cbr>\nAS A MODERATE NORTHERLY SURFACE GRADIENT WILL COINCIDE WITH A\u003cbr>\nNORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PLUS A SHORTWAVE TROF ROTATING\u003cbr>\nTHROUGH SOME TIME ON FRIDAY. NAM 850 MB SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO\u003cbr>\nEXCEED 40 KT, SO WE COULD EASILY BE LOOKING AT LOCALLY GUSTY\u003cbr>\nWINDS, VERY LOW HUMIDITY VALUES, AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WHICH\u003cbr>\nWOULD ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. WE\u003cbr>\nCOULD EASILY BE LOOKING AT WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH OVER THE\u003cbr>\nNORTH AND EAST BAY HILLS WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. WOULD NOT\u003cbr>\nBE SURPRISED IF A FIRE WEATHER WATCH AND THEN RED FLAG WARNING IS\u003cbr>\nISSUED FOR THE EVENT AS IT GETS CLOSER. THE WINDS MAY CONTINUE INTO AT\u003cbr>\nLEAST PART OF SATURDAY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEXT WEEK IS ALSO SHAPING UP TO BE DRY AS THE RIDGE OUT OVER THE\u003cbr>\nPACIFIC IS EXPECTED TO EFFECTIVELY BLOCK ANY SYSTEMS FROM NEARING\u003cbr>\nOUR COAST. 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My eyeball view of the weather — rain? what rain? — seems to be confirmed by weather reports, too. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's hourly report on regional rainfall\u003c/a> shows next to nothing in the way of precipitation: one-hundredth of an inch in Concord is the big dousing of the morning so far. The airports in Oakland and San Francisco have reported a trace of rain — the same as I saw in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)\u003c/a>, an unofficial reporting system of volunteer weather observers, shows a handful of reports of .01 and .02 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, 2013 moves on, the driest calendar year so far for San Francisco (and probably the rest of the region) since 1849, the year weather record-keeping started in the city. Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-on-course-for-driest-year-on-record-4971192.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Fimrite sums up\u003c/a> where we are as of this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>No rain at all fell in San Francisco in October and only 3.95 inches has fallen since Jan. 1, the smallest amount of precipitation to date since record keeping began 164 years ago, according to the National Weather Service....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"It's absolutely dry,\" said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster. \"We just went through October where there was no measurable precipitation in downtown San Francisco. That's only happened seven times since records started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous record dry year was in 1976, when 5.57 inches of rain fell in San Francisco over the 311 days between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7. Meteorologists use San Francisco as a benchmark because it has the longest consecutive rainfall record in the state, going back to 1849-50.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's bone-dry conditions have some water managers preparing to resort to \"cloud-seeding\" in order to sprout more precipitation. KQED's Mina Kim spoke on Tuesday with Jeffrey Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119868729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all is lost for the coming rain year. We're at the very beginning of the rainy season, and as forecaster and local precipitation historian Jan Null points out, two of San Francisco's wettest winters followed completely dry Octobers.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But for now, there's worse to come. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's Bay Area office in Monterey warns\u003c/a> in its current forecast discussion that today's non-rain event is likely to be followed by warm, dry, windy conditions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE WEEK NOW APPEARS TO BE FIRE WEATHER\u003cbr>\nAS A MODERATE NORTHERLY SURFACE GRADIENT WILL COINCIDE WITH A\u003cbr>\nNORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PLUS A SHORTWAVE TROF ROTATING\u003cbr>\nTHROUGH SOME TIME ON FRIDAY. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/greenpeace/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117792\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117792 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/greenpeace.jpg\" alt=\"Greenpeace members motor out in a small boat to greet the Rainbow Warrior III as it enters a foggy San Francisco Bay on Friday. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greenpeace members motor out to greet the Rainbow Warrior III as it enters San Francisco Bay on Friday. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III is docked in San Francisco for \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/rainbow-warrior-2013-ship-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a week of public events\u003c/a>, including weekend tours, a film screening and environmental education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship crossed under the Golden Gate Bridge on a foggy morning last week, sailing from Vancouver, Washington, on a West Coast tour. Built in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/ships/the-rainbow-warrior/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainbow Warrior III\u003c/a> is technologically more advanced than her predecessors, with a helicopter landing pad, a satellite uplink for transmitting images, and the capacity to carry advanced scientific equipment to support research at sea. The first Rainbow Warrior was bombed in 1985; the second retired two summers ago, after 22 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third incarnation of the iconic ship boasts some new “green” features, including onboard glass recycling, biological treatment of sewage and graywater, and the use of engine heat to warm the cabins and make hot water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in San Francisco, crew members will hold a vigil in support of 30 passengers and crew members from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, along with two journalists, who are currently imprisoned in Russia. Russian authorities \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-dima-greenpeace-20131110-dto,0,5955731.htmlstory#axzz2kMwnoVk9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested them\u003c/a> in September when Greenpeace staged a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/dolphin/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117798\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/dolphin.jpg\" alt=\"Dave the dolphin is the only thing transferred from the second Rainbow Warrior to Rainbow Warrior III. It was rumored to be a time capsule so the crew of the new ship gently cracked it open and found necklaces and the lyrics to a Bob Dylan song encapsulated inside. The current crew then placed their own keepsakes inside, but it's a secret what they are. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave the dolphin is the only thing transferred from the second Rainbow Warrior to Rainbow Warrior III. It was rumored to be a time capsule, so the crew of the new ship gently cracked it open and found necklaces and the lyrics to a Bob Dylan song encapsulated inside. The current crew then placed their own keepsakes inside, but what they are is secret. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/pipes/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117802\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/pipes.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Sodo, the Rainbow Warrior's thrid engineer has been with Greenpeace for years. He stands with the main engine, which has the highest environmental standards (IMO Tier-II) given to engines. They use the main engine when they need to move quickly, into the wind or through a storm. The engine has a system to re-use engine heat to make the ships hot water. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andreas Sodo, the Rainbow Warrior’s third engineer, has been with Greenpeace for years. He stands with the main engine, which has the highest environmental standards (IMO Tier-II) given to engines. They use the main engine when they need to move quickly, into the wind or through a storm. The engine has a system to re-use engine heat to make the ship’s hot water. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/trash/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117806\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/trash.jpg\" alt=\"Myriam Fallon, who goes on some legs of the Rainbow Warrior's trip, shows the room where the garbage is kept while at sea. One of the ship's green technologies is that they have glass recycling on board as well as a trash compactor. They keep the garbage in a refrigerated unit until they reach shore. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myriam Fallon, who goes on some of the Rainbow Warrior’s trips, shows the room where the garbage is kept while at sea. One of the ship’s green technologies is that they have glass recycling on board as well as a trash compactor. They keep the garbage in a refrigerated unit until they reach shore. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/gpship/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117800\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117800\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/gpship.jpg\" alt=\"Myriam Fallon (left) stands with Kat Clark as they explain the advanced pilot house that they have on the new Rainbow Warrior. The ship can be turned by either a tiny steering wheel or a joystick (seen on the console). Although there's generally 16 crew members on board, it only requires two people to operate the ship. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myriam Fallon (left) stands with Kat Clark as they explain the advanced pilot house that they have on the new Rainbow Warrior. The ship can be turned by either a tiny steering wheel or a joystick (seen on the console). Although there are generally 16 crew members on board, it only requires two people to operate the ship. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/rs7502_003-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117973\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117973 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7502_003-scr-e1384302167815.jpg\" alt=\"Crew members sit in the mess, while caterers prepare food in the galley behind. When they first began sailing the Rainbow Warrior III, crew members wondered how they were going to bring aboard the character of the previous ship. Now there are stickers, pen drawings, and crocheted handle covers throughout the new ship. Guitars hang from the ceiling. Letters from the imprisoned Arctic Sunrise crew hang on the wall. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members sit in the mess, while caterers prepare food in the galley behind. When they first began sailing the Rainbow Warrior III, crew members wondered how they were going to bring aboard the character of the previous ship. Now there are stickers, pen drawings, and crocheted handle covers throughout the new ship. Guitars hang from the ceiling. Letters from the imprisoned Arctic Sunrise crew hang on the wall. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/food/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117799\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/food.jpg\" alt=\"Sophiane Benaouda, a local caterer, prepares dinner in the ships galley for a big event they are hosting that night. The Rainbow Warrior caters to an international crew by offering carnivorous, vegetarian and vegan dish for almost every meal served. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophiane Benaouda, a chef from San Francisco’s Hotel Monaco, prepares dinner in the ship’s galley for an evening event. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III is docked in San Francisco for \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/rainbow-warrior-2013-ship-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a week of public events\u003c/a>, including weekend tours, a film screening and environmental education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship crossed under the Golden Gate Bridge on a foggy morning last week, sailing from Vancouver, Washington, on a West Coast tour. Built in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/ships/the-rainbow-warrior/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainbow Warrior III\u003c/a> is technologically more advanced than her predecessors, with a helicopter landing pad, a satellite uplink for transmitting images, and the capacity to carry advanced scientific equipment to support research at sea. The first Rainbow Warrior was bombed in 1985; the second retired two summers ago, after 22 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third incarnation of the iconic ship boasts some new “green” features, including onboard glass recycling, biological treatment of sewage and graywater, and the use of engine heat to warm the cabins and make hot water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in San Francisco, crew members will hold a vigil in support of 30 passengers and crew members from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, along with two journalists, who are currently imprisoned in Russia. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/priced-out/\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>KQED’s series on the Bay Area housing crisis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117654\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction/rs7468_72898270-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117654\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7468_72898270-scr-e1383878709870.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Inner Mission area had the highest number of Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Inner Mission has had the most Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the books since 1986, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=07001-08000&file=7060-7060.7\">Ellis Act\u003c/a> allows California landlords to evict tenants in order to go out of business and remove units from the rental market, usually with the intent of selling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dc7d51e2e6959b724809370455955423″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law prohibits local governments from forcing rental property owners to continue offering their housing for rent. 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The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. 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The chart also shows all for-cause evictions, in which tenants violated rental agreements. The chart (also available in \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger version\u003c/a>) is overlaid with San Francisco median home price rates. Use the drop-down menus to change the variables, and mouse over the bars to see eviction numbers by year.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/embeddable.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s budget analyst issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\">report\u003c/a> on the number of Ellis Act evictions in the city by neighborhood (among other housing displacement issues). The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. It required that landlords who sought to exit the rental market first obtain a permit that could only be issued if a strict set of conditions were met. Among them, landlords were required to prove that the unit in question was not occupied by a person of low or moderate income and to demonstrate that the unit’s removal from the rental market would not adversely affect the city’s housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Nash, a 17-year-old student whose mother had bought him a $260,000 rental property in Santa Monica before the ordinance was adopted, sought to get out of the rental business and demolish the building. He initially applied for a permit to do so, but ended up suing the city to circumvent the process. In \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/nash-v-city-santa-monica-28399\">court documents\u003c/a>, he’s quoted as stating:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one thing I want to do, and that is to evict the group of ingrates inhabiting my units, tear down the building, and hold on to the land until I can sell it at a price which will not mean a ruinous loss on my investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash prevailed in trial court and on appeal. But his case was ultimately dismissed by California’s Supreme Court in 1984, which ruled in \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/nash-v-city-santa-monica-28399\">\u003cem>Nash v. City of Santa Monica\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the burdens imposed on Nash’s rights as a landlord were minimal and that they necessarily served the city’s greater goal in protecting its scarce stock of rental housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, however, the state Legislature stepped in. Responding to the Nash decision, Sen. Jim Ellis, a Republican from San Diego, introduced a bill to prohibit any public entity from “compel[ling] the owners of any residential real property to offer, or continue to offer, accommodations in the property for rent or lease.” The bill, now known as the Ellis Act, was passed and signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=07001-08000&file=7060-7060.7\">Ellis Act\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wehonews.com/z/wehonews/files/1General%20ellis%20overview.pdf\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1813&context=ggulrev&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dellis%20act%20history%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D18%26ved%3D0CGEQFjAHOAo%26url%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.law.ggu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1813%26context%3Dggulrev%26ei%3DHMV6Uuz3L8TTiwKY_ICICg%26usg%3DAFQjCNF1-Mu_fP9gx8xBgQyOKnI4mXY5cg%26sig2%3DiKEYxgWNZZ3C9yncg0tDRA%26bvm%3Dbv.56146854%2Cd.cGE#search=%22ellis%20act%20history%22\">Golden Gate University Law Review\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/nash-v-city-santa-monica-28399\">Stanford Law School: Supreme Court of California Resources\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Matthew Green is editor and chief blogger of KQED’s \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/\">The Lowdown\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a multimedia guide to understanding big news from California and beyond. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There seems to be a lot of negativity about San Francisco floating around recently. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ballooning rents and home prices\u003c/a> to gripes about gentrification … yes, even \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-much-human-shit-on-the-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the poo problem\u003c/a> is getting press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But friends, there’s good news too. Even if we don’t always think San Francisco is the greatest place to live, outsiders still think we’re pretty hip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A listacle out today from \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voactiv\u003c/a> pins San Francisco as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#3 best city to live in if you’re under 35\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gives us the honor? Widely used public transportation, bike-friendly roadways, a high average salary and cheap pot, to name a few. A few factoids that helped propel San Francisco to the top:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#SanFrancisco\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117527\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117527 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-07-at-1.02.54-PM.png\" alt=\"A few of the rankings that helped propel us to number 3. Click for the full graphic. (Voactiv.com)\" width=\"586\" height=\"655\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for the full graphic. (Voactiv.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other hipster-chic cities like Portland, Austin, Seattle and Minneapolis join S.F. in the top 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not until you reach Las Vegas at No. 6 that things get interesting. They have cheap Wi-Fi, lots of young, single people (read: strippers) and cheap cigarettes. Pack your bags!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list does acknowledge that San Francisco’s $4,000-a-month average for a 2-bedroom apartment was among the highest in the country, but apparently that doesn’t hurt us too much. (If you want the cheapest rent, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#LowRent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head to Detroit\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I should add, as a recent East Coast transplant, I’ve seen firsthand how enamored the U.S. remains with San Francisco. When I told friends I was uprooting my life in Baltimore to move across the country, I was met with a wide-eyed look of delight. “I love San Francisco!” everyone would say, “You’re so lucky!” (Then they would tell me they had a cousin in San Diego that they should put me in touch with, to which I would fake a smile and say, “Oh yeah?” Geography, folks. It’s hard.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think? Is San Francisco the place to be if you’re under 35? Why or why not?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>With the rise of what some call the “sharing economy” — or shared access to goods, services, data and talent — many industries are facing disruption. One of those is the taxi industry, where app-based ride-service startups threaten the taxis’ entrenched business model. In the first installment of a three-part series, KQED’s Jon Brooks looks at the shakeout, assessing the risks and benefits to those who sign up as ride-service drivers vs. traditional cab drivers, and uncovers some startling signs of trouble in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n the streets of San Francisco, what might be called the “Mustache War” has begun, pitting the traditional taxi industry against the networked ride services like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft\u003c/a> (of the pink mustache), \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\">Sidecar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\">UberX\u003c/a>. In September, the California Public Utilities Commission approved \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M077/K112/77112285.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">regulations\u003c/a> to oversee the ride-service startups, which allow passengers to hire private drivers through smartphone apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nascent business model has been widely called “ride-sharing,” but the CPUC said that term is a misnomer. The companies are now officially referred to as “Transportation Network Companies,” or TNCs, a term with a much less altruistic ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Mustache Wars' — the conflict between the traditional taxi industry and smartphone-based ride services:\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Part Two: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sidebar:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/can-lyft-uberx-drivers-lose-their-insurance\" target=\"_blank\">Are Ride-Service Drivers at Risk of Losing Their Insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Part Three:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sidebar:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/the-fine-line-between-a-taxi-drivers-tip-and-a-bribe/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fine Line Between a Tip And a Bribe For Those Who Drive S.F. Taxis\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though the TNCs may have lost the connotative battle, they think they’ve won the war. While the new regulations require the companies to run background checks and institute training programs, offer a higher level of insurance and accommodate disabled passengers and low-income neighborhoods, they have also given the companies official legal sanction to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a far cry from a year ago, when the CPUC hit TNCs with cease-and-desist letters and fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If these high-tech ride-for-hire matchmakers are the big winners in the regulatory conflict, the traditional taxi industry sees itself as decidedly on the short end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, while the new services have helped mitigate the notoriously difficult task of finding a cab during peak hours, they have also prompted bitter protests from licensed companies and drivers, who view them as unregulated competition that has taken a big bite out of the taxi market. Before the CPUC issued its proposal in July, \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/30/cab-drivers-hold-noisy-rally-at-san-francisco-city-hall-to-protest-rideshare/\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of protesting drivers circled San Francisco City Hall in their taxis\u003c/a>, honking horns and calling on Mayor Ed Lee, despite his lack of jurisdiction, to kick the companies out of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cab Industry: Personal Vehicles for Hire 'Outrageous'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansu Kim, the owner of San Francisco's DeSoto Cab and a board member of the trade group \u003ca href=\"http://tpac-ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Taxicab Paratransit Association of California\u003c/a>, acknowledges the CPUC’s regulations might go some way in leveling the playing field in terms of competition between the ride services and the tightly regulated cab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says the rules don’t go far enough to stop the bleeding in the taxi business or to protect public safety. TPAC has \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/uber-lyft-sidecar-taxicab-puc.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed\u003c/a> an \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/cpuc-2013/rehearing-application-tpac.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">appeal\u003c/a> with the CPUC over its decision, and Kim says the industry will most likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/uberx-lyft-sidecar-andreessen-horowitz.html?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">sue\u003c/a> over its declining fortunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The cab industry will disappear. There will be no cab industry if this isn’t addressed.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think the industry has no choice but to monetize their losses and take it to the courts,\" he says. \"I’m tightly regulated — what I can charge, the number of vehicles I can put out. They can charge what they want and put out the number of vehicles they want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kim concludes: \"The idea of taking a personal car and acting like a commercial vehicle for hire is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the same service competing for the same customers,\" says Barry Korengold, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcda.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Cab Drivers Association\u003c/a>. But he complains the new companies are allowed to bypass city regulations on the rates they charge, insurance, permit fees and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Newsham, who drove a cab in the city for 28 years and was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers, says what's particularly galling is the low barrier to entry for the newbies compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/services/taxi-industry/become-taxi-driver\" target=\"_blank\">what the city requires cab drivers to go through\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t have to go to cab school, didn’t have to pay for an A-card,\" Newsham says, referring to a cab-specific license that costs about $100 a year. \"They didn’t have to do all the stuff we have to do. ... I worked 20 years to get a medallion and these people walk in there and suddenly they’ve got everything I’ve got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its rule-making, the CPUC rejected arguments charging the TNCs with unfair competition and dismissed warnings the new services will result in a \"race toward the bottom with negative impact on safety and service.\" In fact, the commission said its rules were similar to what the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency already requires of cab operators\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Brad Newsham sees it, regulations or not, the TNCs could finish off the cab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my estimation, it's on the verge of being wiped out,\" he says. And he thinks the Internet's so-called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/\" target=\"_blank\">sharing economy\u003c/a>,\" allowing all sorts of people to transform themselves into instant entrepreneurs by \u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy\" target=\"_blank\">leveraging personal assets like a car or a home\u003c/a>, might put an end to the driving profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maybe the cab driver as an institution is dead,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the only time I heard taxi industry stakeholders describe the ride services as an existential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cab industry will disappear,\" says Barry Korengold of the cab drivers association. \"There will be no cab industry if this isn’t addressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Giving Them the Finger\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides engaging in \u003ca href=\"http://sftaxischool.com/1/post/2013/07/the-end-of-rideshare-trevor-johnson.html\" target=\"_blank\">heated rhetoric\u003c/a>, cab drivers have also taken out their frustrations on their ride-service counterparts in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Lyft drivers I spoke to said cab drivers have given him his \"fair share of the one-finger salute.\" Said another: \"I have never been harassed, but I'll admit, after reading some of the crap fellow drivers go through, I often take my mustache down when I don't have any passengers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117323\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS7192_IMG_9674.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS7192_IMG_9674-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Newsham, a former cab driver of 28 years who was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers. (Courtesy David Kidd)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Newsham, a former cab driver of 28 years who was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers. (Courtesy David Kidd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another driver said that in the course of the four months he's been working for Lyft, there have been maybe five incidents in which cab drivers have taken him on, calling him a \"whore,\" boxing in his vehicle, and taking a picture of his license plate, accompanied by a threat to send it to his insurance company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last tactic — outing ride-service drivers as commercial-vehicle operators to their insurers — is actually an official policy of the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association, says Barry Korengold. \"We're supplying [the insurance companies] with factual evidence,\" he says. “We collect the license plate numbers.\" He says so far, his group has logged 1,300 or 1,400 plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsham, an author who was once \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1124175\" target=\"_blank\">featured on NPR\u003c/a> and comes across as relatively even-tempered, says he couldn't control himself when it came to the pink mustaches. \"I’m not a guy who flips the bird. But the last few months I was driving a cab, every time I saw one ... my hand went up. I just couldn’t stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking to longtime cab drivers like Newsham and Korengold, I thought there might be something other than just financial self-interest involved in their extreme animosity toward ride-service drivers. I suggested to Korengold, who has been driving for 30 years, that he sounded downright \"offended\" by the newcomers, who have set up shop as professional drivers so quickly and with an almost total absence of bureaucratic hassle. He jumped on that word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m \u003cem>totally\u003c/em> offended. It’s disrespectful to the occupation. It’s a dangerous occupation. Not only do you have to worry about unruly passengers, drunk drivers, it’s a backbreaking job. It’s very disrespectful to the people who are doing this for years and it makes a mockery of the occupation, and of the regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cab Industry 'Shot Itself in the Foot' \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the San Francisco taxi community admit the industry's failure to solve well-known problems, like the unavailability of cabs, have given the ride services an opening. \"I think it’s pretty clear that these new services popped up because the taxi industry did not provide service here,\" says Hansu Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gotta say, it’s a good thing for the people of San Francisco that they can get a cab more easily now,\" says Newsham. \"The one good thing about this whole thing that has happened in the past years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I think it’s pretty clear that these new services popped up because the taxi industry did not provide service here.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Addressing that issue in a blog post, KQED Pop's Lizzy Acker wrote about a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/13/behind-the-pink-mustache-is-lyft-good-evil-or-something-else-entirely/\">Lyft ride she took to the airport\u003c/a> in August: \"It’s convenient and personal and I actually got a timely, affordable ride, which no taxi company in SF seemed able to provide for me on a Thursday afternoon for any price.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham criticizes the industry for not figuring out how to offer that kind of easy access to taxis. \"The cab industry here shot itself in the foot,\" he says. \"...It has refused to deploy dispatching innovations. It has refused to keep up with the times and the times have moved right past them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says cab drivers have been asking for something called \"centralized dispatch\" for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiane Hayashi, the SFMTA's director of Taxis and Accessible Services, elaborates: \"I think it was initially raised in the 1980s. They said, 'Geez – wouldn’t it be nice if you could call one number and access every taxi.' The powers that be have resisted that for many years now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi says cab companies don't want to give customers to their competitors. \"To some extent it’s legitimate,\" she says. \"It’s an understandable response from businesses. But unfortunately it’s not serving the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi says the two smartphone apps that now dispatch taxis in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://taximagic.com/en_US\" target=\"_blank\">TaxiMagic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.flywheel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Flywheel\u003c/a>, \"only recently have signed up sufficient numbers of taxis to be really effective.\" She says the SFMTA is \"working as fast as we can\" to expand the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that if we can make all taxis available through the smartphone applications then we will be able to provide the same kind of reliability and easy electronic access that has made Lyft and Sidecar attractive to consumers,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ride-Service Drivers Dig Their Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a taxi has traditionally been a way to supplement an income or earn a living while avoiding the 9-to-5 world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham characterizes those who gravitate to the job as \"people who don’t quite fit in regular mainstream culture. The first thing you notice is you don't have a boss in your presence all the time, someone telling you what to do. That's really attractive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the advent of TNCs, in which drivers can use their own vehicles as opposed to having to own or rent a licensed taxi, the profession is open to all comers. We spoke to seven of them — six from Lyft, one from Sidecar. They \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>were all highly positive about their experiences, citing good money and the freedom to work whenever they want. The Lyft drivers were particularly enthusiastic about what they called \"Power Hours,\" peak times when they get to keep 100 percent of their earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not using the last names of these drivers, for reasons we'll get to in Part 2, when we talk about the uncertainties around insurance for TNC drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6938_Lyft_9oct2013_0024_web-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-114940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6938_Lyft_9oct2013_0024_web-hpf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"James Lee fist bumps Lyft driver Alice before she takes him to work. Lee says he uses Lyft every day and prefers its convenience and reliability to public transportation.(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Lee fist bumps Lyft driver Alice before she takes him to work. Lee says he uses Lyft every day and prefers its convenience and reliability to public transportation.(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Lyft driver, Mike, says he makes an average of $25-$30 per hour on weekdays, $40 on weekends. “It is very lucrative,” he says. Like all the Lyft drivers we spoke to, he had no previous experience transporting customers, but really enjoys the job. “I sit out here for six to eight hours on a shift and I drive around and I talk to people and basically have fun. I learn all the new venues to go to, I hear about restaurants I’ve never tried, I meet all kinds of interesting people. I’m basically talking all night and listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s given well over 1,000 rides since he started driving for Lyft. Any problems? “We rank all our passengers on a scale of one to five based on the experience that we have with them. ... And I’ve never given anyone less than a five.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason Mike might like his clientele so much: He can decline to pick up passengers based on how other drivers have rated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can also bypass passengers that don’t typically tip at a certain percentage of Lyft’s suggested “donation” for each ride. That functionality helps weed out the stiffs, he says. “If you have a passenger out there that never (tips), eventually they’ll request a ride and never get one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice has been driving for Lyft since April. After seeing the company’s ad on Facebook, she filled out an online request for information, got a call and went for an interview. After a background check — “to make sure you’re a normal human being” — she was approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was then given a one-hour orientation, and that was that — she was up and running as a professional driver. (Lyft has recently become more stringent about whom they take on, instituting a mentor system in which experienced drivers assess prospective candidates and make recommendations as to their hire. And per CPUC regulations, all TNCs will have to start training programs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice says she works about 20 hours per week and makes $25-$35 per hour, depending on the time of day she goes out. After 1,200 rides, she’s a big fan of Lyft, her fellow drivers, the passengers — everything. “Lyft is a great, positive community made up of a lot of good-hearted people,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says he's been a Lyft driver since April, and his boyfriend also goes out on calls. He has a full-time job as a teacher and doesn't want to be held down to another commitment, which makes ride-service work attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I have some spare time, I’ll log into the app and get some hours,\" he says. \"I can start driving on a whim.\" Dan reports he makes anywhere from $22 to $35 an hour over the course of a four-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Many Lyft drivers say they make anywhere from $22 to $35 an hour.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jason is 26 and says he's been driving for Lyft for four months. He was unemployed when he saw the company's Facebook ad and signed up. He is pretty much working full time and estimates his earnings at $30-$35 per hour. He loves the job: \"I think it’s really fun, I meet a whole bunch of people and have great conversations every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver, who didn't want us to use even his first name, says he was one of Lyft's first 50 drivers, starting back when the company paid a flat rate of $18 per hour. He makes more than that now, no less than $25 an hour during a slow shift and always more than $30 on the weekend. He has another business, but it's not going well, and Lyft is now his main source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's fiercely pro-Lyft: \"For me, Lyft is a company that’s really good. They take care of their employees and their passengers. It is kind of a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if it bothers him that he works 30 to 40 hours a week but gets no health care, workers' comp or other benefits. (\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/09/lyft_sued_for_unfair_competiti.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2013/08/27/uber-sued-denying-drivers-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Uber\u003c/a> have both been named in lawsuits that allege the companies incorrectly classify workers as independent contractors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping there will be something like that in the future,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Except for workers' comp, cab drivers are in the same boat. When I asked Brad Newsham if taxi drivers get benefits like health care and vacation time, his answer was, \"Ha ha ha ha ha.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A driver for Sidecar, Jeremy, has been on the job since last Christmas. He says he makes an average of $30 an hour, driving 20-25 hours per week. He is also a big fan of this gig. \"I just had my 1,000th ride this year and I love it,\" he says. \"I meet really nice people; most of them are from the tech industry, I believe, from talking to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not surprising that these newbies to the business are excited about their jobs, Newsham says. \"I loved cab driving from the first day, period,\" he said. \"Driving around the world's prettiest city, talking to people. ... Every day, even after 28 years, I saw something new, something that took my breath away. And in the beginning it was more money than I had ever made in my life. I just fell in love with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those TNC drivers who are thinking of permanently strapping on the 'stache, Newsham has a warning: This is the honeymoon period. Driving year in and year out takes its toll. \"I worked a year-and-a-half in an underground mine. That was hard labor. I put cab driving right up there with it.\" Newsham says being wary of \"not killing somebody, not killing yourself,\" while also trying to make enough to pay the rent is extremely stressful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taxi Drivers See Income Decline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last part — paying the rent — explains why taxi drivers are so worried about the TNCs. Because if ride-service drivers express an almost universal sense of happiness about the money they can make, that is coming at the expense of the traditional taxi business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, who's been driving a cab for 11 years, says he currently makes between $20-$35 per hour, but that pay can vary widely from driver to driver. He says one driver he recently spoke to, someone whose English wasn't great, told him that after gas and gate fees, he took home $10 \u003cem>total\u003c/em> over a Saturday and Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han says that, anecdotally at least, $15-$19 per hour is more the norm for taxi drivers now. And that pay rate is going down, according to drivers who say they've taken a sharp financial hit since the surfeit of new vehicles-for-hire has hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Anecdotally at least, $15-$19 per hour is more the norm for taxi drivers now.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ed Healy has been driving a cab for 30 years, and he blogs about the industry and his contempt for the ride services at \u003ca href=\"http://phantomcabdriverphites.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back\u003c/a>. Healy estimates taxi driver earnings are off about 25 percent as a result of all the additional competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says he’s heard that figure from other drivers, too. Hansu Kim, owner of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.desotosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSoto Cab\u003c/a>, puts the drop in all taxi business citywide in the same range — anywhere from 25 to 33 percent in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says the “bandit cabs,” as he calls them, were the final straw in his own decision to quit the business this year. In his best years as a driver, he made $30,000 to $35,000 a year driving 20 to 30 hours a week. By the time he pocketed his last tip, he was making next to nothing — about $5 an hour — which he attributes to all the new competition. That big drop in income prompted him to sell his medallion, the permit that allows cab owners to lease out their vehicles to drivers and companies. The sale netted him $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seems like there was no choice. I had to take that 150K while it was still there,” he says, referring to the declining value of taxi ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Passengers 'Have Sworn Off Cabs Forever'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked some of the ride-service drivers if they felt bad about the financial blow cab drivers have absorbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not really, says Alice. So many of her passengers are using Lyft because they cannot get a taxi to take them to the outer areas of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my passengers say they cannot get a cab ride to the Outer Sunset,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People [tell me] they've gotten kicked out of cabs, the driver says 'No, I'm about to go home so get out of my car,' or they say, 'My tire's flat, I can’t drive that way now.' I’ve heard many, many cab horror stories about how they cannot get a cab. So it's hard for me to feel sympathy for an industry that is still excluding a lot of passengers. Most of Lyft's passengers have sworn off cabs forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117413\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6006_008.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117413\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6006_008-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"TNC drivers say their passengers have sworn off cabs forever. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TNC drivers say their passengers have sworn off cabs forever. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeSoto Cab's Hansu Kim responds that, \"That's happened on occasion, but it's really not that common now.\" The SFMTA's Christiane Hayashi says the agency has adopted regulations requiring dispatch permit holders to meet minimum requirements to \"increase responsiveness to neighborhood dispatch requests,\" and that any company that fails to comply with those standards will be shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft driver Mike says he is sympathetic to cab drivers, but doesn't appreciate all the flak coming his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s some great cab drivers out there that are suffering from this, and I really hope that can come to a better place for them,\" he says. \"And for the drivers that are out there bad-mouthing us, find out the truth. They’re all out there saying we’re all uninsured and this, that and the other, and we’re horrible people and we don’t go through any training. I just tell people to do a little research before you believe everything that you read.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Newsham says that while he understands the appeal of the new services, and that passengers are frustrated with the taxi industry, there is still a real human cost to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/\" target=\"_blank\">dislocation\u003c/a> that is occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody knows who these people are, the cab drivers who are getting the shaft here,\" he says. \"Nobody knows their stories. Nobody knows what they’ve been through. If you’re coming in here and you’re all gaga about your new job, you don’t know whose career you’ve just put a bullet through the head of. You get all caught up in the technology. Technology is hip, technology is cool, tech is the future. (But) what about the people?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanna Drive a Cab? 'Not Even.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked some of our ride-service drivers if they'd ever thought of driving a cab, which would entail a much more involved process than signing up for ride-service work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not even,\" said one, which seemed to sum up the attitude of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, but what about the reverse? If things are so bad in the cab industry, why don't more cab drivers, instead of protesting, make the switch to ride-service gigs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, they are, actually, says DeSoto Cab's Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My biggest concern is the shortage of (cab) drivers. A lot of the drivers are leaving the business. There’s no doubt some drivers have decided to do it on their own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, who drives for Yellow Cab, says he thinks cab companies are having a hard time filling shifts, and that a dispatcher recently told him he could work extra days without having to go through the company's lottery system. Han says he thinks \"a fair share of taxi drivers have moved to Lyft, Sidecar and UberX.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>But some longtime taxi drivers who know the business inside and out think there is a serious risk that the ride-service drivers are overlooking. “I wouldn’t ever drive in one because of the insurance issue,” said Ed Healy. “I actually signed up at (Lyft and Sidecar) ... but I decided not to drive the cars after I read the terms and conditions of the contract, because I wasn’t going to leave my car exposed to an accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'll take a closer look at the insurance issues in Part Two of our series next week.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>With the rise of what some call the “sharing economy” — or shared access to goods, services, data and talent — many industries are facing disruption. One of those is the taxi industry, where app-based ride-service startups threaten the taxis’ entrenched business model. In the first installment of a three-part series, KQED’s Jon Brooks looks at the shakeout, assessing the risks and benefits to those who sign up as ride-service drivers vs. traditional cab drivers, and uncovers some startling signs of trouble in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n the streets of San Francisco, what might be called the “Mustache War” has begun, pitting the traditional taxi industry against the networked ride services like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft\u003c/a> (of the pink mustache), \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\">Sidecar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\">UberX\u003c/a>. In September, the California Public Utilities Commission approved \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M077/K112/77112285.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">regulations\u003c/a> to oversee the ride-service startups, which allow passengers to hire private drivers through smartphone apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nascent business model has been widely called “ride-sharing,” but the CPUC said that term is a misnomer. The companies are now officially referred to as “Transportation Network Companies,” or TNCs, a term with a much less altruistic ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Mustache Wars' — the conflict between the traditional taxi industry and smartphone-based ride services:\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Part Two: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sidebar:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/can-lyft-uberx-drivers-lose-their-insurance\" target=\"_blank\">Are Ride-Service Drivers at Risk of Losing Their Insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Part Three:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sidebar:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/the-fine-line-between-a-taxi-drivers-tip-and-a-bribe/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fine Line Between a Tip And a Bribe For Those Who Drive S.F. Taxis\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though the TNCs may have lost the connotative battle, they think they’ve won the war. While the new regulations require the companies to run background checks and institute training programs, offer a higher level of insurance and accommodate disabled passengers and low-income neighborhoods, they have also given the companies official legal sanction to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a far cry from a year ago, when the CPUC hit TNCs with cease-and-desist letters and fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If these high-tech ride-for-hire matchmakers are the big winners in the regulatory conflict, the traditional taxi industry sees itself as decidedly on the short end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, while the new services have helped mitigate the notoriously difficult task of finding a cab during peak hours, they have also prompted bitter protests from licensed companies and drivers, who view them as unregulated competition that has taken a big bite out of the taxi market. Before the CPUC issued its proposal in July, \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/30/cab-drivers-hold-noisy-rally-at-san-francisco-city-hall-to-protest-rideshare/\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of protesting drivers circled San Francisco City Hall in their taxis\u003c/a>, honking horns and calling on Mayor Ed Lee, despite his lack of jurisdiction, to kick the companies out of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cab Industry: Personal Vehicles for Hire 'Outrageous'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansu Kim, the owner of San Francisco's DeSoto Cab and a board member of the trade group \u003ca href=\"http://tpac-ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Taxicab Paratransit Association of California\u003c/a>, acknowledges the CPUC’s regulations might go some way in leveling the playing field in terms of competition between the ride services and the tightly regulated cab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says the rules don’t go far enough to stop the bleeding in the taxi business or to protect public safety. TPAC has \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/uber-lyft-sidecar-taxicab-puc.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed\u003c/a> an \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/cpuc-2013/rehearing-application-tpac.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">appeal\u003c/a> with the CPUC over its decision, and Kim says the industry will most likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/uberx-lyft-sidecar-andreessen-horowitz.html?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">sue\u003c/a> over its declining fortunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The cab industry will disappear. There will be no cab industry if this isn’t addressed.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think the industry has no choice but to monetize their losses and take it to the courts,\" he says. \"I’m tightly regulated — what I can charge, the number of vehicles I can put out. They can charge what they want and put out the number of vehicles they want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kim concludes: \"The idea of taking a personal car and acting like a commercial vehicle for hire is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the same service competing for the same customers,\" says Barry Korengold, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcda.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Cab Drivers Association\u003c/a>. But he complains the new companies are allowed to bypass city regulations on the rates they charge, insurance, permit fees and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Newsham, who drove a cab in the city for 28 years and was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers, says what's particularly galling is the low barrier to entry for the newbies compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/services/taxi-industry/become-taxi-driver\" target=\"_blank\">what the city requires cab drivers to go through\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t have to go to cab school, didn’t have to pay for an A-card,\" Newsham says, referring to a cab-specific license that costs about $100 a year. \"They didn’t have to do all the stuff we have to do. ... I worked 20 years to get a medallion and these people walk in there and suddenly they’ve got everything I’ve got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its rule-making, the CPUC rejected arguments charging the TNCs with unfair competition and dismissed warnings the new services will result in a \"race toward the bottom with negative impact on safety and service.\" In fact, the commission said its rules were similar to what the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency already requires of cab operators\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Brad Newsham sees it, regulations or not, the TNCs could finish off the cab industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my estimation, it's on the verge of being wiped out,\" he says. And he thinks the Internet's so-called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/\" target=\"_blank\">sharing economy\u003c/a>,\" allowing all sorts of people to transform themselves into instant entrepreneurs by \u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy\" target=\"_blank\">leveraging personal assets like a car or a home\u003c/a>, might put an end to the driving profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maybe the cab driver as an institution is dead,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the only time I heard taxi industry stakeholders describe the ride services as an existential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cab industry will disappear,\" says Barry Korengold of the cab drivers association. \"There will be no cab industry if this isn’t addressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Giving Them the Finger\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides engaging in \u003ca href=\"http://sftaxischool.com/1/post/2013/07/the-end-of-rideshare-trevor-johnson.html\" target=\"_blank\">heated rhetoric\u003c/a>, cab drivers have also taken out their frustrations on their ride-service counterparts in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Lyft drivers I spoke to said cab drivers have given him his \"fair share of the one-finger salute.\" Said another: \"I have never been harassed, but I'll admit, after reading some of the crap fellow drivers go through, I often take my mustache down when I don't have any passengers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117323\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS7192_IMG_9674.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS7192_IMG_9674-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Newsham, a former cab driver of 28 years who was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers. (Courtesy David Kidd)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Newsham, a former cab driver of 28 years who was also a chair of the United Taxicab Workers. (Courtesy David Kidd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another driver said that in the course of the four months he's been working for Lyft, there have been maybe five incidents in which cab drivers have taken him on, calling him a \"whore,\" boxing in his vehicle, and taking a picture of his license plate, accompanied by a threat to send it to his insurance company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last tactic — outing ride-service drivers as commercial-vehicle operators to their insurers — is actually an official policy of the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association, says Barry Korengold. \"We're supplying [the insurance companies] with factual evidence,\" he says. “We collect the license plate numbers.\" He says so far, his group has logged 1,300 or 1,400 plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsham, an author who was once \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1124175\" target=\"_blank\">featured on NPR\u003c/a> and comes across as relatively even-tempered, says he couldn't control himself when it came to the pink mustaches. \"I’m not a guy who flips the bird. But the last few months I was driving a cab, every time I saw one ... my hand went up. I just couldn’t stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking to longtime cab drivers like Newsham and Korengold, I thought there might be something other than just financial self-interest involved in their extreme animosity toward ride-service drivers. I suggested to Korengold, who has been driving for 30 years, that he sounded downright \"offended\" by the newcomers, who have set up shop as professional drivers so quickly and with an almost total absence of bureaucratic hassle. He jumped on that word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m \u003cem>totally\u003c/em> offended. It’s disrespectful to the occupation. It’s a dangerous occupation. Not only do you have to worry about unruly passengers, drunk drivers, it’s a backbreaking job. It’s very disrespectful to the people who are doing this for years and it makes a mockery of the occupation, and of the regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cab Industry 'Shot Itself in the Foot' \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the San Francisco taxi community admit the industry's failure to solve well-known problems, like the unavailability of cabs, have given the ride services an opening. \"I think it’s pretty clear that these new services popped up because the taxi industry did not provide service here,\" says Hansu Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gotta say, it’s a good thing for the people of San Francisco that they can get a cab more easily now,\" says Newsham. \"The one good thing about this whole thing that has happened in the past years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I think it’s pretty clear that these new services popped up because the taxi industry did not provide service here.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Addressing that issue in a blog post, KQED Pop's Lizzy Acker wrote about a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/13/behind-the-pink-mustache-is-lyft-good-evil-or-something-else-entirely/\">Lyft ride she took to the airport\u003c/a> in August: \"It’s convenient and personal and I actually got a timely, affordable ride, which no taxi company in SF seemed able to provide for me on a Thursday afternoon for any price.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham criticizes the industry for not figuring out how to offer that kind of easy access to taxis. \"The cab industry here shot itself in the foot,\" he says. \"...It has refused to deploy dispatching innovations. It has refused to keep up with the times and the times have moved right past them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says cab drivers have been asking for something called \"centralized dispatch\" for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiane Hayashi, the SFMTA's director of Taxis and Accessible Services, elaborates: \"I think it was initially raised in the 1980s. They said, 'Geez – wouldn’t it be nice if you could call one number and access every taxi.' The powers that be have resisted that for many years now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi says cab companies don't want to give customers to their competitors. \"To some extent it’s legitimate,\" she says. \"It’s an understandable response from businesses. But unfortunately it’s not serving the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi says the two smartphone apps that now dispatch taxis in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://taximagic.com/en_US\" target=\"_blank\">TaxiMagic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.flywheel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Flywheel\u003c/a>, \"only recently have signed up sufficient numbers of taxis to be really effective.\" She says the SFMTA is \"working as fast as we can\" to expand the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that if we can make all taxis available through the smartphone applications then we will be able to provide the same kind of reliability and easy electronic access that has made Lyft and Sidecar attractive to consumers,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ride-Service Drivers Dig Their Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a taxi has traditionally been a way to supplement an income or earn a living while avoiding the 9-to-5 world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham characterizes those who gravitate to the job as \"people who don’t quite fit in regular mainstream culture. The first thing you notice is you don't have a boss in your presence all the time, someone telling you what to do. That's really attractive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the advent of TNCs, in which drivers can use their own vehicles as opposed to having to own or rent a licensed taxi, the profession is open to all comers. We spoke to seven of them — six from Lyft, one from Sidecar. They \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>were all highly positive about their experiences, citing good money and the freedom to work whenever they want. The Lyft drivers were particularly enthusiastic about what they called \"Power Hours,\" peak times when they get to keep 100 percent of their earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not using the last names of these drivers, for reasons we'll get to in Part 2, when we talk about the uncertainties around insurance for TNC drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6938_Lyft_9oct2013_0024_web-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-114940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6938_Lyft_9oct2013_0024_web-hpf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"James Lee fist bumps Lyft driver Alice before she takes him to work. Lee says he uses Lyft every day and prefers its convenience and reliability to public transportation.(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Lee fist bumps Lyft driver Alice before she takes him to work. Lee says he uses Lyft every day and prefers its convenience and reliability to public transportation.(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Lyft driver, Mike, says he makes an average of $25-$30 per hour on weekdays, $40 on weekends. “It is very lucrative,” he says. Like all the Lyft drivers we spoke to, he had no previous experience transporting customers, but really enjoys the job. “I sit out here for six to eight hours on a shift and I drive around and I talk to people and basically have fun. I learn all the new venues to go to, I hear about restaurants I’ve never tried, I meet all kinds of interesting people. I’m basically talking all night and listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s given well over 1,000 rides since he started driving for Lyft. Any problems? “We rank all our passengers on a scale of one to five based on the experience that we have with them. ... And I’ve never given anyone less than a five.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason Mike might like his clientele so much: He can decline to pick up passengers based on how other drivers have rated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can also bypass passengers that don’t typically tip at a certain percentage of Lyft’s suggested “donation” for each ride. That functionality helps weed out the stiffs, he says. “If you have a passenger out there that never (tips), eventually they’ll request a ride and never get one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice has been driving for Lyft since April. After seeing the company’s ad on Facebook, she filled out an online request for information, got a call and went for an interview. After a background check — “to make sure you’re a normal human being” — she was approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was then given a one-hour orientation, and that was that — she was up and running as a professional driver. (Lyft has recently become more stringent about whom they take on, instituting a mentor system in which experienced drivers assess prospective candidates and make recommendations as to their hire. And per CPUC regulations, all TNCs will have to start training programs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice says she works about 20 hours per week and makes $25-$35 per hour, depending on the time of day she goes out. After 1,200 rides, she’s a big fan of Lyft, her fellow drivers, the passengers — everything. “Lyft is a great, positive community made up of a lot of good-hearted people,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says he's been a Lyft driver since April, and his boyfriend also goes out on calls. He has a full-time job as a teacher and doesn't want to be held down to another commitment, which makes ride-service work attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I have some spare time, I’ll log into the app and get some hours,\" he says. \"I can start driving on a whim.\" Dan reports he makes anywhere from $22 to $35 an hour over the course of a four-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Many Lyft drivers say they make anywhere from $22 to $35 an hour.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jason is 26 and says he's been driving for Lyft for four months. He was unemployed when he saw the company's Facebook ad and signed up. He is pretty much working full time and estimates his earnings at $30-$35 per hour. He loves the job: \"I think it’s really fun, I meet a whole bunch of people and have great conversations every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver, who didn't want us to use even his first name, says he was one of Lyft's first 50 drivers, starting back when the company paid a flat rate of $18 per hour. He makes more than that now, no less than $25 an hour during a slow shift and always more than $30 on the weekend. He has another business, but it's not going well, and Lyft is now his main source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's fiercely pro-Lyft: \"For me, Lyft is a company that’s really good. They take care of their employees and their passengers. It is kind of a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if it bothers him that he works 30 to 40 hours a week but gets no health care, workers' comp or other benefits. (\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/09/lyft_sued_for_unfair_competiti.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2013/08/27/uber-sued-denying-drivers-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Uber\u003c/a> have both been named in lawsuits that allege the companies incorrectly classify workers as independent contractors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping there will be something like that in the future,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Except for workers' comp, cab drivers are in the same boat. When I asked Brad Newsham if taxi drivers get benefits like health care and vacation time, his answer was, \"Ha ha ha ha ha.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A driver for Sidecar, Jeremy, has been on the job since last Christmas. He says he makes an average of $30 an hour, driving 20-25 hours per week. He is also a big fan of this gig. \"I just had my 1,000th ride this year and I love it,\" he says. \"I meet really nice people; most of them are from the tech industry, I believe, from talking to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not surprising that these newbies to the business are excited about their jobs, Newsham says. \"I loved cab driving from the first day, period,\" he said. \"Driving around the world's prettiest city, talking to people. ... Every day, even after 28 years, I saw something new, something that took my breath away. And in the beginning it was more money than I had ever made in my life. I just fell in love with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those TNC drivers who are thinking of permanently strapping on the 'stache, Newsham has a warning: This is the honeymoon period. Driving year in and year out takes its toll. \"I worked a year-and-a-half in an underground mine. That was hard labor. I put cab driving right up there with it.\" Newsham says being wary of \"not killing somebody, not killing yourself,\" while also trying to make enough to pay the rent is extremely stressful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taxi Drivers See Income Decline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last part — paying the rent — explains why taxi drivers are so worried about the TNCs. Because if ride-service drivers express an almost universal sense of happiness about the money they can make, that is coming at the expense of the traditional taxi business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Han, who's been driving a cab for 11 years, says he currently makes between $20-$35 per hour, but that pay can vary widely from driver to driver. He says one driver he recently spoke to, someone whose English wasn't great, told him that after gas and gate fees, he took home $10 \u003cem>total\u003c/em> over a Saturday and Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han says that, anecdotally at least, $15-$19 per hour is more the norm for taxi drivers now. And that pay rate is going down, according to drivers who say they've taken a sharp financial hit since the surfeit of new vehicles-for-hire has hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Anecdotally at least, $15-$19 per hour is more the norm for taxi drivers now.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ed Healy has been driving a cab for 30 years, and he blogs about the industry and his contempt for the ride services at \u003ca href=\"http://phantomcabdriverphites.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back\u003c/a>. Healy estimates taxi driver earnings are off about 25 percent as a result of all the additional competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says he’s heard that figure from other drivers, too. Hansu Kim, owner of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.desotosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSoto Cab\u003c/a>, puts the drop in all taxi business citywide in the same range — anywhere from 25 to 33 percent in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsham says the “bandit cabs,” as he calls them, were the final straw in his own decision to quit the business this year. In his best years as a driver, he made $30,000 to $35,000 a year driving 20 to 30 hours a week. By the time he pocketed his last tip, he was making next to nothing — about $5 an hour — which he attributes to all the new competition. That big drop in income prompted him to sell his medallion, the permit that allows cab owners to lease out their vehicles to drivers and companies. The sale netted him $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seems like there was no choice. I had to take that 150K while it was still there,” he says, referring to the declining value of taxi ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Passengers 'Have Sworn Off Cabs Forever'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked some of the ride-service drivers if they felt bad about the financial blow cab drivers have absorbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not really, says Alice. So many of her passengers are using Lyft because they cannot get a taxi to take them to the outer areas of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my passengers say they cannot get a cab ride to the Outer Sunset,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People [tell me] they've gotten kicked out of cabs, the driver says 'No, I'm about to go home so get out of my car,' or they say, 'My tire's flat, I can’t drive that way now.' I’ve heard many, many cab horror stories about how they cannot get a cab. So it's hard for me to feel sympathy for an industry that is still excluding a lot of passengers. Most of Lyft's passengers have sworn off cabs forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117413\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6006_008.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117413\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS6006_008-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"TNC drivers say their passengers have sworn off cabs forever. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TNC drivers say their passengers have sworn off cabs forever. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeSoto Cab's Hansu Kim responds that, \"That's happened on occasion, but it's really not that common now.\" The SFMTA's Christiane Hayashi says the agency has adopted regulations requiring dispatch permit holders to meet minimum requirements to \"increase responsiveness to neighborhood dispatch requests,\" and that any company that fails to comply with those standards will be shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft driver Mike says he is sympathetic to cab drivers, but doesn't appreciate all the flak coming his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s some great cab drivers out there that are suffering from this, and I really hope that can come to a better place for them,\" he says. \"And for the drivers that are out there bad-mouthing us, find out the truth. They’re all out there saying we’re all uninsured and this, that and the other, and we’re horrible people and we don’t go through any training. I just tell people to do a little research before you believe everything that you read.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Newsham says that while he understands the appeal of the new services, and that passengers are frustrated with the taxi industry, there is still a real human cost to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/\" target=\"_blank\">dislocation\u003c/a> that is occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody knows who these people are, the cab drivers who are getting the shaft here,\" he says. \"Nobody knows their stories. Nobody knows what they’ve been through. If you’re coming in here and you’re all gaga about your new job, you don’t know whose career you’ve just put a bullet through the head of. You get all caught up in the technology. Technology is hip, technology is cool, tech is the future. (But) what about the people?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanna Drive a Cab? 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"content": "\u003cp>In an election year marked with low voter turnout, voters passed a controversial measure on gun control in Sunnyvale, struck down waterfront development plans in San Francisco and largely said yes to school bonds across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118853084\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick overview of Bay Area election results:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prop. A - Passed - This ensures city retiree health care funds are not used for other budget items.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. B - Rejected - Voters said no to a new luxury housing, retail and recreational development along the waterfront. (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\">More on the defeat of Props. B and C\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. C - Rejected - Voters said no to the Board of Supervisors' decision to allow the 8 Washington development to exceed height limits.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. D - Passed - This non-binding measure urges city lawmakers to work toward reducing prescription drug costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Measure A - Passed - This puts and end to odd-year elections in Sunnyvale, syncing their local elections with the county and state election cycles. Several current elected officials will gain an additional year in office.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Measure B - Passed - Sunnyvale's hotel tax will be increased by 1 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Measure C - Passed - Sunnyvale gun owners must lock up their firearms when not in their possession and report a missing or stolen firearm within 48 hours. In the city, you can’t possess magazines with more than 10 rounds and ammunition sales will be tracked.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>School Measures\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prop. P - Rejected - Voters said no to a $130 million bond measure that would reopen and renovate several schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. R - Passed - Renews existing parcel taxes for Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District for 10years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. S - Passed - Gives Las Lomitas (K-3) in Atherton and La Entrada (4-8) in Menlo Park a $60 million bond for facility improvements.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prop. W - Passed - Voters approved a $23 million bond to rebuild O'Connor Elementary School in Menlo Park.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>City measures\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prop. 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More results can be found on local government websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Contra_Costa/49566/122611/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/DEPTS/RV/ELECTION-INFO/ELECTION-RESULTS\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://vote.sonoma-county.org/CONTENT.ASPX?SID=1009&ID=2456\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov2.org/INDEX.ASPX?PAGE=3979\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://racetracker.shapethefuture.org/SUMMARY_RESULTS.ASPX?ELECTION_ID=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/SANTA_CLARA/49877/121005/WEB01/EN/SUMMARY.HTML\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://%20http//WWW.VOTESCOUNT.COM/NOV13/RESULTS.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Prop. B would have allowed the 8 Washington development to go forward even though the project exceeded the neighborhood's current height limit; the measure lost, with 62 percent voting no and 38 percent voting yes. Prop. C would have affirmed a Board of Supervisors decision to increase the height limit for the project; that proposal was defeated, with 66 percent voting no. Turnout was very light — typical for an off-year election with no mayor's race — with fewer than 25 percent of the city's 440,000 voters casting ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\"We'll have to tell the mayor his legacy is not going to be on our waterfront.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was mayor when the project first began winding its way through the city's approval process seven years ago, both campaigned for the measures and appeared together in a TV ad calling for their passage. The project's backers, led by developer \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificwaterfront.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Waterfront Partners\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2013/06/ballot-measures-dashboard-november-5-2013-election.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent about $1.9 million\u003c/a> to get the measures passed. Opponents, mostly neighborhood residents and environmental groups organized under the banner \"no wall on the waterfront,\" spent about $600,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/11/06/tale-two-parties-was-8-washington-defeat-referendum-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Guardian reports\u003c/a>, opponents of 8 Washington celebrated results as a referendum on Lee's aggressively pro-business policies and his campaign to build a lavish new arena for the Golden State Warriors on the Embarcadero south of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“What started as a referendum on height limits on the waterfront has become a referendum on the mayor and City Hall,” former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin told the large and buoyant crowd, a message repeated again and again tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor Art Agnos also cast the victory over 8 Washington as the people standing up against narrow economic and political interests that want to dictate what gets built on public land on the waterfront, driven by larger concerns about who controls San Francisco and who gets to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the end, this is the beginning and it feels like a movement,” Agnos told the crowd. “We’ll have to tell the mayor that his legacy,” a term Lee has used to describe the Warriors Arena he wants to build on Piers 30-32, \" is not going to be on our waterfront.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Guardian also checked in on the supporters' non-victory gathering, held at a restaurant near the 8 Washington site. Among those in attendance: Tim Colen, executive director of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhac.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Action Coalition\u003c/a> and Jim Lazarus, a longtime executive with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After the first round of results came in, Colen addressed the crowd. \"The returns are coming in and I have to tell you they don’t look good,\" he said. \"It's pretty likely we're not going to prevail tonight.\" Then went on to recognize \"some really magnificent warriors\" in the room, including [Pacific Waterfront Partners' Simon] Snellgrove and Alicia Esterkamp Allbin, a Principal at development firm Pacific Waterfront Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ran a wonderful campaign we can all be proud of,” he added. “It was going to be a wonderful activation for the waterfront. I think what we didn't see coming was how ... it somehow morphed into something much larger and was defined in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The Chamber of Commerce's Jim Lazarus] told the Guardian, \"I'm not optimistic,\" when asked early on in the night what he thought about the outcome. He added, \"I think this project got caught up in a lot of other things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it loses ... There was a lot of I think mistaken concern about the impact.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Election night reaction aside, what impact will Tuesday's vote really have on Lee's arena plan? 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