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So, you’re seeing rents for property both residential and commercial go up dramatically, and it’s been really impossible to this point to secure a location to move into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, Howe estimates thousands of kids ages 13 to 29 have been welcomed at the organization’s drop-in center in a gray, Edwardian-era building at 1696 Haight Street, just a few blocks from Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, they can get a hot meal, a shower, medical treatment and even a clean needle. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She pleaded with the property management company for an extension, and even offered to pay more rent, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager, Paul Gaetano, said the Homeless Youth Alliance has been a great tenant, and always paid rent on time, but the building needs to be retrofitted and remodeled and it would be “easier for everyone if they vacate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Homeless Youth Alliance could return after the work, Gaetano said the space would be rented to a new commercial tenant, a decision made by the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those owners, Dr. David Smith, is the founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which has a similar mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has long supported our work, and donates, but he’s not the only owner in that partnership. 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She has two dogs and doesn't know how she'll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. "It's gonna be really tragic to see them to," she said. (Sara Bloomgberg/KQED)\" width=\"296\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortcake, 27, has been going to the Homeless Youth Alliance for 10 years. She has two dogs and doesn’t know how she’ll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. “It’s gonna be really tragic to see them go,” she said. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at opportunities where they arise. And so I don’t know. 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Or a bribe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scu.edu/ethics/about/people/directors/business/balassone/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Balassone\u003c/a> directs the business ethics programs at Santa Clara University's\u003ca href=\"http://www.scu.edu/ethics/\" target=\"_blank\"> Markkula Center for Applied Ethics\u003c/a>. I asked him whether the money changing hands is properly classified as a \"bribe\" as opposed to a \"tip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one person's tip can be another person's bribe. But given the way the system works — with many drivers reporting they feel they must pay gratuities to other cab company employees and that there's a quid pro quo involved, Balassone's got an opinion about what we're looking at here.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Either get rid of the law or enforce it. You have laws and don’t enforce them, then people get cynical.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jim Balassone, Santa Clara University ethicist\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It sure appears like a bribe to me, given the views of the cab drivers,” he says. \"A tip comes after the service. There’s no implied reciprocity. I don’t give this to you so [you don't give me] a clunker and I don’t spend half my shift waiting for a repair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balassone says he thinks the amount of cash changing hands also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was a couple of dollars, it’s an acknowledgment that you exist and you help me earn my money and I appreciate it,\" he says. \"If you told me it was $20, given the amount of money involved, that sounds like it’s a pay-to-play.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the ethicist's view. How do things look from inside the industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a combination,\" says Emil Lawrence, a veteran driver who once had a newspaper column called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/A-farewell-to-fares-column-deadlines-and-2627147.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Night Cabbie\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"25192029105fd5d85975922bb7206259\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you feel that you’re not going to get any business from the cab company unless you have to pay them, it’s a bribe,\" he says. \"If you feel that, hey you’re getting business already and you’re tipping them for extra business, then it’s a tip. The problem is in the majority of cases you don’t get anything unless you give them money. I’ve worked for eight or nine cab companies, and every cab company has their own unique situation, but every one of them, I never got my taxi unless I paid an implied tip, which was actually a bribe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver who said he wanted to remain anonymous because he is afraid of repercussions at work, sums up the fine line on this issue: He says he tips the guys in charge of the cabs \"essentially so they'll like me. In principle, it's similar to tipping a waiter/waitress for good service, but the consequences for not tipping may be greater. If I am sick one day and have to ask if they can find another driver to cover my shift, they'll be more likely to do it because they know I'm a regular tipper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, I'd prefer not to tip,\" he says. \"But the dispatchers don't earn much salary so they deserve tips. But at the same time, they also have enormous power over cab drivers since the cab companies give them the power to issue the cabs. It should be plain to see then where the abuse can occur. Cab companies will show good PR manners about this in any interview with the press. They've downplayed it before by saying tipping is simply etiquette and cab culture. But I honestly don't think they really care as long as drivers pay their gates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tip versus bribe discussion glosses over one central point: Whatever you call these payments, they're illegal under a city ordinance, and cab companies are liable for violations. But officials at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency responsible for enforcing the law say they can't prosecute anyone without driver complaints. And drivers, in turn, are reluctant to blow the whistle on the companies because it could threaten their livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balassone says whether the gratuities are tips or bribes, the real question is what's going to be done about the practice. \"If you rationalize it, it doesn’t go away, it doesn’t reach a level of import so that someone thinks they have to do something,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is wrong from an ethical standpoint. One of my thoughts is, 'Enforce the law.' Either get rid of the law or enforce it. You have laws and don’t enforce [them], then people get cynical. I would figure out a way that the cab company would have a huge fine if there was money being taken from the cab drivers. You fine two people 10 grand, you will fix the problem. There has to be a will to do that, follow-up, and some courage.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It comes primarily from snowmelt flowing down the Tuolumne River to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park (which is why \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/24/rim-fire-update/\">potential damage\u003c/a> to the reservoir from the Rim Fire caused so much concern), and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=447\">quality-tested\u003c/a> over 100,000 times a year. Water from the Hetch Hetchy is so pure that the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=634\" target=\"_blank\">require no filtration\u003c/a> of it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It saves money. The sales ban would build on an executive order from 2007, signed by former Mayor Gavin Newsom, that prohibits \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Mayor-to-cut-off-flow-of-city-2585268.php\" target=\"_hplink\">use of city money\u003c/a> to buy bottled water; the initiative cut $500,000 of annual city spending (a 2006 story in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/CITY-PAYS-BIG-FOR-BOTTLED-WATER-S-F-spends-2505825.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> found the city had paid more than $2 million for water, paper cups and dispenser rentals in recent years).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Environmentalists and others have long warned against using bottled water, saying it creates waste and uses excessive natural resources. 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If the ordinance is approved, the city will study how to better supply water at events, and make the installation of water fountains and reusable bottle filling stations a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller municipalities have taken steps to go bottled water-free, but San Francisco would become the first major city to ban bottled water sales, and cement its reputation — if it hasn't already — as the national enviro mecca. 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