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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s incoming mayor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, announced the first members of his City Hall lineup on Thursday, leading off with former Giants vice president Staci Slaughter as his chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also named longtime City Hall staffer Matthew Goudeau, who served as a senior adviser on his campaign, as deputy chief of staff. Political strategist Han Zou, who worked on Lurie’s campaign this year as well as earlier campaigns for Assemblymember Matt Haney and Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, will be director of public affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a leadership team with a proven track record of challenging the status quo and delivering meaningful results,” Lurie said in a statement. “They share my commitment to accountability, service, and change, and I’m proud to have them by my side as we tackle San Francisco’s most pressing challenges head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three appointments come just after Lurie on Wednesday announced he plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017698/lurie-unveils-major-shakeup-san-francisco-mayors-office\">change up the governance structure\u003c/a> of the mayor’s office when he officially steps into the role next month. Instead of having the city’s 56 departments report to a single policy director and chief of staff, Lurie plans to bring on four policy directors, along with his chief of staff, who will all report directly to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Another concern was zoo visitors carrying the virus into the indoor bird exhibits on their shoes or clothes, especially if they have birds at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead hawk was found last month, and the zoo closed its aviaries as soon as preliminary results came back positive for avian influenza, Mutlow said. About a week later, he said, further testing confirmed it was the highly pathogenic strain — H5N1 bird flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mutlow said he expects the aviaries to reopen in about a month once bird migration season is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017517 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1020x714.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have sort of less extreme measures when we know there are cases in other parts of the state but not close to us at the time,” he said. “But unfortunately, this is as close as it gets. So we have to take the more drastic measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the heightened bird flu risk, the zoo has been routinely testing for the virus, Mutlow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco joins a handful of zoos around the country to take similar safety measures in recent weeks, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kitv.com/news/honolulu-zoo-taking-precautions-after-second-case-of-bird-flu-confirmed-in-wild-duck/article_40b998b4-ac70-11ef-bda9-9f87f606a85b.html\">the Honolulu Zoo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/bird-flu-woodland-park-zoo\">Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo\u003c/a>, where a rare red-breasted goose died of the disease last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, is highly contagious and deadly for poultry species, with mortality rates of 90% to 100% in chickens, often within 48 hours, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/virus-transmission/avian-in-birds.html\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The H5N1 bird flu virus has also infected an increasing number of cattle across the country, but it has not yet evolved to efficiently spread between humans, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990735/avian-flu-what-to-know-about-h5n1-virus-risks-beyond-the-headlines\">researchers previously told KQED\u003c/a>. 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Parents and the teachers’ union, however, worry about the impact of losing so many veteran teachers in one fell swoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More older, experienced teachers leaving our schools replaced by new, younger, less experienced teachers will result in poorer learning outcomes for our students,” Cindy Chung, whose first-grader attends Starr King Elementary School, said at Tuesday’s meeting. “We’ve already seen high turnover of [paraeducators] and lower-paid staff who have less financial stability, can’t afford to live in SF and have incredibly long commutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ranging from paraeducators to upper management will be eligible for the Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan so long as they have permanent full-time positions, are over 55, and will have worked within SFUSD for a consecutive five years as of June 2025. The district plans to send notification letters with information for employees who qualify beginning Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many positions will be filled with “lower-paid new hires,” whose starting salaries are $18,000 to $30,000 lower, while an estimated 69 positions could be eliminated. Together, SFUSD said, this could save over $30 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013574 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41635_002_KQED_Election_Prop13_02262020_4349-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who agree to the buyout by mid-February will receive a one-time payment equal to 60% of their salary upon their resignation while retaining their retirement benefits. If fewer than 314 employees sign up to participate, though, the offer could be retracted entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators San Francisco, said that although early retirement could be beneficial to some of the union’s members, it will destabilize overall school staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have classrooms right now with students in them who don’t have permanent teachers. They’ve had substitutes since August,” she told KQED. “We feel like that is management and the district’s negligence, and now they’re going to compound that vacancy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early retirement program is one part of the district’s three-pronged fiscal stabilization plan, which it said will help balance its budget and avoid state takeover. That plan was also passed by the board on Tuesday, giving Superintendent Maria Su direction to take any and all steps necessary to present balanced budgets for the next three cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is expected to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011347/sf-schools-wont-close-yet-but-the-city-still-has-questions-about-huge-budget-cuts\">a $113 million budget shortfall\u003c/a> this year and an even larger structural deficit by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott Duchon, a state-appointed adviser who has veto power over SFUSD’s spending, told school board members on Tuesday that the reductions are crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not attended a board meeting where people are not worried about losing their jobs, where the spend budget hasn’t been an issue, where staffing hasn’t been an issue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Duchon has had the ability to veto SFUSD’s spending decisions because its budget report was negative, indicating it will fail to cover its expenses in coming years. This year’s first budget report, presented Tuesday, was negative as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unhealthy for the district,” Duchon said. “It’s unhealthy for your staff. It’s unhealthy for your children, the community, and for you as board members. It detracts from your goals and your ability to focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the buyouts, the fiscal stabilization plan includes a review of all budget expenditures and potential layoffs at the end of the academic year. SFUSD needs to cut more than $113.8 million in expenses next fiscal year and $13 million more in 2026-2027 to get back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and certificated staff will be notified of layoffs by March, and civil staff will find out in mid-May. The district will look at how many people choose to participate in the early retirement program and how much funding SFUSD receives in January’s state budget to determine how many layoffs are necessary, Su said. District staffers have already created a seniority list of employees to share with labor partners ahead of the potential reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Michele Huntoon, SFUSD’s associate superintendent of business services, said staff members will review all expenditures based on a few questions: “Are we using them? Are they meeting our purpose? Is it meeting our needs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duchon said that while the changes will be challenging, SFUSD needs to face the reality of its financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are living in a time of declining enrollment, declining revenue,” he said. “You have used one-time revenues to pay for ongoing staffing, and that has put you in a position of staffing in a way that is richer than what your resources allow you to do. We want to be hopeful, but there may be pain to go through before you get there. And if you don’t go through the pain, the pain will continue on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But other campaigns with big tech money behind them, like efforts to elect a more right-leaning mayor or to unseat progressive Supervisor Connie Chan, fell flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mixed outcomes show the limits of campaign spending in local politics, but political analysts and campaign finance experts say that won’t stop billionaires from trying in San Francisco and, increasingly, in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They realize that they have skin in the game even at the local level, and it behooves them to try and have candidates on these city councils or county board of supervisors that are friendly to their policy views,” said Sean McMorris, who leads the transparency, ethics and accountability program at California Common Cause. “You will see it, I believe, in bigger cities where there are more opportunities for special interests to increase their bottom lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley power players have poured money into local elections for decades. But political analysts and grassroots organizers say tech and cryptocurrency billionaires’ spending went even further this past election cycle, which brought in more than $62 million in total donations. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie raised about $16 million — about half of which was self-funded — making his campaign the most expensive in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, an early donor for Mayor London Breed who co-founded the cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs, donated more than $1 million to San Francisco races this year, largely into a PAC supporting the mayor created by the Abundance Network, a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) political organizing group. Started in San Francisco in 2022, the Abundance Network has expanded to Oakland, Santa Monica and has plans to grow into New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed lost her bid for a second term to philanthropist Daniel Lurie, but Larsen’s investments paid off in the local supervisor race for District 5, where he donated $50,000 to a PAC started by GrowSF, another moderate political organizing group working to unseat the board’s sole Democratic Socialist, Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was absolutely clear was the huge amount of spending in our race by tech millionaires and billionaires against progressive candidates. That was certainly the case in District 5,” Preston told KQED. “It was much more of just a negative attack disinformation campaign on me rather than propping up a different candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political watchdogs digesting this year’s election are seeing similar efforts across the Bay and nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak helped the Abundance Network raise nearly $500,000 to back a moderate slate of candidates for city council in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a Super PAC backed by crypto industry leaders spent nearly $10 million on ads against Katie Porter’s run for Senate. The progressive candidate lost to fellow Democrat Adam Schiff in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1 million into the presidential election this year, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence\">Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. While most came from Elon Musk supporting Donald Trump, players like Larsen, who donated about $13 million to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, also made a significant contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ripple and Coinbase specifically are two cryptocurrency companies spending on the local level and people connected to them directly are pushing big money behind local politics,” said Jeremy Mack, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/\">Phoenix Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit tracking money and influence in San Francisco politics. “Those two companies also ended up becoming the two biggest backers of nationwide cryptocurrency PACs that spent huge on elections across the country, largely both to unseat progressives and get the Republicans elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Abundance Network and GrowSF are just a few of the political organizing groups that have sprung up in San Francisco since the pandemic, tapping into some residents’ frustration over the city’s struggles with homelessness, a drug overdose crisis and crime. Others included TogetherSF, backed by tech billionaire Michael Moritz, and Stop Crime SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2024 election cycle, tech leaders like Garry Tan, CEO of Y-Combinator and a board member of GrowSF, got directly involved with local political action and messaging. Tan became a prominent critic of Preston on social media, along with Musk, who notably called for the supervisor to be \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709236386841170389?s=20\">“thrown in prison” on social media platform X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech money alone didn’t sway voters. Nancy Tung, who was elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party this spring as part of the board’s shift to a moderate-majority, points to how Supervisor Chan held her seat with big donations from organized labor, defeating efforts from GrowSF and TogetherSF to replace Chan with a moderate Democrat, Marjan Philhour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is big money on both sides,” Tung told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017320/s-f-democratic-partys-nancy-tung-on-steering-the-party-toward-the-middle\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “The misconception is that there is money being spent only on one side. 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Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie raised about $16 million — about half of which was self-funded — making his campaign the most expensive in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, an early donor for Mayor London Breed who co-founded the cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs, donated more than $1 million to San Francisco races this year, largely into a PAC supporting the mayor created by the Abundance Network, a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) political organizing group. Started in San Francisco in 2022, the Abundance Network has expanded to Oakland, Santa Monica and has plans to grow into New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed lost her bid for a second term to philanthropist Daniel Lurie, but Larsen’s investments paid off in the local supervisor race for District 5, where he donated $50,000 to a PAC started by GrowSF, another moderate political organizing group working to unseat the board’s sole Democratic Socialist, Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was absolutely clear was the huge amount of spending in our race by tech millionaires and billionaires against progressive candidates. That was certainly the case in District 5,” Preston told KQED. “It was much more of just a negative attack disinformation campaign on me rather than propping up a different candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political watchdogs digesting this year’s election are seeing similar efforts across the Bay and nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak helped the Abundance Network raise nearly $500,000 to back a moderate slate of candidates for city council in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a Super PAC backed by crypto industry leaders spent nearly $10 million on ads against Katie Porter’s run for Senate. The progressive candidate lost to fellow Democrat Adam Schiff in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1 million into the presidential election this year, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence\">Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. While most came from Elon Musk supporting Donald Trump, players like Larsen, who donated about $13 million to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, also made a significant contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ripple and Coinbase specifically are two cryptocurrency companies spending on the local level and people connected to them directly are pushing big money behind local politics,” said Jeremy Mack, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/\">Phoenix Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit tracking money and influence in San Francisco politics. “Those two companies also ended up becoming the two biggest backers of nationwide cryptocurrency PACs that spent huge on elections across the country, largely both to unseat progressives and get the Republicans elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Abundance Network and GrowSF are just a few of the political organizing groups that have sprung up in San Francisco since the pandemic, tapping into some residents’ frustration over the city’s struggles with homelessness, a drug overdose crisis and crime. Others included TogetherSF, backed by tech billionaire Michael Moritz, and Stop Crime SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2024 election cycle, tech leaders like Garry Tan, CEO of Y-Combinator and a board member of GrowSF, got directly involved with local political action and messaging. Tan became a prominent critic of Preston on social media, along with Musk, who notably called for the supervisor to be \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709236386841170389?s=20\">“thrown in prison” on social media platform X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech money alone didn’t sway voters. Nancy Tung, who was elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party this spring as part of the board’s shift to a moderate-majority, points to how Supervisor Chan held her seat with big donations from organized labor, defeating efforts from GrowSF and TogetherSF to replace Chan with a moderate Democrat, Marjan Philhour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is big money on both sides,” Tung told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017320/s-f-democratic-partys-nancy-tung-on-steering-the-party-toward-the-middle\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “The misconception is that there is money being spent only on one side. Really what it is, is that voters decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Bilal Mahmood, who unseated Preston, said the outcome came down to messaging and voters wanting change.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outside the Hilton\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> Union Square, life at the picket line has become routine for workers like Evelyn Luarca. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\">For over two months\u003c/a>, the banquet waitress has volunteered to cook and serve meals to fellow strikers chanting and banging loud drums in front of the city’s largest hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old prepares eggs or pancakes at 5:30 a.m. under a tent every weekday. Then comes a lunch shift that won’t end until after 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t staying busy like this, I’d be a lot more stressed out, just thinking,” said Luarca, as she dished out frijoles charros\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a steamy bean and meat soup, to coworkers on a recent day. “This is the longest I’ve ever been on strike. The bosses want to break us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout, which began Sept. 22, has grown to include 2,500 housekeepers, bellhops, bartenders and other workers at six downtown hotels operated by some of the industry’s largest brands. An additional 1,600 hotel workers in the city could join the strike, according to the union Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demands include wage increases and keeping health care costs down, similar to what thousands of Unite Here members in Honolulu, San Diego and other cities recently achieved in new contracts after walking off the job. However, the labor standoff in San Francisco is expected to continue as a post-pandemic tourism slump complicates reaching a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tourism industry relies heavily on convention business, which is set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/media/press-release/san-francisco%E2%80%99s-convention-business-to-rebound-2025-group-hotel-room-nights\">increase next year\u003c/a>. But unlike Honolulu, San Diego and other cities that have largely rebounded, hotel occupancy and revenue in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/Status%20of%20the%20San%20Francisco%20Economy%20November%202024.pdf\">remained significantly lower\u003c/a> than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue that fiscal year but just \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/CCSF%20ACFR%20FY2024%20(Final%20-%20Upload)_0.pdf\">$283 million\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2023-2024. Lingering perceptions of homelessness and crime on city streets are still discouraging more conferences and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sherwyn, who directs the Center for Innovative Hospitality, Labor and Employment Relations at Cornell University, said the union’s proposal to raise labor costs is tough to advance at a time when the real estate investor groups that own those hotels are seeing lower sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees are saying, ‘Hey look, I need a big increase because I need to keep up with inflation.’ The owners are saying, ‘Look, this building, this business is not doing well. And we’re not in a position to give raises out of the revenue,’” Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most walkouts are short because they are difficult to sustain as workers forego their paychecks. Unite Here offers a weekly strike stipend, but it’s a fraction of what employees like Luarca normally earn. She has cut all non-essential purchases, including Christmas presents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is a very big effort, but it is for a just cause and a long-term benefit,” said Luarca, who has worked at the Hilton Union Square for nearly 30 years. “I’m prepared to fight for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A union worker drums on a bucket as she pickets outside of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Sept. 3, 2024, in San Francisco, California. For the second time this month, 1,500 Unite Here Local 2 hotel workers from the Grand Hyatt, Hilton, and Westin St. Francis in Union Square have walked off the job, protesting pay and understaffing. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both parties have dug their heels in, waiting for the other to budge on issues such as health insurance costs, which have risen faster than wages and become a major flashpoint for strikes, said Rebecca Givan, who teaches labor and employment relations at Rutgers University. Union and hotel negotiators have not met in weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employers are gambling that if they stay out long enough, the workers will sort of lose hope and won’t be able to afford to stay out any longer,” Givan said. “It’s really a war of attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott, the employers that operate the hotels, rebuffed a union offer to accept modest wage increases in exchange for a share of profits if sales recovered in coming years, said Anand Singh, Unite Here Local 2’s chief negotiator. Conversely, the union rejected a proposal that would make health care more expensive for employees, especially new hires, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016316 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230822-SFSU-45-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have the resources to deliver on a fair contract,” Singh said. “This is really about their attempt to roll back the standard for working people in the city and permanently reduce their labor costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh believes that the 1,900-room Hilton Union Square, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/11/18/hilton-parc-55-hotel-unionsquare-eastdil-buy-offer.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search\">up for sale\u003c/a> along with the nearby Parc 55, is not a bellwether for the city’s hotel industry. The two hotels’ last owner, Park Hotels & Resorts, refused to pay related loan debt as the buildings’ value plunged by $1 billion since 2016. Meanwhile, the Hilton has seen many cancellations due to the strike, contributing to a multimillion operating loss, according to a bondholders’ report on the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton and Marriott did not respond to requests for comment, though they have stated they are committed to negotiating a fair contract and serving guests through the disruptions. A Hyatt spokesperson declined to comment on any economic impacts of the strike but said the company is offering competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety and security of guests remains a top priority, and we have contingency plans in place to minimize the impact on hotel operations related to strike activity,” Michael D’Angelo, Hyatt’s head of labor relations in the Americas, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has asked visitors not to eat, sleep or meet at the sites with strikes, including the Palace, Grand Hyatt, Marriott Union Square, Marriott Marquee and Westin St. Francis. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.itfglobal.org/en/news/lufthansa-airlines-pulls-crew-striking-us-hotel-in-victory-international-solidarity\">Lufthansa Airlines\u003c/a> and a conference by the \u003ca href=\"https://am.aals.org/hotel/\">Association of American Law Schools\u003c/a> have pulled their business from the Hilton Union Square. Some economists participating in another conference scheduled for January are urging the expected 13,000 participants to \u003ca href=\"https://aaronsojourner.org/hotel-workers-strike-and-the-2025-assa-annual-meeting/\">cancel their reservations\u003c/a> at hotels with labor unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here believes mounting economic losses will pressure the companies to reach a deal, as guests don’t like to encounter picketers banging on drums all day, and the brands’ reputation can suffer. But that remains to be seen, Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are the owners going to increase their labor costs when business is so low, or are they going to say, ‘You know what, it’s not worth it, I’ll give [the hotel] back to the bank’?” Sherwyn said. “To say that five years ago would be theoretical puffery nonsense, but not anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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However, the labor standoff in San Francisco is expected to continue as a post-pandemic tourism slump complicates reaching a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tourism industry relies heavily on convention business, which is set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/media/press-release/san-francisco%E2%80%99s-convention-business-to-rebound-2025-group-hotel-room-nights\">increase next year\u003c/a>. But unlike Honolulu, San Diego and other cities that have largely rebounded, hotel occupancy and revenue in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/Status%20of%20the%20San%20Francisco%20Economy%20November%202024.pdf\">remained significantly lower\u003c/a> than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue that fiscal year but just \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/CCSF%20ACFR%20FY2024%20(Final%20-%20Upload)_0.pdf\">$283 million\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2023-2024. Lingering perceptions of homelessness and crime on city streets are still discouraging more conferences and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sherwyn, who directs the Center for Innovative Hospitality, Labor and Employment Relations at Cornell University, said the union’s proposal to raise labor costs is tough to advance at a time when the real estate investor groups that own those hotels are seeing lower sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees are saying, ‘Hey look, I need a big increase because I need to keep up with inflation.’ The owners are saying, ‘Look, this building, this business is not doing well. And we’re not in a position to give raises out of the revenue,’” Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most walkouts are short because they are difficult to sustain as workers forego their paychecks. Unite Here offers a weekly strike stipend, but it’s a fraction of what employees like Luarca normally earn. She has cut all non-essential purchases, including Christmas presents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is a very big effort, but it is for a just cause and a long-term benefit,” said Luarca, who has worked at the Hilton Union Square for nearly 30 years. “I’m prepared to fight for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A union worker drums on a bucket as she pickets outside of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Sept. 3, 2024, in San Francisco, California. For the second time this month, 1,500 Unite Here Local 2 hotel workers from the Grand Hyatt, Hilton, and Westin St. Francis in Union Square have walked off the job, protesting pay and understaffing. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both parties have dug their heels in, waiting for the other to budge on issues such as health insurance costs, which have risen faster than wages and become a major flashpoint for strikes, said Rebecca Givan, who teaches labor and employment relations at Rutgers University. Union and hotel negotiators have not met in weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employers are gambling that if they stay out long enough, the workers will sort of lose hope and won’t be able to afford to stay out any longer,” Givan said. “It’s really a war of attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott, the employers that operate the hotels, rebuffed a union offer to accept modest wage increases in exchange for a share of profits if sales recovered in coming years, said Anand Singh, Unite Here Local 2’s chief negotiator. Conversely, the union rejected a proposal that would make health care more expensive for employees, especially new hires, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have the resources to deliver on a fair contract,” Singh said. “This is really about their attempt to roll back the standard for working people in the city and permanently reduce their labor costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh believes that the 1,900-room Hilton Union Square, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/11/18/hilton-parc-55-hotel-unionsquare-eastdil-buy-offer.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search\">up for sale\u003c/a> along with the nearby Parc 55, is not a bellwether for the city’s hotel industry. The two hotels’ last owner, Park Hotels & Resorts, refused to pay related loan debt as the buildings’ value plunged by $1 billion since 2016. Meanwhile, the Hilton has seen many cancellations due to the strike, contributing to a multimillion operating loss, according to a bondholders’ report on the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton and Marriott did not respond to requests for comment, though they have stated they are committed to negotiating a fair contract and serving guests through the disruptions. A Hyatt spokesperson declined to comment on any economic impacts of the strike but said the company is offering competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety and security of guests remains a top priority, and we have contingency plans in place to minimize the impact on hotel operations related to strike activity,” Michael D’Angelo, Hyatt’s head of labor relations in the Americas, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has asked visitors not to eat, sleep or meet at the sites with strikes, including the Palace, Grand Hyatt, Marriott Union Square, Marriott Marquee and Westin St. Francis. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.itfglobal.org/en/news/lufthansa-airlines-pulls-crew-striking-us-hotel-in-victory-international-solidarity\">Lufthansa Airlines\u003c/a> and a conference by the \u003ca href=\"https://am.aals.org/hotel/\">Association of American Law Schools\u003c/a> have pulled their business from the Hilton Union Square. Some economists participating in another conference scheduled for January are urging the expected 13,000 participants to \u003ca href=\"https://aaronsojourner.org/hotel-workers-strike-and-the-2025-assa-annual-meeting/\">cancel their reservations\u003c/a> at hotels with labor unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here believes mounting economic losses will pressure the companies to reach a deal, as guests don’t like to encounter picketers banging on drums all day, and the brands’ reputation can suffer. But that remains to be seen, Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are the owners going to increase their labor costs when business is so low, or are they going to say, ‘You know what, it’s not worth it, I’ll give [the hotel] back to the bank’?” Sherwyn said. “To say that five years ago would be theoretical puffery nonsense, but not anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Great Highway is the last road in San Francisco before you hit Ocean Beach. And in this past election, voters passed Prop. K, which permanently closes a portion of it. Supporters hope the highway will become a beachfront park, open to the entire city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a majority of people living near the Great Highway voted against Prop. K — particularly those in the city’s Sunset neighborhood. Now, a group of residents have filed papers to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, who led the effort to close the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4712558621\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] I am pretty familiar with the Great Highway. For those who maybe aren’t as familiar. What is this area and this neighborhood and what goes on at the Great Highway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:22] You know, it’s three and a half miles right next to Ocean Beach, basically like the last road in San Francisco on the west side of the city. When you go to Ocean Beach, this is the four lane road that separates the city from the beach itself. People use it, like you said, you know, to go to school. They go to Daly City. They use it as a workaround to go around this like this dense part of the neighborhood of San Francisco. So it’s sort of like this connector for many people in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:59] And the idea of repurposing this road from how it’s currently used to kind of what we’re seeing more of now kind of first came about during Covid in April 2020 when I remember these images of people just social distance walking, biking on this road that you’re probably more used to seeing cars on. What was the idea there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] I think the idea was to get out of the house. You know, people want to go outside. And so this provided an opportunity for people to socialize, to have some fresh air. It was really successful. So they closed it from like Fridays around noon until Sunday for a period of time. And that’s still happening today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:50] So how do we sort of go from that to closing this portion of the highway permanently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:58] Well, a group of sunset residents approached supervisor Joel Engardio, who represents the Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco, with the idea to turn this into a possible full time park by closing the highway. They realized how successful it was. But then they also had some environmental concerns around climate change, around the road being closed 60 plus times a year because sand gets on it and it’s unsafe for cars to go on. They approached Joel Engardio and Joel Engardio sponsored it, and then it became a proposition and people voted on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] And what would Prop K do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] It simply only closes the highway from Lincoln Avenue to Sloat Boulevard on the Great Highway does nothing else beyond that. It puts Parks and Rec in charge of it. And then for it to become reality like, it has to go through all this permitting process. So it’s going to be a minute before it actually closes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] And I know you actually spoke to Supervisor Joel Engardio before the election. What did he say? And what did he tell you about Prop K? It seems like he was a pretty big supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:18] I think for him it was really about the environmental hazards around climate change. And there’s a part of the great highway just south of this area that’s already set to close sometime in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] Mother Nature has definitely given us a lemon because part of the road’s falling into the ocean. But Prop K is the lemonade because it’s what are we doing with the middle section of the great highway to set it up for the best success for the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] He was thinking, let’s capitalize sort of on, you know, people’s energy around wanting to be out there and sort of preserve the environment in this neighborhood as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:52] Right. Because it wasn’t just about closing this portion of the road, but sort of transforming it into something else. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] Yeah. There’s all these ideas of like, could we turn this area into like the Highline Park in New York City? Right. That was like an old rail line that they turned into this like park that you walk up to. And there’s it’s beautiful. There’s chairs. It’s like brings nature into this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] So as a park, we can design into the park, the dune restoration and allow for what Mother Nature is inevitably in bringing along in the decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] This is an area we could preserve that could be a buffer to climate change, coastal erosion, but at the same time have some great public benefits where people can go out and enjoy it, because during the pandemic, people enjoyed it so much. It was packed with hundreds, if not thousands of people. So he’s like, I think this could be a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:06:43] People would say, well, where’s the park? Well, it’s there because it’s a unique experience to do things at the coast with an ocean view that you can’t do on the sand. And so that’s why many thousands of people come out there and why it’s become San Francisco’s third most visited park with just asphalt. So where do we go from here? Well, it’s already a successful park, but we want it to be a grander park. We want to be a fancier park. So that’s the fun part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:10] Seemed like the yes side, they were really about the environment and enjoying the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Heidi Moseson \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] In the for almost five years now that we’ve had this space in some form of park mode, whether the whole week or just on the weekends, it has like completely changed the way it feels to live out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:27] I spoke to a woman named Heidi Moseson, and she lives right on the Great Highway. She’s lived there for like 15 years. You know, she said she loved it being closed during the pandemic because she met her neighbors. You know, she saw all the people enjoying the space that she has easy access to. And for her, it was about like opening this up to more and more people across the city. But at the same time, preserving this area because of the threats of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Heidi Moseson \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] It’s sort of like a common space or like a town square that you you just run into your neighbors, you know, and it builds community. We have yesterday, you know, we went on a bike, rides stopped five different times because we kept seeing people we knew. And that’s so fun. That feels like community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:18] And that said, there was actually a lot of uproar over Prop K this election. It was a super contentious ballot measure. Lots of opinions. What did you hear from the no side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] I think a lot of their concerns around traffic safety, you know, it might hurt local businesses. And when the highway closes, the no side is afraid that like 10 to 20,000 cars will be rerouted into their community and they’re going have to deal with that every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:08:50] This is a proposition that at first it seems great, like, let’s open up a park. This actually doesn’t align with the day to day realities of many families in our neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] I spoke to a young woman named Julia Quon. She had really big concerns around traffic in that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:07] Traffic is already so bad on Sunset Boulevard, traffic is already so bad on 19th. And so we use the great highway, especially when I’m talking about medical appointments, to be able to to get to places and to drive our Po Po’s and Ye Ye’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:23] You know, she lives in with a large family. And she was saying that, you know, might be hard for her to like get her parents or her grandparents to the appointments they need to go to and that this whole idea of closing this area is going to challenge how they get around the city. And that’s why she was against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] In my family, we only have one car for all of us. I use the bus whenever I can. But I still think that people are going to drive. I don’t think that it’s inclusive. I don’t think that it represents the voices and the wants of what people need in the neighborhood. And I don’t think it’s realistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] Ultimately, Prop Kate did pass. What do we know as true about how this city voted and how that sort of broke down across districts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:10:15] For this to pass, it needed like 50% of the city and 54% of the city voted to pass it. San Francisco’s West Side residents in districts one, four, seven and 11. You know, that’s like the Richmond Sunset and Excelsior neighborhoods. They voted overwhelmingly no, 61% against and 39% for the proposition. But the results were sort of opposite for the rest of the city, with 64% of the voters approving it and 36% opposing. So it’s sort of like this tale of two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] And then last Tuesday, in response to Prop K passing an effort to recall the San Francisco supervisor, Joel Engardio, who put Prop K on the ballot, officially began right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:07] Yeah. Let’s step back a little bit. Even when I was doing interviews for the stories before the election, this threat was ever there. People on that on the no side were threatening. Like we might try to recall him, you know, even months ago. And that became a reality on Tuesday when two West Side residents, you know, went to the Department of Elections and submitted their plans to try to recall him basically over Proposition K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Vin Budhai \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] If your supervisor or elected official deviates from their promises or what they said they were going to do, we have a right to recall them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] I spoke with Vin Budhai about this. You know, he’s one of the people who lives out in this sunset who brought this forward. He said it’s really about in Guardiola overlooking not listening to residents, not holding true to his campaign promises. And they think he shouldn’t have any more time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Vin Budhai \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] It shows that he didn’t listen to his constituency and listen to the voters. And it was just a huge betrayal against all of us here in D4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:08] And how has Engardio responded to this effort to recall him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:13] Well, I mean, he’s not stoked at the possibility of a recall, but he said he’s reached out to recall leaders to work together to, like, possibly solve common issues about traffic flow and street safety. You know, he’s been in office, what, around two years? You know, his term would end in around 2027. And he wants to continue all the other work. I think it’s a delicate balance when you’re a supervisor, right? You are beholden to your piece of San Francisco, but you’re also making up the whole. So I think Prop K is one of those moments, right, where it’s like this is in his district, but like it has a greater benefit to the rest of San Francisco. But that could have consequences if your constituents don’t like that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:00] Right. And when majority of your constituents voted against the thing that you’re pushing forward, right? What does he say about that fact?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Yeah, I mean, he says he respects their concerns overall, but he also mentions that like Sunset, residents brought this up to him. It wasn’t his idea. And so I think he is alluding to the idea that law, like there are many people who don’t like the idea. There are also many people who do. So he feels like he is representing a portion of his district. I mean, there’s been other situations, you know, in San Francisco and other parts of the country where, you know, people haven’t wanted the park to come in through their their neighborhood or they haven’t wanted to certain development. But then X amount of years later, it’s now this like beautiful public park and people love it. And it’s like a big part of the fabric of the city. And so I think that’s what he’s hoping for, but really could cost him his, you know, elected seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:04] Well, I do want to end here as or on the future of the great Highway. I mean, what is the timeline for the closure of the great highway and the eventual park and what’s the vision there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:14:19] That’s a little bit up in the air right now. If we’re to close full time, The city has to get permits from the California Coastal Commission and others. And once those are acquired, then it can close. And I’m hearing some rumors as well that it could happen in the first quarter of 2025 or just sometime next year. So we’re still a minute out from this actually closing. But when it closes, all it’s going to do is they’ll put the locks on the gates, right? They might put some other amenities in there. But that’s all it does when it comes to the future vision for this area. That’s going to be up to the city to decide, though, you know, Joel and others told me that there will be a like a public discourse about what this could become. You know, he argues that it becomes a park day one when they put the locks on the gate. But the Parks and Rec department will be the ones who will be overseeing this. So basically, the vision, what it could become is up to the city. And that’s a long ways out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:16] And what about the traffic and the cars that previously relied on the Great Highway? What’s going to happen with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:15:26] I think the idea there’s a little bit up in the air still. You know, when I talked to Joel and Gaudio in the past, his idea was to like reroute cars, possibly on the busiest streets, you know, where there’s stop signs and puts traffic signals there instead to speed up the flow of traffic. Some people think Proposition K was the cart going before the horse, right? Like you didn’t fix the traffic stuff first. So we will have to see what actually happens. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Great Highway is the last road in San Francisco before you hit Ocean Beach. And in this past election, voters passed Prop. K, which permanently closes a portion of it. Supporters hope the highway will become a beachfront park, open to the entire city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a majority of people living near the Great Highway voted against Prop. K — particularly those in the city’s Sunset neighborhood. Now, a group of residents have filed papers to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio, who led the effort to close the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4712558621\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] I am pretty familiar with the Great Highway. For those who maybe aren’t as familiar. What is this area and this neighborhood and what goes on at the Great Highway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And that’s still happening today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:50] So how do we sort of go from that to closing this portion of the highway permanently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:58] Well, a group of sunset residents approached supervisor Joel Engardio, who represents the Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco, with the idea to turn this into a possible full time park by closing the highway. They realized how successful it was. But then they also had some environmental concerns around climate change, around the road being closed 60 plus times a year because sand gets on it and it’s unsafe for cars to go on. They approached Joel Engardio and Joel Engardio sponsored it, and then it became a proposition and people voted on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] And what would Prop K do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] It simply only closes the highway from Lincoln Avenue to Sloat Boulevard on the Great Highway does nothing else beyond that. It puts Parks and Rec in charge of it. And then for it to become reality like, it has to go through all this permitting process. So it’s going to be a minute before it actually closes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] And I know you actually spoke to Supervisor Joel Engardio before the election. What did he say? And what did he tell you about Prop K? It seems like he was a pretty big supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:18] I think for him it was really about the environmental hazards around climate change. And there’s a part of the great highway just south of this area that’s already set to close sometime in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] Mother Nature has definitely given us a lemon because part of the road’s falling into the ocean. But Prop K is the lemonade because it’s what are we doing with the middle section of the great highway to set it up for the best success for the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] He was thinking, let’s capitalize sort of on, you know, people’s energy around wanting to be out there and sort of preserve the environment in this neighborhood as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:52] Right. Because it wasn’t just about closing this portion of the road, but sort of transforming it into something else. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] Yeah. There’s all these ideas of like, could we turn this area into like the Highline Park in New York City? Right. That was like an old rail line that they turned into this like park that you walk up to. And there’s it’s beautiful. There’s chairs. It’s like brings nature into this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] So as a park, we can design into the park, the dune restoration and allow for what Mother Nature is inevitably in bringing along in the decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:24] This is an area we could preserve that could be a buffer to climate change, coastal erosion, but at the same time have some great public benefits where people can go out and enjoy it, because during the pandemic, people enjoyed it so much. It was packed with hundreds, if not thousands of people. So he’s like, I think this could be a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:06:43] People would say, well, where’s the park? Well, it’s there because it’s a unique experience to do things at the coast with an ocean view that you can’t do on the sand. And so that’s why many thousands of people come out there and why it’s become San Francisco’s third most visited park with just asphalt. So where do we go from here? Well, it’s already a successful park, but we want it to be a grander park. We want to be a fancier park. So that’s the fun part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:10] Seemed like the yes side, they were really about the environment and enjoying the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Heidi Moseson \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] In the for almost five years now that we’ve had this space in some form of park mode, whether the whole week or just on the weekends, it has like completely changed the way it feels to live out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:27] I spoke to a woman named Heidi Moseson, and she lives right on the Great Highway. She’s lived there for like 15 years. You know, she said she loved it being closed during the pandemic because she met her neighbors. You know, she saw all the people enjoying the space that she has easy access to. And for her, it was about like opening this up to more and more people across the city. But at the same time, preserving this area because of the threats of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Heidi Moseson \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] It’s sort of like a common space or like a town square that you you just run into your neighbors, you know, and it builds community. We have yesterday, you know, we went on a bike, rides stopped five different times because we kept seeing people we knew. And that’s so fun. That feels like community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:18] And that said, there was actually a lot of uproar over Prop K this election. It was a super contentious ballot measure. Lots of opinions. What did you hear from the no side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] I think a lot of their concerns around traffic safety, you know, it might hurt local businesses. And when the highway closes, the no side is afraid that like 10 to 20,000 cars will be rerouted into their community and they’re going have to deal with that every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:08:50] This is a proposition that at first it seems great, like, let’s open up a park. This actually doesn’t align with the day to day realities of many families in our neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] I spoke to a young woman named Julia Quon. She had really big concerns around traffic in that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:07] Traffic is already so bad on Sunset Boulevard, traffic is already so bad on 19th. And so we use the great highway, especially when I’m talking about medical appointments, to be able to to get to places and to drive our Po Po’s and Ye Ye’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:23] You know, she lives in with a large family. And she was saying that, you know, might be hard for her to like get her parents or her grandparents to the appointments they need to go to and that this whole idea of closing this area is going to challenge how they get around the city. And that’s why she was against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:38] In my family, we only have one car for all of us. I use the bus whenever I can. But I still think that people are going to drive. I don’t think that it’s inclusive. I don’t think that it represents the voices and the wants of what people need in the neighborhood. And I don’t think it’s realistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] Ultimately, Prop Kate did pass. What do we know as true about how this city voted and how that sort of broke down across districts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:10:15] For this to pass, it needed like 50% of the city and 54% of the city voted to pass it. San Francisco’s West Side residents in districts one, four, seven and 11. You know, that’s like the Richmond Sunset and Excelsior neighborhoods. They voted overwhelmingly no, 61% against and 39% for the proposition. But the results were sort of opposite for the rest of the city, with 64% of the voters approving it and 36% opposing. So it’s sort of like this tale of two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] And then last Tuesday, in response to Prop K passing an effort to recall the San Francisco supervisor, Joel Engardio, who put Prop K on the ballot, officially began right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:07] Yeah. Let’s step back a little bit. Even when I was doing interviews for the stories before the election, this threat was ever there. People on that on the no side were threatening. Like we might try to recall him, you know, even months ago. And that became a reality on Tuesday when two West Side residents, you know, went to the Department of Elections and submitted their plans to try to recall him basically over Proposition K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Vin Budhai \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] If your supervisor or elected official deviates from their promises or what they said they were going to do, we have a right to recall them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] I spoke with Vin Budhai about this. You know, he’s one of the people who lives out in this sunset who brought this forward. He said it’s really about in Guardiola overlooking not listening to residents, not holding true to his campaign promises. And they think he shouldn’t have any more time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Vin Budhai \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] It shows that he didn’t listen to his constituency and listen to the voters. And it was just a huge betrayal against all of us here in D4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:08] And how has Engardio responded to this effort to recall him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:13] Well, I mean, he’s not stoked at the possibility of a recall, but he said he’s reached out to recall leaders to work together to, like, possibly solve common issues about traffic flow and street safety. You know, he’s been in office, what, around two years? You know, his term would end in around 2027. And he wants to continue all the other work. I think it’s a delicate balance when you’re a supervisor, right? You are beholden to your piece of San Francisco, but you’re also making up the whole. So I think Prop K is one of those moments, right, where it’s like this is in his district, but like it has a greater benefit to the rest of San Francisco. But that could have consequences if your constituents don’t like that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:00] Right. And when majority of your constituents voted against the thing that you’re pushing forward, right? What does he say about that fact?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Yeah, I mean, he says he respects their concerns overall, but he also mentions that like Sunset, residents brought this up to him. It wasn’t his idea. And so I think he is alluding to the idea that law, like there are many people who don’t like the idea. There are also many people who do. So he feels like he is representing a portion of his district. I mean, there’s been other situations, you know, in San Francisco and other parts of the country where, you know, people haven’t wanted the park to come in through their their neighborhood or they haven’t wanted to certain development. But then X amount of years later, it’s now this like beautiful public park and people love it. And it’s like a big part of the fabric of the city. And so I think that’s what he’s hoping for, but really could cost him his, you know, elected seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:04] Well, I do want to end here as or on the future of the great Highway. I mean, what is the timeline for the closure of the great highway and the eventual park and what’s the vision there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:14:19] That’s a little bit up in the air right now. If we’re to close full time, The city has to get permits from the California Coastal Commission and others. And once those are acquired, then it can close. And I’m hearing some rumors as well that it could happen in the first quarter of 2025 or just sometime next year. So we’re still a minute out from this actually closing. But when it closes, all it’s going to do is they’ll put the locks on the gates, right? They might put some other amenities in there. But that’s all it does when it comes to the future vision for this area. That’s going to be up to the city to decide, though, you know, Joel and others told me that there will be a like a public discourse about what this could become. You know, he argues that it becomes a park day one when they put the locks on the gate. But the Parks and Rec department will be the ones who will be overseeing this. So basically, the vision, what it could become is up to the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a first for the Bay Area, the region has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994406/landmark-bay-area-regional-plan-to-combat-sea-level-rise-unveiled\">a finalized plan to protect the more than 400 miles of bayshore\u003c/a> from the chaos that sea level rise could unleash — waterlogged freeways, submerged neighborhoods, inundated airports and sunken train lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for the effort to succeed, more than 50 cities and counties that ring the San Francisco Bay need to get on board and follow the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plan will require more effort from the localities because more effort is required if we’re going to survive this and avoid major damage,” said Zachary Wasserman, chair of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “We’re all going to have to make efforts to address this very real threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”[aside postID=news_12009607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240214-CoastalCommission-50-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Up until the vote, regulators tweaked amendments on how cities could comply with the guidelines and not negatively impact the environment. BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. Solutions could include human-made or natural barriers to keep water out and relocating built infrastructure away from the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency split the new plan into eight topic areas, including ecosystem health and transit to development.[aside postID=science_1994596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/20241002_PajaroLeveeGroundbreak_GC-32-1020x680.jpg']When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. 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