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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He has also spoken out at San Mateo City Council meetings against a project that would add a direct connector from the 101 express lane to Highway 92. Swire said much of his opposition is rooted in equity concerns, as more highway lanes could lead to more traffic, and more polluted air for lower-income and disadvantaged communities near highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said he felt some board members were trying to remove him because of his advocacy and, in doing so, were stifling differing viewpoints on how to improve transportation locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone who volunteers for a county committee or board is an advocate in one way or another, Swire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody advocates, and when you advocate for things that certain people like, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. But when you advocate for minority opinions or things that other people like, that is questioned. So, you can’t have that inconsistency,” he said after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina and Nagales did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday, but during the board meeting, they sought to emphasize that diversity of opinion is something they value, and they said the recommendation to not reappoint Swire wasn’t based on disagreement with his views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other board members questioned the reasoning behind the recommendation against Swire and said he is a plus to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not heard any specific rule that was violated or even a timeline. I was honestly surprised to hear that this was even a recommendation,” board member Noelia Corzo, a county supervisor, said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman in a pink suit jacket stands at a podium that reads \"Kevin Mullin\" on the front. There are several people standing behind her wearing masks and holding \"Kevin Mullin\" signs.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Speier announces her endorsement of Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (behind Speier, in red tie) to succeed her in Congress, on Dec. 6, 2021, in South San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackie Speier, a board member and county supervisor who previously served in Congress, said Swire “has galvanized a lot of interest from people in the community. And I’m particularly impressed by the fact that he has ignited in young people an interest in being participatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Julia Mates, the mayor of Belmont, abstained from voting because she didn’t have enough information about the interview process by the subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said hundreds of people sent letters to the board in his support, and about 15 people spoke about the issue during the meeting, mostly in favor of reappointing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of censorship is very worrying to me,” Mollie Carter, a new member of the Congestion Management and Environmental Quality Committee in San Mateo County, said to the board. “It sets a really harmful precedent to remove committee members because of their views or because it may cause some confusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Advisory Committee’s charge is to act “as a liaison between the public and the Board of directors, providing valuable input to the board on the projects and programs,” funded through two different countywide sales tax measures, according to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcta.com/whats-happening/community-advisory-committee\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is intended to have 15 members from around the county, in recent months it’s been operating with 12. In addition to reappointing Swire and two other members on Thursday night, the board also appointed two new members to replace two who stepped down at its last meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A yearslong, drag-out fight in a wealthy Bay Area enclave over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024770/north-beach-a-historic-district-not-yet-sf-mayor-lurie-says\">what should be considered “historic”\u003c/a> has reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Mateo City Council sent a letter pleading with California’s historic preservation board to delay a decision on whether to deem Baywood, one of its most coveted neighborhoods, eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The coalition of homeowners who launched the effort shot back, accusing the city of defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For four years, a contentious battle has raged between the group, which said it wants to “protect historic resources” in San Mateo, and other homeowners who don’t see their 20th-century homes as particularly extraordinary. It all began when a few homeowners along Fairfax Avenue decided to renovate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Gene Alston. He and his wife bought their home in 2021 and were drawn to Baywood’s wide, quiet streets, quick commute to their daughters’ school and strong community feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, their excitement was quickly tainted. As Alston began preparing to renovate their new home — which included shifting the house forward on the lot, changing the architecture style and building an accessory dwelling unit for his mother-in-law in the backyard — neighbors got wind. They weren’t happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flyers stuck in mailboxes warned that the new homeowners were going to destroy a historic property. When Alston hosted a meeting to discuss the remodel with neighbors who live within 500 feet, per city policy, he said a “flash mob” of people who live outside the radius joined the video call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Baywood Neighborhood Association hired a historic preservation architect who deemed Alston’s home historic and retained attorneys to oppose the remodel. At the time, that included Mike Nash, whose property abuts the Alstons’ and who is married to San Mateo Councilmember Lisa Diaz Nash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston, who is Black and Korean, said the effort felt hostile and made his family feel unwelcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz Nash told KQED at the time that opposition to Alston’s renovation had nothing to do with proximity to her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it because we are not established residents in Baywood, even though we’re established in San Mateo?” asked Alston, who has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city approved his planning proposal in 2022, but it spurred a larger movement against development in Baywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It was a catalyst’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors who had opposed the renovation of Alston’s home and two others nearby that year formed the San Mateo Heritage Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the organization, they applied to have Baywood added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, which requires approval from California’s state historic resources commission. President Laurie Hietter said they wanted to preserve San Mateo’s architecture and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The San Mateo Heritage Alliance (SMHA) wants to designate Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from making changes to their homes as they would have to adhere to specific guidelines. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the group stuck yellow signs in their lawns and formed their own organization, Less Red Tape, to inform Baywood residents — most of whom were entirely removed from this debate at the time — about the potential drawbacks of the historic designation, which they said would include stricter environmental impact scrutiny and parameters on how they can renovate the exteriors of their homes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, talk of the looming decision by the state has been continuous, at least at City Hall. Residents of Baywood and nearby neighborhoods have attended City Council meetings and signed petitions — some set on preserving the look of the neighborhood they moved into decades ago, and others arguing that new restrictions would make renovating their homes nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, the council tried to broker an agreement between SMHA and Less Red Tape, proposing to create its own updated local historic resources program. In the meantime, council members hoped that SMHA would pause its appeal to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal fell apart, but Hietter said SMHA still pulled back for about six months. In December, she announced that the group would resume its push for state recognition, citing slow movement on the part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council’s letter urging the historic resources board not to vote on Baywood’s status during its May meeting, officials said San Mateo had “recently allocated funds to develop a local process for evaluating and designating historic resources, including updates to related ordinances,” which it said would increase community engagement and “build consensus around our historic preservation efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should the nomination advance at the state level before our local process is fully developed, it could inadvertently undermine these efforts — not only in Baywood but across the entire City of San Mateo,” the council said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What makes a neighborhood historic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to SMHA’s application to the state board, Baywood became a commuter suburb of San Francisco as the city emerged as an industrial hub in the 1920s and ’30s. Upper and middle-class businesspeople who wanted to get out of the dense cityscape after much of it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake moved a 20- to 30-minute streetcar ride down the peninsula and built homes in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter said the mix of French, Spanish revival and Tudor style homes are signatories of the time period and important to preserve. But not all Baywood neighbors agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lead organizer of Less Red Tape Frank Elliott stands for a portrait in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Elliott, who has lived in his home since 1997, founded Less Red Tape to protest the designation of Baywood as a historic district. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an invented history,” said Frank Elliott, a fellow resident and founder of Less Red Tape. “The architecture is only distinct because the homes represent styles of houses that were built at the time they were built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area that would be covered by the historic designation, which includes about 440 homes, is a mix of over 40 styles designed by more than 20 architects, he argues. Almost 100 have been renovated significantly enough that they no longer qualify as historic on their own, according to SMHA’s application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has three existing historic districts, two of which have been recognized at the local level since the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazenwood — a neighborhood that spans one U-shaped road and a short offshoot just south of the city’s downtown — is the only residential zone considered historic. Most of the 70 single-story homes within the restored white pillars that stand at its three entrances are 1920s-style Spanish colonial structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood was originally part of the estate of Alvinza Hayward, a San Francisco businessman in the late 1800s. When Hayward died, his mansion was turned into the ritzy Peninsula Hotel, which operated until the property burned down in 1920. After the fire, the land was divided into single-family homes, most of which were built between 1922 and 1925 by one company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Exacerbating patterns of segregation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just one additional property, the Yoshiko Yamanouchi House, has been deemed historic in San Mateo since the ’90s. However, across California, the number of applications from neighborhoods requesting historic status has been increasing over the last decade, according to Annie Fryman, the director of special projects at the housing advocacy group SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although no searchable database of historic district nominations exists, according to the state parks department, six neighborhoods in California — including St. Francis Wood in southwest San Francisco — were granted historic status between October 2020 and March 2024 based on applications with the same loose outline as Baywood’s.[aside postID=news_12024770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_00193-1020x680.jpg']The increase in historic district applications could be a reaction to new state housing legislation being implemented at the same time, much of which is meant to ease development and help cities meet lofty requirements for building new housing, Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these laws, which aim to rectify years of housing discrimination, expedite permitting and allow more single-family lots to be subdivided into duplexes. They also carve out exemptions for historic places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the challenges with historic districts is that they’re often exacerbating existing patterns of segregation by saying, ‘This is already a segregated place and nothing here can ever change,’” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disproportionately, neighborhoods that get these designations are in wealthier, more segregated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many state housing laws are basically attempts on the edges to address existing patterns of segregation,” Fryman told KQED. “And establishing historic districts squarely takes us backwards in that journey. That’s something that hasn’t been reconciled in the field yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baywood was developed in the 1920s and ’30s, it had housing covenants that blocked Black and Asian people from purchasing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it remains one of San Mateo’s most prestigious — and wealthiest — neighborhoods. It’s 70% white, and the median sale price for three-bedroom properties like the one Alston purchased was $3.03 million from 2021 to 2024, according to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More ‘Red Tape’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Elliott and Alston believe the SMHA is motivated by a desire to “control the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A historic designation could force homeowners to hire historic consultants, go through additional California Environmental Quality Act reviews or face lawsuits, making renovations more expensive and resource-intensive, Elliott said. CEQA litigation adds an average of two years to a housing project’s timeline, according to a report from the state’s Little Hoover Commission, an independent oversight agency that investigates state government operations and policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the face of such lengthy delays, financing can vanish, stopping a project even if it would eventually have survived the CEQA process and been approved,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter argues that a historic designation’s effect on homeowners would be minimal and maintains that the designation is symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic resource regulations are enforced at the local level, and it would be up to San Mateo to add Baywood to its historic resource ordinance, Hietter said. San Mateo is considering updating its ordinance, and SMHA would advocate for Baywood to be added, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to have an extremely restrictive ordinance. The ordinance would only apply if you’re doing something that’s visible from the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gain for us is to raise awareness about historic resources, to have a sign that says, ‘This is a historic district,’ so that if people want to come in here and mow down a house, they’re going to think twice,” Hietter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A time-consuming, costly process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Alstons bought their first home in San Mateo 25 years ago and have built successful careers working for various Silicon Valley tech giants since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After having two daughters and outgrowing that home, they moved around Burlingame and San Mateo several times, finally planning to settle in Baywood. Alston said the neighborhood finally met his wife’s top priority — a strong community feel similar to that of their first home, where young families were always hosting backyard barbecues and birthday celebrations or inviting the kids to shoot hoops and ride bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981485 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo on March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The renovation, though, has been discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alston’s project plans were originally approved, neighbors submitted a historic evaluation of his house and a letter from an attorney, asking the city to apply historic preservation restrictions. Alston commissioned his own historic assessment, racked up thousands of dollars in city fees, and fielded multiple nuisance complaints in the following years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His whole family, including his mother-in-law, presented the renovation project to the city’s planning commission in July 2022, anticipating appeals. It was unanimously approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston hoped to complete the renovation last year, but he said that additional pushback — and changes he made to the renovated design to try to nullify some of the controversy — slowed progress. He now believes the time-consuming and costly process will be over in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston said he thinks his project ultimately gained approval because it includes an ADU. California legislation passed in 2021 requires that cities limit project-by-project discretionary reviews of renovations that subdivide single-family lots into duplexes or add junior units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, Senate Bill 9, has a carve-out for homes in historic districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston believes that if Baywood had been historic when he started the renovation process four years ago, “you wouldn’t be able to do it. If they for some reason wanted to pick on your project, you couldn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Gene Alston. He and his wife bought their home in 2021 and were drawn to Baywood’s wide, quiet streets, quick commute to their daughters’ school and strong community feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, their excitement was quickly tainted. As Alston began preparing to renovate their new home — which included shifting the house forward on the lot, changing the architecture style and building an accessory dwelling unit for his mother-in-law in the backyard — neighbors got wind. They weren’t happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flyers stuck in mailboxes warned that the new homeowners were going to destroy a historic property. When Alston hosted a meeting to discuss the remodel with neighbors who live within 500 feet, per city policy, he said a “flash mob” of people who live outside the radius joined the video call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-017-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Baywood Neighborhood Association hired a historic preservation architect who deemed Alston’s home historic and retained attorneys to oppose the remodel. At the time, that included Mike Nash, whose property abuts the Alstons’ and who is married to San Mateo Councilmember Lisa Diaz Nash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston, who is Black and Korean, said the effort felt hostile and made his family feel unwelcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz Nash told KQED at the time that opposition to Alston’s renovation had nothing to do with proximity to her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it because we are not established residents in Baywood, even though we’re established in San Mateo?” asked Alston, who has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city approved his planning proposal in 2022, but it spurred a larger movement against development in Baywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It was a catalyst’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors who had opposed the renovation of Alston’s home and two others nearby that year formed the San Mateo Heritage Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the organization, they applied to have Baywood added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, which requires approval from California’s state historic resources commission. President Laurie Hietter said they wanted to preserve San Mateo’s architecture and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The San Mateo Heritage Alliance (SMHA) wants to designate Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from making changes to their homes as they would have to adhere to specific guidelines. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critics of the group stuck yellow signs in their lawns and formed their own organization, Less Red Tape, to inform Baywood residents — most of whom were entirely removed from this debate at the time — about the potential drawbacks of the historic designation, which they said would include stricter environmental impact scrutiny and parameters on how they can renovate the exteriors of their homes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, talk of the looming decision by the state has been continuous, at least at City Hall. Residents of Baywood and nearby neighborhoods have attended City Council meetings and signed petitions — some set on preserving the look of the neighborhood they moved into decades ago, and others arguing that new restrictions would make renovating their homes nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, the council tried to broker an agreement between SMHA and Less Red Tape, proposing to create its own updated local historic resources program. In the meantime, council members hoped that SMHA would pause its appeal to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal fell apart, but Hietter said SMHA still pulled back for about six months. In December, she announced that the group would resume its push for state recognition, citing slow movement on the part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council’s letter urging the historic resources board not to vote on Baywood’s status during its May meeting, officials said San Mateo had “recently allocated funds to develop a local process for evaluating and designating historic resources, including updates to related ordinances,” which it said would increase community engagement and “build consensus around our historic preservation efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should the nomination advance at the state level before our local process is fully developed, it could inadvertently undermine these efforts — not only in Baywood but across the entire City of San Mateo,” the council said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What makes a neighborhood historic?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to SMHA’s application to the state board, Baywood became a commuter suburb of San Francisco as the city emerged as an industrial hub in the 1920s and ’30s. Upper and middle-class businesspeople who wanted to get out of the dense cityscape after much of it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake moved a 20- to 30-minute streetcar ride down the peninsula and built homes in the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter said the mix of French, Spanish revival and Tudor style homes are signatories of the time period and important to preserve. But not all Baywood neighbors agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lead organizer of Less Red Tape Frank Elliott stands for a portrait in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Elliott, who has lived in his home since 1997, founded Less Red Tape to protest the designation of Baywood as a historic district. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an invented history,” said Frank Elliott, a fellow resident and founder of Less Red Tape. “The architecture is only distinct because the homes represent styles of houses that were built at the time they were built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area that would be covered by the historic designation, which includes about 440 homes, is a mix of over 40 styles designed by more than 20 architects, he argues. Almost 100 have been renovated significantly enough that they no longer qualify as historic on their own, according to SMHA’s application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has three existing historic districts, two of which have been recognized at the local level since the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazenwood — a neighborhood that spans one U-shaped road and a short offshoot just south of the city’s downtown — is the only residential zone considered historic. Most of the 70 single-story homes within the restored white pillars that stand at its three entrances are 1920s-style Spanish colonial structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood was originally part of the estate of Alvinza Hayward, a San Francisco businessman in the late 1800s. When Hayward died, his mansion was turned into the ritzy Peninsula Hotel, which operated until the property burned down in 1920. After the fire, the land was divided into single-family homes, most of which were built between 1922 and 1925 by one company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Exacerbating patterns of segregation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just one additional property, the Yoshiko Yamanouchi House, has been deemed historic in San Mateo since the ’90s. However, across California, the number of applications from neighborhoods requesting historic status has been increasing over the last decade, according to Annie Fryman, the director of special projects at the housing advocacy group SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although no searchable database of historic district nominations exists, according to the state parks department, six neighborhoods in California — including St. Francis Wood in southwest San Francisco — were granted historic status between October 2020 and March 2024 based on applications with the same loose outline as Baywood’s.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The increase in historic district applications could be a reaction to new state housing legislation being implemented at the same time, much of which is meant to ease development and help cities meet lofty requirements for building new housing, Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these laws, which aim to rectify years of housing discrimination, expedite permitting and allow more single-family lots to be subdivided into duplexes. They also carve out exemptions for historic places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the challenges with historic districts is that they’re often exacerbating existing patterns of segregation by saying, ‘This is already a segregated place and nothing here can ever change,’” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disproportionately, neighborhoods that get these designations are in wealthier, more segregated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many state housing laws are basically attempts on the edges to address existing patterns of segregation,” Fryman told KQED. “And establishing historic districts squarely takes us backwards in that journey. That’s something that hasn’t been reconciled in the field yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baywood was developed in the 1920s and ’30s, it had housing covenants that blocked Black and Asian people from purchasing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it remains one of San Mateo’s most prestigious — and wealthiest — neighborhoods. It’s 70% white, and the median sale price for three-bedroom properties like the one Alston purchased was $3.03 million from 2021 to 2024, according to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More ‘Red Tape’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Elliott and Alston believe the SMHA is motivated by a desire to “control the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A historic designation could force homeowners to hire historic consultants, go through additional California Environmental Quality Act reviews or face lawsuits, making renovations more expensive and resource-intensive, Elliott said. CEQA litigation adds an average of two years to a housing project’s timeline, according to a report from the state’s Little Hoover Commission, an independent oversight agency that investigates state government operations and policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240328-BaywoodHistoricDistrict-JY-022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houses in the Baywood neighborhood are seen in San Mateo, California, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the face of such lengthy delays, financing can vanish, stopping a project even if it would eventually have survived the CEQA process and been approved,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hietter argues that a historic designation’s effect on homeowners would be minimal and maintains that the designation is symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic resource regulations are enforced at the local level, and it would be up to San Mateo to add Baywood to its historic resource ordinance, Hietter said. San Mateo is considering updating its ordinance, and SMHA would advocate for Baywood to be added, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to have an extremely restrictive ordinance. The ordinance would only apply if you’re doing something that’s visible from the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gain for us is to raise awareness about historic resources, to have a sign that says, ‘This is a historic district,’ so that if people want to come in here and mow down a house, they’re going to think twice,” Hietter told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A time-consuming, costly process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Alstons bought their first home in San Mateo 25 years ago and have built successful careers working for various Silicon Valley tech giants since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After having two daughters and outgrowing that home, they moved around Burlingame and San Mateo several times, finally planning to settle in Baywood. Alston said the neighborhood finally met his wife’s top priority — a strong community feel similar to that of their first home, where young families were always hosting backyard barbecues and birthday celebrations or inviting the kids to shoot hoops and ride bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981485 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240328-BAYWOODHISTORICDISTRICT-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Less Red Tape yard sign is placed in the yard of a home in the Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo on March 28, 2024. Less Red Tape is a neighborhood grassroots organization that aims to stop the designation of Baywood as a historic district, which would prevent homeowners from easily making renovations, as well as drive up the cost. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The renovation, though, has been discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alston’s project plans were originally approved, neighbors submitted a historic evaluation of his house and a letter from an attorney, asking the city to apply historic preservation restrictions. Alston commissioned his own historic assessment, racked up thousands of dollars in city fees, and fielded multiple nuisance complaints in the following years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His whole family, including his mother-in-law, presented the renovation project to the city’s planning commission in July 2022, anticipating appeals. It was unanimously approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston hoped to complete the renovation last year, but he said that additional pushback — and changes he made to the renovated design to try to nullify some of the controversy — slowed progress. He now believes the time-consuming and costly process will be over in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston said he thinks his project ultimately gained approval because it includes an ADU. California legislation passed in 2021 requires that cities limit project-by-project discretionary reviews of renovations that subdivide single-family lots into duplexes or add junior units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, Senate Bill 9, has a carve-out for homes in historic districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alston believes that if Baywood had been historic when he started the renovation process four years ago, “you wouldn’t be able to do it. If they for some reason wanted to pick on your project, you couldn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:18 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/christina-corpus\">Christina Corpus\u003c/a> continued to refuse to resign Wednesday, even after voters overwhelmingly approved a charter amendment to give supervisors the power to remove her from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">election night results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A, the only item on Tuesday’s special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Corpus conceded that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029453/san-mateo-county-voters-to-decide-whether-troubled-sheriff-can-be-fired-by-supervisors\">Measure A has passed\u003c/a>, which she said now entitles her to “a public evidentiary hearing before a neutral and unbiased body.” She added that she and her lawyers “are confident” she will “be vindicated through a legitimate process,” calling her record in 23 years of public service “pristine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg']Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029072 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg']Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.[aside postID=news_12018543 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg']Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo County supervisors are renewing their calls for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus\u003c/a> to resign in the wake of an investigation that found abuses of power, intimidation, retaliation and favoritism have become commonplace during her short time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo said Thursday that Corpus, who was sworn in last year, and her only remaining undersheriff, Daniel Perea, must resign to allow trust to be restored to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in an operational crisis in the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office that is without precedent,” Mueller said during a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said this is the most pressing matter in the county. “She is not a sheriff we can trust, and she needs to resign immediately,” Corzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, all five captains in the Sheriff’s Office sent Corpus a letter notifying her they had passed a vote of no confidence in her and Perea over the weekend and asked them both to resign. The leaders of the two unions representing sheriff’s deputies and sergeants in the county also previously called on Corpus to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three assistant sheriffs or undersheriffs have left the office since complaints about Corpus began to surface, including one who officials said was fired in retaliation for speaking to an investigator looking into allegations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Collectively, the leadership for all of the professional sworn law enforcement in the county, and the captains in the county, have called for Sheriff Corpus’ resignation, and Undersheriff Perea’s resignation,” Mueller said during the news conference. “The two are literally left standing alone in the Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff has lost the faith and trust of her team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s announcement builds on actions already taken by the county leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the full Board of Supervisors advanced a plan to put a measure on the March ballot that would give it the power to fire an elected sheriff for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is expected to finalize its decision at a Dec. 3 meeting. If the measure is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, the new charter rules would set a four-vote threshold for the five-member Board of Supervisors to remove a sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">passed a vote of no confidence\u003c/a> in Corpus and demanded she resign. That came after the publication of a 408-page investigative report into Corpus that the county retained retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell to conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuse of authority are hallmarks of the Corpus administration,” Cordell wrote in an executive summary of her report. “Sheriff Corpus should resign, and Victor Aenlle’s employment with the Sheriff’s Office should be terminated immediately. Only new leadership can save this organization, which is mired in chaos and demoralization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11969550 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231211-SAN-MATEO-SHERIFF-020-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Cordell’s recommendation, the board also unanimously last week voted to eliminate the position of executive director in the sheriff’s office, which was held by Aenlle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell wrote in her report that Aenlle has “a personal relationship beyond mere friendship” with Corpus. “Evidence suggests they have had an intimate relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of state and federal lawmakers representing the peninsula and the South Bay — Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, State Sen. Josh Becker, and Assemblymembers Marc Berman and Diane Papan — also joined the wave of officials calling for Corpus to resign in a joint statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, in a previous statement, denounced Cordell’s report as “a hatchet job” and said it was “filled with lies.” She did not respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus has also been criticized for the arrest of Carlos Tapia, the president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, who has been a vocal critic of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia turned himself in and was arrested on multiple charges, including felony grand theft, just hours before the Cordell report was released. The charges are apparently connected to concerns about alleged irregularities with his time card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen M. 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Our goal is to have the decision on charging made in advance of his arraignment date on Dec. 9,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said on Thursday that he confirmed that a former captain under Corpus, Brian Philip, was ordered to arrest Tapia but chose to resign instead. “Litigation has commenced,” Mueller said, noting that Philip has brought a claim against the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Mateo County taxpayers simply cannot afford the financial liability of a sheriff we cannot trust,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are calling on Sheriff Corpus again today to resign and to save the taxpayers of this county the cost it will take to remove her,” Mueller said. “Which, if she does not do, we will do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">Brian Krans\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said this is the most pressing matter in the county. “She is not a sheriff we can trust, and she needs to resign immediately,” Corzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, all five captains in the Sheriff’s Office sent Corpus a letter notifying her they had passed a vote of no confidence in her and Perea over the weekend and asked them both to resign. The leaders of the two unions representing sheriff’s deputies and sergeants in the county also previously called on Corpus to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three assistant sheriffs or undersheriffs have left the office since complaints about Corpus began to surface, including one who officials said was fired in retaliation for speaking to an investigator looking into allegations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Collectively, the leadership for all of the professional sworn law enforcement in the county, and the captains in the county, have called for Sheriff Corpus’ resignation, and Undersheriff Perea’s resignation,” Mueller said during the news conference. “The two are literally left standing alone in the Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff has lost the faith and trust of her team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s announcement builds on actions already taken by the county leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the full Board of Supervisors advanced a plan to put a measure on the March ballot that would give it the power to fire an elected sheriff for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is expected to finalize its decision at a Dec. 3 meeting. If the measure is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, the new charter rules would set a four-vote threshold for the five-member Board of Supervisors to remove a sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">passed a vote of no confidence\u003c/a> in Corpus and demanded she resign. That came after the publication of a 408-page investigative report into Corpus that the county retained retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell to conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuse of authority are hallmarks of the Corpus administration,” Cordell wrote in an executive summary of her report. “Sheriff Corpus should resign, and Victor Aenlle’s employment with the Sheriff’s Office should be terminated immediately. Only new leadership can save this organization, which is mired in chaos and demoralization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo-county\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>’s largest affordable housing development to date is set to rise on a 16-acre site with a long history in Daly City after supervisors on Tuesday approved a $14 million loan to continue construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding represents a key step for Midway Village, a 555-unit housing project that will include a childcare facility and a new park for the Bayshore neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area in particular needs a lot of help,” board vice president David Canepa, whose district includes the development, said in a statement. “We’ve talked about the needs for affordable housing. This is really going to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Midway Village property was originally used for a manufactured gas plant that was later relocated directly north of the project site. 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MidPen Housing will construct 113 of those units and a child care center starting in March 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Baker Architects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is obviously an aggressive intensification of the use of this site — we’re going from 150 to 555 homes,” said Matt Franklin, CEO of affordable housing developer MidPen Housing. “Daly City has been a tremendous supporter of this development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are relying on Midway Village to help Daly City reach its share of 4,838 new homes, part of the state’s mandate for San Mateo County cities to build more than 47,000 new homes by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, broken up into phases, has already completed construction on its first stage of 147 homes held for people who earn 15% to 60% of the area median income, or $114,910 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants, many of whom were living in the 1970s-era housing, moved into the refurbished units in May. Construction on the next phase, which will commence in March, will include 113 affordable homes, along with a childcare center that can serve more than 100 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002010 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_Richmond_JeanStanley_07152021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said the funding for Phase 2 includes $60 million in federal tax credits, but that funding was contingent on the county chipping in its share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This last $14 million is the last piece of the financial puzzle,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once fully built out, the project will also include townhomes available for purchase, behavioral healthcare services and a large public park with athletic fields and a playground operated by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County officials are pursuing other options for affordable housing, including using \u003ca href=\"https://homeforallsmc.org/progress/department-of-housing/homekey/\">Gov. 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Some have subpoena powers in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence pointed out that in the last couple of years, the county has paid millions of dollars in settlements to civilians who’ve sued over negative interactions with the sheriff’s department. He added that there could be a better way to improve relations between the public and local law enforcement. [aside label='More Stories on San Mateo County' tag='san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office']According to a county spokesperson, the largest settlement of this kind — $4.5 million — was in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725727/multiple-deaths-after-taser-shocks-spur-call-for-change-in-san-mateo-county\">2018 case.\u003c/a> Deputy Joshua Wang tased and killed 36-year-old Chinedu Okobi for allegedly resisting arrest. Okobi died of a cardiac arrest. 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In one case, a 34-year-old man who was part of the behavioral health unit, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcsheriff.com/sites/default/files/articles/Expanded%20BHU.pdf\">launched\u003c/a> this year, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/22/inmate-found-dead-in-his-cell-at-redwood-city-jail/\">reportedly\u003c/a> a suspected suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those types of incidents in our jails where we’re supposed to be taking care of people, something has to be done,” Lawrence said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he is concerned about staffing shortages, given other reported deaths by suicide at the facility in recent years, as reported by the California Department of Justice. (At least two San Mateo County grand jury reports in 2005 and 2012 cited overcrowding at the facility.) [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus\"]‘It takes changing from within, and I just don’t want it to be a divisive, dysfunctional process, which will then hold up the way I can lead the organization.’[/pullquote]From 2005 to 2022, the San Mateo Sheriff’s Department reported 19 deaths of civilians in custody to the California Department of Justice (most of them are labeled “natural causes”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A deputy’s mental health is among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939844/why-some-police-departments-say-officer-wellness-is-key-to-protecting-communities\">top priorities\u003c/a> for San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who has served in the role since 2022 when she was elected the county’s first female sheriff. She said she’s against the oversight board proposal, arguing for other ways to improve community relations. She added that the department is working on hiring more deputies, improving training and creating its own advisory boards composed of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes changing from within, and I just don’t want it to be a divisive, dysfunctional process, which will then hold up the way I can lead the organization,” Corpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Nik Altenberg contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McKusick used to work in Foster City near Bridgeview Park which, as its name suggests, offers a fine view of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. One day, while riding bikes with her daughter along the nearby Bay Trail, she stumbled upon a remnant of the original 1929 San Mateo Bridge that once crossed over the San Francisco Bay. [baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which raised all kinds of questions in my mind,” McKusick said. She wrote to Bay Curious looking to learn about the bridge. “I would love to know more about that original bridge in its heyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKusick Googled it, naturally, as did I, and there just isn’t a whole lot out there. The best resource?\u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardareahistory.org/hayward-san-mateo-bridge\"> A single article\u003c/a> written a few years ago for the Hayward Historical Society by John Christian, formerly an archivist there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out this bridge was once the longest bridge in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down an old section of a now unused bridge that runs off into the distance and terminates just before the horizon line. To the left of it is the new bridge that replaced it. Both bridges run over calm reflective blue water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little stub alongside the new San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is all that remains of the original from 1929.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The history of the bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We all met at the Bridgeview Park, where you can spy a little stub of the old bridge alongside the big new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time I’ve been over here. I guess I’m too Hayward-centric. I’ve never really seen it from this side, to be honest,” Christian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Christian, the bridge was originally proposed in 1922 by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, as a way to jump start business between the Peninsula and the East Bay. Construction began in December 1927. A little more than a year later, on March 2, 1929, there was a grand opening of what was then called the “San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge opening in 1929 was a big deal for the Bay Area, and President Calvin Coolidge participated in the dedication by pressing a telegraph button in Washington, D.C. that directed the unfurling of an American flag from the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, who was known to love attending celebrations of almost any kind, was the biggest local celebrity to show up in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike the Golden Gate Bridge to the north, this bridge helped farmers get their goods to market. In the 1920s, the region on both sides of the Bay was rural, as opposed to suburban, as it is today. Think farms, orchards, canneries, salt harvesting and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"Archival image of a 1920s-era transport truck carrying crates of ketchup. Two large American flags are mounted on poles near the front of the truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-1536x1126.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hayward cannery truck crosses the bridge bringing Hayward ‘Quality Tomato Catsup’ to San Mateo as part of the 1929 dedication. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe because it wasn’t designed primarily for commuter traffic, the original bridge was only 30 feet wide with just two lanes, and about 7 miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Looking at the new bridge, I mean, compared to the old bridge, this bridge is a monster. You know, this is like, 6 lanes. The original bridge would have been just two lanes, back and forth,” Christian said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petite, and also, I have to say, terrifying. Right? Especially if there’s a stiff wind? Picking up off the water? Driving a Model T Ford? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nobody was blown into the water, as far as I can tell,” Christian said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fun fact: The original toll was 45 cents, about $8 in today’s money! So, Christian says, adjusted for inflation, it was more expensive to cross in 1929 than it is today. Takes the sting out of today’s $7 toll? Or maybe not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white archival aerial photo of the middle section of a long bridge passing over the San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-800x620.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-1020x790.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-1536x1190.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cause of commuter traffic on what was then the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge when the Model T was king. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Dreams of a bigger bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1954, 7,400 cars and trucks were crossing every day and newspapers were calling the old bridge an “antique.” The rural towns on either side of the Bay had become suburbs, and the bridge wasn’t designed to carry that kind of capacity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was a small bridge taking you to a small place. And now it’s this massive [bridge taking you from] city center to city center,” said Christian.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As time went on, the biggest complaint about this bridge was not how slender it was, but the electric drawbridge that went up on average 6 times a day to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">let marine traffic pass underneath.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That brought cars and trucks on the bridge to a standstill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So in 1961, the groundwork was laid for the construction of a wider, taller bridge, to be built just a few feet north of the original span. The old bridge was dismantled, piece by piece, except for the small bit you can still see from Bridgeview Park today. And while there are now longer bridges in North America, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to the state’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innovation-system-information/documents/final-reports/ca18-2997-finalreport.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Transportation (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the new bridge is still the longest bridge in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">McKusick’s thoughts on learning the full story? “I really wish that the pier were open and I could walk out onto the bridge. That would be a dream come true.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey everyone! You’re listening to the Bay Curious podcast, where we explore the Bay Area one question at a time. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know that the Bay Area was once home to the longest bridge in North America? And also one of the skinniest?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">original\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> bridge that ran between San Mateo and Hayward, or Hayward and San Mateo, depending on which side of the Bay you sit on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathleen McKusick of Redwood City used to work in biotech near Bridgeview Park in Foster City. Which is how she came to ask us this question: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stumbled across a remnant of the 1929 San Mateo Bridge about a dozen years ago. I would love to know more about that original bridge in its heyday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a lot of spectacular bridges here in the Bay Area. But let’s be honest, the San Mateo-Hayward bridge doesn’t get a ton of love. Today we’re putting her in the spotlight, and learning more about the original bridge that helped shape our region. We’ll be right back!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This week, we’re answering a question from Kathleen, that was selected by you, our audience, in a monthly voting round. If you want a say in what we cover, vote in our current poll at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious/\">Bay Curious.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, so Kathleen wants to know the story behind what remains of what was then called the “San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge” … We sent KQED’s Rachael Myrow to check it out …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sounds of a park outdoors, highway traffic can be heard in the background]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you’ve walked or cycled along the Bay Trail on the Peninsula, you know it passes under the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My daughter and I were here on the weekend to ride bikes on the Bay Trail, and we went on the bikes a little farther than I usually went on foot, and here was this astonishing little piece of a bridge. Which raised all kinds of questions in my mind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathleen McKusick Googled it, naturally, as did I\u003c/span> \u003cb>…\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and … there just isn’t a whole lot out there … The best resource? ONE article written a few years ago for the Hayward Historical Society… an article written by THIS guy:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> John Christian, formerly an archivist at the Hayward Historical Society.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We all met at the Bridgeview Park, where you can spy a little stub of the old bridge alongside the big new one. It’s a noisy park. You can hear the traffic from the new bridge, not to mention planes flying overhead from SFO.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the first time I’ve been over here. I guess I’m too Hayward-centric. But yeah, I’ve never really seen it from this side, to be honest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Christian, the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge was originally proposed in 1922, by \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Oakland Chamber of Commerce\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as a way to jump start commerce between the Peninsula and the East Bay. Construction began in December of 1927. Flash forward to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">March 2, 1929, and we have …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Old timey music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The grand opening of what was then called the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">! Now, quick production note. Nineteen-twenty-nine is a tricky time for sound reporters in the Bay. Much of the news footage from that era was still silent. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Archival recording of Calvin Coolidge talking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What talkies there \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">were\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> typically brought sound to big, national news stories. But the bridge opening in 1929 was a big deal for the Bay Area, \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sound of Morse code being sent over a telegraph]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then-President Calvin Coolidge participated in the dedication by pressing a telegraph button in Washington, D.C., that directed the unfurling of an American flag from the bridge. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[flag unfurling sound, crowd says “Ahhhh”]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then-San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, who was known to love attending celebrations of almost any kind, was the biggest local celebrity to show up in person. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1929 Ford AA Truck engine starts up]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not unlike the Golden Gate bridge to the north, this bridge helped farmers get their goods to market. In the 1920s, the region on both sides of the Bay was rural, as opposed to suburban, as it is today. Farms, orchards, canneries, salt harvesting… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe because it wasn’t designed primarily for commuter traffic, I think it’s worth noting that the original bridge was only 30 feet wide with just two lanes, and about 7 miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Looking at the new bridge, I mean, compared to the old bridge, this bridge is a monster. You know, this is like, 6 lanes. The original bridge would have been just two lanes, back and forth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petite, and also, I have to say, terrifying. Right? Two lanes, two lanes only, one going in one direction, one in the other. 30 feet wide, going over, over the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dramatic music swells ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, I mean, it musta, I guess, you know, probably it was kind of fun, I guess. But yeah, probably a little horrifying. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Especially if there’s a stiff wind? Picking up off the water?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, I mean…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driving a Model T Ford? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nobody was blown into the water, as far as I can tell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fun fact: The original toll was 45 cents … about $8 in today’s money! So, Christian says, adjusted for inflation, it was more expensive to cross in 1929 than it is today! Takes the sting out of today’s $7 toll … Or maybe not…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyways, it wasn’t long before newspaper articles were calling the old bridge “antique.” By 1954, 7,400 cars and trucks were crossing every day. Because the rural towns on either side of the Bay did become suburbs…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it was a small bridge taking you to a small place, you know? And now it’s like, this massive, like, you know, city center to city center. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the biggest complaint about this bridge was not how slender it was, but the electric drawbridge that went up on average 6 times a day to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">let marine traffic pass underneath.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That brought cars and trucks on the bridge to a standstill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So in 1961, the groundwork was laid for the construction of a wider, taller bridge, to be built just a few feet north of the original span. The old bridge was dismantled, piece by piece, except for the small bit you can still see from Bridgeview Park today. \u003c/span>According to the state’s Department of Transportation, by the way, the new bridge is still the longest bridge in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So now that you know the full story, any thoughts?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really wish that the pier were open and I could walk out onto the bridge. That would be a dream come true.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That story was reported by KQED’s Rachael Myrow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hope you’ll join me tonight, Thursday, Aug. 24 at Black Bird Books in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. It’s the last stop on our tour for our new book, \u003cem>Bay Curious: Exploring Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/em>. I’ll be reading, signing, answering questions and playing a mini trivia game. Hope to see you there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be sure you’re s\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ubscribed to Bay Curious so you never miss a new episode. Follow me on Instagram @oallenprice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McKusick used to work in Foster City near Bridgeview Park which, as its name suggests, offers a fine view of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. One day, while riding bikes with her daughter along the nearby Bay Trail, she stumbled upon a remnant of the original 1929 San Mateo Bridge that once crossed over the San Francisco Bay. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which raised all kinds of questions in my mind,” McKusick said. She wrote to Bay Curious looking to learn about the bridge. “I would love to know more about that original bridge in its heyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKusick Googled it, naturally, as did I, and there just isn’t a whole lot out there. The best resource?\u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardareahistory.org/hayward-san-mateo-bridge\"> A single article\u003c/a> written a few years ago for the Hayward Historical Society by John Christian, formerly an archivist there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out this bridge was once the longest bridge in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down an old section of a now unused bridge that runs off into the distance and terminates just before the horizon line. To the left of it is the new bridge that replaced it. Both bridges run over calm reflective blue water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Bridges_2412527-e1692820851937.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little stub alongside the new San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is all that remains of the original from 1929.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The history of the bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We all met at the Bridgeview Park, where you can spy a little stub of the old bridge alongside the big new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time I’ve been over here. I guess I’m too Hayward-centric. I’ve never really seen it from this side, to be honest,” Christian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Christian, the bridge was originally proposed in 1922 by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, as a way to jump start business between the Peninsula and the East Bay. Construction began in December 1927. A little more than a year later, on March 2, 1929, there was a grand opening of what was then called the “San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge opening in 1929 was a big deal for the Bay Area, and President Calvin Coolidge participated in the dedication by pressing a telegraph button in Washington, D.C. that directed the unfurling of an American flag from the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, who was known to love attending celebrations of almost any kind, was the biggest local celebrity to show up in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike the Golden Gate Bridge to the north, this bridge helped farmers get their goods to market. In the 1920s, the region on both sides of the Bay was rural, as opposed to suburban, as it is today. Think farms, orchards, canneries, salt harvesting and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"Archival image of a 1920s-era transport truck carrying crates of ketchup. Two large American flags are mounted on poles near the front of the truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637-1536x1126.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/hsmb-truck-crossing-e1692821339637.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hayward cannery truck crosses the bridge bringing Hayward ‘Quality Tomato Catsup’ to San Mateo as part of the 1929 dedication. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Hayward Area Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe because it wasn’t designed primarily for commuter traffic, the original bridge was only 30 feet wide with just two lanes, and about 7 miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Looking at the new bridge, I mean, compared to the old bridge, this bridge is a monster. You know, this is like, 6 lanes. The original bridge would have been just two lanes, back and forth,” Christian said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petite, and also, I have to say, terrifying. Right? Especially if there’s a stiff wind? Picking up off the water? Driving a Model T Ford? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nobody was blown into the water, as far as I can tell,” Christian said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fun fact: The original toll was 45 cents, about $8 in today’s money! So, Christian says, adjusted for inflation, it was more expensive to cross in 1929 than it is today. Takes the sting out of today’s $7 toll? Or maybe not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white archival aerial photo of the middle section of a long bridge passing over the San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-800x620.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-1020x790.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825-1536x1190.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/California_-_San_Francisco_-_NARA_-_23935735-scaled-e1692820873825.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cause of commuter traffic on what was then the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge when the Model T was king. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Dreams of a bigger bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1954, 7,400 cars and trucks were crossing every day and newspapers were calling the old bridge an “antique.” The rural towns on either side of the Bay had become suburbs, and the bridge wasn’t designed to carry that kind of capacity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was a small bridge taking you to a small place. And now it’s this massive [bridge taking you from] city center to city center,” said Christian.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As time went on, the biggest complaint about this bridge was not how slender it was, but the electric drawbridge that went up on average 6 times a day to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">let marine traffic pass underneath.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That brought cars and trucks on the bridge to a standstill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So in 1961, the groundwork was laid for the construction of a wider, taller bridge, to be built just a few feet north of the original span. The old bridge was dismantled, piece by piece, except for the small bit you can still see from Bridgeview Park today. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey everyone! You’re listening to the Bay Curious podcast, where we explore the Bay Area one question at a time. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know that the Bay Area was once home to the longest bridge in North America? And also one of the skinniest?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">original\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> bridge that ran between San Mateo and Hayward, or Hayward and San Mateo, depending on which side of the Bay you sit on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathleen McKusick of Redwood City used to work in biotech near Bridgeview Park in Foster City. Which is how she came to ask us this question: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I stumbled across a remnant of the 1929 San Mateo Bridge about a dozen years ago. I would love to know more about that original bridge in its heyday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a lot of spectacular bridges here in the Bay Area. But let’s be honest, the San Mateo-Hayward bridge doesn’t get a ton of love. Today we’re putting her in the spotlight, and learning more about the original bridge that helped shape our region. We’ll be right back!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This week, we’re answering a question from Kathleen, that was selected by you, our audience, in a monthly voting round. If you want a say in what we cover, vote in our current poll at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious/\">Bay Curious.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, so Kathleen wants to know the story behind what remains of what was then called the “San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge” … We sent KQED’s Rachael Myrow to check it out …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sounds of a park outdoors, highway traffic can be heard in the background]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you’ve walked or cycled along the Bay Trail on the Peninsula, you know it passes under the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My daughter and I were here on the weekend to ride bikes on the Bay Trail, and we went on the bikes a little farther than I usually went on foot, and here was this astonishing little piece of a bridge. Which raised all kinds of questions in my mind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kathleen McKusick Googled it, naturally, as did I\u003c/span> \u003cb>…\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and … there just isn’t a whole lot out there … The best resource? ONE article written a few years ago for the Hayward Historical Society… an article written by THIS guy:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> John Christian, formerly an archivist at the Hayward Historical Society.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We all met at the Bridgeview Park, where you can spy a little stub of the old bridge alongside the big new one. It’s a noisy park. You can hear the traffic from the new bridge, not to mention planes flying overhead from SFO.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the first time I’ve been over here. I guess I’m too Hayward-centric. But yeah, I’ve never really seen it from this side, to be honest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Christian, the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge was originally proposed in 1922, by \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Oakland Chamber of Commerce\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as a way to jump start commerce between the Peninsula and the East Bay. Construction began in December of 1927. Flash forward to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">March 2, 1929, and we have …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Old timey music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The grand opening of what was then called the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">! Now, quick production note. Nineteen-twenty-nine is a tricky time for sound reporters in the Bay. Much of the news footage from that era was still silent. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Archival recording of Calvin Coolidge talking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What talkies there \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">were\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> typically brought sound to big, national news stories. But the bridge opening in 1929 was a big deal for the Bay Area, \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sound of Morse code being sent over a telegraph]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then-President Calvin Coolidge participated in the dedication by pressing a telegraph button in Washington, D.C., that directed the unfurling of an American flag from the bridge. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[flag unfurling sound, crowd says “Ahhhh”]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then-San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, who was known to love attending celebrations of almost any kind, was the biggest local celebrity to show up in person. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1929 Ford AA Truck engine starts up]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not unlike the Golden Gate bridge to the north, this bridge helped farmers get their goods to market. In the 1920s, the region on both sides of the Bay was rural, as opposed to suburban, as it is today. Farms, orchards, canneries, salt harvesting… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe because it wasn’t designed primarily for commuter traffic, I think it’s worth noting that the original bridge was only 30 feet wide with just two lanes, and about 7 miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Looking at the new bridge, I mean, compared to the old bridge, this bridge is a monster. You know, this is like, 6 lanes. The original bridge would have been just two lanes, back and forth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petite, and also, I have to say, terrifying. Right? Two lanes, two lanes only, one going in one direction, one in the other. 30 feet wide, going over, over the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dramatic music swells ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, I mean, it musta, I guess, you know, probably it was kind of fun, I guess. But yeah, probably a little horrifying. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Especially if there’s a stiff wind? Picking up off the water?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, I mean…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driving a Model T Ford? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nobody was blown into the water, as far as I can tell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fun fact: The original toll was 45 cents … about $8 in today’s money! So, Christian says, adjusted for inflation, it was more expensive to cross in 1929 than it is today! Takes the sting out of today’s $7 toll … Or maybe not…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyways, it wasn’t long before newspaper articles were calling the old bridge “antique.” By 1954, 7,400 cars and trucks were crossing every day. Because the rural towns on either side of the Bay did become suburbs…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Christian:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it was a small bridge taking you to a small place, you know? And now it’s like, this massive, like, you know, city center to city center. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the biggest complaint about this bridge was not how slender it was, but the electric drawbridge that went up on average 6 times a day to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">let marine traffic pass underneath.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That brought cars and trucks on the bridge to a standstill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So in 1961, the groundwork was laid for the construction of a wider, taller bridge, to be built just a few feet north of the original span. The old bridge was dismantled, piece by piece, except for the small bit you can still see from Bridgeview Park today. \u003c/span>According to the state’s Department of Transportation, by the way, the new bridge is still the longest bridge in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So now that you know the full story, any thoughts?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kathleen McKusick: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really wish that the pier were open and I could walk out onto the bridge. That would be a dream come true.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That story was reported by KQED’s Rachael Myrow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hope you’ll join me tonight, Thursday, Aug. 24 at Black Bird Books in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. It’s the last stop on our tour for our new book, \u003cem>Bay Curious: Exploring Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/em>. I’ll be reading, signing, answering questions and playing a mini trivia game. Hope to see you there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be sure you’re s\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ubscribed to Bay Curious so you never miss a new episode. Follow me on Instagram @oallenprice. And sign up for our monthly newsletter at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/bay-curious\">BayCurious.org/Newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is made by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, and me, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Olivia\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maha Sanad \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Holly Kernan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a great week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ylvie Fraley describes the home she lived in with her mother and younger sister in the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Bonny Doon as “incredibly unique.” Her mom, Leigh-Anne Lehrman said “it was built by hippies, for sure.” Not only was it a beautiful home, but it had become a community gathering space — the place every high school after-prom party was hosted, every graduation, and every birthday, even special occasions for those outside their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Aug. 15, 2020, the power went out at Fraley’s home as rare \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833586/photos-rare-august-thunderstorm-sees-lightning-streak-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lightning storms\u003c/a> approached. Then 18 years old, she was home with her younger sister while her mom stayed in Woodside undergoing cancer treatment. Fraley, bored without electricity, busied herself by walking through the house collecting items, just in case they would need to leave — if the lightning storms ignited a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only reason we took anything was because I was bored and had nothing else to do except to walk through the house and put stuff in a trash bag,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is familiar with fire — in 2017, Fraley’s grandfather lost his North Bay home in the deadly and massively destructive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Still, when Fraley and her sister left in the early hours of Aug. 16, after her mom sent a neighbor to look for them, they fully expected to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time many people woke up on Aug. 16, the widespread lightning storms had ignited numerous fires in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains, blazes that would later become known as the CZU Lightning Complex fires. In a March 2021 community meeting, Cal Fire said the CZU fires were the largest in the recorded history of Santa Cruz County. They killed one person, forced the evacuation of over 77,000 people in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties and destroyed 911 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after the CZU fires began, just a few miles away from Fraley’s home in the San Lorenzo Valley, Antoñia Bradford rushed around her house gathering her kids and dogs while frantically texting her husband who was in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I packed up my five kids and my two dogs and grabbed my father’s ashes and some paintings,” Bradford said, but, “the way that we were reading things, the fire was moving away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days later, Bradford’s home – and Fraley’s – had been transformed into rubble and ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Can’t Abandon This Community’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over 10 months after the CZU fires, many are still working to process and rebuild their lives — both physically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford, who has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 13 years and appreciates how down-to-earth people are, is still mourning the losses. But she is committed to staying and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even express how challenging it is. The grief is so deep,” she said. “I can’t abandon this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leigh-Anne Lehrman, CZU fires survivor\"]‘Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there.’[/pullquote]A few days before KQED spoke to her, Bradford said a neighbor had dropped off soup for her — someone she had never met before. “The people here are amazing, and I feel like I would be really hard pressed to find that anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh-Anne Lehrman, Fraley’s mom, ranked the loss of community as the one she feels most keenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Priced Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fraley and Lehrman, who were renters, said they were priced out after losing their home to the CZU fires. Lehrman said they had a hard time finding a place, even though they had financial assistance in the form of insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent’s just shot up,” she said, adding that they were lucky to have found the place they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman said it was the 40th place she contacted before someone responded. If they didn’t have the insurance money, she said there’s no way they would be able to afford it. Since the fire, she’s been renting a place in Aptos for $6,500 per month. The Bonny Doon home she rented before it burned cost $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost of rent that’s kept her away from her close-knit community. Lehrman said she hasn’t been back to the neighborhood since the fires for personal reasons. “I’ve chosen not to ever go back up there,” she said. She doesn’t want to ruin the memories she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Gone in an Instant’ – Loss of Home, and Income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For others, the fires took away not only a home, but a source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am 76 years old, disabled, a lung cancer survivor, and I will probably end up living in a trailer,” said CZU fires survivor Catherine Wilson. She has owned her home since she was 23. “I worked my whole life to have the property I had in Boulder Creek,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Wilson, CZU fires survivor\"]‘I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people.’[/pullquote]Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirsten Flynn, CZU fire survivor on the complicated rebuilding process\"]‘It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played.’[/pullquote]In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. Bradford said costs can skyrocket to over $5,000 if the county requires advanced surveys by an outside geologist in addition to the county review fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s issues beyond what we can control,” Flynn said. “It’s not like just getting a plan and building something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things slightly more complicated, the environmental health assessment is conducted by the same overburdened county department that has been handling the county’s response to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A catastrophe [the fire] occurred, on top of a global pandemic,” said Flynn. “For different reasons. The county is struggling and the fire victims are struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clearly track all of the labyrinthine steps she’s had to go through, Flynn created a graphic to share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played,” she said, describing the nightmare process of getting all the checks needed to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11876469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg 631w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZU fires survivor Kirsten Flynn created this flow chart to illustrate the complexity of the rebuilding process. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kirsten Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For others, like Brian and Emma Dean, who lost their Boulder Creek home to the CZU fires, the cost of materials is proving another barrier to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Deans got insurance money and are in the process of rebuilding – but because of the significant increase in the cost of lumber (\u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price-outlook-futures-shortage-demand-commodity-inflation-2021-6-1030537230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 400% at some points over the past year\u003c/a>), the insurance doesn’t cover their current rebuilding cost estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of June, Brian Dean estimated they’re short up to $300,000 – almost double the original rebuilding estimate they received. They’re waiting for lumber prices to go down before they attempt to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Emma Dean hold a photo of their house at the property in Boulder Creek on April 9, 2021, where the home stood before it was destroyed by the CZU Lighting Complex fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of all of this are proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/03/06/santa-cruz-community-pushes-for-answers-on-fire-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft fire safety rules from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finalized, those regulations could significantly impact how fire survivors across the state can rebuild. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1975505 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/RS50133_GettyImages-610889522-qut-1020x627.jpg']In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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