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It was affordable enough that her parents could eventually buy a second home in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the family RV homes that Yessica Pérez’s family owns stands on 742 Francisco Blvd. West in San Rafael on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Pérez lives there with her sister, surrounded by memories of the community she grew up in. Life at the park was peaceful until 2021, when Harmony Communities took over the park’s management, Pérez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family was among several others to receive 60-day eviction notices for both properties for violations that included storing a broom outside and having a porch attached to their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would fix the violation,” she said. “Seven days later, we would receive another violation on top of another violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez and her family fought back, challenging the eviction notices, along with other residents at the park. What followed has been a years-long battle that last month culminated in a lawsuit against Harmony Communities and the park’s owner, accusing them of harassment, illegal rent increases, and violating the terms of a past legal settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For residents, the lawsuit represents a turning point in their fight to defend one of Marin County’s few affordable housing options in a region where rents are among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/most-recent/top-10-counties-with-the-highest-rental-rates-in-2024/\">highest in the nation\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12034694 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/F84AEA38-15C9-48B4-905A-8EA8C37A0B0F-SCALED-KQED-1020x765.jpg']“We’ve heard what they’ve done in other places. We know what they do in other parks,” said Herman Privette, who’s lived at the park since 1976, adding that he has little sympathy for the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rural Legal Assistance Attorney Mariah Thompson, who is helping represent the park residents, said what’s happening in San Rafael mirrors patterns she’s seen at other parks Harmony owns or manages across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same tactics playing out over and over again, with slight variation,” she said. “The major themes are attempts to increase rent beyond what is permissible by rent control or deny that local rent control applies to specific parks, spaces, or homes based on what they see as perceived loopholes in the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harmony first took over management of the RV Park of San Rafael, residents say the company issued repeated violation notices for minor infractions, tried raising rents beyond legal limits, and filed eviction notices. In a statement to KQED, Harmony disputed those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Ubaldi, a spokesperson for Harmony, said in an email that the eviction notices focused on health and safety issues and the company continues “to welcome low-income families into the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These notices address severe health and safety violations to prevent incidents,” Ubaldi wrote. “We would be negligent not to enforce compliance with serious health and safety codes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herman Privette, poses for a portrait at RV home in San Rafael on Oct. 1, 2025. Privette, who has lived in this San Rafael RV park for over 30 years, is fighting a possible eviction from Harmony Housing Development, which has recently taken new ownership of the properties. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Legal Aid of Marin Attorney DeMarco García, who began helping families in July as co-counsel with California Rural Legal Assistance, said Harmony often singled out residents who were least likely to push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They first started with the tenants that don’t speak a lick of English,” he said. “People were afraid, with everything going on with immigration, that they just stayed kind of hidden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privette said he’d never seen the community shrink so much. Staring at the strip of road, he pointed to vacant spaces where families were either evicted or left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starting with the one by the mail room, there’s an empty space there, and another where that truck is,” he said. “I’ve never seen it like this in all my years here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the community has been classified as a mobile home park. The designation means residents own their homes but rent the land underneath them, giving them protections under California’s Mobilehome Residency Law and the city’s rent control ordinance.[aside postID=news_11977464 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_2976-1020x765.jpg']Back in 2004, a Marin County Superior Court judge ruled that despite its name, the “RV park” was in fact a mobile home park, subject to local rent control. The court noted the park had been built in the 1940s, long before modern regulations on lot size and setbacks, and said those older “legacy conditions,” like narrow spaces, small lots, and additions, were legally grandfathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state’s housing department has also consistently treated the property as a mobile home park, and city zoning does not allow RV parks within San Rafael city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Harmony raised rents beyond what the city’s ordinance allows, residents and city officials saw it as a direct violation of those long-standing protections. Ubaldi, of Harmony, disputes any violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not impose the rent increase,” Ubaldi wrote. “We requested it and sought a city hearing to determine a fair outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city and Harmony went to court, kicking off a two-year legal battle. In 2023, the two sides reached a settlement that required Harmony to dismiss pending evictions and uphold rent-control protections. But by then, several families had already left the park, García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Thompson said Harmony soon resumed the same practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They start issuing these same notices,” she said. “For things that [the state’s Housing and Community Development Department] has come and done an inspection on and has said we’re all cleared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said she hopes the new lawsuit will force Harmony to finally comply with the settlement and ensure the company follows through on its promises to the community. According to court documents, residents are suing to protect their property rights as homeowners and to put an end to Harmony’s “unlawful business practices and displacement campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yessica Pérez poses for a portrait in one of her family’s RV homes in San Rafael, on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without this court’s assistance, [the residents] will likely lose their protections under rent control, if not lose their homes and community entirely,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pérez, each new eviction notice from Harmony chips away at the stability her parents hoped for when they first came to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult because they really thought this was gonna be a retirement home for them,” Pérez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for neighbors like Privette, the lawsuit is about more than legal protections. It’s about preserving one of the few affordable places to live in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To live in your own place and be able to live with an affordable rent is something I would like to see more people have,” Privette said. “I’d be happy for other people to be as lucky as I’ve been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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You can call it whatever you want,” said Koerner, vice president of the San Rafael City Schools’ Board of Education, a day after a throng of district parents vociferously panned his resolution during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/Vxy9H6zhMxI\">a school board meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offensive,” “embarrassing,” ridiculous,” “tone deaf,” “insensitive at best.” Those were just some of the jabs in the nearly hourlong fusillade of admonishments, mostly from district moms, of Koerner and his ill-fated resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure in question, titled “Recognition of the Essential Role and Needs of Young Men in Society,” sought to officially “recognize and support the needs of young men, promoting their mental, emotional, and physical health” and recognize that “the current emotional, educational, and financial state of young men is in critical condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most controversially, it also criticized the use of the term “toxic masculinity,” arguing it “does not reflect the vast majority of men and can detract from constructive dialogues,” while also saying “language that implies young men need to be ‘fixed’ by women undermines mutual respect and equality and is not conducive to constructive discourse on gender dynamics in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koerner, a tech investor and father of two teenage boys, who was previously co-CEO of Dictionary.com, said he introduced the resolution to underscore “the need to recognize young men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was was intended to highlight boys’ lower rates of academic achievement and higher rates of suicide and mental health issues, he said, noting that, on average, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/high-school-graduation-rate-boys-c7b8dff33221e0ded2d1369397d96455\">high school graduation rates for boys\u003c/a> are, on average, lower than they are for girls and that boys are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5848397/#:~:text=In%20early%20adolescence%2C%20the%20onset,are%20still%20not%20fully%20understood.\">less likely \u003c/a>to seek support for mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to ban any words. People should be able to say whatever they want,” Koerner told KQED on Tuesday. “I was suggesting that maybe [a term like toxic masculinity] is something that when young men hear that, it triggers them … even if they don’t associate with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I thought it was worth bringing up so that we would start to think about the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say, Koerner’s effort didn’t land well. 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This is embarrassing,” said Lindsey Holtaway, one of the many impassioned parents who spoke during the roughly 45-minute comment session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents hinted that Koerner should resign, while others suggested his resolution was another salvo in the culture wars fueled by the anti-woke rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration. One commenter specifically referenced recent remarks by \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-offers-cringe-advice-to-young-men-suppressed-by-us-culture/\">Vice President J.D. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Koerner said he found that perceived connection “disappointing because I don’t see myself as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry it upset them so much,” said Koerner, who joined the board last year. “My goals are not to be divisive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Superintendent Carmen Diaz Ghysels, who led Monday’s meeting, declined KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in Monday’s meeting, Morgan Agnew, president of the San Rafael Federation of Teachers, set the tone by lambasting Koerner for allegedly introducing the resolution without consulting the district’s educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have told you about the important programs we already have to support our male students: the Boys Group at Madrone, Dudes and Donuts, the Champion Men’s Zone, just to name a few,” he said. “Supporting young men and recognizing systemic gender inequalities are not mutually exclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Koerner still thinks many people agree with the sentiment of his resolution, if not the language, and he said he would gladly hand off the issue to someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be actually happy to step aside and maybe let one of our other trustees manage that or let the educators themselves come up with something if they want to,” he said, adding that he’d even consider resigning from the board if there was a big push to “get rid of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is not to interject myself into it,” he said. “I’m not here to put my personal footprint on this or to be the person solving it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The city will provide tents, case management, security, garbage and shower services within a fenced zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials hope to keep the camp in place for a maximum of a year and a half while they work toward creating a tiny home site elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking a very thoughtful, human-centered and trauma-informed approach to ultimately help resolve the homelessness that these folks are experiencing,” said assistant city manager John Stefanski, who’s been working on the plan since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As public officials around the state face mounting frustration over homelessness, they’re increasingly looking to these city-approved encampments as a last resort for reducing sanitation and public safety hazards associated with tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/19/san-jose-approves-sanctioned-encampment-plan-for-500-homeless-people-near-waterways/\">moving ahead with a plan\u003c/a> to relocate 500 unhoused people into managed camps, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/safe-sleeping-program\">San Diego\u003c/a> has also embraced the approach. Experiments with self-governed, sanctioned camps in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978863/sacramento-gave-a-homeless-camp-a-lease-as-an-experiment-heres-what-happened\">Sacramento\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11442103/oaklands-sanctioned-homeless-camp-project-ends-on-sad-note\">Oakland\u003c/a> have proved controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Rafael previously ran a 50-person sanctioned encampment under Interstate 101, and 70% of its residents ended up no longer homeless, according to Stefanski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said these projects are necessary stopgaps as the region works to create more shelter space and affordable housing. 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Without that impediment, officials said, they were able to move ahead with the sanctioned camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so tired of waiting to take action,” Mayor Kate Colin said during Monday’s City Council meeting. “We all know the status quo is not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials in San Rafael and across the state take advantage of the opening from the court to crack down on encampments, they’re facing a backlash from homeless advocates who warn the tactics only cause more harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a perception among city officials that they can take their gloves off and start pummeling people,” said San Rafael advocate Robbie Powelson, who’s been fighting the city’s policies for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argues the money would be better spent putting people into permanent housing. For the $4,000 per person per month the sanctioned camp will cost, he said, the city could put people up in their own apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stefanski said that ignores the amount of support and services unhoused people often need on their path to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted to funnel $2.2 million in encampment resolution grants and other state funding toward start-up costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that they have the green light from city leaders, outreach workers will begin identifying which of the Mahon camp’s current residents want to take up the offer to stay in the sanctioned encampment. 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"content": "\u003cp>Regional transportation officials face a key deadline this year about the future of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge — whose pedestrian-bike path is part of a four-year pilot. This pilot is now over, and Bay Area transportation officials must decide whether to keep, change, or scrap it amid long-standing concerns over a traffic bottleneck that some blame on the path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has ignited a debate between Bay Area business leaders, who have been lobbying aggressively to address traffic jams leading to the bridge, and many cyclists, like Najari Smith, who has led calls to make the bike path on the bridge’s upper deck of the bridge permanent. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Najari Smith, founder and executive director, Rich City Rides\"]‘I believe that everybody should have access to getting where they need to go without being dependent on a car to get there.’[/pullquote]“I believe that everybody should have access to getting where they need to go without being dependent on a car to get there,” said Smith, founder and executive director of Rich City Rides, a nonprofit that promotes biking in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://reports.mysidewalk.com/3374a0ca74\">Metropolitan Transportation Committee data\u003c/a>, an average of 86 cyclists and 15 pedestrians use the path every weekday (that number rises to 237 cyclists and 23 pedestrians on the weekend), while during weekday morning rush hour, an average of 3,000 westbound drivers an hour cross the bridge. Studies led by a team of researchers at UC Berkeley show that backups happen often, beginning around 3 miles before the toll plaza in Richmond, slowing traffic to a crawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the Bay Area Council, a coalition representing over 300 of the largest employers in the Bay Area, including private companies like Amazon and public agencies like the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, is proposing adding a bike and pedestrian path to the bridge’s lower deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Grubb, the council’s chief operating officer, said that change would relieve congestion for morning commuters on the westbound upper deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to do that, then the backup that happens in the Richmond side would go away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s proposal calls for moving the “zipper” barrier that separates the upper-deck bike lane from vehicle traffic on weekday mornings to create a third westbound traffic lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971764\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow sign with the image of a bicycle on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign cautioning bikers of a steep decline on the upper deck of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A new zipper barrier on the lower deck would be deployed to allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross the bridge when the upper-deck path is closed, then moved aside to accommodate eastbound drivers during the afternoon and evening commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council sees this configuration — in which one deck of the bridge would always be open to bicycles and pedestrians — as a grand compromise. Lanes would be devoted to vehicles when most drivers are on the road while maintaining 24/7 access for active transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is emboldened by the results of another pilot project on the bridge. In April 2018, bridge officials opened the eastbound shoulder lane on the lower deck to vehicle traffic during the afternoon rush hour back to the East Bay from Marin County, increasing the number of lanes on that deck from two to three. Studies of the change found that travel times from northbound U.S. 101 in Marin to the toll plaza in Richmond decreased by 14 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grubb sees this as clear evidence that opening a third lane to vehicle traffic on the upper deck during the morning rush hour would yield the same benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission warn that improvements to the freeway on the Marin side of the bridge would be needed for this plan to be feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Jan. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we convert a shoulder on the upper deck to a third lane, what we’re really doing is moving the choke point from the toll plaza [in Richmond] to the west end of the bridge,” said Lisa Klein, a staff member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission during a November 2023 meeting of the Bay Area Toll Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 study by the Transportation Authority of Marin estimated that if the third lane is opened, it would take $70 million to $90 million to address the new bottleneck and improve travel times for drivers headed to northbound U.S. 101. But the study notes this would do nothing to help drivers heading to southbound 101, towards San Francisco. To expedite travel times in both directions, the total price tag comes to as much as $310 million, according to a staff report by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening the westbound upper deck to more traffic could also undo the travel time reductions currently being seen on the eastbound lower deck during the afternoon commute, when the shoulder lane is opened to traffic, according to Francois Dion, senior research engineer at the UC Berkeley PATH Program, which Caltrans commissioned to study the traffic impacts of the pilot. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Francois Dion, senior research engineer, UC Berkeley PATH Program\"]‘If you make travel going from Richmond to Marin easier, then it may increase traffic going that way, but it may increase traffic coming back, as well.’[/pullquote]Dion said it’s possible that opening a third lane to traffic on the upper deck could \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/esta/images/sb-743-infographic.png\">induce demand\u003c/a>. If you widen a road, it will temporarily reduce congestion, which incentivizes more people to drive. Eventually, you’ll end up with the same or more congestion, only now with more cars on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you make travel going from Richmond to Marin easier, then it may increase traffic going that way, but it may increase traffic coming back, as well,” Dion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several other issues regarding the council’s proposal. The bridge would likely need to be strengthened to accommodate the added load of shifting barriers on a two-path bridge, and state environmental laws would require an analysis to determine if the proposal would increase the total “vehicle miles traveled” on the bridge — a metric that measures the total amount of distance traveled by motor vehicles in an area over a period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the lane were found to increase vehicle miles traveled, we would need to provide mitigation for that, and that would increase the cost for a third lane,” Klein said. “But a high occupancy vehicle lane is less likely to have an impact on VMT than a general purpose lane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also claims that their proposal will help alleviate the poor air quality that plagues residents of the city of Richmond — home to a coal terminal, an oil refinery, railroads and highways, as well as various other heavy industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A bike lane on a large bridge on which cars are also driving.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The upper deck of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Richmond-Air-Monitoring-Network_Final-Report.pdf\">2022 study\u003c/a> by PSE Healthy Energy, fine particulate matter concentrations “were generally elevated and hovered around or exceeded the federal National Ambient Air Quality Standards 3-year annual average in many Richmond-San Pablo neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grubb said that a third lane would reduce congestion and, therefore, improve air quality and its associated health impacts on Richmond residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Air pollution is a big concern everywhere, but in particular, it’s a big concern in Richmond,” he added. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Grubb, chief operating officer, Bay Area Council\"]‘Air pollution is a big concern everywhere, but in particular, it’s a big concern in Richmond.’[/pullquote]But Metropolitan Transportation Commission staff have said congestion isn’t the biggest contributor to fine particulate air pollution — it’s the amount of cars on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of particulate matter in the Richmond community as elsewhere in the Bay Area is from road dust, brake wear, and tire wear, these are non-exhaust emissions,” said Klein of the MTC during the November meeting of the Bay Area Toll Authority Oversight Committee. “Reducing congestion on 580 is not, in fact, likely to significantly reduce the vehicle emissions that most impact health in the community. If a third lane were to increase Vehicle Miles Traveled or truck traffic, harmful emissions could increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tproject’s high costect and the unknown outcomes raise doubts for cyclists like Najari Smith of Rich City Rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would need to see a study that shows that this thing that they want to do is actually going to create improvements that will impact people’s lives and that it connects with the price tag that’s placed on it in order to do that,” he said. [aside label='More on Cycling' tag='cycling']Both the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Caltrans are working on a scope, schedule, and budget for studies and potential pilots of adding another path to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes with the potential to reduce morning traffic are already underway on the westbound approach of the bridge. The Bay Area Toll Authority plans to remove the toll booths at the toll plaza and extend a high-occupancy vehicle/bus lane on the approach to the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long term, UC Berkeley is also studying the continued traffic impacts of the bridge’s bike path pilot. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is expected to review that study sometime this summer. (According to Francois Dion with the UC Berkeley PATH Program, his research so far indicates that the creation of the path has not worsened congestion.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said more could be done to improve the existing path and encourage more people to use it. He points out there are no bathrooms, water fountains or lights on the path for evening travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although cyclist numbers on the bridge pale in comparison to drivers, there is a passionate cohort of riders who support the bridge path. In November 2023, on the fourth anniversary of the path opening, over 1,300 cyclists rode on the bridge, some as part of a ride organized by Rich City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, how can we activate the bridge more? Because it really is a beautiful asset,” said Smith, noting the majestic views from the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Grubb, the council’s chief operating officer, said that change would relieve congestion for morning commuters on the westbound upper deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to do that, then the backup that happens in the Richmond side would go away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s proposal calls for moving the “zipper” barrier that separates the upper-deck bike lane from vehicle traffic on weekday mornings to create a third westbound traffic lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971764\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A bright yellow sign with the image of a bicycle on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign cautioning bikers of a steep decline on the upper deck of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A new zipper barrier on the lower deck would be deployed to allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross the bridge when the upper-deck path is closed, then moved aside to accommodate eastbound drivers during the afternoon and evening commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council sees this configuration — in which one deck of the bridge would always be open to bicycles and pedestrians — as a grand compromise. Lanes would be devoted to vehicles when most drivers are on the road while maintaining 24/7 access for active transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is emboldened by the results of another pilot project on the bridge. In April 2018, bridge officials opened the eastbound shoulder lane on the lower deck to vehicle traffic during the afternoon rush hour back to the East Bay from Marin County, increasing the number of lanes on that deck from two to three. Studies of the change found that travel times from northbound U.S. 101 in Marin to the toll plaza in Richmond decreased by 14 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grubb sees this as clear evidence that opening a third lane to vehicle traffic on the upper deck during the morning rush hour would yield the same benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission warn that improvements to the freeway on the Marin side of the bridge would be needed for this plan to be feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-RSR-BIKE-LANE-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Jan. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we convert a shoulder on the upper deck to a third lane, what we’re really doing is moving the choke point from the toll plaza [in Richmond] to the west end of the bridge,” said Lisa Klein, a staff member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission during a November 2023 meeting of the Bay Area Toll Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 study by the Transportation Authority of Marin estimated that if the third lane is opened, it would take $70 million to $90 million to address the new bottleneck and improve travel times for drivers headed to northbound U.S. 101. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm evening in late June, people flocked to alfresco tables set up along San Rafael's main drag to sip sauvignon blanc and eat wood-oven pizza for Dining Under the Lights, an event to welcome Marin County residents back to one of their favorite pastimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Crisalia Calderon was hunkered down in her apartment facing a sleepless night as she grappled with the early symptoms of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old house cleaner and her husband Henry, a construction worker, both suffered terrible back pain, and she struggled to breathe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I tried to sleep, I felt like I was drowning,” she said recently, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Henry had called her sobbing from a hospital emergency room after testing positive for the coronavirus. The couple and their three small children share their Canal neighborhood flat with Crisalia’s sister and her four family members. “He didn’t want to come home,” she said. “But what could we do? Where could he go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Willis, Marin County public health officer\"]'This is our essential workforce. This isn’t the result of casual socializing at happy hour.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At home, Henry tried to isolate himself in the top bunk of one of their kids’ beds. But it was too late. Within about a week, all but two of the 10 people in the household had tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income communities of color — especially Latinos — are increasingly bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in California, where spreading infections among poor service workers living in crowded conditions has highlighted widening racial and economic inequities. These disparities are particularly stark in idyllic Marin, where a surge of new COVID-19 cases concentrated in one crowded neighborhood has helped land the county on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CountyMonitoringDataStep2.aspx\">state’s pandemic watchlist.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, who comprise 16% of the county’s population, account for 75% of coronavirus infections — closer to 90% since mid-June, according to Dr. Matt Willis, the public health officer for Marin County. After recording only a handful of coronavirus cases in the early months of the pandemic, the county now has the highest per-capita rate in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our essential workforce,” said Willis. “This isn’t the result of casual socializing at happy hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Canal, named for the waterway on its northern border that was once San Rafael’s commercial waterfront, is a flat, densely populated district in a Bay Area suburb famous for its wooded hillside hamlets and multimillion-dollar vistas. The Canal’s 2.5 square miles are dotted by auto shops, scruffy palm trees and rows of low-slung apartment buildings occupied by immigrants from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. An influx of young Latinos has nearly tripled the neighborhood’s population since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a Hispanic village where everybody knows everybody else,” said Jennifer Tores, 22, a Canal native who works at a discount clothing store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11828620 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/GettyImages-1211223326-1-1020x720.jpg']The laborers of the Canal are both a world away from and intimately connected to well-heeled towns like San Anselmo and Tiburon, where they clean mansions, wax Teslas and steam milk for $6 lattes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of families in the neighborhood earn less than $35,000 a year, in a county where the median income is almost triple that. People are often squeezed two or three families to an apartment in order to afford Marin’s infamously high rents. The Calderons live paycheck-to-paycheck to cover their half of the $2,100 monthly rent while also managing to send money back home to relatives in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said such living arrangements “can easily translate one case of COVID-19 into five or 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more contagious than the virus is the misinformation that’s spread quickly through the Latino community, including a rumor that local testing sites were infecting people and claims that beer is a cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confused and isolated at home in quarantine for several weeks with her entire family, Crisalia Calderon began to worry. “I was getting really scared,” she said. “We were running out of food and money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Calderon-Family.jpg\" alt=\"Crisalia Calderon with her children, Neymar (left), Daisy and Katy. 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The whole family tested positive for COVID-19 in late June but have since recovered. \u003ccite>(Rachel Scheier/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She spent hours dialing county officials and local nonprofits, but no one called back. Finally, someone at a community organization promised to deliver meals to the family, but all that arrived the next day was some expired ground meat and a few potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Calderon turned to the same informal safety net she’d relied on in the rural village she left at 16 to migrate north. A fellow Guatemalan neighbor went to Costco and brought her ibuprofen for the aches and fever, and diapers and PediaSure for the kids, who are aged 5, 3, and 2 years old. Someone else brought vegetables, milk and beans from a Latin American market. After three hours on the phone, Calderon managed to qualify for $500 in state coronavirus aid for undocumented residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said officials are working with Canal Alliance, a neighborhood group, to provide support to residents who contract the virus — in the form of cash and hotel rooms to isolate the infected. The county is recruiting bilingual contact tracers from the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'These People Were in Survival Mode Before COVID-19'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marin is one of California’s healthiest, wealthiest and best-educated counties, and one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.racecounts.org/county/marin/\">most segregated\u003c/a>. The county has fiercely preserved its natural beauty and wide-open spaces over the years — often at the cost of public transit and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://measureofamerica.org/docs/APOM_Final-SinglePages_12.14.11.pdf\">report on Marin County by the American Human Development Project\u003c/a> showed that fewer than half of adults in the Canal had a high school diploma. It ranked the neighborhood’s nearly 12,000 residents dead-last among the county’s 51 census tracts for community well-being and opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of these disparities, it’s not surprising that people like Calderon are falling through the cracks, said Omar Carrera, Canal Alliance’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people were in survival mode before COVID-19,” Carrera said on a recent afternoon, standing before a mural that adorns the group’s headquarters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People had been lining up since 7 a.m. for free coronavirus testing that began at 1 p.m. Health officials are scrambling to keep pace with demand for tests as infections have surged and employers such as gas stations and grocery stores have started requiring workers to be tested regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11818312 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/HaywardCoronavirusTesting-1020x664.jpg']An average of 20% of Canal tests are coming back positive. Some days, the positivity rate has been as high as 40%, said Willis. With many of the infected showing few or no symptoms, the virus has raced through this relatively young community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people around here have to go to work, so life continues mostly as usual in the Canal. Day laborers still gather in the parking lots at dawn; vendors set up at street corners beneath colorful umbrellas to hawk roasted corn or bags of fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conspiracy theories continue to multiply; one circulating in Spanish on social media holds that the virus was a government conspiracy. Another says local testing sites are reusing dirty test swabs to deliberately infect people. The rumors have fed a climate of fear and silence around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident said neighbors painted an “X” on the front door of a friend of her husband’s to warn others he was infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crisalia Calderon and her family have all recovered and since tested negative for COVID-19, but still, “there are neighbors who run away from us,” she said. She waits until late at night to do the laundry in her building, when no one else is around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other day, Calderon decided it was finally time to ask her landlord to come to her apartment to fix a long-festering plumbing problem and some broken burners. But he said he couldn’t come. 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The Calderons live paycheck-to-paycheck to cover their half of the $2,100 monthly rent while also managing to send money back home to relatives in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said such living arrangements “can easily translate one case of COVID-19 into five or 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more contagious than the virus is the misinformation that’s spread quickly through the Latino community, including a rumor that local testing sites were infecting people and claims that beer is a cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confused and isolated at home in quarantine for several weeks with her entire family, Crisalia Calderon began to worry. “I was getting really scared,” she said. “We were running out of food and money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Calderon-Family.jpg\" alt=\"Crisalia Calderon with her children, Neymar (left), Daisy and Katy. 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The whole family tested positive for COVID-19 in late June but have since recovered. \u003ccite>(Rachel Scheier/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She spent hours dialing county officials and local nonprofits, but no one called back. Finally, someone at a community organization promised to deliver meals to the family, but all that arrived the next day was some expired ground meat and a few potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Calderon turned to the same informal safety net she’d relied on in the rural village she left at 16 to migrate north. A fellow Guatemalan neighbor went to Costco and brought her ibuprofen for the aches and fever, and diapers and PediaSure for the kids, who are aged 5, 3, and 2 years old. Someone else brought vegetables, milk and beans from a Latin American market. 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But the Rev. Amos Brown, head of San Francisco’s NAACP, challenged the board after the vote, calling race the original sin of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appeal to you go home tonight,” Brown said. “Search your hearts. Do some logical thinking. Are we going to be a part of the problem? Or a solution to this problem?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixie is a nickname for the Southern U.S. states in the pro-slavery Confederacy. The legacy of the Confederacy has sparked political, legal and cultural battles, particularly in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-school district has about 1,700 students. It was founded in 1864, making it one of the oldest districts in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Miller donated land for the first schoolhouse. Those who \u003ca href=\"https://www.changethename.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support\u003c/a> changing the name say the district was named Dixie by Miller on a dare from Confederate sympathizers. Those who \u003ca href=\"https://wearedixie.org/the-history-of-james-miller-founder-of-dixie-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oppose\u003c/a> the change say the school system was named for Mary Dixie, a Miwok woman who Miller knew in the 1840s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marge Grow-Eppard, a member of the Miwok tribe who said her family name is Dixie, told the board Tuesday that she “did not realize my family’s name was so offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see no Confederate flags here,” she added. “You’re going to change Mary Dixie’s name, you dishonor all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Nissim, who attended district schools, said he did not “subscribe to the idea that everyone who wants to keep the name is racist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But changing the name is not an indictment of this district,” he said. “Changing the name is simply the next free chapter of this district’s history. 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