Renters in East Palo Alto were successful Tuesday in approving increased protections for tenants and landlords with the passage of Measure H.
Supporters of the measure argued that it would protect tenants against unfair rent increases and require just cause for evictions. It also guarantees landlords fair returns on their investments.
There were no opponents organized against the measure.
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Another improvement to the Hetch Hetchy water system was marked Saturday after the completion of three crucial projects and the re-dedication of the Mt. Davidson plaque during a ceremony at the park.San Francisco Supervisor Sean Elsbernd along with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission celebrated the completion of three water system upgrade projects which included a new large water storage tank, a renovated water pumping station, and seismically-retrofitted water reservoir.
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It’s the time of year when thousands of computer enthusiasts descend on downtown San Francisco to see the latest gadgets and gizmos to be revealed by computer giant Apple Inc.
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts Monday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
According to Apple’s website, 1,000 Apple engineers will be at the five-day conference to answer questions and try out new concepts. The company estimates at least 5,000 people will attend this year’s conference.
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Schoolchildren in The City who need to use the restroom during class shouldn’t be barred or delayed from doing so, praised or academically rewarded for not doing so, or made to say what exactly they plan to do in the bathroom, according to a new Board of Education proposal.
Board President Jane Kim and student delegates will introduce a resolution at Tuesday’s board meeting requesting the San Francisco Unified School District to implement a policy allowing students access to school restrooms “at any time outside of the first five minutes of school.”
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The Marina Community Association is urging residents in the district to write letters to their elected officials opposing a youth transitional house by a Monday deadline.According to the neighborhood organizations website, residents oppose the Mayor's Office of Housing’s plan to convert the King Edward II Inn on the corner of Scott and Lombard streets in to a 25-unit transitional housing project for Transitional Age Youth because the proposal is “deeply flawed.”
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Students who are 18 years old can go to war, vote, but not take a bathroom break in some districts nationwide. San Francisco Unified, however, is about to make sure their youth as a right to use the restroom.At the Board of Education’s meeting Tuesday, the board will vote to protect students' rights to take a bathroom break.
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San Francisco police are looking for a suspect who shot and killed a man early Saturday morning in the Bayview-Hunters Point district.
Officer Samson Chan said police responded to West Point-Middle Point for calls of shots fired around 3:10 a.m.
When police arrived, they found Lacey Edwards, 29, of San Francisco with a single gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
“This area is known to have high amount of criminal and gang activity,” Chan said. Police have no suspects.
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Have an opinion on Fisherman’s Wharf Jefferson Street redesign?
San Francisco’s Planning Department and the Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefit District want to hear from you.
The two organizations will hold a public meeting Wednesday to discuss the draft Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan.
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The California Public Utilities Commission officially recognized CleanPowerSF as a registered “Community Choice Aggregator in the State of California” last week, a major step in the power company’s push to develop new possibilities for clean energy.
A negotiated service agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. was also approved by the commission. The agreement will govern the relationships between CleanPowerSF and PG&E.
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An estimated 30 customers remain without power in San Francisco on Folsom Street between 12th and 18th streets.
Joe Molica, spokesman for PGE, said underground cables failed in the area causing the outage. The outage first occurred around 2 p.m. and affected 3,200 customers.
By 3 p.m., Molica said power was restored to 800 customers. All remaining customers regained power by 4:45 p.m.
Molica said it is unknown when the remaining 30 customers will have power restored.
“We’re still trouble shooting,” he said.
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Delays up to 25 minutes can be expected on BART after a train with mechanical problems stopped in the Transbay Tube on Wednesday evening.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said a train headed toward San Francisco International Airport left the West Oakland station around 6:50 p.m. with mechanical troubles. When the train got in the tube, it would not go any farther.
Johnson said the train has been brought back to the West Oakland station and moved out of the way.
The troubles, however, caused delays of up to 25 minutes, Johnson said.
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New metering lights along Peninsula freeway entrances could be turned on in the next two years after the initial dozen lights proved commute times could be decreased and congestion eased.
Travel time decreased by as much as 10 minutes in some of the most heavily used portions of U.S. Highway 101 and Interstate 280 during peak hours, Caltrans Senior Transportation Engineer Lestor Lee said.
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Police were investigating a suspicious death Tuesday night after a man appeared to have fallen from the top of a building in the Mission district.
Officer Boaz Moriles said police responded to 2766 Mission St. at 7:08 p.m. after witnesses saw a man fall from the rooftop.
Moriles said the police are considering it a suspicious death and noted that homicide detectives were investigating.
The address given by witnesses is listed as the Crystal Hotel, a three-story residential hotel in the Mission. It is not clear if the man was staying at the hotel.
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A suspicious package aboard United Flight 972 halted an on-time departure for the jet bound for Chicago on Tuesday morning.
United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said when the Boeing 757 jet was headed toward the runway around 10:12 a.m., the crew noticed a suspicious package on board.
According to TSA spokeswoman Suzanne Trevino, the package had a suspicious smell coming from it.
Trevino said the plane was taken to a secure location where passengers were rescreened and K9s were taken onboard the aircraft to search for additional packages.
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When Tristan Meyer was 16, he noticed the amount of times characters smoked cigarettes in Hollywood films, but didn’t agree with it.
Now as an 18-year-old Pacifica High School senior, he has decided to do something about it by joining forces with the San Mateo County Tobacco Education Coalition to speak up about the influence characters in movies and mainstream media are having on young people.
“Smoking was normalized,” he said, “and I wasn’t a fan of that.”
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