WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:23.420 On this week's episode: San Jose's City Council splits over downtown parking, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors suspends a Sheriff's Department oversight commissioner, and San Francisco's Planning Commission hears a plan for Flower Mart towers and backs a fee break for new housing. 2 00:00:26.659 --> 00:00:30.899 Five minutes on what the Bay Area's local governments decided this week. 3 00:00:31.499 --> 00:00:41.960 Two shows reported this week. In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors met Tuesday and the Planning Commission met Thursday. San Jose's City Council met Tuesday, then again Friday for a study session. 4 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:48.934 And San Francisco's board proclaimed October the city's first Walktober, with the board's chair pointing to more than nine hundred public stairways. 5 00:00:48.934 --> 00:01:00.979 This episode was produced with AI from the episodes of the shows that cover each of the area's governments, which are made from the public recordings of the meetings. Links to every source are in the show notes. 6 00:01:04.218 --> 00:01:12.628 Our top story: on Tuesday, San Jose's City Council passed a scaled-back downtown parking package. Garage rates go up, but meters don't. 7 00:01:12.628 --> 00:01:14.090 What had staff proposed? 8 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:28.716 A five-year plan raising downtown meters to three dollars an hour, and later four, with downtown meters running until nine p.m. About sixteen people spoke, and nearly all of them opposed the plan or asked for a pause. 9 00:01:28.716 --> 00:01:30.544 How did the votes go? 10 00:01:30.544 --> 00:01:53.578 Councilmember Anthony Tordillos's two-year alternative failed five to five, and so did a call for a joint meeting with the Downtown Parking Board. A reduced version then passed seven to three, with Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Bien Doan and George Casey voting no. It raises garage event and hourly rates. Tordillos acknowledged that the parking fund would still lose some money each year. 11 00:01:56.818 --> 00:02:07.142 Now to San Francisco. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors suspended Commissioner William Palmer from the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board and approved charges of official misconduct against him. 12 00:02:07.142 --> 00:02:08.616 What are the charges? 13 00:02:08.616 --> 00:02:25.946 They weren't described at the meeting. A speaker said the inspector general's office had provided clear evidence of multiple incidents. The first vote was ten to zero, with Supervisor Chyanne Chen recorded absent. At her request, the board rescinded that vote and voted again, eleven to zero. 14 00:02:25.946 --> 00:02:27.421 And what happens next? 15 00:02:27.421 --> 00:02:34.058 The clerk sends the charges to the Ethics Commission, and the city attorney serves them on the commissioner. 16 00:02:37.297 --> 00:02:42.285 Also in San Francisco, the Planning Commission took up two housing items on Thursday. 17 00:02:42.285 --> 00:02:44.423 Starting with the Flower Mart site? 18 00:02:44.423 --> 00:03:02.240 Yes. At a hearing with no vote, staff presented a proposed amendment to the site's 2019 development agreement in Central SoMa. It could allow up to three thousand five hundred thirty-two homes, in towers up to six hundred feet. It comes back for approvals after environmental review. 19 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:03.666 And the fee break? 20 00:03:03.666 --> 00:03:23.977 The commission voted seven to zero to recommend waiving childcare, transit and area plan impact fees for certain housing in the Family Zoning Plan area. Inclusionary housing requirements would stay. It extended the break beyond corner lots to all eligible parcels. After a long debate, it also dropped the twenty thirty-two end date staff had proposed. 21 00:03:27.216 --> 00:03:41.324 Now a quick trip around the area. On Tuesday, San Jose's City Council unanimously adopted a temporary moratorium on new or expanded detention and custodial facilities on private and public property, as far as state and federal law allow. 22 00:03:41.324 --> 00:04:04.115 On Friday, San Jose's council held a study session on two ways to pay for infrastructure. One is special tax districts, which need a two-thirds vote. The other is districts that set aside future property tax growth. The council took no action. Staff said the city's thirteen and a half percent share of the one percent property tax limits the second tool. 23 00:04:04.115 --> 00:04:16.776 And San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted eleven to zero to raise how much the City Attorney's Office can settle claims for without a board vote, from twenty-five thousand dollars to a hundred thousand. 24 00:04:20.015 --> 00:04:30.495 That's the week. San Francisco's and San Jose's own shows cover the full meetings. Spot an error? There's a link on the episode's page, and we read corrections on air. 25 00:04:30.495 --> 00:04:34.095 That's the week around the Bay Area. See you next time.