WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.030 --> 00:00:20.390 On this week's episode: San Francisco's Board of Supervisors paused data centers and voted to shorten the window to appeal environmental reviews, and San Jose's City Council approved rules for delivery robots. 2 00:00:24.054 --> 00:00:29.414 Five minutes on this week's decisions from the local governments CivicFM covers in the Bay Area. 3 00:00:30.174 --> 00:00:39.134 This episode is made with AI from each government's own show, which reports from the public recordings of its meetings. Sources are in the show notes. 4 00:00:42.557 --> 00:00:58.172 Our top story this week: on Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors put a forty-five-day citywide moratorium on data centers. It passed without objection as an urgency ordinance, which needed nine votes under state law, and it took effect right away. 5 00:00:58.172 --> 00:01:01.052 So what does the pause actually stop? 6 00:01:01.052 --> 00:01:22.357 City approvals of data centers. In the meantime, the Board and the Planning Department study the effects on energy, water, air quality, land use and communities, and write permanent rules. Planning has to report back within twenty-five days, and a hearing has to follow within thirty-five. Two public commenters spoke in favor, and one of them cited air quality in the city's southeastern neighborhoods. 7 00:01:26.021 --> 00:01:38.946 Next, also from San Francisco's Board on Tuesday: less time to challenge a project's environmental review. Supervisors voted ten to one to streamline how the city handles the California Environmental Quality Act. 8 00:01:38.946 --> 00:01:41.586 How short is the new window? 9 00:01:41.586 --> 00:02:02.181 Residents who want to appeal an environmental determination to the Board would have fifteen days instead of thirty. The ordinance also drops shadow analysis as its own type of environmental impact, removes procedures for documents state law doesn't require, and puts recent state timing changes into effect. It passed on first reading, so it isn't final yet. 10 00:02:05.765 --> 00:02:12.485 San Jose's City Council on Tuesday approved rules for delivery robots on sidewalks and in bike lanes. 11 00:02:12.485 --> 00:02:14.405 Why rules now? 12 00:02:14.405 --> 00:02:31.280 Staff said no state or local law regulated these robots, so the city had no authority over them. Coco and Serve already run sidewalk robots in San Jose. DoorDash was waiting on this vote for its five-foot robot, which uses bike lanes and travels up to twenty miles an hour. 13 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.385 And what are the rules? 14 00:02:33.385 --> 00:02:48.685 A five-mile-an-hour limit on sidewalks, disabled robots moved within thirty minutes, and fines that rise from one hundred to five hundred dollars for repeat offenses. Staff plans about nine months of operation, then about three months of analysis, before reporting back. 15 00:02:52.028 --> 00:02:54.748 Now a quick trip around the area. 16 00:02:54.748 --> 00:03:09.203 San Jose's council also approved a loan of up to five point seven million dollars to the Santa Clara County Housing Authority. The money will help turn the former Comfort Suites on North First Street into fifty-seven homes, with services, for extremely low-income residents. 17 00:03:09.203 --> 00:03:22.878 The council also voted to open exclusive talks with Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco about turning the city-owned Arena Hotel from interim into permanent housing. Staff reports back in six months. 18 00:03:22.878 --> 00:03:38.493 In San Francisco, Board President Rafael Mandelman introduced a bill requiring one human attendant for every three self-checkout stations at drugstores and at grocery stores over ten thousand square feet. It wouldn't ban self-checkout, and no vote has been taken. 19 00:03:38.493 --> 00:03:55.148 And on Thursday, San Francisco's Planning Commission voted six to zero to certify the final environmental impact report for modernizing the marine sand plant at Pier ninety-two in the Bayview. The project adds dust controls. Certifying the report doesn't approve the project itself. 20 00:03:58.492 --> 00:04:02.092 That's the week around the Bay Area. See you next time.