WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.950 --> 00:00:22.390 On this week's episode: San Francisco's Planning Commission approved a seven-story building on Shipley Street, an Oakland committee backed a shorter extension of a parking ticket contract, and San Jose's City Council and Valley Water got ready for El Niño. 2 00:00:26.054 --> 00:00:31.414 Five minutes on this week's decisions from the local governments CivicFM covers in the Bay Area. 3 00:00:32.174 --> 00:00:41.054 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 00:00:44.397 --> 00:00:57.432 Our top story this week: new homes in San Francisco's South of Market. On Thursday, the Planning Commission approved a seven-story, thirteen-home building at 173 Shipley Street, seven to nothing. 5 00:00:57.432 --> 00:00:59.592 Didn't neighbors want changes? 6 00:00:59.592 --> 00:01:28.437 They did. Those who asked for the review didn't try to stop it, but asked for conditions on foundation work in a liquefaction zone, fire truck access on the narrow street, glare, and their windows on the property line. Staff said the project meets code, and that structural and fire questions get reviewed at the building permit stage. Commissioner Mike Chen recalled that in 2018, when the commission tried to redesign a density bonus project, the state sent San Francisco a warning letter. 7 00:01:32.101 --> 00:01:51.636 Next, Oakland, and the system behind its parking tickets. On Tuesday, the Finance and Management Committee voted three to nothing, with one member excused, to recommend extending the city's contract with Modaxo Traffic Management only to June thirtieth, twenty twenty-seven. Staff had asked for March twenty twenty-eight. 8 00:01:51.636 --> 00:01:53.556 Why the shorter term? 9 00:01:53.556 --> 00:02:19.221 Members objected to a thirty percent collection fee that staff said gets added to a ticket on day sixty-one. A councilmember called it a blow to public trust. The contract ran out in April, and the vendor kept providing services. The recommendation also pays the outstanding invoices and directs staff to come back with other vendor options, including privacy protections for license plate data. It goes to the full City Council on October twentieth. 10 00:02:22.565 --> 00:02:30.725 Our third top story: San Jose, where the City Council met Tuesday with the Valley Water board to get ready for a strong El Niño winter. 11 00:02:30.725 --> 00:02:33.525 So who's responsible for clearing creeks? 12 00:02:33.525 --> 00:03:11.885 Valley Water staff described a patchwork across about eight hundred miles of county waterways: Valley Water maintains about one hundred eighty-five miles where it built flood projects, and private owners must maintain their own land. Residents and officials pressed on creek blockages, unhoused people living along waterways, and flooded trail underpasses. The council then passed a motion directing city staff to work with Valley Water on a risk-ranked list of flood hotspots along the city's roughly one hundred forty miles of waterways, with plans for high-risk sites and a way for residents to report problems. Staff are to report back, ideally before the rainy season. 13 00:03:15.388 --> 00:03:35.803 Now a quick trip around the area. San Francisco's Planning Commission also voted seven to nothing Thursday to start changing Treasure Island's plans. Staff said the larger package could make room for about twenty-eight hundred more homes. An adoption hearing can be scheduled on or after November nineteenth, and the Board of Supervisors has the final say. 14 00:03:35.803 --> 00:03:56.823 In Oakland, the Community and Economic Development Committee voted four to nothing Tuesday to recommend sending up to fifty million dollars in Measure U housing bond money and other funds to affordable housing programs, with most of it expected to go to new construction. It depends on the bonds being sold, and it's on the City Council's October twentieth agenda. 15 00:03:56.823 --> 00:04:19.748 And Oakland's City Auditor reported on how the city manages money for capital projects. The audit found about thirty-five thousand dollars in overpayments, sixty-six thousand dollars in interest from late payments on one project, and weak oversight of Measure KK and Measure U bond funds. Management agreed or partly agreed with all seventeen recommendations, and the audit goes to the full council October twentieth. 16 00:04:23.092 --> 00:04:26.692 That's the week around the Bay Area. See you next time.