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Officials, developer hopeful SF office conversion is housing harbinger
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and a developer of housing for middle-income people celebrated the launch Monday of the construction-design phase for a project to convert the historic Humboldt Bank Building at Fourth and Market Streets from an underutilized office property into 124 apartments. The Humboldt Bank project, which was initially unveiled in January and has now secured financing, is a rare example in The City of an advancing office-to-residential conversion effort, despite official support from local officials and voter approval of a transfer-tax break...
Advocates vow to keep fighting after Newsom vetoes AI safety bill
California won’t soon require safety testing of cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models, but that doesn’t mean an end to the effort to prevent such technology from causing large-scale harms. A day after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed his AI safety legislation — Senate Bill 1047 — California state Sen. Scott Wiener vowed to keep working on the issue in the state legislature. And the head of a prominent technology safety group suggested that efforts to regulate the technology could now focus on a ballot measure in California or...
Conflict with business-tax reform measure threatens Muni funding effort
Muni is as popular as ever, but an effort to boost its funding to prevent service cuts could fail if a simultaneous move to reform San Francisco’s business taxes proves to be even more popular. That’s because of a provision buried deep within the text of Proposition M, the business-tax reform measure on the November ballot. That provision essentially declares that it and Proposition L, which would increase taxes on Waymo, Lyft and Uber to fund Muni, are in conflict. ...
Emergency meeting called to address SFUSD’s special education teacher shortage
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) –The San Francisco Unified School District reported in September that 350 teachers were found to not have proper credentials and over 200 special education teachers and aides were not hired because the district did not issue funding for these roles. The Board of Supervisors are now holding an emergency hearing on Tuesday […]
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