Right now at 5 30, another wrinkle in the way cities and developers address californias housing crisis. Much of the effort to build new housing in california is focused on removing the obstacles thrown up by local governments and now the u. S. Supreme court has ruled cities and counties must be more judicious in the way they assess impact fees on development projects. John ramos explains how that could affect whats being built. Reporter the ruling stemmed from a case called sheetz versus El Dorado County in which a man wanted to put a modular home on his property and was told he had to pay to replace the entire street. The Supreme Court says that wasnt proper and now it may be a game changer in the housing crisis. Effrin coreo was involved with the development of this affordable senior apartment complex on the site of a former Mobile Home Park destroyed by the 2017 tubbs fire, but the amount the city charged to do that was simply astounding. Had an average of 40 to 60,000 per unit on impact fees. That is money that can be going into building additional housing and residential units for working class people. Reporter impact fees are the assessments Developers Must pay for the added burden to the community, streets, utilities, parks, et cetera. Officials are supposed to study what those impacts are, but they often just assign an arbitrary fee per unit on the projects and the money collected doesnt even have to be spent in that area. So it helps pay for parks in other communities, street improvement in other communities, which is fine. Its just a function of right sizing what that impact is on the development that youre proposing. Reporter but thats what the Supreme Court said may be unconstitutional. The unanimous ruling said the fees charged must be connected to and roughly proportionate to the actual impact of the development. Jen close with the santa rosa Advocacy Group generation housing says builders now have the power to challenge the validity of lot impact fees in court. And i think thats what sheetz is going to ultimately require is that those examinations are a whole lot more specific and more careful. Otherwise theyre going to find themselves defending lawsuits. Reporter developers have been insisting for years that impact fees are having a stifling effect on new Home Construction and that is borne out at the senior complex. Two phases of the project are complete, but financing for the third phase simply isnt there and the land next to it sits vacant. With High Development impact fees or impact fees that dont make sense, developers leave the state. Theyre building in nevada. Theyre building in texas. We think that by right sizing impact fees, by modifying them, builders can come back to california and build the units that we need. Reporter it will be a hit to local government budgets, but it may be the tradeoff required to build the housing theyre asking for. Corio wishes theyd stop acting like building houses is harming the community. Theres a little irony in were trying to build Affordable Housing and Workforce Housing and yet were considered an impact. Reporter the ruling didnt define what fees constitute a taking of private property. Theyre leaving that for the lower courts to hash out, but jen close says cities may save themselves a lot of legal costs if they simply cut their fees voluntarily. A state law passed in 2022 requires local governments to make the fees more proportional, but it gave them eight years to study the true impacts. The Supreme Court ruling may hurry that process by exposing them to lawsuits from developers. At the State Capitol today the annual march for life taking place one day after Governor Newsom announced a proposal to expand abortion rights. Hundreds of people rallied at the State Capitol. Remember abortion is protected under the california constitution. Now the governor says he wants to expedite the process for Arizona Doctors to get licensed to perform abortions here. People at todays rally say he should have different priorities. We shouldnt promote abortion as a means of fixing social ills and in place of social programs and helping people and providing for families. Meanwhile the governor continues to use pac money to run ads targeting restrictive abortion laws in other states. Heres whats running in alabama. Taking action at righttotravel. Org. Alabamas currently considering a bill that would make it a crime to help women travel outside the state in order to receive an abortion. This is part of a larger effort to combat travel bans across the u. S. Newsom was behind a similar ad that ran in tennessee. Former google employees are speaking out days after the Company Fired more than two dozen workers following sitin protests. Employees say many of the 28 fired workers did not directly participate in the protest. Nine people were arrested at the sunnyvale and new york offices where theyre demanding the company drop their google cloud project on nimbus contract with the israeli government. This is a legal fear mongering and it will not stop us from continuing to organize and fight for the company to drop project nimbus. Google says the terminated employees violated Company Policies by physically obstructing the workplace. Their internal investigation is still ongoing. Protests continue at College Campuses all across the country, including at uc berkeley. Students occupied the steps in front of sprawl hall pitching tents right in front of the building, calling it a solidarity encampment, demanding an end to the war in gaza. At columbia they canceled inperson classes today as campus protests there stretch into a sixth day. On the eve of passover, jewish students say they just dont feel safe. Meg oliver has the latest from new york. Reporter outside Columbia University supporters of israel marched in solidarity with jewish students who say they feel unsafe after nearly a week of oncampus protests against the israelhamas war. Im not going to go in and go into that camp and risk my safety. I have a right to my education. Reporter monday the university switched to mandatory Remote Learning and promised to significantly increase oncampus security. Pro palestinian demonstrations on and off campus have not let up. Free, free palestine. Reporter the private school had asked the nypd to clear an encampment last thursday accusing demonstrators of trespassing. Monday the nypd announced its patrolling outside campus and not aware of Credible Threats to students. We have to wait until they decide they want our presence until we move in. Reporter police were invited onto yales campus monday, arresting more than 40 people at an encampment. Protesters are demanding the university divest from military weapons manufacturers. An institution thats dedicated to academic excellence, that has no place funding a war machine that spreads across the entire globe. Reporter demonstrations are impacting other campuses across the country, including nyu, harvard, and university of colorado. At usc in los angeles students are protesting the schools cancellation of the valedictorian speech at commencement. The school cited safety issues. The valedictorian is muslim. Columbia universitys president did not give any indication when oncampus classes would resume. A heroic moment plays out in the middle of an interstate. Well show you the tense moments when a driver is rescued you made a cow actually its a piggy bank. My inspiration to start saving. 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Thankfully, believe it or not, no injuries were reported. Just in time there. A lively celebration in San Franciscos noe valley neighborhood sunday for a toilet. You may remember it made National Headlines over its estimated 1. 7 million price tag. While it did cost a seemingly ridiculous amount of money for a bathroom, coming in at around 200,000 considering when they thought they were going to spend, i guess, turned out to be i dont want to call it a bargain, but it was some savings. Da lin has more. Reporter its a celebration fit for the most infamous toilet, one that almost cost the price of a house. Noe valley, lets hear it for our not 1. 7 million bathroom. Woohoo reporter so event organizers decided to have some fun with it, everything toiletthemed, even this band renamed to American Standard at least for the day. We couldnt get toto here. Reporter Leslie Crawford organized the toilet bowl celebration at noe valley town square. When everybody laughs at you, you got to take the power back and laugh at yourself. Reporter leslie admits San Francisco deserved all the poop it got when the city announced the 1. 7 million bryce tag. People thought it 1. 7 million was the perfect example of government waste. I thought it was a little ridiculous myself. Everybody did. Yeah, thats crazy. Reporter a private company donated this prefab bathroom, but the costs still added up to 200,000. The city says Union Workers had to connect the plumbing and do a bunch of other stuff to get it ready. I asked the folks who used it how did it go . Im flush with excitement that they have a bathroom now and it gets a 10 out of 10 for me. Its great. Its a relief and we can relieve ourselves when we have to go. We dont have to go to the lovely and clean. It was spacious, clean, and wonderful. It is a relief to be able to go finally. Reporter and leslie is happy theres no more bathroom jokes about San Francisco, at least for a short while. This is a great ending to our story. Reporter the city says the bathroom is about 50 square feet meaning with its 200,000 price tag, it came out to about 4,000 per square foot. How do i follow that up . Straight ahead in sports, countdown to nfl draft day. And a certain star re norman, bad news. I never graduated from med school. What . But the good news is. Xfinity mobile just got even better now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. Plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. I gotta get this deal. Thats like 20 a month per unlimited line. I dont want to miss that. Thats amazing doc. Mobile savings are calling. Visit xfinitymobile. Com to learn more. Doc . Nothing dims my light like a migraine. With nurtec odt, i found relief. The only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent, all in one. To those with migraine, i see you. 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That isnt going to have access to much moisture, so just a few clouds passing through, no chance of showers. It brings our temperatures back down to normal for this time of year. As the area of high pressure, more atmosphere on top of us, slides away, it reduces the weight of the atmosphere overhead and allows the marine layer to expand and the fog to roll back in, swallowing up sutro tower as we speak. Warm inland, 83 degrees in san jose and concord, upper 70s in santa rosa. Your current temperature has dipped down to the low 60s. Mid70s for fremont earlier, but only low 60s in San Francisco, upper 50s Half Moon Bay. The closer to the coast, the earlier the cooler air rolled in. Lets look at futurecast. Well see fog pushing across the bay into the inland valleys, clouds farther up in the atmosphere. Its going to be a mix of fog and clouds higher up and a mix of clouds and sunshine through the rest of tomorrow. Even with the sun breaking through, our temperatures arent warming up as much as today. Temperatures tonight will be a couple degrees above average dropping into the low 50s when were supposed to be in the 40s. Highs tomorrow, everybody within a few degrees of normal, exactly normal in san jose, 70, only mid60s for morgan hill and los gatos. Inland in the east bay will be at or above 70 degrees, 73 in antioch, the toastiest location around the whole bay area. Upper 60s down the peninsula, only upper 50s along the coast and Half Moon Bay where temperatures will be hovering the next several days, low to mid50s for San Francisco and oakland and the north bay. The fog and clouds will be a bit more stubborn in the north bay valleys. Lets look at the tenday temperature outlook for san jose. Theres another drop coming the end of the workweek, thursday and friday san jose topping out in the mid60s. We bounce back to near or slightly above average temperatures the last weekend in april. As we look ahead to early may, pretty close to typical for this time of year. The coolest weather thursday and friday is associated with the only rain chance in the forecast, mainly thursday night into friday. On our rain graph were staying below the scattered threshold. So its just a chance for showers thursday night into friday. If we get rain, its not going to amount to barely more than a trace. Lets look at the sevenday forecast. We have near average highs a few days and temperatures cool down a little more thursday, but getting back into the dry weather pattern with slightly warm temperatures heading into the weekend, saturday, sunday and monday pushing back up into the low 70s inland, stuck in the 60s around the bay. Temperatures will be cooler near the coast. I wouldnt adjust any outdoor plans thursday night into friday. Well keep you updated as we start to get better forecast model data. Well keep you updated through the rest of the week. Thanks, paul. A check of whats ahead at 6 00, juliette. Thank you. Reaction is pouring into the death of a San Francisco legend reverend cecil williams, cofounder of the glide foundation, has died. We hear from the reverend and his late wife in their own words about his legacy helping the poorest in the city and some of the people who worked closest with him paid tribute to his impact on the tenderloin and beyond. Plus the Supreme Court weighs in on a case that could determine how cities deal with the homeless crisis. We see an encampment sweep in action and hear from neighbors on how theyve made a difference. All that is coming up in about ten minutes, but now lets go to vern in sports. Weve got the nfl on top and the league draft. Thursday prime time is the start. The 49ers topic one, not about a draft pick. Its about a player on the team currently. When you wake up friday morning, will wideout Brandon Aiyuk be on the roster . Hes looking for a new contract with a year remaining on his existing one. Our wish is hes here and part of the 9ers the rest of his career. Now on to other less pressing offseason issues like fred warner first pitch opening day at oracle park. What happened . Well, fred pointed out that he had just become a first time father. He wasnt fully prepared. Thats what happens, i guess, when you dont warm up. You undershoot it. Yeah. Ill leave that to sleep deprivation. I like that. Do you think you should get another opportunity . I would never turn it down. I dont care how bad i did it. Were you talking about it in the locker room . Surprisingly, no. I guess guys dont care about baseball. Warner will not be throwing out the first pitch tonight when the giants host the mets in the first of a threegame series. The as at Yankee Stadium and in the fourth inning sears was dealing, went right after him. Juan soto, aaron judge, Giancarlo Stanton all going down swinging. Sears struck out seven in six shutout innings. Top of the ninth scoreless until jack gelof went yard, tworun homer, his third big fly for the years. As beat the yankees by that score and snapped a threegame losing streak. About the yankees manager aaron boone, he wasnt around to see the finish. He was ejected two batters into the game, five pitches. Take a listen to his exchange with the home plate umpire. Youre not telling the thing i did when youre supposed to do it. You got anything else to say . Youre gone. Boone stood down, but when a fan in the front row yelled back, the ump had enough. There you go and now aaron saying, i didnt say anything. Boone went out to plead his case, that it was the fan who said something. I did not say anything. Wow. Boone is tied for third among Major League Managers currently with 35 ejections. You know who is number one . Bruce bochy. Oh, bruce . Bochy . Yeah. 82 ejections in his long managerial career. Hes always so stoic and calm. Its hard to believe hed ever be thrown out of a game. Well, when he gets his dander up, theres no stopping him. I guess so. We know hes passionate. Thanks, vern. Still ahead at 5 00, an american well. Scientists say Climate Change is threatening the Worlds Largest trees, californias endangered sequoias. But as ian lee shows us, sequoias are flourishing across the pond. Reporter you cant miss these majestic trees, but this isnt california. Its the english countryside. Yeah. The trees here are very popular. Reporter scientist phil wilkes monitors the monsters outside of london measuring the trees with a laser. You can then estimate how much carbon is stored in the tree. Reporter the average giant sequoia pulls roughly 190 pounds of carbon out of the air every year offsetting about 800 miles in a gaspowered car. Phil then compares the giant sequoias growth to their american cousins. How do these trees stack up to their relatives in the states . Theyre doing surprisingly well actually. These trees are relatively young. So theyre saplings compared to trees in the states. These trees are probably 110 years old. Reporter giant sequoias can live more than 3,000 years and soar nearly 300 feet in the air, but experts say wildfires and Climate Change are threatening their native habitat. Thats not a problem here in the uk. Most people, though, dont think of california and the uk having the same climate. Sierra nevada mountains can be quite similar to here. So its cooler and more damp and thats very british weather. Reporter today more than half a million giant sequoias are thriving in the uk compared to fewer than 80,000 in the u. S. Were very happy to have a tree like that here. We associate them with your fine country and its lovely to have them here. If you run out of them, we can always give you a few back, cant we, because were cousins, after all . Reporter giving an American Icon a safe home away from home. Thats it for the news at 5 00. Cbs news bay area with Juliette Goodrich starts right now. Thanks so much. Remembering a San Francisco legend, the long time leader of the citys glide foundation has died. We look back at his life and legacy fighting for the less fortunate. Ive always talked about changing the world and i really believe that we have touched many people from all over the world. San francisco pays tribute to a tireless advocate for justice and equality who left his mark in the tenderloin and beyond. Plus a passionate debate before the Supreme Court that could have major implications for the bay area, how far can local governments go to regulate homelessness . We want the city to have an effective and humane response to homelessness on the streets. We see one of the citys sweeps in action and hear from neighbors who say theyve made a difference. I think some people would be afraid coming to businesses like this. Plus on this earth day the trash punks are tackling an overwhelming problem in san jose, how a former punk rocker is gaining worldwide attention for his unique approach to helping the planet. I wanted to bring that same do it yourself energy to cleaning up our world. Were not waiting on people. Were doing it ourselves. They make cleaning up the city just fun and engaging. Theyve