Theyre discussing changes to the short term rental rules. Juliette goodrich is live in orinda where Council Members expect to get an earful. Reporter yes, the meeting is at 7 00 at the Public Library in orinda, and they expect overflow, a lot of emotion tonight, and a lot of mixed emotions on what to do. Im very distressed to hear about the events of the last week. Reporter as the memorial at theater square continues to grow, so do the concerns. One of them about orindas short term rental policies. Just needs to be a tighter reign on it. I think there needs to be closer monitoring. Reporter the Orinda City Council will look at 2day minimum stays instead of 1, or eliminate airbnbentirely. But some say the problem is not airbnb. Its not the Short Term Rentals of airbnb, its the enforcement of the laws in place. Reporter at 9 19, a noise complaint was called in to the police. 90 minutes later police went to the scene. They had been assisting in a Home Invasion not far away. They were off
Hours later. Many to the supermarket. About every 15, 20 minutes somebody from the street comes in the store and tries to do something. Reporter the thefts, the attacks have become so bad the owners are considering closing their family store. It is just not worth it. We pay taxes to the city, the police cant do anything. The laws have changed. Reporter mayor london breed sent Mental Health reform and help for the homeless are her priorities and once theyre achieved they could help beleaguered store owners. I would say to people who have had enough to just hold on. We are working towards trying to resolve the issue. It will take us some time but we ask for patience. Reporter well actually in the short time that weve been here, weve seen four Police Patrols and public works crews cleaning up the streets here. The problem is, as the store owner explained to me, that theyre back on the streets living here in the alleyways and the streets after the police are gone, after the public works cr
The entrances to the mall. The Santa Clara County sheriffs helicopter hovering over the great mall in milpitas sunday night, the mall the scene of a big scare during the 7 p. M. Hour when three men a Jewelry Store where they started smashing cases and taking jewelry. Everybody started running. We got to the nearest store and ran out. Reporter one woman was with her friend and her children. They started freaking out. So we told them were playing a big game of hide and seek, keep them calm. Reporter customers thought the noise were gunshots which triggered panic, controversy of people rushing out of the mall, police arriving a short time later placing the mall on lockdown. We just hear people running and they said there was shots fired. We were outside. We kept going. We stopped because i wanted to put her on my back and then they said shots fired again, so we just kept running again. The. Reporter police soon learned that the incident was not an active shooter. It was scary because i ha
The director of transportation. Before i get into that whole presentation, i want to call up supervisor aaron peskin to speak and give his presentation, then we will move through the director to do presentations, and many others want to recognize you today. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe
Have had four traffic fatalities on the streets of San Francisco, four more people have lost their lives through the end of june, a total of 19 lives lost. Eleven of which were pedestrians just to walk through them, and you will see you might hear some themes here. June 23rd at 1 30 a. M. , a southbound vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed allegedly ran a red light at third and paul, striking another vehicle, which killed the driver and passenger of the other vehicle. The driver was 26 years old, and his passenger was 49 years old. We did send a Rapid Investigation Team out there. We did find some faded crosswalks, which sins have been repainted, but clearly spee was the issue here. On june 24th, the next day, 3 00 a. M. , a 56yearold man was killed at California Park california and Park Presidio when an eastbound driver, travelling at a high rate of speed ran a red light and struck his vehicle as he was going north on park and presidio. We also went out and repainted the lines,