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Letters to the Editor: U.S. should ship vaccines to other nations San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse Andrea Delacueva, left, gives a COVID-19 vaccination to Matt Block, 34, of Culver City, California, on April 15, 2021, in Los Angeles.Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS COVID-19 shots are now widely available nationwide: About ⅓ of American adults are now vaccinated, protected, and almost never have serious side effects. Many others are wary of taking the vaccine because it was developed so quickly. However, it is a cruel reality that millions of individuals in other countries such as India are dying because of the lack of vaccine, while so many of us in the United States are turning it down. ....
Tampa City Council pumps brakes on apartment âmoratoriumâ Council members, under intense pressure from developers, decided Thursday a citywide slowdown on big apartment complexes isnât necessary after all. Â Â Tampa City Council member Orlando Gudes was unanimously elected City Council chairman on Thursday. He voted for a failed effort Thursday to pause apartment development in some areas of the city. [ SCOTT KEELER | Times ] Updated May 6 TAMPA â Reversing course from three weeks ago, Tampa City Council members Thursday voted down a pared-back proposed citywide pause on giving developers more leeway to build large apartment complexes, saying more time was needed to wade through the complicated issue. ....
Letters to the Editor: Ice cream shop owner deserves a full refund San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail Jason Yu looks down 20th Street as he stands outside a side door to the commercial space on 20th Street that he has been trying to turn into an ice cream shop for 15 months on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif.Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle Regarding “Ice cream shop dream melted by red tape” (April 21): I can no longer be silent, being a small business owner myself. My father had his own business in San Francisco for over 40 years. Currently, my daughter has her own business in San Francisco. We understand the cost of doing business in San Francisco. For anyone to spend $200,000 for an architect, lawyer, permits, fees, equipment and rent and still not able to open his door for customers, as the situation is with Jason Yu, is deplorable. Mr. Yu’s business would eventually create a few employee jobs. Do these jobs not count? ....
Tampa moves ahead on slowing down apartment boom City Council members, in a close vote, moved forward on an apparent moratorium on single-use multifamily development to begin in June. Â Updated Yesterday TAMPA â What started as a plea from beleaguered residents south of Gandy Boulevard to stem the flow of new apartment construction in their neighborhood has evolved into a proposed citywide pause on multi-family development for certain land-use categories. Called a âmoratoriumâ by many, the proposal would freeze new permitting from June 1 until March. Developers have objected, saying the city is pursuing a risky legal strategy that will harm efforts to build dwellings for the rush of new residents to the city. A moratorium would also hurt their finances. ....