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We’re starting off this week in San José. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> most populated city in the Bay Area … one million people live within city limits. That’s more than twice the population of Oakland. And yet, for a city its size … it’s remarkably spread out. It doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feel\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like a big city when you’re walking around…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s largely because of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José had its biggest development boom…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is now possible to have the individual styling every family wants in its home. And still have all the benefits of mass production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years after World War II, millions of soldiers returned home, got married, and started looking to buy property… you know, that whole American Dream thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homebuilders anticipated the needs of newlyweds and young families. They built new suburbs that appealed to countless first time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up until then about two-thirds of Americans lived in cities. That’s where the jobs were. But with the availability of spacious, new homes — at least for white buyers — people left those cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the center … an efficient kitchen … serving of meals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And all of this was made possible with another big change. The interstate highway system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these roads will be four, six, even eight lane expressways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two ideas — suburbs and highways — went hand in hand. A perfect cocktail for the kind of urban sprawl we see in cities like San José. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of sprawl that has turned out to have some pretty big problems. First off, all that driving has not been good for climate change. Cars and trucks account for nearly half of California’s total carbon emissions. And then there’s another problem. Once all the single family lots are full, how can you house a population that’s still growing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Today, we are presenting an episode from KQED’s podcast: SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America. We’ll look at how leaders in San José are trying to reimagine how residents live … and how they get around. 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And when you’re in the car, you’re just you’re not as focused on like what’s going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A couple days a week, Monika wakes up at 5:30, bikes from her apartment to the train station, takes the train to San José and then bikes to City Hall, where she helps manage the city’s recycling program. It sounds like a lot to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, it makes a big difference for the environment, knowing that I’m not putting all those pollutants into the air every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Monika and I are a lot alike. We’re both 29, recently married. We care about the environment, love being outside. 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We have an orange tree and a lemon tree, which is really nice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She said it was a relief to finally sign the papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It felt good. Yeah, it felt really good. I mean, I’ve been saving for years now, and, like, just all of the sacrifices that we’ve made.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But she had to compromise – because biking to work, walking around her neighborhood– she can’t really do that in Lathrop. Nothing is within walking distance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even being able to go to like a coffee shop in the morning, or if you forget something at the store, you have to get in the car to go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When she did live in the Bay Area, she loved going to the city everyday or to the beach on the weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Now it’s like to reach any of those destinations. I have to add like an hour, which is a small price to pay. You know, like you need to make sacrifices, but it’s still just something that I’m going to have to get used to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Another thing she’s getting used to: the heat. For the past few years, Lathrop has seen record high temperatures in the summer. Soon after they moved in, Monika got COVID.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, I was sick in 100 degree heat. We, like, didn’t have blinds on our windows yet, and it was just a nightmare. I’m not used to it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here’s the paradox: cities like Lathrop are one of the few places in California where housing is being built– housing that’s affordable for people like Monika. But at the same time, temperatures in California’s Central Valley are soaring higher and higher each summer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lathrop wasn’t Monika’s first choice. She was really hoping to find a place where she could keep riding her bike and taking the train, but with what she could afford, Lathrop felt like her only choice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why? Why is our society like, encouraging this or allowing it to happen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is an urgent problem. As the housing crisis pushes people further away from big cities, they drive more and emit more carbon. That makes climate change worse. So, instead of continuing to sprawl, why not build more homes in the city? Close to public transit and in neighborhoods where people could walk more? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I used to live in San José, so when I heard the city was trying to make this a reality, I was really curious about it. Before I moved there from the East Coast, I had this image of a bustling metropolis. But it’s actually pretty quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A lot of people live there, but they’re all spread out. So, what would it mean if this city made good on this promise? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades out. Ambient sound of Facchino district.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’d love to just sort of get a lay of the land. Like what? You know what it’s going to look like one day from here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik Schoennauer points toward an old wooden fence surrounding a big vacant lot \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what is inside of the site right now? Just trucks and equipment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik’s technical title is land use consultant. For more than 20 years, he’s been working with developers and the city to build more housing in San José. And he wants to transform this area into a thriving urban neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High density housing, high density jobs, retail, parks, mixed use neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three years ago, BART opened a train station nearby\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">– \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">where I met Monika. And the city figured it would be the perfect place for more\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have to everywhere make cities that are not reliant on fossil fuels to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is all part of San José’s larger goal to combat sprawl. More than 10 years ago, city officials noticed that too many people were getting priced out. City workers had commutes up to 2 hours long. So they came up with a plan to build 60 urban villages across San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> State Assembly Member Ash Kalra represents the city and was one of the loudest advocates for the plan. Here he is selling the idea in a promotional video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Liccardo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban villages have a lot of benefits. First of all, by bringing people together, both in terms of their housing and their jobs and the stores and restaurants they go to, you’re being much more efficient with your use of land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Imagine tall apartment buildings with shops on the bottom and a train line running through the middle. A pedestrian’s paradise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This new housing would be a big change for San José. It’s the 12th largest city in the country, but it feels like a giant suburb– all the homes are spread out.And that’s because of its history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Between the 1950s and 1970s, highway expansion set the tone for city planning. Sam Assefa runs California’s Office for Planning and Research — that’s basically the state’s own think tank to solve its toughest problems, like sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sprawl was literally on steroids with single family developments quickly gobbling up farmland, open space and spreading out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early 1900s, San José was a small city of only 17 square miles. Today it’s 181 square miles. And most of it is dominated by single family homes — a house that’s home to only one family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is the American dream. And we know that single family homes generally perpetuate sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> More than 90% of San José’s land is zoned for single family homes. For decades, it was illegal to build other kinds of housing — like apartments and duplexes — in most of the city.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That history created a lot of housing inequity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Starting in the early 1950s, white families were moving into San José from bigger cities like San Francisco and Oakland. Fair housing laws hadn’t been passed yet, so a lot of the new homes were off limits to practically anyone who wasn’t white.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Scars from that history are still visible today. Black and Latinx residents of San José are far less likely to own their homes than white and Asian residents. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José wants to right some of those wrongs. And the urban villages could help. They are supposed to include some affordable housing, bring more jobs and give more people the opportunity to live here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of walking around Berryessa Urban Village\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But this whole urban village dream is really slow going. It’s been more than 10 years since San José officials said they wanted urban villages all over the city. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, only a handful have been built. There’s already part of an urban village next to the BART Station.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a tall apartment building with hundreds of units. But walking around that area…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I just had to cross a one, two, three, four, five, six lane road to get to the other side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s just not that easy. This is one obstacle San José is up against. It’s trying to build a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in a place planned around cars. Sidewalks run alongside the apartment building, but it’s just not very welcoming to walk next to a busy road. There is a Safeway and a Dunkin Donuts, but you have to cross a huge parking lot and another four-lane road to get there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The apartment building was built with shop and restaurant space on the ground floor, to make it more convenient and interesting to live here — but it’s mostly vacant. That’s partly because demand is down post pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There’s barely anyone walking around. I finally run into Juan Carlos Navarro. He lives in a townhome a few blocks away and is out with his dogs. I’m so excited to see someone, I’m fumbling over myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi, in the field interviewing Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you feel about all of this new development coming and the…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And let me call you back, okay? (hangs up phone) Oh, sorry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says this area used to be a bit of a ghost town, but that’s starting to change.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We definitely like it because it’s uh– we feel better. We feel secure now walking along the block because this was all empty before. And it wasn’t– it wasn’t as good as it is now. So we definitely like it.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He hopes it becomes more lively as more housing gets built and more shops get filled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: I hope to see more people, more, you know, entertainment areas, stores and [00:10:40] I would hope to see that. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As San José tries to make good on its urban village promise, it’s kinda handcuffed by some of its own policies. And you can see it in the plans for Erik Schoennauer’s development. He has a vision for tall apartment buildings, but what’s the first thing he’s going to build?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Single family and townhomes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. The first thing Erik is going to build is more standalone houses. That’s because the neighborhood around the empty lot is already full of single family homes. And city policy doesn’t allow tall buildings to be built right next to them. Because it might cast a shadow. So Erik has to build a buffer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put a row of lower density housing units up against the existing single family and put the taller buildings more internal on the site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cities across California have laws like these which protect single family homes and prevent denser housing like apartments and condos from being built nearby.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s more, apartment buildings are riskier because developers have to build the whole thing before they can rent or sell any of the units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>Whereas single family and townhomes, you can build and sell as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the city wants to see more dense development, they’re not the ones building it — it’s up to developers. And it has to make sense to their bottom line. Right now, it doesn’t. Interest rates and construction costs have soared and there’s less demand for office and retail space. Erik hopes another developer will eventually build the apartments — but he’s uncertain as to when that might happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe it’s an inevitable evolution to move towards denser, more mixed use development. It’s all evolving in the right direction, but it takes time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fade Music Out Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Evolution takes a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just waiting. I mean, everyone’s waiting. There’s no- it’s not happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kelly Snider has been living in San José since 1999. She teaches Real Estate Development at San Jose State and is really frustrated with the city’s progress with their urban village plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She thinks there’s a different way to get more housing built. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I meet her in a quiet neighborhood filled with small bungalows, each with their own front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, where are we? Where are we right now? We are in downtown San José, outskirts of downtown San José.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a little brown house with bright blue accents around the windows. It’s got three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a big backyard. At the end of the block, there’s a train station where you can catch a ride to downtown San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a fantastic public elementary school on this corner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This house is Kelly’s pilot project. She bought it from Raul Lozano, a local activist who wanted to see more housing built here. He wanted to split his home into two separate units, but was struggling with the process. And at the same time, Kelly, who is an experienced developer, wanted to help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This front unit is a one bedroom, so it’s got a living room and a nice kitchen, a full bathroom, and then a nice bedroom. And we charge $1500 a month for this. And that includes utilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> $1,500 for all that is a steal in the Bay Area. And Kelly didn’t stop there. She also built a small two bedroom house in the backyard, where Raul lived until he passed away in February. It’s now home to two of Raul’s friends who were dealing with housing insecurity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They would often, you know, spend time with family in the valley and then sleep in their cars one or two nights a week here. We approached the mother and said, Would you like to move into this house? And she said, yes. And she and her son live here now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That small house is technically called an ADU, or an accessory dwelling unit. You might know it as a granny flat or a casita. And it’s the hottest thing in California housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Recent state and local laws have made them easier to build. There are even grant programs that will cover some of the costs. And San José has really embraced them. Last year, the city issued over 500 permits to build new ADUs. There’s still some space on Kelly’s lot. And she wants to build a duplex there — so even more homes on a plot of land that used to just have one. Kelly knows there are skeptics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons why I wanted to do this is because every time I bring someone here they’re like, Well, that’s just a tiny little lot. You can’t fit a whole new house on there. And I’m like, Oh, I can fit a whole house on there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even if she can build it, not everyone wants it. Many of the people who moved to San José came for the backyard and the quiet neighborhood with tree-lined streets.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Kelly wants to show people, you can still have that and add more housing. After buying Raul’s place, she formed a company to help more people split their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone who comes to see it says, Oh, I didn’t know it would look this nice. I didn’t know you could fit all of this.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t feel crowded. This is still a quiet street and there isn’t a tall building in sight. Kelly thinks San José is moving in the right direction with ADUs and just needs to keep making it cheaper and easier to build them.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They know the knob to switch and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I know I’ve been picking on San José, but the thing is, it’s like a lot of cities in California. They were all built on an idea that sounded great at the time — a spacious home with a yard of your own. A car that could take you anywhere. But that idea has led California into its housing and climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, maybe it’s time to embrace some new ideas for how our cities are built and how we’ll create a sustainable future. It might mean living closer to each other, driving less, walking more. And, if you ask me, that actually sounds pretty great. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: That was KQED housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi. This story is from the KQED podcast: SOLD OUT, Rethinking Housing in America. Their latest season explores the intersection of climate and the housing crisis. Another episode you might enjoy is called “Electric Avenue” and it follows a group of neighbors in Oakland who are working together to make their homes more efficient and climate resilient. Find Sold Out wherever you listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: This story was edited by Erika Kelly and Kevin Stark. Sold Out is hosted by Erin Baldassari. Jen Chien was a contributing editor. Sound engineering by Brendan Willard. Cedric Wilson wrote the Sold Out theme song. Thanks also to Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Maha Sanad, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Otis Taylor Jr., Molly Solomon, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Bay Curious is going to be dark next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’ll say this now… We are so thankful that you listen to our show … it is truly an honor and privilege. And we hope you have a joy-filled week, whatever that looks like to you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a good one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San José is the biggest city in the Bay Area, but among the least dense. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC8701615319.mp3?updated=1700096490","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11967490/the-american-dream-led-san-jose-to-urban-sprawl-but-the-future-requires-density","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in the Bay Area is a \u003cem>hot\u003c/em> topic, so it’s no wonder that \u003ca href=\"https://baycurious.org/\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> gets a lot of listener questions about it. Why is it so expensive? How do middle-class people afford homes here? Is the housing shortage really an overpopulation problem? While we’ve answered some of these over the years, we often direct people to KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">Sold Out podcast\u003c/a>, a seasonal show focused specifically on these issues. Today, we’re presenting an episode from their latest season, which examines the intersection of the housing crisis and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode answers the question: What is San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> doing about urban sprawl?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966342/how-the-bay-areas-biggest-city-wants-to-overcome-its-sprawl\">Sold Out’s web story here\u003c/a>, or listen to the episode and read our episode transcript below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8701615319&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey everyone, Olivia Allen-Price here and this is Bay Curious. We’re starting off this week in San José. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> most populated city in the Bay Area … one million people live within city limits. That’s more than twice the population of Oakland. And yet, for a city its size … it’s remarkably spread out. It doesn’t \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feel\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like a big city when you’re walking around…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s largely because of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José had its biggest development boom…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is now possible to have the individual styling every family wants in its home. And still have all the benefits of mass production.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years after World War II, millions of soldiers returned home, got married, and started looking to buy property… you know, that whole American Dream thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homebuilders anticipated the needs of newlyweds and young families. They built new suburbs that appealed to countless first time homebuyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up until then about two-thirds of Americans lived in cities. That’s where the jobs were. But with the availability of spacious, new homes — at least for white buyers — people left those cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the center … an efficient kitchen … serving of meals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And all of this was made possible with another big change. The interstate highway system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Archival audio: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these roads will be four, six, even eight lane expressways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two ideas — suburbs and highways — went hand in hand. A perfect cocktail for the kind of urban sprawl we see in cities like San José. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of sprawl that has turned out to have some pretty big problems. First off, all that driving has not been good for climate change. Cars and trucks account for nearly half of California’s total carbon emissions. And then there’s another problem. Once all the single family lots are full, how can you house a population that’s still growing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Today, we are presenting an episode from KQED’s podcast: SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America. We’ll look at how leaders in San José are trying to reimagine how residents live … and how they get around. We’ll be right back with that story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José was built for single family homes and cars. Housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi walks us through how they’re now trying to build for a denser, greener future …\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ambient sound from Berryessa BART station\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a warm evening and I’m hanging at the BART train station in San José. For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking to interview someone who thinks a lot about housing and public transit. And I keep striking out. Either people are too busy or they see my big microphone and just walk the other way. But then, I spot Monika Rivera. She rides into the station, dressed all in black, on a shiny gray bike. And she doesn’t run away from me when I approach her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Honestly, I tell people making your commute, like either biking or walking, it makes such a big difference in how you feel throughout the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She’s still facing a 45 minute commute on the train, but she’s so energetic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It makes you feel like more connected to the community, too, because you’re like biking by businesses, you like are biking by your neighbors and you just see more people. And when you’re in the car, you’re just you’re not as focused on like what’s going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A couple days a week, Monika wakes up at 5:30, bikes from her apartment to the train station, takes the train to San José and then bikes to City Hall, where she helps manage the city’s recycling program. It sounds like a lot to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To me, it makes a big difference for the environment, knowing that I’m not putting all those pollutants into the air every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Monika and I are a lot alike. We’re both 29, recently married. We care about the environment, love being outside. And we both want to settle down in the same kind of house, in the same kind neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would want a home that’s in a neighborhood that’s walking distance to things like we could go to a restaurant or a coffee shop or like a grocery store, you know, and be able to be within like a ten minute walk, um ideally be close to whatever job I have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She and her husband have been trying to find that in the Bay Area, but homes in those kinds of neighborhoods are way out of her price range. The homes they can afford aren’t much bigger than the studio apartment they’re renting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If we buy a home, I don’t want to go just from one tiny place to another tiny place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Buying a home is really important to Monika because of how she grew up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I grew up in a small– like with my family and my sibling– like a tiny two bedroom house that they were renting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So she and her husband started looking for a place to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I wanted to prove to myself, you know, that I could reach that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After months of house hunting, she found a home in Lathrop, about a 2 hour drive from San José in California’s Central Valley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s three bedrooms, two baths, it has a nice backyard, has some grass, some trees and plants. We have an orange tree and a lemon tree, which is really nice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She said it was a relief to finally sign the papers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It felt good. Yeah, it felt really good. I mean, I’ve been saving for years now, and, like, just all of the sacrifices that we’ve made.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But she had to compromise – because biking to work, walking around her neighborhood– she can’t really do that in Lathrop. Nothing is within walking distance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even being able to go to like a coffee shop in the morning, or if you forget something at the store, you have to get in the car to go.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When she did live in the Bay Area, she loved going to the city everyday or to the beach on the weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Now it’s like to reach any of those destinations. I have to add like an hour, which is a small price to pay. You know, like you need to make sacrifices, but it’s still just something that I’m going to have to get used to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Another thing she’s getting used to: the heat. For the past few years, Lathrop has seen record high temperatures in the summer. Soon after they moved in, Monika got COVID.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, I was sick in 100 degree heat. We, like, didn’t have blinds on our windows yet, and it was just a nightmare. I’m not used to it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here’s the paradox: cities like Lathrop are one of the few places in California where housing is being built– housing that’s affordable for people like Monika. But at the same time, temperatures in California’s Central Valley are soaring higher and higher each summer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lathrop wasn’t Monika’s first choice. She was really hoping to find a place where she could keep riding her bike and taking the train, but with what she could afford, Lathrop felt like her only choice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monika Rivera:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why? Why is our society like, encouraging this or allowing it to happen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is an urgent problem. As the housing crisis pushes people further away from big cities, they drive more and emit more carbon. That makes climate change worse. So, instead of continuing to sprawl, why not build more homes in the city? Close to public transit and in neighborhoods where people could walk more? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I used to live in San José, so when I heard the city was trying to make this a reality, I was really curious about it. Before I moved there from the East Coast, I had this image of a bustling metropolis. But it’s actually pretty quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A lot of people live there, but they’re all spread out. So, what would it mean if this city made good on this promise? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades out. Ambient sound of Facchino district.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’d love to just sort of get a lay of the land. Like what? You know what it’s going to look like one day from here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik Schoennauer points toward an old wooden fence surrounding a big vacant lot \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what is inside of the site right now? Just trucks and equipment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Erik’s technical title is land use consultant. For more than 20 years, he’s been working with developers and the city to build more housing in San José. And he wants to transform this area into a thriving urban neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High density housing, high density jobs, retail, parks, mixed use neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Three years ago, BART opened a train station nearby\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">– \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">where I met Monika. And the city figured it would be the perfect place for more\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have to everywhere make cities that are not reliant on fossil fuels to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is all part of San José’s larger goal to combat sprawl. More than 10 years ago, city officials noticed that too many people were getting priced out. City workers had commutes up to 2 hours long. So they came up with a plan to build 60 urban villages across San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> State Assembly Member Ash Kalra represents the city and was one of the loudest advocates for the plan. Here he is selling the idea in a promotional video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Liccardo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban villages have a lot of benefits. First of all, by bringing people together, both in terms of their housing and their jobs and the stores and restaurants they go to, you’re being much more efficient with your use of land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Imagine tall apartment buildings with shops on the bottom and a train line running through the middle. A pedestrian’s paradise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This new housing would be a big change for San José. It’s the 12th largest city in the country, but it feels like a giant suburb– all the homes are spread out.And that’s because of its history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Between the 1950s and 1970s, highway expansion set the tone for city planning. Sam Assefa runs California’s Office for Planning and Research — that’s basically the state’s own think tank to solve its toughest problems, like sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sprawl was literally on steroids with single family developments quickly gobbling up farmland, open space and spreading out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the early 1900s, San José was a small city of only 17 square miles. Today it’s 181 square miles. And most of it is dominated by single family homes — a house that’s home to only one family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Assefa:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is the American dream. And we know that single family homes generally perpetuate sprawl.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> More than 90% of San José’s land is zoned for single family homes. For decades, it was illegal to build other kinds of housing — like apartments and duplexes — in most of the city.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That history created a lot of housing inequity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Starting in the early 1950s, white families were moving into San José from bigger cities like San Francisco and Oakland. Fair housing laws hadn’t been passed yet, so a lot of the new homes were off limits to practically anyone who wasn’t white.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Scars from that history are still visible today. Black and Latinx residents of San José are far less likely to own their homes than white and Asian residents. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José wants to right some of those wrongs. And the urban villages could help. They are supposed to include some affordable housing, bring more jobs and give more people the opportunity to live here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of walking around Berryessa Urban Village\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But this whole urban village dream is really slow going. It’s been more than 10 years since San José officials said they wanted urban villages all over the city. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, only a handful have been built. There’s already part of an urban village next to the BART Station.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a tall apartment building with hundreds of units. But walking around that area…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi (in the field): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I just had to cross a one, two, three, four, five, six lane road to get to the other side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s just not that easy. This is one obstacle San José is up against. It’s trying to build a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in a place planned around cars. Sidewalks run alongside the apartment building, but it’s just not very welcoming to walk next to a busy road. There is a Safeway and a Dunkin Donuts, but you have to cross a huge parking lot and another four-lane road to get there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The apartment building was built with shop and restaurant space on the ground floor, to make it more convenient and interesting to live here — but it’s mostly vacant. That’s partly because demand is down post pandemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There’s barely anyone walking around. I finally run into Juan Carlos Navarro. He lives in a townhome a few blocks away and is out with his dogs. I’m so excited to see someone, I’m fumbling over myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi, in the field interviewing Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you feel about all of this new development coming and the…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And let me call you back, okay? (hangs up phone) Oh, sorry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He says this area used to be a bit of a ghost town, but that’s starting to change.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We definitely like it because it’s uh– we feel better. We feel secure now walking along the block because this was all empty before. And it wasn’t– it wasn’t as good as it is now. So we definitely like it.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He hopes it becomes more lively as more housing gets built and more shops get filled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlos Navarro: I hope to see more people, more, you know, entertainment areas, stores and [00:10:40] I would hope to see that. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As San José tries to make good on its urban village promise, it’s kinda handcuffed by some of its own policies. And you can see it in the plans for Erik Schoennauer’s development. He has a vision for tall apartment buildings, but what’s the first thing he’s going to build?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Single family and townhomes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. The first thing Erik is going to build is more standalone houses. That’s because the neighborhood around the empty lot is already full of single family homes. And city policy doesn’t allow tall buildings to be built right next to them. Because it might cast a shadow. So Erik has to build a buffer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put a row of lower density housing units up against the existing single family and put the taller buildings more internal on the site.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cities across California have laws like these which protect single family homes and prevent denser housing like apartments and condos from being built nearby.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s more, apartment buildings are riskier because developers have to build the whole thing before they can rent or sell any of the units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>Whereas single family and townhomes, you can build and sell as you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even though the city wants to see more dense development, they’re not the ones building it — it’s up to developers. And it has to make sense to their bottom line. Right now, it doesn’t. Interest rates and construction costs have soared and there’s less demand for office and retail space. Erik hopes another developer will eventually build the apartments — but he’s uncertain as to when that might happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erik Schoennauer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe it’s an inevitable evolution to move towards denser, more mixed use development. It’s all evolving in the right direction, but it takes time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fade Music Out Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Evolution takes a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s just waiting. I mean, everyone’s waiting. There’s no- it’s not happening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kelly Snider has been living in San José since 1999. She teaches Real Estate Development at San Jose State and is really frustrated with the city’s progress with their urban village plan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She thinks there’s a different way to get more housing built. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I meet her in a quiet neighborhood filled with small bungalows, each with their own front lawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, where are we? Where are we right now? We are in downtown San José, outskirts of downtown San José.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s a little brown house with bright blue accents around the windows. It’s got three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a big backyard. At the end of the block, there’s a train station where you can catch a ride to downtown San José. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have a fantastic public elementary school on this corner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This house is Kelly’s pilot project. She bought it from Raul Lozano, a local activist who wanted to see more housing built here. He wanted to split his home into two separate units, but was struggling with the process. And at the same time, Kelly, who is an experienced developer, wanted to help. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This front unit is a one bedroom, so it’s got a living room and a nice kitchen, a full bathroom, and then a nice bedroom. And we charge $1500 a month for this. And that includes utilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> $1,500 for all that is a steal in the Bay Area. And Kelly didn’t stop there. She also built a small two bedroom house in the backyard, where Raul lived until he passed away in February. It’s now home to two of Raul’s friends who were dealing with housing insecurity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They would often, you know, spend time with family in the valley and then sleep in their cars one or two nights a week here. We approached the mother and said, Would you like to move into this house? And she said, yes. And she and her son live here now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That small house is technically called an ADU, or an accessory dwelling unit. You might know it as a granny flat or a casita. And it’s the hottest thing in California housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Recent state and local laws have made them easier to build. There are even grant programs that will cover some of the costs. And San José has really embraced them. Last year, the city issued over 500 permits to build new ADUs. There’s still some space on Kelly’s lot. And she wants to build a duplex there — so even more homes on a plot of land that used to just have one. Kelly knows there are skeptics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons why I wanted to do this is because every time I bring someone here they’re like, Well, that’s just a tiny little lot. You can’t fit a whole new house on there. And I’m like, Oh, I can fit a whole house on there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even if she can build it, not everyone wants it. Many of the people who moved to San José came for the backyard and the quiet neighborhood with tree-lined streets.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Kelly wants to show people, you can still have that and add more housing. After buying Raul’s place, she formed a company to help more people split their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone who comes to see it says, Oh, I didn’t know it would look this nice. I didn’t know you could fit all of this.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And for what it’s worth, it doesn’t feel crowded. This is still a quiet street and there isn’t a tall building in sight. Kelly thinks San José is moving in the right direction with ADUs and just needs to keep making it cheaper and easier to build them.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kelly Snider: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They know the knob to switch and they’ve already started twisting it. They just need to twist it further.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I know I’ve been picking on San José, but the thing is, it’s like a lot of cities in California. They were all built on an idea that sounded great at the time — a spacious home with a yard of your own. A car that could take you anywhere. But that idea has led California into its housing and climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, maybe it’s time to embrace some new ideas for how our cities are built and how we’ll create a sustainable future. It might mean living closer to each other, driving less, walking more. And, if you ask me, that actually sounds pretty great. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: That was KQED housing reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi. This story is from the KQED podcast: SOLD OUT, Rethinking Housing in America. Their latest season explores the intersection of climate and the housing crisis. Another episode you might enjoy is called “Electric Avenue” and it follows a group of neighbors in Oakland who are working together to make their homes more efficient and climate resilient. Find Sold Out wherever you listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: This story was edited by Erika Kelly and Kevin Stark. Sold Out is hosted by Erin Baldassari. Jen Chien was a contributing editor. Sound engineering by Brendan Willard. Cedric Wilson wrote the Sold Out theme song. Thanks also to Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldaña, Maha Sanad, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Holly Kernan, Otis Taylor Jr., Molly Solomon, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Bay Curious is going to be dark next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’ll say this now… We are so thankful that you listen to our show … it is truly an honor and privilege. And we hope you have a joy-filled week, whatever that looks like to you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a good one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music fades\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11967490/the-american-dream-led-san-jose-to-urban-sprawl-but-the-future-requires-density","authors":["102","11672"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_1775","news_1730","news_18541","news_28620"],"featImg":"news_11967496","label":"source_news_11967490"},"news_11956244":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956244","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956244","score":null,"sort":[1690027208000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill","title":"Controversial Speeding Ticket Cameras Could Come to 3 Bay Area Cities Under Proposed California Bill","publishDate":1690027208,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Controversial Speeding Ticket Cameras Could Come to 3 Bay Area Cities Under Proposed California Bill | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Three Bay Area cities are poised to install cameras that automatically cite tickets for driving over the speed limit, according to a state bill that is swiftly working its way through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a>, comes as cities are increasingly looking at solutions to traffic accidents and ways to make streets safer for drivers and pedestrians. It would allow San Francisco, Oakland and San José to pilot a speed camera system, along with Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some privacy advocates worry the surveillance approach, which has been used in places like Chicago, will do little to change speeding issues while penalizing drivers in areas with less traffic infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with automated traffic enforcement is that it forces people to pay for the traffic-calming measures that cities should be paying for proactively,” said Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandprivacy.org/\">Oakland Privacy\u003c/a>, a citizens’ coalition that advocates for the regulation of surveillance technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at cities, you find a real uneven allocation in terms of where traffic management infrastructure has been put into place,” she said. “Often in affluent neighborhoods, there is quite a bit of it, and you get into lower-income neighborhoods and there’s nothing. It’s all a speed trap. So that’s where all the tickets are going to be issued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill, like the pedestrian advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/2023/07/11/speed-camera-bill-clears-its-latest-hurdle-and-now-we-wait/\">Walk San Francisco\u003c/a>, say the speed safety cameras could help prevent more traffic deaths and dangerous road activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/assembly-bill-645-friedman-speed-safety-systems-pilot-program\">The city of Oakland\u003c/a> on its website said that the bill could also help with “removing interactions between police and the community at traffic stops that have the potential to escalate.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director, Oakland Privacy\"]‘We think that it’s kind of backwards, that cities should invest in traffic-calming infrastructure before they start punishing people essentially for the infrastructure not being in place.’[/pullquote]An average of 30 people a year have died in traffic deaths since 2006 in San Francisco, according to data from \u003ca href=\"https://www.visionzerosf.org/about/how-are-we-doing/\">Vision Zero SF\u003c/a>, which advocates for and measures traffic safety in the city. In 2022, 39 people died while traveling on the streets of San Francisco. Mayor London Breed co-sponsored the legislation, which was authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Glendale).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area’s nine counties, more than 400 fatalities and 1,500 serious injuries occur on average each year, according to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/bay-area-vision-zero-working-group\">Bay Area Vision Zero Working Group\u003c/a>, a part of the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB 645, fines start at $50 for drivers speeding at least 11 miles per hour over the speed limit on specified city roads, and the fines can increase to up to $500 for traveling 100 miles per hour or more. Fines can be reduced if someone is unable to pay, and cities can offer community service alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program would run until Jan. 1, 2032, and data and outcomes would be used to determine whether it should move forward. Highways would not be included in the pilot programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first 30 days of the program’s rollout, cities would be required to issue warnings rather than fines. Cities would also be required to track outcomes and install additional so-called traffic-calming measures if speeding does not decrease by at least 20% in the first 18 months of the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those additional changes could include adding bike lanes, media islands, roundabouts or curb extensions, and funding from the citations must be used for those types of developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg said it should be the other way around.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11927758,news_11929172\"]“We think that it’s kind of backwards, that cities should invest in traffic-calming infrastructure before they start punishing people essentially for the infrastructure not being in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is mixed research on how effective speed cameras are at reducing casualties. In Chicago, crash data shows that the number of injuries and deaths decreased in areas where the cameras were installed. \u003ca href=\"https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/01/11/uic-study-speed-cams-save-lives-but-drivers-in-poc-communities-get-more-tickets\">One study from the University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c/a> found that automated speed enforcement reduced fatal crashes by 15% from 2015 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citations were not spread evenly. The UIC report also found that camera tickets were more likely to be issued in majority Black and Latino communities and lower-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot programs would include a camera to take photos of license plates, as well as other technology including radar or laser systems to detect speeding. That also has Rosenberg concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of location data out there in the hands of the government about where we are, how we travel and how our cars move through space. And I read every week about a government system getting hacked nowadays,” she said, nodding to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/city-of-oakland-targeted-by-ransomware-attack-core-services-not-affected\">a recent data breach at the city of Oakland\u003c/a>. “We have concerns about the privacy and security of this data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Privacy advocates are pushing for infrastructure improvements over automated citations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689987239,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":865},"headData":{"title":"Controversial Speeding Ticket Cameras Could Come to 3 Bay Area Cities Under Proposed California Bill | KQED","description":"Privacy advocates are pushing for infrastructure improvements over automated citations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three Bay Area cities are poised to install cameras that automatically cite tickets for driving over the speed limit, according to a state bill that is swiftly working its way through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a>, comes as cities are increasingly looking at solutions to traffic accidents and ways to make streets safer for drivers and pedestrians. It would allow San Francisco, Oakland and San José to pilot a speed camera system, along with Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some privacy advocates worry the surveillance approach, which has been used in places like Chicago, will do little to change speeding issues while penalizing drivers in areas with less traffic infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with automated traffic enforcement is that it forces people to pay for the traffic-calming measures that cities should be paying for proactively,” said Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandprivacy.org/\">Oakland Privacy\u003c/a>, a citizens’ coalition that advocates for the regulation of surveillance technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at cities, you find a real uneven allocation in terms of where traffic management infrastructure has been put into place,” she said. “Often in affluent neighborhoods, there is quite a bit of it, and you get into lower-income neighborhoods and there’s nothing. 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So that’s where all the tickets are going to be issued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill, like the pedestrian advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/2023/07/11/speed-camera-bill-clears-its-latest-hurdle-and-now-we-wait/\">Walk San Francisco\u003c/a>, say the speed safety cameras could help prevent more traffic deaths and dangerous road activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/assembly-bill-645-friedman-speed-safety-systems-pilot-program\">The city of Oakland\u003c/a> on its website said that the bill could also help with “removing interactions between police and the community at traffic stops that have the potential to escalate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We think that it’s kind of backwards, that cities should invest in traffic-calming infrastructure before they start punishing people essentially for the infrastructure not being in place.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director, Oakland Privacy","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An average of 30 people a year have died in traffic deaths since 2006 in San Francisco, according to data from \u003ca href=\"https://www.visionzerosf.org/about/how-are-we-doing/\">Vision Zero SF\u003c/a>, which advocates for and measures traffic safety in the city. In 2022, 39 people died while traveling on the streets of San Francisco. Mayor London Breed co-sponsored the legislation, which was authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Glendale).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area’s nine counties, more than 400 fatalities and 1,500 serious injuries occur on average each year, according to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/bay-area-vision-zero-working-group\">Bay Area Vision Zero Working Group\u003c/a>, a part of the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB 645, fines start at $50 for drivers speeding at least 11 miles per hour over the speed limit on specified city roads, and the fines can increase to up to $500 for traveling 100 miles per hour or more. Fines can be reduced if someone is unable to pay, and cities can offer community service alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program would run until Jan. 1, 2032, and data and outcomes would be used to determine whether it should move forward. Highways would not be included in the pilot programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first 30 days of the program’s rollout, cities would be required to issue warnings rather than fines. Cities would also be required to track outcomes and install additional so-called traffic-calming measures if speeding does not decrease by at least 20% in the first 18 months of the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those additional changes could include adding bike lanes, media islands, roundabouts or curb extensions, and funding from the citations must be used for those types of developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg said it should be the other way around.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11927758,news_11929172"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We think that it’s kind of backwards, that cities should invest in traffic-calming infrastructure before they start punishing people essentially for the infrastructure not being in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is mixed research on how effective speed cameras are at reducing casualties. In Chicago, crash data shows that the number of injuries and deaths decreased in areas where the cameras were installed. \u003ca href=\"https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/01/11/uic-study-speed-cams-save-lives-but-drivers-in-poc-communities-get-more-tickets\">One study from the University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c/a> found that automated speed enforcement reduced fatal crashes by 15% from 2015 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citations were not spread evenly. The UIC report also found that camera tickets were more likely to be issued in majority Black and Latino communities and lower-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot programs would include a camera to take photos of license plates, as well as other technology including radar or laser systems to detect speeding. That also has Rosenberg concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of location data out there in the hands of the government about where we are, how we travel and how our cars move through space. And I read every week about a government system getting hacked nowadays,” she said, nodding to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/city-of-oakland-targeted-by-ransomware-attack-core-services-not-affected\">a recent data breach at the city of Oakland\u003c/a>. “We have concerns about the privacy and security of this data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_32941","news_32939","news_1730","news_32940","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11956249","label":"news"},"news_11954531":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11954531","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11954531","score":null,"sort":[1688076718000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-californias-infrastructure-deal-speed-up-water-clean-energy-projects","title":"Will California's Infrastructure Deal Speed Up Water, Clean Energy Projects?","publishDate":1688076718,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Will California’s Infrastructure Deal Speed Up Water, Clean Energy Projects? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom are poised to enact a package of bills that aim to speed up lawsuits that entangle large projects, such as solar farms and reservoirs, and relax protection of about three dozen wildlife species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Senate and Assembly leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/content/analyses\">unveiled the five bills\u003c/a> earlier this week as they negotiated the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">state’s $310 billion 2023-24 budget\u003c/a>. The deal ended a standoff over the governor’s infrastructure package, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">he unveiled last month\u003c/a> in an effort to streamline renewable energy facilities, water reservoirs, bridges, railways and similar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package of bills will make its way through the Legislature on an accelerated schedule. The bills include an urgency clause — meaning they would take effect immediately when Newsom signs but they also will require a two-thirds vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearings have been scheduled for committees in both houses today. Debate may largely end up being a formality as the package \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">has already been negotiated\u003c/a> by Newsom and lawmakers behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate and negotiations focused on how California can speed up major projects that benefit the public while ensuring the environment is protected. The wide-ranging collection of bills take aim at broad swaths of state environmental policies shaping how state agencies approve large projects. For instance, the plan to build the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites reservoir\u003c/a> to add dams and store more Sacramento River water has been stalled for years as it undergoes environmental reviews and engineering planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_149_ceqa_judicial_streamlining_final.pdf\">sets a time limit (PDF)\u003c/a> for legal challenges for specified water, transportation and energy projects under the landmark California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which can entangle projects in court for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another gives the state Department of Fish and Wildlife new authority to issue permits \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_147_fps_final.pdf\">allowing species that are designated “fully protected,” (PDF)\u003c/a> such as the greater sandhill crane and golden eagle, to be harmed by similar types of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise that Newsom and lawmakers reached seems to have accomplished what compromises rarely do: Environmentalists \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">who initially criticized Newsom’s package\u003c/a> say they are satisfied with the changes, and businesses and water agencies, which \u003ca href=\"https://antr.assembly.ca.gov/sites/antr.assembly.ca.gov/files/June%207%2C%202022%20Info%20Hearing%20Documents.pdf\">have backed the package from the beginning (PDF)\u003c/a>, support the changes, too.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Victoria Rome, director of California government affairs, Natural Resource Defense Council\"]‘It’s good that it’s resolved, and that it’s better than it was and that the budget was able to move forward. But I would say to accelerate clean energy infrastructure, we have a lot more to do as a state.’[/pullquote]The proposals “are really going to help move the needle on water infrastructure projects that are needed to address the impacts of climate change,” said Adam Quinonez, director of state legislative and regulatory relations at the Association of California Water Agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/california-legislature-strengthens-infrastructure-trailer-bill-package-protect\">changes won over the Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>, which had pages of concerns about the potential environmental harms caused by Newsom’s original proposals, such as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">provisions that might have expedited the deeply divisive Delta tunnel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good that it’s resolved, and that it’s better than it was and that the budget was able to move forward,” said Victoria Rome, the Natural Resource Defense Council’s director of California government affairs. “But I would say to accelerate clean energy infrastructure, we have a lot more to do as a state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the wildlife bill would ease some existing protections, \u003ca href=\"https://ca.audubon.org/contact/mike-lynes\">Mike Lynes\u003c/a>, Audubon California’s director of public policy, hopes that in practice it would actually increase enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, it really will fall on the Department of Fish and Wildlife to make sure that these are good permits, and that the law is enforced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s in these bills? And what impact will they have on infrastructure projects and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s happening with CEQA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the bills, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149\">SB 149,\u003c/a> takes aim at the often lengthy lawsuits brought under CEQA, which tasks public agencies with assessing possible harms of proposed development. Lawsuits by the public and advocacy groups can entangle projects like housing developments, highway interchanges, and solar farms for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would set a 270-day limit for wrapping up these environmental challenges for water, energy, transportation and semiconductor projects. The projects must be \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_149_ceqa_judicial_streamlining_final.pdf\">certified by the governor by 2033 (PDF)\u003c/a> and meet certain criteria. These could potentially include water recycling plants, aqueduct repair, bikeways and railways, wildlife crossings, solar and wind farms, zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to concerns that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">this would expedite the Delta tunnel\u003c/a>, there’s now an explicit carveout saying that particular water project no longer qualifies for the faster timeline. [aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"california-energy\"]There’s a big caveat, though: The 270-day limit only applies “to the extent feasible” — a decision that judges would make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So will the time limit actually speed up cases? That remains to be seen, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/bio/david-pettit\">David Pettit\u003c/a>, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “I think it sends a signal to the judiciary that the Legislature wants these cases hustled up,” Pettit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in practice, he said, there are other major time sinks for the legal process beyond the length of litigation, such as preparing the paperwork behind an agency’s environmental assessment to create what’s called the administrative record. This is critical ammunition in legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s original version of the bill sparked a battle over which emails should be disclosed in the administrative record by excluding any internal communications that didn’t make it to the final decision makers. Assembly consultants warned this could allow state agencies to pick and choose which documents to disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, under the latest iteration, all emails related to the project must continue to be revealed in the administrative record, and only emails over minutia like scheduling can be excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is most emails that are actually pertinent to the project — not like, ‘How about those Dodgers?’ — they will go into the record,” Pettit said. “That is important, because sometimes people will talk candidly over email in a way that others might not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the effects on wildlife?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB147\">SB 147\u003c/a> would allow projects to \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/infrastructure-streamlining-and-workforce-equity\">receive permits to kill certain wildlife species\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fully-Protected\">that are classified as “fully protected.”\u003c/a> Thirty-seven species — including the golden eagle, greater sandhill crane, bighorn sheep, several coastal marsh birds, 10 fish and several reptiles and amphibians — are listed as fully protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, only certain types of projects that are considered beneficial to the public could get the new permits, including repairing aqueducts and other water infrastructure, building wind and solar installations, and transportation projects, including wildlife crossings, that don’t increase traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal Endangered Species Acts would still protect rare wildlife and be unaffected by the bill. But it would alter another, stronger protection under state law: “Fully protected” species \u003ca href=\"https://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/44/2/Biber.pdf\">began in the 1960s (PDF)\u003c/a> as part of an early effort to protect California’s animals, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fully-Protected\">California condor and southern sea otter.\u003c/a> Of those, all but 10 are also listed under the California Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923.jpg\" alt=\"A falcon flies in the sky with the Bay Bridge in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peregrine falcon flies over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The falcons would no longer be classified as a ‘fully protected species’ under the infrastructure bills. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike the endangered species acts, which allow wildlife agencies to grant permission to “take” or harm a species, so-called “fully protected” species cannot be killed except in rare cases, such as scientific research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To obtain the new permits, developers and other applicants would need to show that their plans to compensate for the harm to these species actually improves conservation — a more stringent standard than required by the California Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This addresses an enforcement gap: Regulators have little authority to make developers work with them to ensure projects take steps to reduce their impacts on those species. “There’s no hook for the regulatory agencies to demand avoidance and mitigation measures, because they’re unwilling to enforce the laws as written,” Audubon’s Lynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham told a Senate committee that without a permit process to allow harm to fully protected species, project developers are left with little recourse if their projects could disrupt these animals. As a result, “every project proponent faces an unnecessary risk for project planning, financing and construction.” [pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Mike Lynes, director of public policy, Audubon California\"]‘We certainly don’t want to be reducing protections for pelicans and peregrine falcons, but it’s also understandable to be looking to transition them off the list.’[/pullquote]Three species would also lose their status as fully protected: the American peregrine falcon, brown pelican and a fish called the thicktail chub. The falcon and pelican had been listed as endangered species but are now considered recovered, largely due to the 1972 ban on the pesticide DDT; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativefishlab.net/library/textpdf/18493.pdf\">the chub is considered extinct (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly don’t want to be reducing protections for pelicans and peregrine falcons, but it’s also understandable to be looking to transition them off the list,” Lynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version overhauls Newsom’s original proposal to scrap the “fully protected” designation entirely, which environmentalists worried would significantly weaken protections for these species. Delta communities were especially concerned, seeing it as one of several moves to push the Delta tunnel project forward by targeting the greater sandhill crane, which winters in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version of the bill explicitly says that a Delta tunnel project would not qualify for permits to take the crane or any other fully protected species.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this actually streamline projects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The multibillion-dollar question is whether these regulations will \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">actually help California build big things faster\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said they are critical to bolster California’s chances when competing against other states for $28 billion in discretionary funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be extremely difficult if not impossible to draw a straight line that if you pass judicial streamlining, we get the federal dollars here in California,” said Adam Regele, a vice president at the California Chamber of Commerce. “But what it does do is it makes us more competitive.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"David Pettit, senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council.\"]‘How do we know that this package will actually speed things up? Because I’m not seeing it.’[/pullquote]The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Pettit is skeptical that this will in fact streamline lengthy and litigious approvals under CEQA. He pointed to the loophole establishing a nine-month time limit for court challenges only “to the extent feasible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we know that this package will actually speed things up? Because I’m not seeing it,” Pettit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s deputy communications director, Alex Stack, said he couldn’t name any specific projects that would benefit or ones that had been specifically denied federal funding because of California’s existing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he expects the bills to cut the timeline for major builds in California by up to almost a third. That includes for transit projects, wind and solar installations, semiconductor plants and water storage projects like Sites reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s climate denial to preserve the status quo — to delay these projects is to delay climate action, clean energy, safe drinking water, and put millions more Californians at risk of devastating climate impacts,” Stack told CalMatters last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a rare feat, the compromise reached by Newsom and lawmakers seems to satisfy environmentalists, water agencies and businesses. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rachel-becker/\">Rachel Becker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11954531/will-californias-infrastructure-deal-speed-up-water-clean-energy-projects","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom are poised to enact a package of bills that aim to speed up lawsuits that entangle large projects, such as solar farms and reservoirs, and relax protection of about three dozen wildlife species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Senate and Assembly leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/content/analyses\">unveiled the five bills\u003c/a> earlier this week as they negotiated the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">state’s $310 billion 2023-24 budget\u003c/a>. The deal ended a standoff over the governor’s infrastructure package, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">he unveiled last month\u003c/a> in an effort to streamline renewable energy facilities, water reservoirs, bridges, railways and similar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package of bills will make its way through the Legislature on an accelerated schedule. The bills include an urgency clause — meaning they would take effect immediately when Newsom signs but they also will require a two-thirds vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearings have been scheduled for committees in both houses today. Debate may largely end up being a formality as the package \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">has already been negotiated\u003c/a> by Newsom and lawmakers behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate and negotiations focused on how California can speed up major projects that benefit the public while ensuring the environment is protected. The wide-ranging collection of bills take aim at broad swaths of state environmental policies shaping how state agencies approve large projects. For instance, the plan to build the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites reservoir\u003c/a> to add dams and store more Sacramento River water has been stalled for years as it undergoes environmental reviews and engineering planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_149_ceqa_judicial_streamlining_final.pdf\">sets a time limit (PDF)\u003c/a> for legal challenges for specified water, transportation and energy projects under the landmark California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which can entangle projects in court for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another gives the state Department of Fish and Wildlife new authority to issue permits \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_147_fps_final.pdf\">allowing species that are designated “fully protected,” (PDF)\u003c/a> such as the greater sandhill crane and golden eagle, to be harmed by similar types of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise that Newsom and lawmakers reached seems to have accomplished what compromises rarely do: Environmentalists \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">who initially criticized Newsom’s package\u003c/a> say they are satisfied with the changes, and businesses and water agencies, which \u003ca href=\"https://antr.assembly.ca.gov/sites/antr.assembly.ca.gov/files/June%207%2C%202022%20Info%20Hearing%20Documents.pdf\">have backed the package from the beginning (PDF)\u003c/a>, support the changes, too.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s good that it’s resolved, and that it’s better than it was and that the budget was able to move forward. But I would say to accelerate clean energy infrastructure, we have a lot more to do as a state.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Victoria Rome, director of California government affairs, Natural Resource Defense Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The proposals “are really going to help move the needle on water infrastructure projects that are needed to address the impacts of climate change,” said Adam Quinonez, director of state legislative and regulatory relations at the Association of California Water Agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/california-legislature-strengthens-infrastructure-trailer-bill-package-protect\">changes won over the Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>, which had pages of concerns about the potential environmental harms caused by Newsom’s original proposals, such as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">provisions that might have expedited the deeply divisive Delta tunnel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good that it’s resolved, and that it’s better than it was and that the budget was able to move forward,” said Victoria Rome, the Natural Resource Defense Council’s director of California government affairs. “But I would say to accelerate clean energy infrastructure, we have a lot more to do as a state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the wildlife bill would ease some existing protections, \u003ca href=\"https://ca.audubon.org/contact/mike-lynes\">Mike Lynes\u003c/a>, Audubon California’s director of public policy, hopes that in practice it would actually increase enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, it really will fall on the Department of Fish and Wildlife to make sure that these are good permits, and that the law is enforced,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s in these bills? And what impact will they have on infrastructure projects and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s happening with CEQA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the bills, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149\">SB 149,\u003c/a> takes aim at the often lengthy lawsuits brought under CEQA, which tasks public agencies with assessing possible harms of proposed development. Lawsuits by the public and advocacy groups can entangle projects like housing developments, highway interchanges, and solar farms for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would set a 270-day limit for wrapping up these environmental challenges for water, energy, transportation and semiconductor projects. The projects must be \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/sites/senate.ca.gov/files/senate_select_committee_on_infrastructure_streamlining_and_workforce_equity_-_sb_149_ceqa_judicial_streamlining_final.pdf\">certified by the governor by 2033 (PDF)\u003c/a> and meet certain criteria. These could potentially include water recycling plants, aqueduct repair, bikeways and railways, wildlife crossings, solar and wind farms, zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to concerns that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-lawmakers-newsom-delta/\">this would expedite the Delta tunnel\u003c/a>, there’s now an explicit carveout saying that particular water project no longer qualifies for the faster timeline. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coverage ","tag":"california-energy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There’s a big caveat, though: The 270-day limit only applies “to the extent feasible” — a decision that judges would make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So will the time limit actually speed up cases? That remains to be seen, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/bio/david-pettit\">David Pettit\u003c/a>, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “I think it sends a signal to the judiciary that the Legislature wants these cases hustled up,” Pettit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in practice, he said, there are other major time sinks for the legal process beyond the length of litigation, such as preparing the paperwork behind an agency’s environmental assessment to create what’s called the administrative record. This is critical ammunition in legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s original version of the bill sparked a battle over which emails should be disclosed in the administrative record by excluding any internal communications that didn’t make it to the final decision makers. Assembly consultants warned this could allow state agencies to pick and choose which documents to disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, under the latest iteration, all emails related to the project must continue to be revealed in the administrative record, and only emails over minutia like scheduling can be excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is most emails that are actually pertinent to the project — not like, ‘How about those Dodgers?’ — they will go into the record,” Pettit said. “That is important, because sometimes people will talk candidly over email in a way that others might not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are the effects on wildlife?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB147\">SB 147\u003c/a> would allow projects to \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/infrastructure-streamlining-and-workforce-equity\">receive permits to kill certain wildlife species\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fully-Protected\">that are classified as “fully protected.”\u003c/a> Thirty-seven species — including the golden eagle, greater sandhill crane, bighorn sheep, several coastal marsh birds, 10 fish and several reptiles and amphibians — are listed as fully protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, only certain types of projects that are considered beneficial to the public could get the new permits, including repairing aqueducts and other water infrastructure, building wind and solar installations, and transportation projects, including wildlife crossings, that don’t increase traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal Endangered Species Acts would still protect rare wildlife and be unaffected by the bill. But it would alter another, stronger protection under state law: “Fully protected” species \u003ca href=\"https://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/44/2/Biber.pdf\">began in the 1960s (PDF)\u003c/a> as part of an early effort to protect California’s animals, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fully-Protected\">California condor and southern sea otter.\u003c/a> Of those, all but 10 are also listed under the California Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923.jpg\" alt=\"A falcon flies in the sky with the Bay Bridge in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/peregrine-falcon-ap-062923-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peregrine falcon flies over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The falcons would no longer be classified as a ‘fully protected species’ under the infrastructure bills. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike the endangered species acts, which allow wildlife agencies to grant permission to “take” or harm a species, so-called “fully protected” species cannot be killed except in rare cases, such as scientific research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To obtain the new permits, developers and other applicants would need to show that their plans to compensate for the harm to these species actually improves conservation — a more stringent standard than required by the California Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This addresses an enforcement gap: Regulators have little authority to make developers work with them to ensure projects take steps to reduce their impacts on those species. “There’s no hook for the regulatory agencies to demand avoidance and mitigation measures, because they’re unwilling to enforce the laws as written,” Audubon’s Lynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham told a Senate committee that without a permit process to allow harm to fully protected species, project developers are left with little recourse if their projects could disrupt these animals. As a result, “every project proponent faces an unnecessary risk for project planning, financing and construction.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We certainly don’t want to be reducing protections for pelicans and peregrine falcons, but it’s also understandable to be looking to transition them off the list.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Mike Lynes, director of public policy, Audubon California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Three species would also lose their status as fully protected: the American peregrine falcon, brown pelican and a fish called the thicktail chub. The falcon and pelican had been listed as endangered species but are now considered recovered, largely due to the 1972 ban on the pesticide DDT; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativefishlab.net/library/textpdf/18493.pdf\">the chub is considered extinct (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly don’t want to be reducing protections for pelicans and peregrine falcons, but it’s also understandable to be looking to transition them off the list,” Lynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version overhauls Newsom’s original proposal to scrap the “fully protected” designation entirely, which environmentalists worried would significantly weaken protections for these species. Delta communities were especially concerned, seeing it as one of several moves to push the Delta tunnel project forward by targeting the greater sandhill crane, which winters in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version of the bill explicitly says that a Delta tunnel project would not qualify for permits to take the crane or any other fully protected species.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this actually streamline projects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The multibillion-dollar question is whether these regulations will \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/05/gavin-newsom-ceqa-reform/\">actually help California build big things faster\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said they are critical to bolster California’s chances when competing against other states for $28 billion in discretionary funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be extremely difficult if not impossible to draw a straight line that if you pass judicial streamlining, we get the federal dollars here in California,” said Adam Regele, a vice president at the California Chamber of Commerce. “But what it does do is it makes us more competitive.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘How do we know that this package will actually speed things up? Because I’m not seeing it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"David Pettit, senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Pettit is skeptical that this will in fact streamline lengthy and litigious approvals under CEQA. He pointed to the loophole establishing a nine-month time limit for court challenges only “to the extent feasible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we know that this package will actually speed things up? Because I’m not seeing it,” Pettit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s deputy communications director, Alex Stack, said he couldn’t name any specific projects that would benefit or ones that had been specifically denied federal funding because of California’s existing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he expects the bills to cut the timeline for major builds in California by up to almost a third. That includes for transit projects, wind and solar installations, semiconductor plants and water storage projects like Sites reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s climate denial to preserve the status quo — to delay these projects is to delay climate action, clean energy, safe drinking water, and put millions more Californians at risk of devastating climate impacts,” Stack told CalMatters last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954531/will-californias-infrastructure-deal-speed-up-water-clean-energy-projects","authors":["byline_news_11954531"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_32158","news_20447","news_4248","news_21349","news_24695","news_21863","news_28872","news_1730","news_30285","news_1307","news_464","news_32878"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11954600","label":"source_news_11954531"},"news_11950286":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11950286","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11950286","score":null,"sort":[1684621307000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gov-newsom-seeks-to-speed-up-water-clean-energy-projects-delayed-by-lawsuits-permits","title":"Gov. Newsom Seeks to Speed Up Water, Clean Energy Projects Delayed by Lawsuits, Permits","publishDate":1684621307,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Gov. Newsom Seeks to Speed Up Water, Clean Energy Projects Delayed by Lawsuits, Permits | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday pledged to fast-track hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of construction projects throughout the state, including a pair of large water projects that have languished for years amid permitting delays and opposition from environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, California officials have pursued the water projects in the drought-prone state. One would construct \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-sacramento-jerry-brown-trending-news-82c1f2b378ef01793dc69fb3140cf294\">a giant tunnel\u003c/a> to carry large amounts of water beneath the natural channels of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to drier and more populous Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other would be a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-california-droughts-science--74bbbd535f6519b8aa79d57737e6eef4\">massive new reservoir\u003c/a> near the tiny community of Sites in Northern California that could store more water during deluges — like the series of atmospheric river storms that hit the state earlier this year — for delivery to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither project has been built, despite promises from multiple governors and legislative leaders. Environmental groups have sued to block the tunnel project, arguing it would decimate threatened species of fish, including salmon and the Delta smelt. The Sites Reservoir is still trying to acquire necessary permits to begin construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is seeking a slew of changes to make it much faster for these projects to gain the required permits and approvals. Other projects that could be eligible include solar, wind and battery power storage; transit and regional rail; road maintenance and bridge projects; semiconductor plants; and wildlife crossings along Interstate 15, Newsom’s office said. His efforts to speed projects would not apply to building more housing.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)\"]‘[T]he climate crisis requires that we move faster to build and strengthen critical infrastructure.’[/pullquote]One key proposal is to limit the amount of time it takes to resolve environmental lawsuits to about nine months. Newsom said his administration is “not looking to roll over anybody,” including what he called the “fierce champions” of environmental stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, nine months, you can have a kid, OK? I mean that’s a long time,” Newsom said Friday while visiting the site of a future solar farm in Stanislaus County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some environmental groups were furious. Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of the advocacy group Restore the Delta, said Newsom “wants to do away with standard environmental protections to build the Delta tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have never been more disappointed in a California governor than we are with Gov. Newsom,” she said. “How is perpetuating environmental injustice, which harms public and environmental health, really any different than red state governors perpetuating social injustice in their states, which Gov. Newsom likes to criticize vigorously?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom says California has hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on infrastructure projects over the next decade, the result of voter-approved bonds, bountiful budget surpluses during the pandemic and an influx of federal cash from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-congress-infrastructure-bill-signing-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144\">President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the state is often too slow to approve those projects and that the federal money is “going to other states that are moving more aggressively.” Newsom said his proposals could shorten how long it takes to build projects by more than three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said the legislation would allow various state agencies, including the Department of Transportation, to more quickly approve projects and issue permits. Newsom also signed an executive order on Friday creating what he called an “infrastructure strike team” to identify projects for fast-tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown, executive director of the Sites Project Authority, which is overseeing the new reservoir, said he thinks Newsom’s proposals could allow construction to start a year early, saving about $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves a lot of money and gets a lot of jobs in the pipeline,” he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director, Restore the Delta\"]‘We have never been more disappointed in a California governor than we are with Gov. Newsom.’[/pullquote]Newsom wants the legislation to be part of the state’s budget, which must be passed before the end of June. That means, if approved, it could take effect sooner and would only require a majority vote of the Democrat-controlled Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego and leader of the state Senate, said “the climate crisis requires that we move faster to build and strengthen critical infrastructure,” adding that lawmakers will “ensure we can do so responsibly, and in line with California’s commitment to high-road jobs and environmental protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans cheered Newsom’s proposal, with Republican Senate Leader Brian Jones saying the governor “is finally taking action.” Others were more skeptical, with Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher saying Democrats in the Legislature are the biggest obstacle to Newsom’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom loves to brag that he can ‘jam’ Democratic lawmakers. Let’s see it,” Gallagher said. “Republicans are ready to work with him towards real reforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A slew of proposed changes would make it much faster for key infrastructural projects to gain the required permits and approvals, according to Newsom, but some environmental groups are furious.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684800525,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":859},"headData":{"title":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom on Friday pledged to fast-track hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of construction projects throughout the state, including a pair of large water projects that have languished for years amid permitting delays and opposition from environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, California officials have pursued the water projects in the drought-prone state. One would construct \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-sacramento-jerry-brown-trending-news-82c1f2b378ef01793dc69fb3140cf294\">a giant tunnel\u003c/a> to carry large amounts of water beneath the natural channels of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to drier and more populous Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other would be a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-california-droughts-science--74bbbd535f6519b8aa79d57737e6eef4\">massive new reservoir\u003c/a> near the tiny community of Sites in Northern California that could store more water during deluges — like the series of atmospheric river storms that hit the state earlier this year — for delivery to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither project has been built, despite promises from multiple governors and legislative leaders. Environmental groups have sued to block the tunnel project, arguing it would decimate threatened species of fish, including salmon and the Delta smelt. The Sites Reservoir is still trying to acquire necessary permits to begin construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is seeking a slew of changes to make it much faster for these projects to gain the required permits and approvals. Other projects that could be eligible include solar, wind and battery power storage; transit and regional rail; road maintenance and bridge projects; semiconductor plants; and wildlife crossings along Interstate 15, Newsom’s office said. His efforts to speed projects would not apply to building more housing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘[T]he climate crisis requires that we move faster to build and strengthen critical infrastructure.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One key proposal is to limit the amount of time it takes to resolve environmental lawsuits to about nine months. Newsom said his administration is “not looking to roll over anybody,” including what he called the “fierce champions” of environmental stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, nine months, you can have a kid, OK? I mean that’s a long time,” Newsom said Friday while visiting the site of a future solar farm in Stanislaus County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some environmental groups were furious. Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of the advocacy group Restore the Delta, said Newsom “wants to do away with standard environmental protections to build the Delta tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have never been more disappointed in a California governor than we are with Gov. Newsom,” she said. “How is perpetuating environmental injustice, which harms public and environmental health, really any different than red state governors perpetuating social injustice in their states, which Gov. Newsom likes to criticize vigorously?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom says California has hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on infrastructure projects over the next decade, the result of voter-approved bonds, bountiful budget surpluses during the pandemic and an influx of federal cash from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-congress-infrastructure-bill-signing-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144\">President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the state is often too slow to approve those projects and that the federal money is “going to other states that are moving more aggressively.” Newsom said his proposals could shorten how long it takes to build projects by more than three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said the legislation would allow various state agencies, including the Department of Transportation, to more quickly approve projects and issue permits. Newsom also signed an executive order on Friday creating what he called an “infrastructure strike team” to identify projects for fast-tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown, executive director of the Sites Project Authority, which is overseeing the new reservoir, said he thinks Newsom’s proposals could allow construction to start a year early, saving about $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That saves a lot of money and gets a lot of jobs in the pipeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have never been more disappointed in a California governor than we are with Gov. Newsom.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director, Restore the Delta","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom wants the legislation to be part of the state’s budget, which must be passed before the end of June. That means, if approved, it could take effect sooner and would only require a majority vote of the Democrat-controlled Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego and leader of the state Senate, said “the climate crisis requires that we move faster to build and strengthen critical infrastructure,” adding that lawmakers will “ensure we can do so responsibly, and in line with California’s commitment to high-road jobs and environmental protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans cheered Newsom’s proposal, with Republican Senate Leader Brian Jones saying the governor “is finally taking action.” Others were more skeptical, with Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher saying Democrats in the Legislature are the biggest obstacle to Newsom’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom loves to brag that he can ‘jam’ Democratic lawmakers. Let’s see it,” Gallagher said. “Republicans are ready to work with him towards real reforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11950286/gov-newsom-seeks-to-speed-up-water-clean-energy-projects-delayed-by-lawsuits-permits","authors":["byline_news_11950286"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32158","news_20447","news_25015","news_1730"],"featImg":"news_11950287","label":"news"},"news_11943157":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11943157","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11943157","score":null,"sort":[1678456804000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-pge-adds-months-long-delays-costs-to-new-housing","title":"How PG&E Adds Months-Long Delays, Costs to New Housing","publishDate":1678456804,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n San Francisco's Mission District, three newly built backyard cottages are ready for older adults and lower-income families. But, no one will be able to move in for the foreseeable future: Even though electrical wiring is installed, the apartments don't have power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive Director Sam Moss of the Mission Housing Development Corporation is proud of what his nonprofit has built on property the organization owns. The new homes are within walking distance of two BART stations, major bus lines and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mission Housing figured out how to convert our garages with our own funds,\" he said. \"We did not go to any government agency and ask for a grant. If that isn't what we need right now in our housing crisis, then I don't know what it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, during a recent meeting between Mission Housing and PG&E, an inspector told Moss he didn't know when the company would be able to connect the buildings, due to internal delays at PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then he left, with no explanation and no estimation of when someone was going to come,\" Moss said. \"We're talking about three very high-quality, 100% affordable units for seniors and low-income families [that are] just going to sit vacant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E said the company needed more information about this project before it could respond. But after KQED inquired about it, Moss said Mission Housing received a call from a PG&E inspector saying they would come to the construction site in mid-April to reassess the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting new buildings to the grid is a problem developers say is not unique to PG&E, but they cite the company as the worst offender — with delays that can add months or even years to a project before it opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a new issue, but developers like Moss say it's exacerbated by pandemic-induced supply chain problems, coupled with the increasing severity of storms and wildfires, and more demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener\"]'PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid.'[/pullquote]As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. There has to be an actual time line and consequences for failing to meet that time line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo shows primarily a wooden power pole with utility lines crossing the sky, and the outline of the top of a building that looks like a San Francisco victorian in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E utility poles in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynsey Paulo, spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement the company is committed to working with policymakers on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with lawmakers to ensure the right policy and regulatory frameworks are included to support the state's goals,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A problem of their own making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2022, Southern California Edison and PG&E connected just over 10,000 commercial and residential buildings, according to self-reported data both investor-owned utilities provided to Wiener's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E took nearly six times as long: Southern California Edison took an average of nine days to turn on the lights after a building finished construction. For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11938267 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/026_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. But it still hasn't been hooked up to the grid, and Moss isn't sure when it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the uncertainty that's the hardest thing to deal with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include responses from PG&E representatives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Developers across California face lengthy delays connecting new buildings to the power grid, with utility companies often making construction more costly and unpredictable. A new bill is trying to change that.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1678483499,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1679},"headData":{"title":"How PG&E Adds Months-Long Delays, Costs to New Housing | KQED","description":"Developers across California face lengthy delays connecting new buildings to the power grid, with utility companies often making construction more costly and unpredictable. A new bill is trying to change that.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11943157/how-pge-adds-months-long-delays-costs-to-new-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n San Francisco's Mission District, three newly built backyard cottages are ready for older adults and lower-income families. But, no one will be able to move in for the foreseeable future: Even though electrical wiring is installed, the apartments don't have power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive Director Sam Moss of the Mission Housing Development Corporation is proud of what his nonprofit has built on property the organization owns. The new homes are within walking distance of two BART stations, major bus lines and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mission Housing figured out how to convert our garages with our own funds,\" he said. \"We did not go to any government agency and ask for a grant. If that isn't what we need right now in our housing crisis, then I don't know what it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, during a recent meeting between Mission Housing and PG&E, an inspector told Moss he didn't know when the company would be able to connect the buildings, due to internal delays at PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then he left, with no explanation and no estimation of when someone was going to come,\" Moss said. \"We're talking about three very high-quality, 100% affordable units for seniors and low-income families [that are] just going to sit vacant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E said the company needed more information about this project before it could respond. But after KQED inquired about it, Moss said Mission Housing received a call from a PG&E inspector saying they would come to the construction site in mid-April to reassess the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting new buildings to the grid is a problem developers say is not unique to PG&E, but they cite the company as the worst offender — with delays that can add months or even years to a project before it opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a new issue, but developers like Moss say it's exacerbated by pandemic-induced supply chain problems, coupled with the increasing severity of storms and wildfires, and more demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Sen. Scott Wiener","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As California attempts to build 2.5 million homes by 2031, developers say utility companies will have to adhere to a stricter timeline to get more housing completed faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, SB 83, attempts to do just that. It would set an eight-week deadline for utility companies to connect newly constructed buildings. If a project is delayed further, the company would have to bear the cost, which is currently borne by the developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not asking for perfection,\" Wiener said. \"PG&E is not just falling short of perfection. It's causing huge problems with getting projects open and connected to the grid. There has to be a more structured system. There has to be an actual time line and consequences for failing to meet that time line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo shows primarily a wooden power pole with utility lines crossing the sky, and the outline of the top of a building that looks like a San Francisco victorian in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34914_P1100969-qut-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E utility poles in San Francisco's Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynsey Paulo, spokesperson for PG&E, said in a statement the company is committed to working with policymakers on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with lawmakers to ensure the right policy and regulatory frameworks are included to support the state's goals,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A problem of their own making\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2022, Southern California Edison and PG&E connected just over 10,000 commercial and residential buildings, according to self-reported data both investor-owned utilities provided to Wiener's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E took nearly six times as long: Southern California Edison took an average of nine days to turn on the lights after a building finished construction. For PG&E, the average was 64 days. As of mid-February, the wait time for nearly 30% of new buildings under PG&E's purview was more than 90 days, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wiener's perspective, this is a problem of the utility behemoth's own making, in part because it expanded services across the state and because it's the only utility company most developers can work with in the areas it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was PG&E's decision to become unsustainably large,\" Wiener said. \"To complain that, 'We don't have the resources because we're so big, which is a choice that we made,' is not a convincing argument.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11938267","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/026_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others take a more sympathetic approach. Corey Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Action Coalition, which is co-sponsoring the bill, said the company is struggling to replace aging equipment as it responds to increasingly severe wildfires and storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite literally the person power and where to send a finite number of employees with aging infrastructure,\" Smith said. \"It's a real challenge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provides electricity to more than \u003ca href=\"//www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">5.5 million customers\u003c/a> across the state, in a service area that stretches across 70,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has so much power – both literally and figuratively – many developers refused to speak with KQED on the record out of fear of retribution. Moss is worried about that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm worried about the real retribution, which is units not coming online,\" he said. \"It's seniors remaining homeless, families and kids remaining homeless because PG&E refuses to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A black hole'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a housing project approved and ready to start construction is arduous enough, but developers say connecting to the grid adds its own complexity: It involves a slew of paperwork, permits and approvals. There's an initial inspection, and then developers submit formal plans to the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting PG&E inspectors out to construction sites has become frustrating. Larry Florin, CEO of nonprofit affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, said he scheduled an inspector to come to a site in Napa County earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of the inspection, Florin got a call saying PG&E was dealing with weather issues they had to tend to first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The earliest they could come back would be six weeks,\" he said. \"We're constantly dealing with issues like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulo said that while PG&E wants to work closely with developers and builders, responding to more frequent weather events and natural disasters has \"required significant financial and workforce resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This work, compounded with a significant growth in electric demand after decades of flat demand, has resulted in some projects being delayed or rescheduled,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florin said there are other ways PG&E can hold up a project. Once an inspector is able to sign off on plans, and a building gets built, developers have to order specialized equipment to hook up the building to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not always clear what equipment is needed. PG&E's requirements change from one project to another, Florin said, and the company often doesn't provide proper guidance, leaving developers like Burbank in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you reach out to PG&E, it's like a black hole,\" he said. \"You get nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss said that lack of communication can lead to expensive, mid-construction changes that are especially challenging for nonprofit housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When PG&E comes and says, 'Actually, you've got to move this over here,' it might sound like one quick little change, but one little change has a domino effect,\" he said. \"And then your whole schedule is thrown off. And with especially 100% affordable housing, we don't have the ability to spend an extra million dollars in change orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Housing Coverage ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moss faced just such a situation recently with a project Mission Housing is currently building adjacent to the Balboa Park BART station. The nonprofit needed temporary power to build 131 affordable apartments there. Moss said they waited almost a year for PG&E to provide a cost estimate to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which buys wholesale power from PG&E, so SFPUC could turn on the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said, at that point, “SFPUC did not authorize PG&E to proceed with temporary generation on this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Moss said that’s because PG&E also required Mission Housing to make expensive changes to the project in order to do that. He called upon elected officials to pressure PG&E to work out a compromise with the SFPUC, including Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who sent letters to the utility. But it was to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building [the units] on generators,\" Moss said. \"We had to spend money on generators and fuel all because PG&E refused to get power to build this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the project was initially proposed, Mission Housing envisioned including a child care facility along with retail space on the ground floor. Now that's in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have significantly less money from the overall construction loan to build out our ground floor spaces because we had to spend it on fuel,\" he said. \"Mission Housing is coming out of pocket to pay for things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is nearing completion, and the nonprofit hopes to begin leasing the apartments in June. But it still hasn't been hooked up to the grid, and Moss isn't sure when it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the uncertainty that's the hardest thing to deal with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include responses from PG&E representatives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11943157/how-pge-adds-months-long-delays-costs-to-new-housing","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1758","news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_3921","news_18538","news_1775","news_21358","news_1730","news_140","news_1217"],"featImg":"news_11943175","label":"news"},"news_11938273":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11938273","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11938273","score":null,"sort":[1674136807000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","title":"'Our Worst Nightmare': As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards","publishDate":1674136807,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Oakland waterways during record-breaking rainfall on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Castro Valley, residents reported sewage backing up into their drains and front yards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eileen White, executive officer, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board\"]'When we're out of the reactive mode, I think it'll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.'[/pullquote]“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board's executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn't be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies'] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>'The new normal'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you're in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it's a wake-up call. Because I think that's going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we're out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it'll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD's wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility's south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we're talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there's an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that's already a community that's impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD's wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland's Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a \"red tide\" event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wastewater\"]EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we're definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they're not sexy, they're out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don't tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they're upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn't be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn't be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED's Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The massive amount of rainfall quickly overwhelmed the Bay Area's sewer systems, exposing major cracks and deficiencies in the region's aging infrastructure. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1674325065,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1623},"headData":{"title":"'Our Worst Nightmare': As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards | KQED","description":"The massive amount of rainfall quickly overwhelmed the Bay Area's sewer systems, exposing major cracks and deficiencies in the region's aging infrastructure. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/71b9ca2f-d288-4c91-b7e8-af8d015adef9/audio.mp3","nprByline":"Katherine Monahan and Matthew Green","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11938273/our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Oakland waterways during record-breaking rainfall on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Castro Valley, residents reported sewage backing up into their drains and front yards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When we're out of the reactive mode, I think it'll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Eileen White, executive officer, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board's executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn't be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies'] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>'The new normal'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you're in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it's a wake-up call. Because I think that's going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we're out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it'll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD's wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility's south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we're talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there's an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that's already a community that's impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD's wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland's Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a \"red tide\" event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"wastewater"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we're definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they're not sexy, they're out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don't tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they're upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn't be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn't be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED's Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11938273/our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","authors":["byline_news_11938273"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_295","news_18299","news_1730","news_5909","news_20287"],"featImg":"news_11938448","label":"news"},"news_11936742":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11936742","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11936742","score":null,"sort":[1672869788000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sacramento-valley-already-deluged-braces-for-more-floods","title":"Sacramento Valley, Already Deluged, Braces for More Floods","publishDate":1672869788,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Raising questions about whether California’s elaborate system of flood protections will hold, another dangerous storm is barreling toward the Sacramento Valley, where rains already punched through some levees, and floods killed at least one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storms have already tested the flood-prevention infrastructure across the region, which sits at the confluence of two major rivers and bears the brunt of heavy rains. “It’s a bathtub, basically,” said Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer for the federal Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1.3 million people and $223 billion worth of property in the Central Valley are protected by the state-federal systems of levees, dams and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California spends $48 million annually to operate flood protections but needs much more — “$3.2 billion over the next five years of implementation,” according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, a document produced in 2012 and updated last month. Of that, the state’s responsibility ranges from $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated $25 billion to $30 billion in funding over 30 years could help the state “avoid the astronomical cost of catastrophic flooding in the Central Valley estimated to be as high as $1 trillion, in addition to an incalculable toll on lives and public well-being,” the plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png\" alt=\"Flooding area aerial view\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields.png 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows flooded fields off River Road near Locke on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, this winter’s storms have been severe but not catastrophic: The New Year’s Eve storm “stalled out” over the watershed of the Cosumnes River. Portions of privately owned levees on the river gave way, flooding nearby areas. The levees, constructed to reclaim the land for agriculture, are generally rated only to handle a 10-year flood, according to Sacramento County officials. The breeching of the levees shut down Highway 99 and stranded motorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the region’s two major reservoirs held, and the Sacramento and American rivers did not experience major floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments we’ve made to the flood system have absolutely helped,” said Gary Lippner, the Department of Water Resources’ deputy director of flood management and dam safety. “At the larger scale, our system is much more ready for high-water events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley has a long, painful history of deluges: \u003ca href=\"https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dettinger_Ingram_sciam13.pdf\">The Great Flood of 1861–2 (PDF)\u003c/a>, triggered by weeks of rain and snow, is still remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall California, inundating the entire valley, killing thousands of people statewide and devastating the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s capital city was built in a floodplain and requires an extensive system of dams and levees to protect it. Even now, federal, state and local authorities are in the midst of upgrading those defenses, particularly in the Sacramento region, where multiyear, multibillion-dollar projects are underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major improvements have been made in the region and more also are underway, thanks to about $1.8 billion in state and federal funds. The Army Corps and state have been upgrading about 45 miles of levees over a five-year period, and work on the final 2.8 miles is scheduled to begin in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the structural upgrades are raising levee heights, boring as deep as 150 feet to reinforce levees to prevent seepage and piling rocks on riverbanks to reduce erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers,” Salyers said. The completed projects are now weather-tested, she said, and “performing the way we wanted them to.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers\"]'All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers.' [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials expressed confidence that the Central Valley’s levees and bypasses will contain the deluges coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a significant amount of capacity within the bypass system in that 1,600 miles of levee, and I don’t anticipate … there to be emergency management needs,” Lippner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every flood-protection system has its limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who studies extreme weather events, warned in a scientific report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">a major atmospheric river-type flood event could, in the worst of scenarios, cause $1 trillion in damage in the Central Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain and his co-author, Xingying Huang of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, warned that a storm could station itself over the state for weeks on end, producing 3 feet or more of rain, inundating major population centers and disrupting economic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, noted that impacts from the upcoming storm system could escalate to a “worst-case scenario” if it “becomes an unrelenting series of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are warning residents in the Sacramento region and the Bay Area to prepare today for yet another assault, this time from a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/433474\">bomb cyclone\u003c/a>” spinning in the Pacific that will not make landfall but will amplify rain, wind and frigid temperatures along the coast and foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters today are expecting more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-drought-floods-atmospheric-rivers-reservoir-management-hurricane-hunters/\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> — the powerful streams of tropical moisture that deliver most of California’s winter rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a high-impact event, a pretty intense storm Wednesday night,” Swain said. “The stage is set for something potentially big to happen if the model trends toward the higher end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some flooding. It’s a question of how much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We like rain in California, but we love snow'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mountains that supply these reservoirs, snow levels are now above average. The Department of Water Resources’ first snow survey of the season took place on Tuesday at Phillips Station, in the Sierra Nevada, west of Lake Tahoe. Scientists measured 55.5 inches of snow and a snow water equivalent of 17.5 inches. That’s 177% of average for this location. Statewide, snowpack levels are at 174% of average for that date.[aside tag=\"flood, atmospheroc-river\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]This is the best start to California's snow season in 40 years, according to Department of Water Resources officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hasty, though, to assume the ongoing storms and wet forecast mark an end to the prolonged drought. In 2021, record rains and heavy snowfall arrived between October and December. Then, California experienced its driest January-through-March — typically the state’s wettest months — in recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say consecutive storms are made more dangerous by an already-soaked landscape’s inability to absorb more water. In addition to creating swollen creeks and mudslides, incessant rain reduces soil's ability to hold vegetation, and California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2016/07/what-is-killing-californias-trees/\">millions of drought-ravaged trees\u003c/a> can easily fall over. Areas with wildfire burn scars are at risk of flash-flooding, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big wild card will be what happens next week,” Swain said. “There’s a wide range of uncertainty. If one or two of those events occur next week, then all bets are off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although rain has fallen on Southern California, the area has largely been spared. The worst of the coming storm will mostly stop at the northern edge of Los Angeles County, Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"More than 7 million Californians live in a 500-year floodplain\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-X61ZG\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/X61ZG/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"692\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe> [datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, advised residents throughout the Central Valley to stay on guard and take warnings and advisories to heart. “If you’re at an elevation below 200 feet, near a levee that’s older than you, pay attention to alerts,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has established \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/with-another-significant-storm-looming-cal-oes-continues-to-deploy-resources-personnel-to-impacted-counties/\">emergency shelters\u003c/a> in Sacramento and San Mateo counties and has stockpiled 3.7 million sandbags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts think the flooding from the incoming storms could be tempered by the fact that the developing system is relatively cold. This will translate into more snow and less rain, at least at high elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storm was relatively warm and produced rainfall at high elevations, where the liquid water fell on several feet of snow, melting it and magnifying the runoff into streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s storm is colder. That means more precipitation will probably fall as snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like rain in California, but we love snow,” said \u003ca href=\"https://snri.ucmerced.edu/content/john-abatzoglou\">John Abatzoglou\u003c/a>, UC Merced professor of climatology. He said that over the weekend, rain fell at elevations of 8,000 feet or more and may have worsened lowland flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said today’s storm will probably produce rainfall at no higher than 5,000 to 6,000 feet and snowfall above that, minimizing rain-on-snow flooding impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a good mix of both heavy rain at the lower elevations, snowfall at the higher elevations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Need to act with renewed urgency'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate modeling suggests that global warming is likely to make storms larger, stronger and more intense. It will also cause more precipitation to fall in liquid form. This translates into worsening floods just as the Central Valley’s system of levees, weirs and bypasses ages past its prime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flood board's updated \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, released last month, warns of “1,000-year storm events … and the need to act with renewed urgency and purpose before the next large flood event occurs in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls on nature-based solutions, like restored floodplains, and infrastructural improvements, like fortified levees near urban areas, to help reduce the impacts of higher-energy storm systems expected as a result of the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the historic floodplains along the Central Valley’s rivers have been separated from the water by levees. Scientists now say that restoring floodplains can be an effective flood control strategy by allowing surging rivers to spill their banks and shed their energy on unpopulated flatlands, rather than bursting through aging levees surrounding populated areas. Floodplains also provide fish and wildlife habitat and serve as groundwater percolation beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png\" alt=\"View of flooding with some green grass amidst water\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3.png 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field off Interstate 5 near Mokelumne City is flooded on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a lot of rain falls in a short span of time, it’s difficult for many regions to handle, especially low-lying coastal areas. Last weekend downtown San Francisco was drenched with nearly 6 inches of rain and incoming high tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of time for that water to find a way out,” said Mark Dickman, associate director for data at the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a persistent and familiar challenge: what to do with water when there’s too much and how to manage when there isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are built for this,” said Jeffrey Mount, a water specialist at the Public Policy Institute of California. “We built the system around the notion that we get occasionally wet years and mostly dry years. But, unlike the Colorado River Basin, where they can capture and control four years of runoff, we are full after one year. Our ability to store surface water is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the nature of a semi-arid climate that we will see this whiplash — the three driest years on record and, if this year continues, we will get a year like 2017, the wettest on record. We have not figured out how to better take advantage of these wet years to get us through the dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it takes decades to change traditional approaches to flood control, Mount said the current projects are a step in the right direction. “I see a lot of really good things coming out of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it be a drought-buster?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ongoing rains are already boosting California’s water storage system. Major reservoirs are rising, some rapidly. Folsom Lake was 29% full on Dec. 20, and as of Jan. 2 it jumped to 61%. The much larger Lake Oroville jumped from 29% to 38% in the same window — an increase of more than 300,000 acre-feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought isn’t over yet and the West Coast remains dominated by a “weak to moderate” La Niña system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as the fall, scientists predicted California was in for a fourth year of drought and predicted the rare occurrence of a third consecutive La Niña, the El Niño counterpart associated with dry Southern California weather and, generally, 50-50 odds of drought farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abatzoglou of UC Merced said he suspects more rain will fall this month than fell from January through June last year. But he noted that recent forecasts for dry weather have not proven perfectly accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forecasts were anticipating a dry January, February and March,” he said. “January is now going to be wet.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As a 'bomb cyclone' descends on Northern California today, storms have already tested a region highly vulnerable to flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in improvements over 30 years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1672893314,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/X61ZG/3/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2253},"headData":{"title":"Sacramento Valley, Already Deluged, Braces for More Floods | KQED","description":"As a 'bomb cyclone' descends on Northern California today, storms have already tested a region highly vulnerable to flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in improvements over 30 years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Julie Cart and Alastair Bland","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11936742/sacramento-valley-already-deluged-braces-for-more-floods","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Raising questions about whether California’s elaborate system of flood protections will hold, another dangerous storm is barreling toward the Sacramento Valley, where rains already punched through some levees, and floods killed at least one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storms have already tested the flood-prevention infrastructure across the region, which sits at the confluence of two major rivers and bears the brunt of heavy rains. “It’s a bathtub, basically,” said Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer for the federal Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1.3 million people and $223 billion worth of property in the Central Valley are protected by the state-federal systems of levees, dams and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California spends $48 million annually to operate flood protections but needs much more — “$3.2 billion over the next five years of implementation,” according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, a document produced in 2012 and updated last month. Of that, the state’s responsibility ranges from $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated $25 billion to $30 billion in funding over 30 years could help the state “avoid the astronomical cost of catastrophic flooding in the Central Valley estimated to be as high as $1 trillion, in addition to an incalculable toll on lives and public well-being,” the plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png\" alt=\"Flooding area aerial view\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields.png 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows flooded fields off River Road near Locke on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, this winter’s storms have been severe but not catastrophic: The New Year’s Eve storm “stalled out” over the watershed of the Cosumnes River. Portions of privately owned levees on the river gave way, flooding nearby areas. The levees, constructed to reclaim the land for agriculture, are generally rated only to handle a 10-year flood, according to Sacramento County officials. The breeching of the levees shut down Highway 99 and stranded motorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the region’s two major reservoirs held, and the Sacramento and American rivers did not experience major floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments we’ve made to the flood system have absolutely helped,” said Gary Lippner, the Department of Water Resources’ deputy director of flood management and dam safety. “At the larger scale, our system is much more ready for high-water events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley has a long, painful history of deluges: \u003ca href=\"https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dettinger_Ingram_sciam13.pdf\">The Great Flood of 1861–2 (PDF)\u003c/a>, triggered by weeks of rain and snow, is still remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall California, inundating the entire valley, killing thousands of people statewide and devastating the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s capital city was built in a floodplain and requires an extensive system of dams and levees to protect it. Even now, federal, state and local authorities are in the midst of upgrading those defenses, particularly in the Sacramento region, where multiyear, multibillion-dollar projects are underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major improvements have been made in the region and more also are underway, thanks to about $1.8 billion in state and federal funds. The Army Corps and state have been upgrading about 45 miles of levees over a five-year period, and work on the final 2.8 miles is scheduled to begin in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the structural upgrades are raising levee heights, boring as deep as 150 feet to reinforce levees to prevent seepage and piling rocks on riverbanks to reduce erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers,” Salyers said. The completed projects are now weather-tested, she said, and “performing the way we wanted them to.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers.' ","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials expressed confidence that the Central Valley’s levees and bypasses will contain the deluges coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a significant amount of capacity within the bypass system in that 1,600 miles of levee, and I don’t anticipate … there to be emergency management needs,” Lippner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every flood-protection system has its limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who studies extreme weather events, warned in a scientific report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">a major atmospheric river-type flood event could, in the worst of scenarios, cause $1 trillion in damage in the Central Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain and his co-author, Xingying Huang of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, warned that a storm could station itself over the state for weeks on end, producing 3 feet or more of rain, inundating major population centers and disrupting economic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, noted that impacts from the upcoming storm system could escalate to a “worst-case scenario” if it “becomes an unrelenting series of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are warning residents in the Sacramento region and the Bay Area to prepare today for yet another assault, this time from a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/433474\">bomb cyclone\u003c/a>” spinning in the Pacific that will not make landfall but will amplify rain, wind and frigid temperatures along the coast and foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters today are expecting more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-drought-floods-atmospheric-rivers-reservoir-management-hurricane-hunters/\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> — the powerful streams of tropical moisture that deliver most of California’s winter rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a high-impact event, a pretty intense storm Wednesday night,” Swain said. “The stage is set for something potentially big to happen if the model trends toward the higher end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some flooding. It’s a question of how much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We like rain in California, but we love snow'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mountains that supply these reservoirs, snow levels are now above average. The Department of Water Resources’ first snow survey of the season took place on Tuesday at Phillips Station, in the Sierra Nevada, west of Lake Tahoe. Scientists measured 55.5 inches of snow and a snow water equivalent of 17.5 inches. That’s 177% of average for this location. Statewide, snowpack levels are at 174% of average for that date.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"flood, atmospheroc-river","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This is the best start to California's snow season in 40 years, according to Department of Water Resources officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hasty, though, to assume the ongoing storms and wet forecast mark an end to the prolonged drought. In 2021, record rains and heavy snowfall arrived between October and December. Then, California experienced its driest January-through-March — typically the state’s wettest months — in recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say consecutive storms are made more dangerous by an already-soaked landscape’s inability to absorb more water. In addition to creating swollen creeks and mudslides, incessant rain reduces soil's ability to hold vegetation, and California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2016/07/what-is-killing-californias-trees/\">millions of drought-ravaged trees\u003c/a> can easily fall over. Areas with wildfire burn scars are at risk of flash-flooding, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big wild card will be what happens next week,” Swain said. “There’s a wide range of uncertainty. If one or two of those events occur next week, then all bets are off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although rain has fallen on Southern California, the area has largely been spared. The worst of the coming storm will mostly stop at the northern edge of Los Angeles County, Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"More than 7 million Californians live in a 500-year floodplain\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-X61ZG\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/X61ZG/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"692\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"datawrapper","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, advised residents throughout the Central Valley to stay on guard and take warnings and advisories to heart. “If you’re at an elevation below 200 feet, near a levee that’s older than you, pay attention to alerts,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has established \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/with-another-significant-storm-looming-cal-oes-continues-to-deploy-resources-personnel-to-impacted-counties/\">emergency shelters\u003c/a> in Sacramento and San Mateo counties and has stockpiled 3.7 million sandbags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts think the flooding from the incoming storms could be tempered by the fact that the developing system is relatively cold. This will translate into more snow and less rain, at least at high elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storm was relatively warm and produced rainfall at high elevations, where the liquid water fell on several feet of snow, melting it and magnifying the runoff into streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s storm is colder. That means more precipitation will probably fall as snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like rain in California, but we love snow,” said \u003ca href=\"https://snri.ucmerced.edu/content/john-abatzoglou\">John Abatzoglou\u003c/a>, UC Merced professor of climatology. He said that over the weekend, rain fell at elevations of 8,000 feet or more and may have worsened lowland flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said today’s storm will probably produce rainfall at no higher than 5,000 to 6,000 feet and snowfall above that, minimizing rain-on-snow flooding impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a good mix of both heavy rain at the lower elevations, snowfall at the higher elevations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Need to act with renewed urgency'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate modeling suggests that global warming is likely to make storms larger, stronger and more intense. It will also cause more precipitation to fall in liquid form. This translates into worsening floods just as the Central Valley’s system of levees, weirs and bypasses ages past its prime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flood board's updated \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, released last month, warns of “1,000-year storm events … and the need to act with renewed urgency and purpose before the next large flood event occurs in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls on nature-based solutions, like restored floodplains, and infrastructural improvements, like fortified levees near urban areas, to help reduce the impacts of higher-energy storm systems expected as a result of the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the historic floodplains along the Central Valley’s rivers have been separated from the water by levees. Scientists now say that restoring floodplains can be an effective flood control strategy by allowing surging rivers to spill their banks and shed their energy on unpopulated flatlands, rather than bursting through aging levees surrounding populated areas. Floodplains also provide fish and wildlife habitat and serve as groundwater percolation beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png\" alt=\"View of flooding with some green grass amidst water\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3.png 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field off Interstate 5 near Mokelumne City is flooded on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a lot of rain falls in a short span of time, it’s difficult for many regions to handle, especially low-lying coastal areas. Last weekend downtown San Francisco was drenched with nearly 6 inches of rain and incoming high tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of time for that water to find a way out,” said Mark Dickman, associate director for data at the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a persistent and familiar challenge: what to do with water when there’s too much and how to manage when there isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are built for this,” said Jeffrey Mount, a water specialist at the Public Policy Institute of California. “We built the system around the notion that we get occasionally wet years and mostly dry years. But, unlike the Colorado River Basin, where they can capture and control four years of runoff, we are full after one year. Our ability to store surface water is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the nature of a semi-arid climate that we will see this whiplash — the three driest years on record and, if this year continues, we will get a year like 2017, the wettest on record. We have not figured out how to better take advantage of these wet years to get us through the dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it takes decades to change traditional approaches to flood control, Mount said the current projects are a step in the right direction. “I see a lot of really good things coming out of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it be a drought-buster?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ongoing rains are already boosting California’s water storage system. Major reservoirs are rising, some rapidly. Folsom Lake was 29% full on Dec. 20, and as of Jan. 2 it jumped to 61%. The much larger Lake Oroville jumped from 29% to 38% in the same window — an increase of more than 300,000 acre-feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought isn’t over yet and the West Coast remains dominated by a “weak to moderate” La Niña system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as the fall, scientists predicted California was in for a fourth year of drought and predicted the rare occurrence of a third consecutive La Niña, the El Niño counterpart associated with dry Southern California weather and, generally, 50-50 odds of drought farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abatzoglou of UC Merced said he suspects more rain will fall this month than fell from January through June last year. But he noted that recent forecasts for dry weather have not proven perfectly accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forecasts were anticipating a dry January, February and March,” he said. “January is now going to be wet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11936742/sacramento-valley-already-deluged-braces-for-more-floods","authors":["byline_news_11936742"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20061","news_30126","news_21497","news_1730","news_30963","news_465","news_32243","news_3"],"featImg":"news_11936796","label":"source_news_11936742"},"news_11897433":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11897433","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11897433","score":null,"sort":[1637875851000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles","title":"OR93, the Famously Far-Ranging Gray Wolf, Is Found Dead Near Los Angeles","publishDate":1637875851,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, was found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour's drive north of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared to have been struck by a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The male wolf, named OR93 when it was outfitted with a GPS collar by wildlife officials in its home state of Oregon, left its pack near Mount Hood two years ago. It gained followers and fans in the wildlife community as it traveled south, crossing interstates and highways to parts of California that hadn't seen a wolf since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate, Center for Biological Diversity\"]'He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades.'[/pullquote]Researchers and wildlife protectors have expressed grief after the death of OR93. Senior Wolf Advocate Amaroq Weiss of The Center for Biological Diversity paid close attention to the wolf's movements, and for her, its journey shows that \"wolves are amazing and intrepid and inspiring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades,\" she shared through email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like much of the U.S., is wolf habitat. Pre-colonization, large predators covered much of the continent, before European colonizers hunted, trapped and killed them to near extinction. The fragmented populations that survived are now being suffocated, in many areas, by an ever-growing web of roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation estimates that 365 million animals are killed on U.S. roads every year, more than the total number of people in the country. Recovering populations of large carnivores like wolves, which are trying to repopulate areas, are at particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11897441 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg\" alt=\"A map of California that includes gray-colored areas near the Sierra Nevada, in rural northern counties and in some sparse zones north of Los Angeles, that are potentially suitable habitats for wolves\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR93 traveled to the areas near the Los Padres National Forest and the Chumash Wilderness. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young male gray wolves are known to travel far distances after leaving their packs. The wanderlust has a biological purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By traveling far from its family, a wolf is more likely to find a mate with a different genetic makeup. Inbreeding is believed to have caused a population crash of gray wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Efforts to take grizzly bears off the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies have been stymied because of legal challenges based, in part, on \"species connectivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, wildlife officials have found abnormalities in an inbreeding population of mountain lions, hemmed in by the region's busy roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state will break ground on an overpass spanning six lanes of the 101 freeway designed to help the large cats and other wildlife branch out, after a multiyear push by wildlife advocates. Similar efforts are underway around the country, and the larger effort to give wildlife safe passage just got a big boost in President Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It designates $350 million over the next five years for state, local and tribal governments to construct bridges or underpasses for wildlife. Another $400 million will go toward the removal of obstructions like dams, which stifle fish and invertebrate populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The construction of wildlife crossings will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and is a key conservation strategy to help wildlife survive impacts from climate change and development,\" said Mike Leahy, director of wildlife, hunting, and fishing policy at the National Wildlife Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='conservation']More than a million species are at risk of extinction globally, many within decades, because of human activities. World leaders are gathering next year to approve a plan for slowing the biodiversity crisis. Aggressive action is needed to slow the collapse of nature, said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want to avoid another COVID-19?\" she told NPR last year. \"We either conserve and protect nature, biodiversity, or it will make us suffer as we do now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Katrin Snow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway, possibly struck by a vehicle.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1638306175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":699},"headData":{"title":"OR93, the Famously Far-Ranging Gray Wolf, Is Found Dead Near Los Angeles | KQED","description":"Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway, possibly struck by a vehicle.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11897433 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11897433","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/25/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles/","disqusTitle":"OR93, the Famously Far-Ranging Gray Wolf, Is Found Dead Near Los Angeles","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348779465/nathan-rott\">Nathan Rott\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11897433/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, was found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour's drive north of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared to have been struck by a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The male wolf, named OR93 when it was outfitted with a GPS collar by wildlife officials in its home state of Oregon, left its pack near Mount Hood two years ago. It gained followers and fans in the wildlife community as it traveled south, crossing interstates and highways to parts of California that hadn't seen a wolf since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate, Center for Biological Diversity","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Researchers and wildlife protectors have expressed grief after the death of OR93. Senior Wolf Advocate Amaroq Weiss of The Center for Biological Diversity paid close attention to the wolf's movements, and for her, its journey shows that \"wolves are amazing and intrepid and inspiring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades,\" she shared through email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like much of the U.S., is wolf habitat. Pre-colonization, large predators covered much of the continent, before European colonizers hunted, trapped and killed them to near extinction. The fragmented populations that survived are now being suffocated, in many areas, by an ever-growing web of roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation estimates that 365 million animals are killed on U.S. roads every year, more than the total number of people in the country. Recovering populations of large carnivores like wolves, which are trying to repopulate areas, are at particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11897441 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg\" alt=\"A map of California that includes gray-colored areas near the Sierra Nevada, in rural northern counties and in some sparse zones north of Los Angeles, that are potentially suitable habitats for wolves\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR93 traveled to the areas near the Los Padres National Forest and the Chumash Wilderness. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young male gray wolves are known to travel far distances after leaving their packs. The wanderlust has a biological purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By traveling far from its family, a wolf is more likely to find a mate with a different genetic makeup. Inbreeding is believed to have caused a population crash of gray wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Efforts to take grizzly bears off the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies have been stymied because of legal challenges based, in part, on \"species connectivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, wildlife officials have found abnormalities in an inbreeding population of mountain lions, hemmed in by the region's busy roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state will break ground on an overpass spanning six lanes of the 101 freeway designed to help the large cats and other wildlife branch out, after a multiyear push by wildlife advocates. Similar efforts are underway around the country, and the larger effort to give wildlife safe passage just got a big boost in President Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It designates $350 million over the next five years for state, local and tribal governments to construct bridges or underpasses for wildlife. Another $400 million will go toward the removal of obstructions like dams, which stifle fish and invertebrate populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The construction of wildlife crossings will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and is a key conservation strategy to help wildlife survive impacts from climate change and development,\" said Mike Leahy, director of wildlife, hunting, and fishing policy at the National Wildlife Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"conservation"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than a million species are at risk of extinction globally, many within decades, because of human activities. World leaders are gathering next year to approve a plan for slowing the biodiversity crisis. Aggressive action is needed to slow the collapse of nature, said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want to avoid another COVID-19?\" she told NPR last year. \"We either conserve and protect nature, biodiversity, or it will make us suffer as we do now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Katrin Snow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11897433/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles","authors":["byline_news_11897433"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18132","news_18538","news_21074","news_18245","news_1730","news_3187","news_2354","news_3825"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11897439","label":"news_253"},"news_11895470":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11895470","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11895470","score":null,"sort":[1636417740000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-bidens-congressional-infrastructure-bill-might-help-fund-in-california","title":"What Biden's Huge Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund in California","publishDate":1636417740,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Congress last week passed a massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1050012853/the-house-has-passed-the-1-trillion-infrastructure-plan-sending-it-to-bidens-des\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan infrastructure bill\u003c/a>, a much-needed political win for President Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package calls for more than $550 billion in new spending over five years, with a sizable chunk earmarked for California infrastructure projects, including work on roads, bridges, transit systems, cyberattack prevention and increased access to high-speed internet service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill will fund projects across the Bay Area, including $24 million toward restoring the region's wetlands, said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who represents parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve lost almost 90% of the wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary over the last 100 years. This is going to be an effort to help us restore much of those wetlands and allow us to continue to enjoy the Bay,\" Speier told KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday night, largely along party lines, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Just 13 mostly moderate Republicans supported the legislation. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-massive-infrastructure-package-centerpiece-biden-agenda-n1276134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate had approved a version of the bill\u003c/a> in August, but it then was held up for months as House progressives clashed with Democratic centrists over funding priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package is financed through a combination of funds, including repurposing unspent emergency relief money from the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening tax enforcement for cryptocurrencies. While negotiators said that the cost of the plan would be offset entirely, the Congressional Budget Office predicted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/bipartisan-infrastructure-plan-senate-cbo-score/index.html\">it would add about $256 billion to projected deficits over 10 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"infrastructure\"]The infrastructure package, which Biden called a \"blue-collar blueprint to rebuilding America,\" is a historic investment by any measure, the breadth of which he compared to the building of the interstate highway system over the last century, or the transcontinental railroad the century before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet despite the win, Democrats were dealt a major setback when they were forced to postpone a vote on a second, even larger bill until later this month. That 10-year, $1.85 trillion measure, bolstering health, family and climate change programs — which Biden refers to as \"human infrastructure\" — was sidetracked after Democratic moderates demanded a cost estimate on the measure from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The postponement dashed hopes that the day would produce a double-barreled win for Biden with passage of both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding those setbacks, California officials are still hailing the historic investment in local transit and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modernizing California's infrastructure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/11/06/governor-newsom-statement-on-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-by-congress/\">Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statement Saturday lauding the House's passage of the bill\u003c/a>, saying it will help create quality jobs for Californians and support the modernization of state infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The infrastructure package passed by Congress builds on California’s unprecedented investments to maintain and modernize the state,\" he said. \"This historic infrastructure package stands to accelerate investments in our clean transportation infrastructure, help mitigate some of the worst impacts of climate change and accelerate new projects that will create thousands of jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission Chair Alfredo Pedroza, who is also a Napa County supervisor, said the infrastructure package will help fund long-term regional plans to revamp transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only will the big increase in transit capital funding help modernize our existing transit network to serve a new generation of customers but expansion of the discretionary grant programs will allow the Bay Area to compete for money that can move big new projects from the plan to reality,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the governor's office, California expects to receive:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Federal-aid highway apportioned programs: $25.3 billion, with $4.2 billion for bridge replacement and repairs.\u003c/strong> California has 1,536 bridges and more than 14,000 miles of highway in poor condition, according to the governor's office. California commute times have increased by 14.6% in the state, with drivers paying nearly $800 a month due to driving on roads needing repair. The governor's office said this investment will be the \"single-largest dedicated bridge investment\" in California since the construction of the interstate highway system. Exactly which bridges would net that funding is still an open question: The MTC said they would \"compete for funds\" in the multibillion-dollar set-aside.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improved public transportation: $9.45 billion.\u003c/strong> That may aid many people of color across the state: Non-white households are 1.6 times more likely to commute via public transit in California, according to the governor's office. And in California, 16% of transit vehicles are past their useful lives, but still in use. Still, the amount may not make a dent in overall transit needs in the Bay Area — Muni’s parent agency, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2021/07/7-20-21_mtab_item_17_state_of_good_repair_-_report.pdf\">has more than $3 billion worth of needs identified for a five-year period through 2023\u003c/a>, and more than $30 billion in infrastructure needs over the next 20 years. The Bay Area is host to 27 transit agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expansion of an EV charging network: $384 million, and the opportunity to apply for the $2.5 billion in grant funding dedicated to EV charging.\u003c/strong> The investment is part of Biden's effort to boost plug-in electric vehicle sales by building out a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CALIFORNIA_The-Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">\"first-ever national network of EV chargers\" in the U.S.\u003c/a>, according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Broadband coverage across the state: $100 million. \u003c/strong>About 545,000 Californians don't have access to broadband internet, and under the new infrastructure bill, some 10 million Californians in lower-income households will be eligible for a benefit to afford internet access. In July, California lawmakers passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/20/governor-newsom-signs-historic-broadband-legislation-to-help-bridge-digital-divide/\">$6 billion investment to expand broadband coverage\u003c/a>, including building out new high-speed fiber lines, connecting rural homes to internet access, and creating a new broadband lead position in the state's Department of Technology.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Protection against wildfires: $84 million.\u003c/strong> Californians are no strangers to wildfire's devastating impacts, which have displaced residents from Paradise to Tahoe and beyond, costing the state an estimated $50 billion to $100 billion in damages, according to the White House. Newsom's investment strategy also includes $2 billion toward the purchase of new firefighting equipment like air tankers and helicopters, as well as supporting forest and wildfire resilience strategies across the state. Still, Newsom's recent budgets have pledged hundreds of millions less toward wildfire prevention than what he had initially proposed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879034/newsom-misled-the-public-about-wildfire-prevention-efforts-ahead-of-worst-fire-season-on-record\">NPR's California Newsroom recently published an investigation\u003c/a> — led by CapRadio — reporting that the governor has overstated, by 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in projects he said needed to be prioritized.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improvements to water infrastructure and clean drinking water: $3.5 billion. \u003c/strong>That investment includes funding toward water recycling and ecosystem restoration in California (like the Bay Area's wetlands), according to the MTC.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Infrastructure development for airports: $1.5 billion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Bay City News, The Associated Press, NPR's Barbara Sprunt and KQED's Cesar Saldaña, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Lakshmi Sarah. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With President Biden's new infrastructure bill, tens of billions of dollars in funding will go to California to improve transit, highways, bridges, waterways, high-speed internet and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1636657084,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1191},"headData":{"title":"What Biden's Huge Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund in California | KQED","description":"With President Biden's new infrastructure bill, tens of billions of dollars in funding will go to California to improve transit, highways, bridges, waterways, high-speed internet and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11895470 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11895470","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/08/what-bidens-congressional-infrastructure-bill-might-help-fund-in-california/","disqusTitle":"What Biden's Huge Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund in California","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895470/what-bidens-congressional-infrastructure-bill-might-help-fund-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Congress last week passed a massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1050012853/the-house-has-passed-the-1-trillion-infrastructure-plan-sending-it-to-bidens-des\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan infrastructure bill\u003c/a>, a much-needed political win for President Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package calls for more than $550 billion in new spending over five years, with a sizable chunk earmarked for California infrastructure projects, including work on roads, bridges, transit systems, cyberattack prevention and increased access to high-speed internet service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill will fund projects across the Bay Area, including $24 million toward restoring the region's wetlands, said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who represents parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve lost almost 90% of the wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary over the last 100 years. This is going to be an effort to help us restore much of those wetlands and allow us to continue to enjoy the Bay,\" Speier told KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday night, largely along party lines, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Just 13 mostly moderate Republicans supported the legislation. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-massive-infrastructure-package-centerpiece-biden-agenda-n1276134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate had approved a version of the bill\u003c/a> in August, but it then was held up for months as House progressives clashed with Democratic centrists over funding priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package is financed through a combination of funds, including repurposing unspent emergency relief money from the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening tax enforcement for cryptocurrencies. While negotiators said that the cost of the plan would be offset entirely, the Congressional Budget Office predicted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/bipartisan-infrastructure-plan-senate-cbo-score/index.html\">it would add about $256 billion to projected deficits over 10 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"infrastructure"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The infrastructure package, which Biden called a \"blue-collar blueprint to rebuilding America,\" is a historic investment by any measure, the breadth of which he compared to the building of the interstate highway system over the last century, or the transcontinental railroad the century before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet despite the win, Democrats were dealt a major setback when they were forced to postpone a vote on a second, even larger bill until later this month. That 10-year, $1.85 trillion measure, bolstering health, family and climate change programs — which Biden refers to as \"human infrastructure\" — was sidetracked after Democratic moderates demanded a cost estimate on the measure from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The postponement dashed hopes that the day would produce a double-barreled win for Biden with passage of both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding those setbacks, California officials are still hailing the historic investment in local transit and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modernizing California's infrastructure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/11/06/governor-newsom-statement-on-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-by-congress/\">Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statement Saturday lauding the House's passage of the bill\u003c/a>, saying it will help create quality jobs for Californians and support the modernization of state infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The infrastructure package passed by Congress builds on California’s unprecedented investments to maintain and modernize the state,\" he said. \"This historic infrastructure package stands to accelerate investments in our clean transportation infrastructure, help mitigate some of the worst impacts of climate change and accelerate new projects that will create thousands of jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission Chair Alfredo Pedroza, who is also a Napa County supervisor, said the infrastructure package will help fund long-term regional plans to revamp transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only will the big increase in transit capital funding help modernize our existing transit network to serve a new generation of customers but expansion of the discretionary grant programs will allow the Bay Area to compete for money that can move big new projects from the plan to reality,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the governor's office, California expects to receive:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Federal-aid highway apportioned programs: $25.3 billion, with $4.2 billion for bridge replacement and repairs.\u003c/strong> California has 1,536 bridges and more than 14,000 miles of highway in poor condition, according to the governor's office. California commute times have increased by 14.6% in the state, with drivers paying nearly $800 a month due to driving on roads needing repair. The governor's office said this investment will be the \"single-largest dedicated bridge investment\" in California since the construction of the interstate highway system. Exactly which bridges would net that funding is still an open question: The MTC said they would \"compete for funds\" in the multibillion-dollar set-aside.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Improved public transportation: $9.45 billion.\u003c/strong> That may aid many people of color across the state: Non-white households are 1.6 times more likely to commute via public transit in California, according to the governor's office. And in California, 16% of transit vehicles are past their useful lives, but still in use. Still, the amount may not make a dent in overall transit needs in the Bay Area — Muni’s parent agency, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2021/07/7-20-21_mtab_item_17_state_of_good_repair_-_report.pdf\">has more than $3 billion worth of needs identified for a five-year period through 2023\u003c/a>, and more than $30 billion in infrastructure needs over the next 20 years. The Bay Area is host to 27 transit agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expansion of an EV charging network: $384 million, and the opportunity to apply for the $2.5 billion in grant funding dedicated to EV charging.\u003c/strong> The investment is part of Biden's effort to boost plug-in electric vehicle sales by building out a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CALIFORNIA_The-Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">\"first-ever national network of EV chargers\" in the U.S.\u003c/a>, according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Broadband coverage across the state: $100 million. \u003c/strong>About 545,000 Californians don't have access to broadband internet, and under the new infrastructure bill, some 10 million Californians in lower-income households will be eligible for a benefit to afford internet access. In July, California lawmakers passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/20/governor-newsom-signs-historic-broadband-legislation-to-help-bridge-digital-divide/\">$6 billion investment to expand broadband coverage\u003c/a>, including building out new high-speed fiber lines, connecting rural homes to internet access, and creating a new broadband lead position in the state's Department of Technology.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Protection against wildfires: $84 million.\u003c/strong> Californians are no strangers to wildfire's devastating impacts, which have displaced residents from Paradise to Tahoe and beyond, costing the state an estimated $50 billion to $100 billion in damages, according to the White House. Newsom's investment strategy also includes $2 billion toward the purchase of new firefighting equipment like air tankers and helicopters, as well as supporting forest and wildfire resilience strategies across the state. 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