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Large-scale vaccinations sites are opening up as soon as this week at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Padres Stadium in San Diego, and Cal Expo in Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a news briefing Monday. Some are also opening in the Bay Area, though for now they are for health care workers and by appointment only. But they are poised to open up to members of the broader public in the next few weeks. … [Read more...] about Bay Briefing: California will open mass vaccination centers — but they’re not for everyone just yet

The home (center) that Sean McCormick and Alex Westhoff were scammed out of is seen in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, January 8, 2021. McCormick and Westhoff were the victims of a real estate scam where they paid $13,000 to rent an apartment at 2630 Leavenworth from someone who didn't actually own it. They thought they had signed a lease to move to North Beach but lost their money instead.Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle … [Read more...] about As coronavirus pandemic lowers rents, it increases scams on tenants seeking a good deal

“We would like it to remain an open space where we can talk about our history and our culture and continue to pray and have connection to our Ohlone ancestors,” she said. “So often the Ohlone are talked about in the past tense, when the truth is we still live right here in our territory and have an unbroken tie to this land going back thousands of years. Many Bay Area residents think we don’t exist any more.” … [Read more...] about Berkeley Native American site slated for homes named a key endangered historic place

Introduced in 2013, the Department of Building Inspection’s Mandatory Soft Story Retrofit Program applies to wood-frame residential buildings that contain a “soft” ground floor — typically a retail space or garage — that makes the building susceptible to earthquake damage. Most of the city’s 115,000 soft-story buildings have been strengthened or have filed plans to do so — the department says it has a 99% compliance rate. … [Read more...] about SF property owners get another year to complete seismic upgrades

The soft-story ordinance applies to wood-frame structures in which the first story is substantially weaker and more flexible than the stories above because of a lack of walls or frames at the street level — many of the buildings have garages or other open areas on the first floor. The program was launched with just six institutional and educational buildings, which all came into compliance. The next phase focused on 509 buildings with more than 15 units, of which 95 percent are in the process of doing upgrades. Tier three includes the buildings between five and 15 units, and the final tier, due next year, includes 913 structures with a ground-floor commercial use. … [Read more...] about Owners of S.F. ‘soft-story’ buildings slow to file for required retrofits