SAN FRANCISCO — Deebo Samuel, star wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers who caught more than 1,400 yards last season, has reportedly asked for a trade.

Samuel, 26, told ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington on Wednesday he asked the team to trade him. Samuel said he did not want to discuss his reasoning for the request.

Samuel, who played at South Carolina in college and was drafted in the second round by the 49ers in 2019, finished fifth in the league in receiving yards last season with 1,405 and added six touchdowns. He was one of the league’s most explosive players, notching nine catches of more than 40 yards, tied for the league lead.

A dynamic threat, Samuel also added 365 yards rushing last season and eight rushing touchdowns. Samuel finished 10th in the NFL in rushing touchdowns.

In his six career postseason games, Samuel caught 281 yards and a touchdown, and rushed for 239 yards and a touchdown.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter previously reported that the 49ers wanted to pay Samuel, who is in the last year of his rookie contract. But Samuel, who skipped off-season workouts, removed the 49ers logos from his social media page and made it known he wanted to change teams.

“It’s not San Francisco not willing to do the deal, the 49ers are ready,” Schefter said at the time. “Deebo Samuel is the one who has put a halt to everything right now.”

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Presidio Heights’ 331 Arguello withstood the Great Earthquake of 1906 and, in a twist of good fortune for lovers of all things Victorian, the many quakes that followed thereafter. The hundred-plus-year-old home is now for sale, asking $4,595 million.

Curbside, this beautiful Victorian is iconic, historic San Francisco. Architectural details have been preserved, painted and polished.

Victorian embellishments have been lovingly highlighted.

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Note intricate wood carving and embellishment, ornate gables, stained glass and the pitched roof promising a romantic, secret attic-like upper level. This 4,223-square-foot home is picture perfect.

The romance of the upper level draws the eye up.

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Back in the early 1900s, a trolley ran down Euclid Street and ended in front of the house. That history is clearly present more than 100 years later. Though it has been well-preserved, this home features important and attractive improvements.

The living room enjoys plentiful natural light.

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The current owners explained to SFGate that one such improvement is the actual size of the home, though you’d be hard-pressed to see an seams in this expansion. “A woman stopped by who said she played there with a friend when young in the ’50s and the house was one-half to two-thirds the size,” one owner said.

The owner also said the home “survived both the ’06 and ’89 earthquakes on its original brick foundation, which has since been replaced.” Other updates include the home’s configuration. Now, the property is a duplex, and each unit could be sold separately.

Unit A sprawls across more than 3,100 square feet and offers two bedrooms, two baths, plus two primary suites (so an additional two bedrooms and baths, making the total offering four beds and four baths).

A formal dining area features original wainscotting and a working fireplace.

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Unit A’s kitchen is a chef’s dream.

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The home features a well-stocked chef’s kitchen and a charming and completely finished upper level, which looks out on the city through artful windows.

Going up the dramatic staircase, note classic architectural details.

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One of the spacious primary suites offers views and a private drawing room/lounge.

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This top level bedroom cries out for a poet.

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Preserved stained glass in the upper bedroom add artful neighborhood views.

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This unit also offers an extensive roof enclosed in plexiglass so that the space can be enjoyed in any weather.

Modern skylights placed cleverly in Unit A bring light and brightness into these still very much Victorian spaces.

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The roof deck blocks SF wind, offering weather-proof enjoyment.

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Unit B is a smaller abode with two bedrooms and two baths, as well as a beautiful kitchen. Outside, a classic Victorian garden beckons.

Unit B has its own entry way.

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An open floor plan blends living, dining and kitchen areas.

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The lower level kitchen is spacious and well-equipped.

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This is one of the two lower unit bedrooms.

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Lower unit residents will enjoy a gorgeous patio and protected alfresco dining access.

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There may be options with this property. Two buyers could buy Unit A and Unit B separately; a single buyer could buy the entire home and rent one of the units while living in the other; one buyer could buy the building and rent both units. But according to listing agent Michell Nuñez (who co-listed this property with Dan Fitzpatrick), the sellers most hope for an offer from a buyer who will treat the home as a gorgeous single-family dwelling.

The lot is 3,018 square feet and offers a backyard and garden.

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“The current owners have called Unit A home, but have thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility of using the spacious downstairs unit for both work and play,” she said. The owners’ families live in the South and East Coast, so having the downstairs unit was so wonderful for their family,” she said.

“Although both units may be sold separately or legally rented, they hope that one family can enjoy the benefits of owning the entire home.”

Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert.

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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission declared a water shortage emergency on Tuesday, urging nearly 3 million of its customers in San Francisco and three other Bay Area counties to take shorter showers and conserve water.

The commission unanimously approved a commitment to voluntarily reduce the city’s water consumption by a total of 10% from the water consumption from July 2019 to June 2020.

This news comes after two consecutive winters marked by dry conditions. The 2021-2022 rainy season got off to a wet start with two atmospheric rivers drenching the region, but the past week has been dry with no significant rain forecast.

“As California continues to suffer from a devastating drought and uncertainty surrounding this wet season, we must make tough decisions that will ensure our water source continues to be dependable and dependable,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement.

“Year after year, San Franciscans work to conserve our most precious resource, resulting in one of the lowest water usage rates in California, and I know our city will once again answer the call to reduce water use at this critical time. ” She said.

The commission provides water to residents of San Francisco and provides wholesale water to customers in parts of Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. The statement calls for a 5% reduction in water use in San Francisco and a 13.7% reduction in wholesale customers. The cuts are based on fiscal year 2019-2020 levels, the commission said.

San Franciscans are among the most efficient water users in the state. SF residents use an average of 42 gallons of water per person per day, less than half the statewide average of about 90 gallons, the commission said. Wholesale customers use an average of 63.4 gallons per person per day.

“We are in the midst of a drought with far-reaching consequences, and it has become clear that we all need to do more to address it,” said Dennis Herrera, general manager of SFPUC. “San Franciscans have done their part and have one of the lowest water usage rates in the state. This emergency water scarcity declaration will help all of our customers pull together and walk in the same direction.”

As part of the declaration, the Commission will introduce a “temporary drought surcharge” of 5% for retail water and wastewater customers. The surcharge will come into effect on April 1, 2022 and will be lifted once the declaration of state of emergency ends.

Part of the emergency declaration will also include a water conservation public awareness campaign, consisting of media advertisements in multiple languages, urging customers to take action to save water, z said.

Over the summer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called on all California residents to reduce water use by 15%. According to the US Drought Monitor map, 80% of California is affected by extreme drought.

Bay City News contributed to this story.

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San Francisco has some of the most environmentally conscious water users in California, and its reservoirs contain enviable reserves, a crucial resource two years after a nationwide drought.

Now the city is asking its water customers to use even less.

Members of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to declare a water shortage emergency and enact a 10% system-wide reduction in water use.

They aim to do so by asking city dwellers and businesses to cut water use by 5% and calling for more than two dozen agencies in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties that buy water from San Francisco to save even more , by reducing water consumption by 14%.

The statement requires the city to impose a temporary surcharge on city users’ water bills of up to 5% — the amount they are told to cut from customers — to ensure rates stay within what the city wants to pay for water bills running their water systems costs . The surcharge is measured against water consumption in fiscal year 2019-2020, a timeframe chosen prior to the pandemic. At most, it is expected to increase consumer bills by about $6 per month.

Steven Ritchie, deputy director general for water at SFPUC, said at Tuesday’s meeting that the planned cuts are intended to offset the long-term impact of the drought on the city’s water resources. October’s storms brought temporary relief to northern California’s water reserves, but it wasn’t enough to erase the effects of two dry winters.

“It doesn’t look like there are any storms on the horizon,” Ritchie said. “Certainly recent storms have helped, but the drought persists.”

A rainwater collection system helps conserve water at Zan Sterling’s home.

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San Francisco’s reservoir supply remains fairly resilient at nearly 73% capacity, just below the normal 80% capacity typical for this time of year. But about a third of the supply is blocked due to government cut orders issued amid the drought.

Public Utilities Commission officials said they would return to the commissioners next year to discuss the possibility of increasing rates for about two dozen wholesale customers, such as Alameda County and the cities of Hayward, Daly City and Sunnyvale, who get their water from the get city.

San Franciscans use an average of about 42 gallons of water each day, less than the statewide average of 90 gallons.

Saving water means, among other things, turning off the tap while you lather your hands with soap and brush your teeth. On a larger scale, water collection systems can be used to collect rainwater for use in gardens.

Zan Sterling, who is working to reduce water use at her Bernal Heights home, inspects a clay watering pot she uses for her plants.

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In Bernal Heights, Zan Sterling welcomes the call to save more water.

Sterling said some of her earliest memories of growing up in the South Bay in the 1970s were when everyone stopped using sprinklers and the lawn turned brown.

“It went from flushing the toilet to ‘if it’s yellow, let it soften,'” Sterling said.

She has installed a special toilet with a faucet on the tank and uses the hand wash water to flush. She built a system to collect water draining from an awning for use in her garden. She buried clay pots at the base of her backyard fruit trees, an age-old method of collecting rainwater and soaking it into the ground when the soil is dry.

“We should all conserve water – 5% isn’t that much,” Sterling said.

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However, some concerns about the impact of the SFPUC’s decision were raised during Tuesday’s meeting.

The declaration of state of emergency could allow the SFPUC to circumvent government restrictions on water withdrawals due to the drought. The State Water Resources Control Board has ordered San Francisco to stop withdrawing water from the Tuolumne River to fill its reservoirs, but the statement allows the city to request an exemption to withdraw some river water.

Peter Drekmeier, policy director for conservation group Tuolumne River Trust, asked commissioners to postpone their vote so they can have a more thorough discussion of the impact of their decisions on the rest of California. Salmon slopes have declined sharply in recent years and rivers have receded, he said in a previous interview.

“Our concern is that the Tuolumne River is in really bad shape,” Drekmeier said. “He has the worst salmon returns of our Central Valley rivers.”

The commissioners did not respond to Drekmeier’s concerns. The five commissioners voted unanimously to accept the declaration.

SFPUC President Anson Moran described the statement as a normal step during the drought. Ritchie, the PUC’s water manager, said it could be lifted once the city met its goals.

That would end the surcharge.

In an earlier version of this story, the process for a water user surcharge was misrepresented. The surcharge is 5% until the declaration of emergency is lifted.

Julie Johnson is a contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: julie.johnson@sfchronicle.com. Twitter @juliejohnson

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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission declared a water shortage emergency on Tuesday and urged nearly 3 million of its customers in San Francisco and three other Bay Area counties to take shorter showers and conserve water.

The commission unanimously voted to voluntarily reduce the city’s water consumption by a total of 10% compared to water consumption from July 2019 to June 2020.

This news comes after two consecutive winters of drought. The 2021-2022 rainy season got off to a wet start with two atmospheric rivers soaking the region, but the last week has been dry and no significant rain is forecast.

“With California still suffering from devastating drought and uncertainty this rainy season, we must make tough decisions to ensure our water source continues to be reliable and dependable,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement.

“Year after year, the San Franciscans strive to conserve our most precious resource, resulting in one of the lowest water usage rates in California. ” She said.

The commission provides water to residents of San Francisco and wholesale water to customers in parts of Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. The statement calls for a 5% reduction in water use in San Francisco and 13.7% in wholesale customers. The cuts are based on fiscal year 2019-2020 levels, the commission said.

San Franciscans are among the most efficient water users in the state. SF residents use an average of 42 gallons of water per person per day, less than half the national average of about 90 gallons, the commission said. Wholesale customers consume an average of 63.4 gallons per person per day.

“We are in a drought with far-reaching consequences, and it has become clear that we all need to do more to combat it,” said SFPUC Managing Director Dennis Herrera. “The San Franciscans have done their part and have some of the lowest water usage in the state. This water scarcity declaration will help all of our customers pull together and go in the same direction.”

As part of the declaration, the Commission will introduce a “temporary drought surcharge” of 5% for water and wastewater consumers. The surcharge will come into force on April 1, 2022 and will be lifted after the declaration of emergency has expired.

Part of the declaration of emergency will also include a public awareness campaign on water conservation, which consists of media advertising in several languages ​​and encourages customers to take measures to save water, such as

Over the summer, California Governor Gavin Newsom urged all California residents to reduce water use by 15%. According to the federal map of the US Drought Monitor, 80% of California is in extreme drought.

Bay City News contributed to this story.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – For many families, the pandemic has changed the way we celebrate Thanksgiving. Gatherings could be smaller, hugs could be replaced by fists, and the dining room chairs could be spread a little further.

That doesn’t change the fact that Thanksgiving is still an ideal time to reflect on what we’re grateful for.

KPIX set up a camera along the San Francisco waterfront and asked passers-by, “What are you grateful for?”

“I am very grateful for all the great time I have with my parents. After two years I’ll finally see her again! ”Said Mansi Sharma from San Francisco, whose parents flown in from Delhi, India. “It’s extremely emotional, it reminds me of home, because my parents are my home for me!”

“I finally got my citizenship about two months ago. The reason I come here is the American dream, ”said new US citizen Simon Cheng.

One woman had a simple answer that many could identify with: “I am grateful for my good health.”

“Visiting here from Dallas. The fact that we can just be outside and not be locked in somewhere and enjoy this beautiful city and for that I am just very grateful. Most important is my beautiful family, ”said David Magee.

“We’re finally moving, we’re eating inside, we’re getting together as a family and that’s such a blessing,” said Yulia Bronstein, who was visiting her son in town from Eugene Oregon.

“I’m grateful to have a job and I’ve seen people suffer, but I’m grateful that it didn’t affect us because it affected so many people,” said East Bay’s Saniya Belim.

“I’m just grateful that my rent and utilities have been paid. And financially, I don’t have to worry about anything, ”says law student Jazz Fleming.

Most people agree that the time they spent apart during the pandemic made them more appreciative of the time they now have with their family.

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Known as the Boggs-Shenson House, the grand square in City by the Bay is a local landmark – and may even have an association with celebrities.

First bought in 1906 by Angus and Mae Boggs, The original structure on the property was destroyed by the devastating earthquake and fire in the city just a month later. A second building was built in its place, and over time the two-story house originally built for the Boggs was expanded to four stories plus an elevator.

In the 1940s, Mae sold the house to brothers and doctors Ben and Jess Shensonaccording to Business Insider.

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The prospects are “no less than spectacular,” says the listing. Lookouts include the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, Coit Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco Bay, and Grace Cathedral.

The house last changed hands in 2018 for $ 8 million, despite asking twice as much earlier in the year.

The home was bought by an LLC with ties to the billionaire’s real estate transactions Sean Parker. We’re not sure if the early Facebook manager was the buyer three years ago, but whoever it is will make a package based on the list price.

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Serious capital is required to land this one-of-a-kind find. Dubbed a “hidden gem” and luxury oasis, the five-bedroom brown clapboard residence is listed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

As one of only a few single-family homes on Nob Hill, the Craftsman-style building sits on a double lot.

Modernized in the right places, it has three outdoor living rooms, an open living and dining area with a fireplace and access to a terrace with an outdoor kitchen and pizza oven.

The chef’s spacious kitchen has wooden furniture, stone counters, a breakfast bar and views of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The rooftop deck has a wet bar and glass doors that open to another large deck with a gas fireplace and seating areas.

The master suite with its own balcony offers a view of the Coit Tower. It has two walk-in closets and the private bathroom is equipped with a bathtub and double vanity.

Additional facilities include a wine cellar, media room, office and a two-car garage with an electric vehicle charging station.

The grounds have fruit trees, sitting areas, and even a putting green.

Franck Costa of Vanguard Properties is holding the listing.

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In one of America’s most sought-after neighborhoods, San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, there is a newly listed building designed by one of the Bay Area’s most renowned architects of the past century: William Wurster.

Although Wurster designed landmarks like Ghirardelli Square as well as campus buildings at UC Berkeley (where he became the dean of the School of Architecture in 1950) and Stanford University, he was best known for designing hundreds of California homes dating from the 1920s to 1940s.

The entrance is carved into the front of the house – a design step that provides shelter on rainy days in San Francisco.

These houses were built in simple shapes with locally sourced wood and helped define contemporary residential architecture. Wurster’s Gregory Farmhouse from 1928 in Scotts Valley, California, is even considered a kind of prototype for the later ubiquitous ranch house.

The house Wurster designed on 1641 Green Street in Pacific Heights is not a ranch, but an exercise in higher-density urban living – its garage door greets visitors at the edge of the sidewalk, while the living areas are on the upper floors. Even so, there is a surprisingly lush garden area at the rear of the property, reminiscent of the more pastoral settings one associates with ranch houses.

The house leads to its back garden with a series of terraced balconies.

While many nearby apartment buildings are essentially maisonettes, with second units at the rear of their rectangular hilltop lots, this home reserves more than half of its entire lot for green space, including a tall, full-grown eucalyptus tree.

The garden, which combines traditional Olmsted-influenced design elements with modernist sensibility, was designed by William Wurster’s frequent collaborator Thomas Church.

The house was completed in 1940 – a transition period in Wurster’s life and career as he began to move away from primarily house design. Wurster also married influential public housing advocate Catherine Bauer that same year while attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Like the adjoining dining room, the living room opens directly onto the garden.

Wurster’s clients for this Pacific Heights home were significant in themselves. During World War II, Harley and Georgiana Stevens both worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA.

The dining room is particularly flooded with light.

Although they traveled extensively – both during and after the war (including spending several years in Beirut while Harley worked as a lawyer for the oil industry and Georgiana became Middle East correspondent for The Atlantic and The Economist) – the couple never let go of their home. After Harley died in 1959, Georgiana stayed here until her own death in 2004.

A 2017 remodel by Butler Armsden updated the finishes of the house – especially in the kitchen and bathroom.

Butler Armsden Architects from San Francisco completely rebuilt the four-story house in 2017. “Like most Wurster houses, this house uses simple, unpretentious materials – especially the Douglas fir paneling that you find everywhere,” explains Glenda Flaim, the office’s executive director. “It was designed with a flexible, adaptable plan that is still very relevant to our lives today and a great deal of attention to the location.”

The master bedroom looks out over the garden and continues the palette of Douglas fir paneling.

The master suite also has its own fireplace.

In fact, the Douglas fir walls are amazingly beautiful when you step into the house. Although this wood can often take on an unpleasant shade of orange with age, the panels here are exquisitely preserved and at the same time show a level of detail that makes the whole house sing.

“We have modernized the service rooms (bathrooms and kitchen) and restored the beautiful original materials and numerous fixtures,” adds Flaim, “but above all we have worked to preserve the essence of this house.”

The master bathroom on the third floor with its own shower area with glass cubes looks directly onto Green Street.

William Wurster was just one of two major designers involved in this project. The other was Wurster’s frequent associate and professor at the University of California, the landscape architect Thomas Church.

Though Church’s colleague Lawrence Halprin of San Francisco is often credited with introducing modernist principles to landscape architecture, it was Church, born 12 years earlier, that helped pioneer what became known as the California garden style.

The family room on the 4th floor has its own terrace with a garden view.

The family room deck expands the space for real Californian living indoors and outdoors.

Here in Pacific Heights, Church and Wurster created what the property listing aptly describes as “a magical retreat with a towering eucalyptus tree, green lawn and gardens, and an outdoor dining area adjacent to the chic formal dining room. “Church’s original landscape design and concept” has been carefully preserved, adding a sense of space and privacy to the home, “says Flaim.

The main kitchen / living / dining area of ​​the four story house is on the second level, but due to the hillside location of the property, these rooms open directly to the landscaped garden in the background.

The second largest bedroom in the house is actually the one that opens onto its own terrace overlooking the back yard.

The deck on the second floor feels like your own private tree house.

Up one floor is the master suite, which has walls clad in the same beautiful Doug pine paneling and large windows overlooking the garden. Adjacent is a guest room with a convenience that even the master bedroom lacks: it opens to an aft deck.

There is a family room on the top floor which also extends to a private deck overlooking the street. There is also an additional bedroom that can be used as an additional guest room or as a small office. If you don’t feel like climbing three flights of stairs to get there, don’t worry: this home has its own elevator.

Completed in 1940, the house is unusually urban for a design by William Wurster. It borrows from the German Bauhaus movement and the work of architects such as Walter Gropius.

In a place like Pacific Heights, once dubbed America’s most expensive neighborhood, it’s not just about the house. About 12 blocks west is the Presidio, which has hiking trails and lots of greenery. A few blocks east of the property is hundreds of restaurants in Chinatown and North Beach.

Nevertheless, this house with its lush garden offers a personal oasis that one would never want to leave again.

1641 Green Street in San Francisco, California is being offered by Neil Bassi of Sotheby’s International Realty for $ 6,925,000.

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SAN FRANCISCO (BCN / CBS SF) – As San Francisco continues its efforts to buy PG&E electrical equipment and convert the city to public power, city officials said Tuesday they had asked the California Public Utilities Commission to assess the value of local electricity infrastructure to be determined by PG&E.

The formal call for the CPUC to determine the value of PG & E’s electrical assets for the city comes after the utility twice rejected a $ 2.5 billion city offer to buy its local assets.

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In 2019, after PG&E filed for bankruptcy as it faced liabilities for deadly forest fires across the state, the city made its first offer. The following year, PG&E turned down a second offer.

City officials claim the utility also charged more than $ 1 billion in new fees to urban customers and delayed basic electrical connections for public buildings, including schools, affordable housing projects, transportation projects, and a University of California research facility at San Francisco.

“Although I would like to partner with this company, it was a great challenge,” said Mayor London Breed on Tuesday at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

“Imagine the hundreds of potentially affordable housing units that could be made available today to low-income families who cannot open because we cannot connect the electricity; because of the delays; because of the excuses; because of the cost of deploying new equipment that we didn’t even know we had to deploy at the beginning of the process. The goal post is moved during the game; we have to deal with that all the time, ”she said.

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“We are more than ready to go before the California Public Utilities Commission and make it clear why we want to acquire these assets and what we think their value is,” said Attorney General Dennis Herrera.

“PG & E’s failure to come to the table was made worse by his disability,” he said. “This obstruction, this delay has to stop, and we have to move forward to ensure that we can provide reliable and affordable public electricity to everyone.”

In response, PG&E said while it prides itself on providing over 85 percent clean energy to San Francisco residents, the city’s request was reckless as PG&E does not want to sell.

“Ultimately, PG & E’s assets are not for sale and San Francisco’s request today for an assessment of PG & E’s electrical assets by the California Public Utilities Commission is yet another waste of time and resources,” PG&E officials said in a statement. “While CCSF has repeatedly offered to buy PG&E infrastructure for pennies per dollar, PG&E does not agree that the results of this type of ownership move will benefit customers, taxpayers, other local communities, the state, or our economy. For these and many other reasons, we believe that San Francisco’s long-term interest in acquiring PG & E’s assets is not in the interests of the customers and the San Francisco neighborhood. ”

Breed and Herrera argued that the CPUC request is necessary if the city plans to take ownership of local utility companies and meet its goal of using 100 percent renewable electricity through its public electricity programs, Hetch Hetchy Power and CleanPowerSF by 2025.

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Both programs currently cover more than 70 percent of the city’s electricity.

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In light of arid weather conditions across California, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Thursday urged irrigation customers and city departments to voluntarily reduce their water use by 10 percent.

According to the agency, the SFPUC’s water reservoirs are currently 76.8 percent of their maximum storage capacity – slightly lower than the historical average of 81 percent at this time of year.

SFPUC’s water comes from a variety of sources, including Hetch Hetchy Reservoir near Yosemite and five other reservoirs in the Bay Area. It serves around 2.7 million customers across the Bay Area.

“This is the second dry year in a row for the state of California and we must do all we can to get the most out of our water supplies if this trend continues,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “San Francisco is a leader in water conservation thanks to our innovative water policy and strong management, but we need to look ahead. The steps we are now taking to use our water wisely will help us become more resilient and weather future dry years. “

According to SFPUC, Franciscans use an average of 42 gallons of water every day, one of the lowest rates in California.

Even so, the SFPUC’s request to its 1,600 irrigation customers, who rely on SFPUC to irrigate their landscapes to reduce their consumption by 10 percent, is to ensure that water in the agency’s reservoirs and aquifers will last during the prolonged dry spell.

“We are fortunate to have multiple sources of water supply, which makes our system more resilient in dry years,” said Michael Carlin, acting general manager of SFPUC. “However, we don’t know how long this dry weather will last. We also want to support our communities as we recover from the devastating effects of this pandemic. Because of this, we are calling for small changes for irrigation customers that can make a big difference in the expansion of our water supply. “

To further encourage customers to use water efficiently, the SFPUC offers free irrigation studies and landscape assessments on site. Grants; and a program that informs customers about possible leaks.

In addition, the agency offers indoor water conversation assistance, including free replacement of old toilets. Discounts for water-saving washing machines and other devices; and individual home and business consultations.

SFPUC customers who pay their bills online can also track their water usage daily or even hourly at www.myaccount.sfwater.org.

For more information about the programs and services offered by SFPUC, residents can visit www.sfpuc.org/savewater.

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