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Is historic preservation just another NIMBY tactic to avoid California housing laws?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

When residents of the leafy Baywood neighborhood in San Mateo got word that a 1933 Spanish Revival home would be demolished to make way for a much larger house with an attached in-law unit, they pleaded with the city to put a stop to it. But the Peninsula town’s hands were tied. A California law passed in 2021 gave the owner the right to build two units where only a single-family home previously had been allowed.For years, neighborhoods like Baywood — where the average home sells for more than $2 million — took their lower-density character for granted. That has changed in recent years as state lawmakers passed measures like SB 9 intended to create more housing everywhere — especially in areas previously zoned for single-family homes.These state housing laws, though, carve out one notable exception: historic properties.Earlier this month, the San Mateo Heritage Alliance applied to the California Office of Historic Preservation to designate Baywood as a historic district, raising the...

Share the Spirit: Oakley woman gets around fine without sight, with a little help from Lions Center

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

Kellie Robison knew when just a youngster that she was going blind.The 62-year-old Oakley woman was born sighted, but it soon became apparent, even as an infant, that she couldn’t see well. Her sister, six years her senior, was born with the same vision-robbing disease, and their mother knew the signs to look out for.In some ways, Robison says, she was lucky. Although her vision deteriorated with alarming rapidity as she approached her teen years, she was able to start preparing for a life of blindness, largely through the assistance of the Lions Club, and the Lions Center for the Visually Impaired, a 70-year-old nonprofit based in Pittsburg and serving clients in Contra Costa, Alameda and Solano counties.“I’ve had a relationship with Lions for years, probably starting when I was a preteen,” Robison says. “The doctors told my mother to have me start learning Braille before I lost my vision. The Lions had a Braille section at the Oakland library where I’d check out Braille books. The...

They said it: White House 2024?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

“There’s one thing … that we have in common. Neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024.”— California Gov. Gavin Newsom, to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in their televised debate Thursday.       

Wish Book 2023: Helping Hands Silicon Valley ‘is so very important to me’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

Every call for help is different. So Pratima Gupta didn’t know what was in store, when she answered a call from the front desk manager at the Motel 6 on Sunnyvale’s North Mathilda Avenue last winter.The motel needed help with an elderly blind man, who could no longer pay for his room. The man would have to leave the next day, if a solution couldn’t be found, and he seemed to have nowhere else to go.“They asked to come and help him for one night,” says Gupta, who is one of the co-founders of Helping Hands Silicon Valley (HHSV). “That was in December, and he has been our client ever since.”In the months that followed, Gupta and the HHSV team — including co-founder Alpana Agarwal — have rallied around 94-year-old Mir Sayed and helped him receive not only housing but other critical services as well.“This is so very important to me,” Sayed says of the assistance he receives from HHSV.Sayed is one of the dozens of people in need being helped by Sunnyvale’s HH...

FA Cup 3rd round draw: Arsenal hosts Liverpool, Man City vs. Huddersfield, Wigan vs. Man United

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Arsenal will host Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup after the Premier League rivals were drawn against each other on Sunday. The teams, who were among the favorites to win the competition and are likely to challenge each other in the race for the title, will meet at Emirates Stadium over the weekend of Jan. 6 and 7. Teams from the Premier League and second-tier Championship enter the FA Cup at the third round stage. Holder Manchester City was drawn to play division two Huddersfield at Etihad Stadium. Last season’s beaten finalist Manchester United travels to division three Wigan, which caused one of the biggest upsets in recent history when beating City in the final to win the trophy in 2013.Division two Sunderland hosts Newcastle in a north east derby. All-Premier League ties include Tottenham vs. Burnley, Crystal Palace vs. Everton and Brentford vs. Wolves.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Israel orders more people in crowded southern Gaza to evacuate as heavy bombardment shifts south

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate on Sunday, followed by heavy bombardment, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it asserts that leaders of the Hamas militant group are hiding.Palestinians in Gaza said they were running out of places to go. The Gaza Strip, bordering Israel and Egypt, is sealed. Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israel ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel.Before the latest evacuation orders, United Nations monitors said the areas told to evacuate made up about one-quarter of the territory.Heavy bombardment was reported overnight into Sunday around Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had...

Alabama man sentenced to more than 3 years for assaulting officers during Jan. 6 riot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

An Alabama man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Dillion Colby Herrington, 31, of Madison, Alabama, was sentenced to 37 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.Police said that he was carrying a knife and taser at the time and was attending the “Stop the Steal Rally” before the riot.Herrington was on the West Plaza of the Capitol grounds in a group of rioters who were “taunting” officers who were in a “defense police line,” according to court documents.The documents say that Herrington repeatedly approached police displaying his middle finger and approached one officer and shouted, “Look me in the f— eyes, m—f—! I’m coming for you.”Police say he had to be retrained by other rioter...

Fatal Miami car accident sends 4 to hospital; 1 killed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

A pedestrian was killed in Miami after a violent car accident involving three other people.Police received a call just before 4:30 a.m. on Sunday and arrived at the scene where they found the pedestrian hit and three people trapped inside a car. They used the jaws of life to free them. The four people were rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center, where one was pronounced dead.No information has been released on the state of the condition of the three others involved in the wreck or details on what caused the crash. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

DA: Man found stabbed outside Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus has died

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

A police investigation is underway after a man was found fatally stabbed in the parking lot of Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus on Saturday night, police said.The man was found stabbed around 9 p.m. and pronounced dead soon after at Mass General Hospital, according to a statement issued by Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Saugus Police Chief Michael Ricciardelli. His name has not been released.Video shared from the scene showed paramedics rendering aid to the injured man in a taped-off section of the parking lot.The stabbing came a week after a wild brawl at the iconic restaurant the night before Thanksgiving.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Sunday Rain

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:37:47 GMT

Grab the umbrella and rain gear! It’ll be a soggy, cooler and breezy day.We have showers moving in this morning. Rain will turn steadier through the morning, heavy at times this afternoon. With the showers and wind out of the east/northeast temperatures will be stuck in the 40s. We won’t have a lot of forward movement with our temperatures today. It’ll be breezy this afternoon with winds gusting 20-25 mph at times.This is a rain event for us. Up north, some of the highest elevations could get a half a foot or more of snow. Great for ski resorts to open more trails!Hope you can join us through 11 am on 7News as we track the rain.-Meteorologist Melanie Black