{"id":395568,"date":"2026-07-12T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:52:33","slug":"bernal-neighbors-welcome-fielder-at-first-town-hall-since-her-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395568\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernal neighbors welcome Fielder at first town hall since her return"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a three month leave of absence<\/a> for mental health issues, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder held the first of a series of three town halls Thursday night and jumped right into the debate over how much to reduce the required number of affordable units in market rate housing projects.<\/p>\n

Fielder proposes eight percent for the Mission District. That is down from the current 17 percent in the Mission and 15 percent citywide.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is more than than the citywide five percent approved by the Planning Commission in a four to two<\/a> vote on June 18. The matter moves next week to the full board of supervisors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A citywide inclusionary rate, Fielder said to a packed house of\u00a0nearly 100 residents, threatens to break a promise made to the Mission, \u201cwhere historically the city has promised to provide more affordable housing in exchange for higher building limits and more density.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move to reduce the rate is being pushed by Mayor Daniel Lurie and District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar to stimulate housing development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fielder sat beside Ricardo Olea, city traffic engineer at the Municipal Transportation Agency, with Lieutenant C. Tam and Sergeant Adam Lobsinger from Ingleside Station, the police station serving Bernal Heights.<\/p>\n

After housing, street safety was top of mind for the residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neighbors demanded the city agencies present traffic calming measures across the neighborhood to avoid such tragedies as the hit-and-run<\/a> on Cortland Avenue last year that killed 30-year-old Binod Budhathoki.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A woman who said she had worked advocating for AB 645<\/a>, the state legislation that creates a five-year pilot for the installation of automated speed enforcement cameras<\/a> in six cities, one of them San Francisco, asked Fielder to support adding more cameras across the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main concern is pedestrian safety,\u201d said the woman. \u201cI think it\u2019s shown that it\u2019s been absolutely working in changing drivers\u2019 behaviors. So I\u2019m hoping that you\u2019ll you\u2019ll be on board for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fielder took note. The supervisor supported<\/a> Lurie\u2019s street safety executive directive<\/a> in December, which amongst other actions, continued to prioritize speed and red-light cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly after, another attendee shared concerns that federal agencies could access information and data collected by the cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tam responded by pointing out that speed cameras are regulated by SFMTA. Flock cameras, which the SFPD uses for surveillance and tracking vehicles, have shown to be effective in fighting crime, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s very strong protections in terms of who can see that data,\u201d said Olea, jumping in quickly after Tam. \u201cWe feel that those protections will prevent the kind of concerns that you have. The cameras are only used to enforce speeds. They\u2019re not used for law enforcement. They\u2019re not shared for other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe Flock\u2019s contract is up for renewal next year, so I\u2019m sure there will be a robust debate at that point as well,\u201d Fielder added.<\/p>\n

Another attendee asked the panel what their plan was to address the repeated running of stop signs.<\/p>\n

Tam said that the police department, when staffing allows, designates officers across identified high injury networks, which include both Mission Street and Cortland Avenue, to do enforcement.<\/p>\n

Attendee Amy Morganstern asked if the city could install speed enforcement cameras at places where drivers ignore stop signs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no state provision to install cameras at stop signs, according to Olea. Instead he encouraged Morgenstern to contact her local police station.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last speaker of the evening was a representative from the city\u2019s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team<\/a> inviting attendees to take a free training on earthquake preparedness.<\/p>\n

\"ASupervisor Fielder received some flowers and a drawing reading \u201cThank you Ana & Jackie for defending tenant rights\u201d from one of the attendees. Photo by Oscar Palma.<\/p>\n

Attendees then proceeded to eat free pizza while Fielder received flowers and art from a constituent who thanked her for helping him with a housing issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a three month leave of absence for mental health issues, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder held the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[380,14839,6702,1556,101,103,102,69371,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-395568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-affordable-housing","tag-bernal-heights","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-mission","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-planning-department","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}