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Repost: Civil lawsuit settlement reached w/ Mr Kruta $1 + public apology published @windnewspaper @sfchronicle Thank you for your apology, Mr Jason Kruta, I certainly do not want anyone to harass you about this matter anymore. I consider the matter closed Truth revealed🧵1/19

The RESET Center has been open just over 24 hours, and already dozens of people using drugs in public have been brought off the streets. This is a new model that we are using in San Francisco to bring people on the streets into a health focused facility where they can have a chance to be connected to treatment.  This center is making it easier for officers to get back on the beat while giving people a real opportunity for treatment. We’re also hearing reports that staff have connected people with case managers who had been trying to reach them. This is an important new tool to help keep our streets safe and clean.

This past Sunday, nearly 80 illegal ATVs and dirt bikes were seized on the Bay Bridge as part of a two-month investigation by the Oakland Police Department. OPD, with CHP's assistance, tracked the illegal sideshow activity. They alerted SFPD to a potential takeover heading into San Francisco. More than 100 OPD officers were deployed to make arrests and recover the vehicles. This coordinated response highlights the strength of our regional partnerships and the progress being made to address illegal sideshows. Thank you to OPD personnel for their continued dedication to public safety and our law enforcement partners at CHP for their collaboration in keeping our communities safe.

Yes, you can park in your own driveway. No, your car cannot block the sidewalk. Through PermitSF, we passed legislation to get rid of outdated laws that prohibited San Francisco residents from parking cars in their own driveways. Just follow these guidelines: ✅ You can park in the driveway in front of your house. ✅ No part of your car can overhang onto the sidewalk. ✅ You may park parallel to the curb in front of your own driveway, if your vehicle is registered to that address and the building has two or fewer units. When in doubt, visit SFMTA.com/ParkLegally to review parking rules. With PermitSF, we’re making life easier for residents, small businesses, and all San Franciscans through common-sense changes.

San Francisco needs a reset. Our city charter is one of the longest in the country. It is bloated. It is broken. And it only works for the people who know how to manipulate it—not everyday San Franciscans. Today, I’m proposing reforms to clean up our city charter and make the government, and me, more accountable to you. Here is the breakdown. First: we are going to fix the city’s broken contracting system to make sure that your tax dollars are being spent efficiently and transparently. By bringing contracting under one entity, the City Administrator, we can set consistent citywide standards that will cut red tape, reduce delays, and save taxpayer dollars. Second: we are going to make our ballots shorter and simpler. That long voter packet that you received in 2024 had 15 ballot measures on it. In the same election, Oakland had 3. San Jose had 1. San Francisco makes it so easy to put things on the ballot that our elected officials don’t have to do their jobs. The result? San Franciscans have to fill out lengthy, confusing ballots, including contradictory measures and sometimes poorly written laws. This will ensure that ballot measures reflect real citywide priorities—and that elected officials focus on the job voters sent them here to do: delivering results for the people of San Francisco. Third: accountability. San Franciscans expect our city to deliver world-class services. To do that, we need to be able to hold those in leadership accountable. But right now, our charter rewards bureaucracy and scatters responsibility—protecting those in power, even if they have demonstrated serious ethical lapses. These reforms would change that to ensure that when San Franciscans elect a mayor, they know who is responsible for delivering results. San Franciscans elect people to run their government, and those leaders should be accountable for whether it works. If it doesn’t, you should know exactly who to hold responsible—that’s the point of elections. This package of reforms is about results. It’s about accountability. It’s about making City Hall work for San Francisco.

We’re seeing real progress in our work to help people move off the streets and into stability, and to make neighborhoods cleaner and safer for families. Right now, tent and encampment numbers are at the lowest level we’ve recorded. We’re also making progress moving people out of RVs and into housing: RV numbers are at their lowest since we began counting, down nearly 20% since the last count, and 47 households have already been housed through the program. We’re also reconnecting people with family and support systems through Journey Home, which helped 44 people return to loved ones in February—the highest monthly total since 2022. By using every tool available—from housing to treatment to reunification—we’re starting to turn things around. There’s still a lot of work ahead, and we’re going to keep building on this progress.

No more lines. No more paperwork. With our PermitSF Portal, we are bringing San Francisco’s permitting online. You can now apply for permits wherever you want, whenever you want. Too many San Franciscans know the pain of waiting in line and dealing with lengthy paperwork to get a simple permit. If we want small residents to thrive, businesses to grow, and housing to move faster, we have to make City Hall work better.

The eyes of the world were on San Francisco during Super Bowl week.   With final economic impact numbers still coming in, estimates say almost $500 million was spent in San Francisco alone during Super Bowl festivities.   Approximately 1.3 million passengers came into SFO for Super Bowl week and searches for San Francisco on hotel platforms were up 350% year over year.   Thanks to the hard work of our city teams, first responders, transit operators, hospitality workers, and strong coordination with private-sector partners, we got to show off who we really are.   The city was busy. The streets were alive. Restaurants were packed. Events ran smoothly. And San Francisco showed up. Let’s keep the momentum going.

Today, I had the honor to present the state of our city.  For the first time in five years, San Franciscans believe we're moving in the right direction. Our recovery is well underway.  The work now is to make it durable for everyone. For that to happen, we have to keep our focus on public safety, clean streets, and a lasting economic recovery. 2025 will go down as one of the safest years in our city's history. Crime is down nearly 30%, car break-ins are at a 22-year low, and homicides haven't been this low since 1954.  The fentanyl crisis changed our city, so we have changed our approach. We stopped freely handing out drug supplies and made San Francisco a recovery-first city. Encampments are down 44% from 2024 and we've opened 600 new treatment-focused beds. Over the past year, cleaner, safer streets helped our economy come roaring back. But one year of momentum is not enough. When tech booms, opportunity grows—but so does anxiety about rising rents and displacement. This boom-and-bust cycle has historically left too many people behind. Opportunity and stability must rise together for every resident and every neighborhood. Today marks the beginning of our Family Opportunity Agenda—a powerful effort to reduce the cost of living for San Francisco families by tens of thousands of dollars each year. In December, we approved The Family Zoning Plan—a generational roadmap that will help ensure San Franciscans can afford to raise their kids here and expand housing supply while preserving the character of our neighborhoods and protecting rent-controlled buildings. And starting this month, a family of four making less than $230K a year will qualify for free childcare at hundreds of high-quality providers across San Francisco. By this fall, those earning up to $310K a year will receive a 50% subsidy.  Twelve months into this administration, the state of our city is resilient. But I don’t just want to bring San Francisco back. I want to build something better that will last, a city you and your children and their children are proud to call home.  We're just getting started, and we aren't going to leave anyone behind. Let's go, San Francisco.

This new law enforcement sobering center marks a fundamental change in San Francisco: If you do drugs on our streets, we will arrest you. And with this new resource, we will give you a real chance to enter recovery.

As I set out to make the appointment for District Four’s next Supervisor, I looked for someone who understands the Sunset and Parkside, because they live it and breathe it. Someone who is of the Sunset and works for the Sunset.  Someone who is a bridge builder, a problem solver, and someone who cares deeply about their neighborhood and this city as a whole.   Beya Alcaraz is that person, and I am incredibly honored to appoint her as the next Supervisor for District Four.  At just 22 years old, @beyaalcarazd4 bought and ran the neighborhood’s most beloved pet shop, The Animal Connection, on 35th and Irving. Under very trying circumstances, she kept her shop open through the pandemic because she knew what that store meant to the people here and how much her customers depended on her. That’s the kind of grit and care we need at City Hall. As the daughter of Asian immigrants, a graduate of Holy Name and Saint Ignatius, a teacher and youth coach, Beya is helping to raise the next generation of Sunset kids—teaching them the fundamentals not just of basketball or piano, but of teamwork and perseverance, and what it means to serve your community.  And as someone who lived in an ADU with her aunt while her parents saved to buy their own home—Beya knows the sacrifices families make to stay in the communities they love, especially as our city has gotten more expensive. Beya is a bridge between generations—between the longtime residents like her family who helped build this community, and the young people who will carry it forward. She’s a bridge between small business owners, working families and our city government. She is a bridge to the future of the Sunset. When I talk to Beya, I see someone who is not a career politician but has spent her life in service to this community. She doesn’t owe anything to anyone other than the people who live right here. Beya loves the Sunset the way I love San Francisco.   I am confident that she will make her community proud—by listening, showing up, and doing the hard work this moment demands.

Putting out sidewalk tables and chairs for your business is easy: fill out a free form, learn the rules like keeping sidewalks accessible, and you’re good to go. No permit or free required. We want San Francisco’s businesses to bring our streets to life—just follow a few simple steps. Check out sf.gov/tablesandchairs to get started.

We’re bringing San Francisco back—and we are just getting started.

Yesterday, I spoke to San Franciscans about a potential federal deployment in our city. I said then what I have said since taking office, that keeping San Franciscans safe is my top priority. Late last night, I received a phone call from the President of the United States. I told him the same thing I told our residents: San Francisco is on the rise. Visitors are coming back, buildings are getting leased and purchased, and workers are coming back to the office. We have work to do, and we would welcome continued partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Attorney to get drugs and drug dealers off our streets, but having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery. We appreciate that the president understands that we are the global hub for technology, and when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong. In that conversation, the president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that direction in our conversation this morning. My team will continue to monitor the situation closely, and our city remains prepared for any scenario. I am profoundly grateful to all the San Franciscans who came together over the last several days. Our city leaders have been united behind the goal of public safety. And our values have been on full display—this is the best of our city.

From the day I took office, I told San Franciscans my number one priority was keeping our streets safe and clean. I was hearing from residents across the city for years that they were concerned about crime and felt that the city was caught flat-footed by the fentanyl crisis. As soon as I became mayor, we took a new approach.   We created the @SFPD Hospitality Zone Task Force to keep our commercial districts safe and launched our Rebuilding the Ranks plan to get our police department back to full staffing. We passed a Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance and launched our Breaking the Cycle plan to fundamentally transform our response to the behavioral health crisis and get people off the street.   Today, crime is down nearly 30% citywide and at its lowest point in decades. Car break-ins are at 22-year lows, and homicides are on track to hit 70-year lows. We are adding police officers and sheriff’s deputies for the first time in a decade. We have a record low number of encampments on our streets, and overdose deaths are down 39% from January. We can keep San Francisco safe, and our new approach is beginning to deliver real results.   Thanks to the work our teams are doing, San Franciscans are feeling optimistic about the direction of our city and the conditions on our streets for the first time in years. I know our work is far from done—I see it every day when I walk the streets and talk to residents. But our local law enforcement, outreach workers, community ambassadors, and I will continue to be relentless so we can deliver the safe and clean streets that every San Franciscan deserves.

The governor just signed SB 79, a new law from Sacramento that allows taller buildings within half a mile of our city’s many transit stops.   Some San Franciscans are understandably concerned about the impact that this this new state law could have on our neighborhoods and our local control.   That’s why my office worked to secure changes to the final bill. These amendments ensure that the neighborhoods in the Family Zoning Plan will not be impacted by this new state law.   If the Board of Supervisors passes the Family Zoning Plan, those neighborhoods are exempt from SB 79.   I look forward to working with the Board of Supervisors to pass Family Zoning, our plan to make sure the next generation of San Franciscans can afford to raise their kids here, while protecting what makes our city one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Opening a restaurant in SF just got easier. A single public health inspector will now manage a restaurant’s application from start to finish—ending the old system of multiple inspectors offering conflicting guidance. It’s another common-sense change that speeds up openings and saves small businesses money.

San Francisco’s fines for dangerous dirt bike driving and sideshows are lower than those in Oakland, San Jose, and Fresno—making us a target. Thanks to Supervisor @DannySauter, we’re raising fines to match other cities. Those who break the law must face consequences.

✨ What a night on Irving Street! Sunset After Dark was a huge success, and I couldn’t be prouder of our community. 🌙 We started with the Sunset Night Market — now it’s a citywide tradition! 💪 My amazing staff helped make this event possible. 🍖 Yes, I joined the rib-eating contest — all for the fun of it! 💛 Grateful to see neighbors come together to celebrate the Sunset. Thank you, everyone, for making this event shine! #sanfrancisco #sf #foodie #nightmarket #sunsetafterdark

For years, residents have felt that the city wouldn’t deal with the dirt bikes and ATVs taking over our streets. It is a new day in San Francisco, and this type of dangerous behavior will not be tolerated.

Anyone who engages in this illegal activity in San Francisco will be held accountable. Thanks to the hard-working members of the SFPD and the assistance of new technology, we can crack down on this behavior like never before.