May 19 2016 Edition of the Bay Area Reporter

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Morris moves to Roxie by Sari Staver

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ongtime film festival programmer Jennifer “Junkyard” Morris has joined the Roxie Theater as a programmer. Morris, a lesbian, has been director of programming for SF DocFest and a programmer at IndieFest for the past four years. Before that, Morris was festival director and director See page 17 >>

SFMTA eyes Castro parking lots for housing

San Francisco’s transit agency is studying turning two city-owned parking lots in the Castro, including the one behind the Castro Theatre, into affordable housing developments. Rick Gerharter

by Matthew S. Bajko

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an Francisco’s transit agency is eyeing two surface parking lots in the city’s gay Castro district as potential affordable housing sites. As part of a review of its surplus property that could be repurposed to assist with the city’s housing crunch, the San Francisco Mu-

Zuckerberg hospital set to open Saturday by Seth Hemmelgarn

nicipal Transportation Agency has identified the two municipal parking lots in the heart of the gayborhood as being underutilized. One of the lots, with 20 metered parking spaces accessed from Castro Street, is behind the Castro Theatre and is 6,740 square feet. The second lot, which is entered from 18th Street and exits onto Collingwood, has 28 metered spots on 6,500 square feet spanning two parcels.

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Dist. 11: Scott Wiener

Dist. 17: David Chiu Dist. 19: Phil Ting

Judges SF Superior Court Seat 7: Paul Henderson

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The main entrance to the new Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, which opens Saturday.

The department will also include a radiology unit, so critically ill patients won’t have to go anywhere for CT scans. Additionally, he said, most of the patients’ rooms in the new hospital facility are private. “Currently we have very, very few private rooms, and we only use those for isolation,” such as when a patient’s contagious, May said. He said the biggest challenge has been “orienting and training our personnel to move into See page 17 >>

They are among five surface parking lots the transit agency has identified as ideal locations to build a “mix” of housing and public parking. Two others are located in West Portal and the fifth is adjacent to the Performing Arts Garage in Hayes Valley not far from City Hall. David Baker Architects is working on a feasibility study that will recommend various See page 11 >>

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an Francisco’s Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is preparing to move about 200 patients into its new main facility at 1001 Potrero Avenue, which will include expanded emergency services and private rooms. The new site is set to open Saturday, May 21. In an interview this week, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Todd May, said, “We’re very excited. ... It’s a big day for us, and for the city.” May, a straight ally who’s been with the hospital best known as San Francisco General for about 20 years, said, “One major feature is the expanded and enhanced emergency department.” That includes a Level One trauma center. Zuckerberg San Francisco General has “the only trauma center in San Francisco and in north San Mateo County,” he said. “We do about 30 percent of all the ambulance traffic in the city.” The current emergency space is “very small” with “really unacceptable conditions,” May said. “There are patients in hallways.” With the new building, the department will go from 27 beds to 58. “In case of a disaster, we can actually double up occupancy in those beds,” May said, so there could be more than 100 emergency beds if they were needed.

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CALIFORNIA PRIMARY President: Hillary Clinton U.S. Senate: Kamala Harris

State Assembly (Bay Area) Dist. 15: Tony Thurmond Dist. 18: Rob Bonta Dist. 28: Evan Low

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