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KPCR NEWS 2026-09-02 · KPCR News

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  This is your KPCR News Update with Scott Puckett.
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  Rescue teams with search dogs continued to search
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  through mud, rocks, and debris on Tuesday on
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  the border with Nepal and China for thousands
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  of people still missing following the catastrophic
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  floods that tore through communities across the
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  Himalayas, leaving more than 1 ,000 people dead.
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  As police in Kathmandu buried dozens of bodies
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  in multiple trenches, Nepal's disaster agencies
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  said that over 1 ,000 deaths had been recounted
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  there. with nearly 4 ,000 people still missing,
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  including 583 foreign nationals. In its latest
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  update, China reported 16 deaths and 546 missing,
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  including 261 foreigners. According to the San
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  Jose Spotlight, residents of a South San Jose
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  neighborhood are organizing against plans to
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  redevelop a single -family lot, accusing the
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  developer behind the project of misusing state
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  housing laws. Opponents fear the precedent the
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  project might set if it's allowed to move forward.
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  An LLC linked to Redwood City -based development
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  firm Samara has filed permit applications to
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  demolish a home that sits on nearly a half -acre
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  lot at 15385 Warwick Road and replace it with
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  a duplex, according to permit records. Nearby
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  residents in the surrounding Homestead Acres
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  neighborhood have cast the project as predatory
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  use of Senate Bill 9, the landmark California
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  housing law that opens up suburban properties
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  to lot splits and duplex constructions. The Willamette
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  Weekly reports that ballot measure 26 -267 seeks
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  to let Portlanders decide how 2 % of the city's
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  general fund is spent every year, a practice
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  called participatory budgeting. Under the program,
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  city residents would suggest ideas for how to
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  spend 2 % of the city budget, about $16 million
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  annually. Citizen delegates would shape those
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  ideas into project proposals, and the concepts
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  would receive a citywide vote. After collecting
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  over 78 ,000 signatures, ballot measure 26 -267
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  will be the only ballot on which to vote in November.
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  That was your KPCR News Update. I'm Scott Puckett.
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