Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Storms Spur State Of Emergency: SFist

Police are looking for two men who are allegedly involved in an armed robbery on the UC Berkeley campus. [KRON 4]
Google's messaging strategy is just a mess. [Wired]
Plans to raze the rustic Main Street Theater and develop 103 apartments on the building’s Excelsior District site are moving forward. [SocketSite]
A 66-year-old woman was punched and threatened with a knife during a home invasion in the Western Addition. [KRON 4]
Legislation approved by a Board of Supervisors committee Monday will make it harder for residential hotel owners to rent out rooms to tourists and help prevent the conversion of affordable housing into boutique hotels and short-term rental units. [CBS 5]
University of California President Janet Napolitano has returned to work after being hospitalized last week following side effects from cancer treatment. [Associated Press]
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers. [TechCrunch]
After a nearly two-year effort, San Francisco is poised to require developers to add a host of measures to reduce car trips from new developments. [SF Examiner]
Jerry Brown has declared a storm-related state of emergency for Alameda, Contra Costa. Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma counties. [KRON 4] [SF Business Times] [CBS 5]

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