by Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Plus: Private electric-car charging in neighborhood curbsides? And a key vote on housing in the Tenderloin.
Even the Chron is now reporting that it’s likely that Assemblymember David Chiu will be the next city attorney. The incumbent, Dennis Herrera, has negotiated a contract worth almost $400,000 a year to take over the SF Public Utilities Commission; the state legislative session is done for the year.
Mayor London Breed has made no announcement, but Chiu is an ally of hers, wants the job—and it would make sense for her in a whole lot of ways.
Let’s look at what the next year would look like if Chiu got that job…
It’s possible that Mayor Breed could wind up appointing a city attorney, a district attorney, a supervisor, and three members of the School Board within less than a year.
Even Willie Brown, who managed at one point to appoint a majority of the Board of Supervisors, appointments, never got that much power in that short a period of time…
The SFMTA is apparently thinking about letting private companies install for-profit electric-car charging stations in curbside parking spaces in neighborhoods…(more)
Anybody who has not figured that City Hall plans to enact more controls over our lives had better take note of this week’s actions. If you just want your life back, you are going to have to fight for that right soon because that is not what the plan appears to be.