By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Governor’s Office, in highly unusual move, lobbies local Planning Commission on Breed legislation.
In a highly unusual move, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office is lobbying the San Francisco Planning Commission to approve a plan by Mayor London Breed that could lead to the wholesale demolition of existing housing on the West Side of the city.
Newsom’s Department of Housing and Community Development sent a letter June 16 to the SF Planning Commission urging support for the “Constraints Reduction Ordinance.”
That position is consistent with Newsom’s position on housing: The biggest problem, the governor insists, is that cities put too many rules on new development. His entire housing policy, such as it is, involves “constraint reduction.”
The letter, signed by Melinda Coy, who has the title of “proactive housing accountability chief” (I bet Newsom came up with that himself), states that…(more)
Read the article and comment if you can. Probably some well place letters to the editor may help. There is an effort to meet with supervisors to try to convince them that this is a big political mistake. The voters have already lost faith and trust in the government so removing more rights to participate in the future of the city will not endear them to the Mayor or anyone who supports less rights for citizens.