By Adam Shank : sfexaminer – excerpt
The City’s latest struggle over land use centers on its outermost edge.
The dispute involves Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and state Sen. Scott Wiener, with the former looking to protect California’s coastline from waves of development and the latter looking to spur desperately needed new housing in San Francisco.
And once again, San Francisco is under a magnifying glass, with the repercussions potentially resonating statewide.
The Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Monday that puts local legislators on record opposing a bill proposed by Wiener in the state legislature in January that would limit the California Coastal Commission’s role in reviewing development and protecting oceanfront access near Ocean Beach…
A small but critical sliver of land in San Francisco falls under the purview of the Coastal Commission, and an even smaller portion of that footprint consists of developed land.
The Coastal Commission was created in 1972 and enshrined by the state legislature’s passage of the California Coastal Act in 1976, with the purpose of protecting the state’s rapidly developing coastline for public use and environmental sustainability.
An impassioned Peskin excoriated Wiener for introducing the bill without consulting city leaders and warned his colleagues on Tuesday that the legislation would mark “the beginning of the end” of the California Coastal Act…
Engardio, Melgar and Dorsey provided the only votes against Peskin’s resolution.…(more)
If you missed the fireworks at the meeting and want to see them, here is the link to the recording of the meeting: https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/45353?view_id=10&redirect=true&h=950e160dea915e52141de08ce1e13fca. Jump to Item 25, 240065.