By Jean Barish and Wynd Kaufman : sfexaminer – excerpt
The proposed 1,100-unit housing development on the lower Balboa Reservoir deals multiple blows to San Francisco. It surrenders The City’s last large open parcel of public land to private developers who offer false promises, the most outrageous being that the project is the best affordable housing deal ever. It dooms hope for restoring and growing enrollment at City College of San Francisco. And the bargain basement price of the land sanctions corporate welfare as well as shameful stripping of a precious public asset.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors must reject the final approvals for this oversized project scheduled to come before them in the next weeks.
Let’s examine just a few of the more glaring false promises: Affordable housing, community collaboration and consideration of the needs of City College. None of these assertions stand up to scrutiny…(more)
SFPUC is the property owner. SFPUC is currently under investigation as a party in the Nuru corruption scandal. Why you trust the judgement and intentions of the officers of an organization charged with collaboration and possible corruption and bribery? What is the rush to sell a hugely valuable property at a deep discount that should be considered a huge loss? This transaction does not pass the smell test. See article below.
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By Joshua Sabatini and Michael Barba : sfexaminer – excerpt
…The office also released a subpoena of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission last week seeking documents related to city contractors and the personnel files of its director, Harlan Kelly, and Assistant General Manager Juliet Ellis…(more)