Legislation To Impose Master Plan Meets Opposition

Supervisors in San Francisco have called on the city to impose the affordable housing standards included in the master plan, a move many in the city's planning department fear will bring development in the city's eastern areas to a halt.

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November 1, 2006, 10:00 AM PST

By Nate Berg

San Francisco's mayor has already announced plans to veto the legislation if passed in today's meeting of the Board of Supervisors' land use committee.

"The policy in question calls for city planners to show how they intend to ensure that 64 percent of all new housing development is affordable to moderate-, low-, and very low-income San Franciscans. That's what the housing element of the master plan says is needed."

"Land use development policy lies at the very heart of San Francisco politics. It's dangerous work for supervisors to attempt to determine that policy, especially if it calls for protection of existing neighborhoods and their residents."

FULL STORY: The risk of honest planning

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 in The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Government / Politics Land Use Urban Development California

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