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Land Use and Transportation Committee
Monday, November 3 at 1:30 pm
City Hall, room 250
Show Up and Speak Out!
The Land Use and Transportation Committee will hold its second public hearing on the citywide upzoning plan that would allow major height and density increases across many neighborhoods.
San Francisco is on the verge of one of the most sweeping land use changes in its history, and very few residents even know it is happening.
After this second Land Use Committee hearing, the proposal will go before the full Board of Supervisors for a final vote. Since they have refused to hold a Committee of the Whole that would allow public comment as they deliberate, this is your last chance to be heard.
At the Land Use hearing last week, Supervisors could NOT make the case that this plan will create affordability. The best they could say was that “their hands are tied” and they must do what the state tells them. But let’s not forget who “the state” is. Senator Scott Wiener wrote these extreme, punitive, and permanent laws, and he can also write new ones to undo his own overreach.
Even the Planning Department could not answer how Wiener’s latest bill, SB 79, which allows upzoning of 6- to 9-story towers within a half mile of bus stops, will affect the city. It is alarming how little our decision makers understand as they stand on the verge of forever changing the landscape of San Francisco.
Their hands may be tied, but their mouths are not.
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