My CEQA Appeals Legislation Heads to Full Board for Approval

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8

6/18/13 -- Yesterday, my legislation to improve our CEQA appeals process took a big step towards passage when the Land Use and Economic Development Committee passed it onto the full Board for consideration. For too long, our process has been opaque and unpredictable, causing unnecessary and wasteful delays around important projects, including transit, bike, and park improvements, affordable housing projects, and small home improvements.

Hearing on Better Market Street

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8

6/18/13 -- The Better Market Street project should be the best example of improving our streets through creating safer pedestrian and bike access and making thoughtful transit decisions.

Preparing for Impact of City's Growth on Muni

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8

6/18/13 -- We are experiencing a tremendous amount of growth in our city right now, with new developments going up all along the Market Street corridor and along the eastern and southeastern waterfront. While this population increase is good for the future of the city, I'm concerned about its effect on our transit system. Muni isn't meeting our current needs, and unless we prepare accordingly, it won't meet our future needs either.

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    06/18/2013 - 8:13am

    San Francisco's process for appealing projects under CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) is broken, chaotic, and unpredictable. After many public hearings and much dialogue, my legislation to fix the process - for example to set a clear appeal deadline and to prevent multiple appeals and appeals mid-...

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    06/17/2013 - 8:42am

    San Franciscans, like New Yorkers, are passionate about our public spaces, limited as they are. And, like New York, we are going through a transformation in which we acknowledge that our public realm - streets, sidewalks, plazas, etc - must be designed for and accommodate all uses, including walking, biking,...

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    06/16/2013 - 9:52am

    The Better Market Street Plan - a redesign of Market Street east of Octavia - needs to be a visionary blueprint to transform the spine of our street grid into a world class transit hub. The plan has been long delayed but is now picking up steam. Tomorrow, I, along with Supervisor...

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    06/14/2013 - 11:21am

    Plan Bay Area will help guide future housing and transportation policy for our region over the next few decades. The Bay Area, including San Francisco, will experience significant population and job growth, and we need to be very disciplined in creating housing, shoring up and expanding transit service, and...

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    06/13/2013 - 8:51am

    San Francisco's population is growing, and the city isn't making needed transit investments to keep up. Muni doesn't have the capacity to provide reliable service to our current population. So how are we going to do so with an additional 100-150,000 people, as projected over coming decades? As we...