SF’s Little Guys Defeat The Almighty Dollar

In San Francisco on Tuesday June 3, A MAJORITY OF EVERY PRECINCT, AND AN AVERAGE OF 60% CITY-WIDE OF ALL VOTERS, voted against knee-jerk shredding of prime real estate city codes by the Highest-Bribing Big Developers.

When these SF voters voted for Prop B, The Rule of Law Beat the Almighty Dollar.      In 1990, SF voters had required strict coding by the planning department for downtown waterfront sites. But recently, every Big-Bucks developer had been easily getting City Get Out Of Jail Passes, to routinely exempt them from height limits willy-nilly.

In contrast, now, because of the passage of SF’s Prop B, all developers must take their case for audacious plan exemptions to the voters first.  The side opposing B had claimed that they were just fighting for more housing for the “poor.”

Housing for the little guy?  On San Francisco’s prime land? Sure!  Tell me another one, and I’ll buy your bridge, Bernie Madoff.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

SEE ALSO OUR PREVIOUS BLOG, ON TRICKLE-DOWN HOUSING IN SAN FRANCISCO.

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/_SF_s_Prop_B_Wins_Big_Campos_Chiu_Head_for_November_12681.html

http://www.nowallonthewaterfront.com/

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-voters-OK-Prop-B-on-waterfront-development-5526983.php%5B/

 

 

Fraudulent “Trickle-Down” Luxury Housing for the Super-Rich, in San Francisco

Wherever you live, the cost and supply of housing is getting more and more crucial.

On November 5, S.F. voters will be able to vote NO on a Prop B to giveaway pricey public land to a developer for the Super-Rich to bask in, and a Prop C to allow that same developer to violate height restrictions and thus add major shadows to a public park.

If you are a San Francisco voter, check out the articles below from the SF Bay Guardian, the SF Examiner, and the League of Women Voters on these two issues.

(But even if you are not a San Francisco resident, be prepared for this in your town too!  The gentrification manipulators would love to extend these welfare-for-the-SuperRich inequalities to YOUR community, too!)

http://www.lwvsf.org/lwvsf-news/league-positions-on-propositions-b-and-c/

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/10/22/guardian-forum-examines-who-san-francisco-building-housing

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/ballot-box-planning-is-bad-for-sf-vote-no-on-props-b-and-c/Content?oid=2605334