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Mayor Breed outlines downtown reinvention plan, discusses graffiti abatement and enforcement as COVID emergency ends
Summary
Mayor London Breed presented a multi-pronged plan to revive downtown San Francisco and introduced initial tax reform proposals. At question time she said rescinding the COVID emergency order would not fundamentally change law enforcement on encampments and urged use of 311 and a new graffiti-abatement pilot for private property.
Mayor London Breed on Feb. 14 told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors she had released a plan to “reinvent downtown and strengthen our economy,” and introduced initial legislation and tax proposals aimed at stabilizing local businesses and recruiting companies to fill vacant office space.
The plan, Breed said, contains nearly 50 initiatives and includes “a pair of tax reforms aimed at stabilizing our existing businesses, as well as recruiting new businesses to fill many of our office vacancies.” She said she has asked the controller and tax collector to lead a working group to propose tax reform for the 2024 ballot and emphasized that “we need to make this decision on data and analysis of the controller and tax collector.”
The mayor also addressed public-safety staffing and downtown impacts: “Our police…
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