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Board delays Sharp Park garter snake habitat grant vote amid deed‑restriction and map questions
Summary
Supervisors continued a retroactive acceptance of a roughly $200,500 California Habitat Conservation Fund grant for Sharp Park, asking Recreation & Park Department staff to narrow the deed restriction to the actual restoration footprint and provide a proper legal description; the item was continued two weeks to July 27.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 13 voted to continue consideration of a retroactive state grant to restore habitat for the endangered San Francisco garter snake at Sharp Park to July 27 after supervisors raised questions about the deed restriction and the map submitted with the grant.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who led the floor conversation on the item, said the resolution on its face said the grant covered 1 acre but the exhibit map appears to encompass a much larger area — potentially hundreds of acres within the Sharp Park assessor’s parcel — and that the exhibit supplied was a picture rather than a formal legal description. Peskin proposed an amendment making clear that…
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