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Board fails to override mayor's veto of transportation sustainability fee
Summary
The Board of Supervisors debated an override of Mayor Ed Lee's veto of an ordinance to raise the Transportation Sustainability Fee for large nonresidential projects. After several hours of debate, the board sustained the veto in a 6-4 vote, so the ordinance failed.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 22 debated whether to override Mayor Ed Lee's veto of an ordinance to raise the Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) for large nonresidential projects, but the board failed to override the veto and the ordinance did not pass.
Supervisor John Avalos, the ordinance's lead sponsor, opened debate by urging colleagues to side with transit riders and working taxpayers rather than big developers. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little," Avalos said, quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt. Avalos said his amendments would raise about $2,000,000 a year and $30,000,000 in one-time revenue and…
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