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Committee approves forwarding ordinance to require subway master plan; amends timing
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted unanimously to forward Supervisor Scott Wiener's ordinance requiring a comprehensive subway master plan within 12 months, amending the trigger to start the 12-month period from the mayor's signature. Staff from SFCTA and SFMTA presented supporting planning context and ridership data.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to forward to the full Board of Supervisors an ordinance requiring the city to prepare a comprehensive subway master plan within 12 months and to update the plan every four years. The committee approved a minor amendment to change the start of the 12-month deadline from the ordinance—s effective date to within 12 months of the mayor's signature.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, the ordinance author, framed the need for a subway-focused plan around sustained population growth and congestion, saying, "San Francisco has 200,000 more residents today than our city had in 1980" and warning that existing…
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