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SFPUC amends and moves to adopt environmental‑justice policy after community testimonies
Summary
After extended community testimony in Bayview Hunters Point, the SFPUC commission amended the proposed Environmental Justice policy to reaffirm equal‑opportunity commitments, add workforce development language including green jobs and require that public benefits be shared across communities, and moved to adopt the policy with amendments.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on the evening’s Environmental Justice workshop heard extensive testimony from neighborhood leaders, environmental groups and workforce advocates before agreeing to amend and move to adopt a proposed Environmental Justice (EJ) policy.
Assistant General Manager Laura Spangen opened the 6:00 p.m. workshop by reading key clauses of the draft policy, which affirms the SFPUC’s commitment to prevent and mitigate disproportionate environmental impacts, to enforce applicable environmental rules and to incorporate environmental‑justice principles into operations. She said staff had revised the text after outreach to community members and the Citizens Advisory Committee’s EJ subcommittee.
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