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Supervisor Tang asks LAFCO to study how San Francisco can finish undergrounding utility wires
Summary
Supervisor Tang asked the Local Agency Formation Commission to direct staff to prepare a scope of work for a citywide study exploring funding, equity and technical options to underground the roughly 470 miles of remaining overhead utility lines; commissioners and members of the public urged including fiber conduit and sewer-project coordination and factoring new lighting costs.
Supervisor Tang asked the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission on the record to study how the city can complete undergrounding its remaining overhead utility wires and to identify alternative funding and policy approaches that would advance the work more quickly and more equitably.
"Right now we have about 470 miles left of our city utility lines that have not been undergrounded," Supervisor Tang said, adding that "the estimated cost to underground these lines is actually about $3,600,000,000, which breaks down to about 7 and a half million dollars per mile." She told commissioners the work should not be confined to wealthier…
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