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Ethics Commission declines to find Planning officials violated Sunshine Ordinance indexing rule
Summary
After a lengthy public exchange over whether Planning populated mandated indices for CEQA-related records, the San Francisco Ethics Commission accepted staff and city attorney advice and voted 4–0 that the named Planning officials did not willfully violate the Sunshine Ordinance.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Nov. 28 accepted a staff recommendation and voted 4–0 that two Planning Department officials did not willfully violate the city’s Sunshine Ordinance by failing to populate the index of CEQA-related records.
The complaint arose after public commenter and complainant Mr. Grossman said the Planning Department had created but not filled the indexes required by Administrative Code section 67.29, leaving the public without meaningful access to records and internal notes for environmental reviews such as the Better Streets Plan amendment. Grossman told the commission he had filed multiple records requests and found gaps and little documentary evidence of the agency’s…
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