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San Francisco Planning Commission adopts resolution centering racial and social equity; calls for community oversight and new metrics
Summary
After hours of public testimony, the Planning Commission unanimously adopted a resolution directing the Planning Department to center racial and social equity in its work program, expand funding for community-based planning, and develop equity metrics and reporting. Commissioners and speakers urged stronger commitments to repair harms to Black, Indigenous and other communities of color.
The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday directing the Planning Department to center racial and social equity in its work program, increase funding for community-based planning and develop public equity metrics and reporting.
The measure, introduced by Commissioner Millicent Johnson during the June 11 remote meeting, frames planning as both a historical driver of segregation and an active lever to reverse displacement. Commissioner Johnson told colleagues she had personal experience with fear while walking in the city and said planning decisions have contributed to “intergenerational” harms. She said, “Black lives matter,” and urged concrete reparative steps in the department's work.
Miriam Choon, a Planning Department presenter,…
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