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San Francisco Planning Commission holds closed personnel session and unanimously withholds disclosure of deliberations

San Francisco Planning Commission · December 11, 2015
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After a public comment urging attention to displacement and gentrification, the San Francisco Planning Commission convened a closed personnel session to review the planning director's performance and later voted 7-0 not to disclose the closed-session deliberations; Commissioners Fong and Wu said they will follow up with Director Ram.

The San Francisco Planning Commission convened a closed-session review of the planning director's performance and then voted unanimously not to disclose the content of that closed-session discussion.

During the open meeting, Diane Ruiz, co-founder of independent media outlet People Power Media, urged commissioners to consider the city's record on displacement and gentrification as part of the director's evaluation. Ruiz summarized findings published earlier the same day, saying San Francisco "has become the cautionary tale for how not to develop a city in the 21st century," and citing rising rents, the predominance of luxury units…

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