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San Francisco supervisors grill city lobbyists over advocacy on AB 2501 and governor's by-right housing plan
Summary
City-contracted lobbyists told the Government Audit and Oversight Committee they circulated the Board's AB 2501 resolution to Sacramento but stopped short of characterizing current contact with the governor's office as negotiations; public commenters were split between support for the governor's by-right approach and calls for San Francisco-specific exemptions.
City-contracted lobbyists appeared before the Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Friday to explain how they have been advancing the Board's position on Assembly Bill 2501 and related "trailer" legislation that could insert a statewide by-right housing approval policy into budget negotiations.
Aaron Peskin, chair of the committee, opened the special meeting by asking the lobbyists to introduce themselves and explain their outreach so the public could understand how the Board's positions are being represented in Sacramento. "I wanna thank our city's lobbyists, Shaw Yoder and Antwee ... for coming here on very short notice," Peskin said, noting recent process improvements such as the clerk distributing resolutions directly to lobbyists.
Joshua Shaw and Paul Yoder of the firm Shaw, Yoder & Tweed described the firm's contacts across Sacramento and with…
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