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Committee sends amended resolution on SB 827 to full Board after hours of public comment
Summary
After hours of public comment and competing testimony, the Land Use Committee voted without objection to send an amended resolution urging changes to Senate Bill 827 (authored by Senator Scott Wiener) to the full Board; supervisors emphasized value-recapture, tenant protections and state funding as priorities for amendment.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee on March 12 heard extensive public testimony for and against California Senate Bill 827, then voted to send an amended resolution asking the state legislature to amend the bill and to provide funding for local mitigation to the full Board of Supervisors for further consideration.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, sponsor of the resolution, said he is an "unabashed opponent" of SB 827 as drafted and argued the bill would confer "massive value" on property owners without adequate mechanisms to recapture that value for public benefits such as affordable housing and transit. Peskin warned the…
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