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Planning-commission nominee Sue Diamond referred to full board after contentious public comment

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee · November 18, 2019
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After nearly three hours of testimony for and against Mayor Breed’s nominee Sue Diamond, the Rules Committee voted to forward her nomination to the full Board of Supervisors without a recommendation, citing deep divisions among community groups and supervisors.

The Rules Committee on Monday sent Mayor London Breed’s nomination of Susan “Sue” Diamond to the Planning Commission to the full Board of Supervisors without a committee recommendation after extended questioning and public comment.

Diamond, a land-use attorney who said she earned degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law and a master’s in city planning from MIT, described a career spanning private practice, nonprofit representation and teaching. She told the committee she would recuse herself when former clients appear before the commission and said she would “absolutely recuse myself” if a…

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