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Board committee forwards Ryan Brooks planning nomination after days of public concern over billboard ties
Summary
The Rules Committee heard a contested nomination for Ryan Brooks to the Planning Commission, with multiple neighbors and advocacy groups pressing that his employer, CBS Outdoor, creates inherent conflicts with planning duties focused on advertising enforcement; the committee sent the nomination to the full Board without recommendation.
Ryan Brooks, the mayor’s nominee to the San Francisco Planning Commission, told the Board of Supervisors’ Rules Committee that his years working on federal base reuse and in city government qualify him to help the commission, but public opposition and supervisor questions centered on his ties to CBS Outdoor, a major local outdoor‑advertising firm.
Brooks described experience at PRC/Tetra Tech and the Department of Defense and said he would recuse himself from any matter that posed a conflict, adding: “If there is any small chance whatsoever it could be a…
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