[Sustain] ALERT! - Call Today! Contact Supes Cohen, Olague & Kim To Stop Redevelopment Freight Train

[Eric Brooks]

Hi again all,

Final Alert!

Before tomorrow's Redevelopment transfer 'Freight Train' vote:

Call Supervisors Malia Cohen, Christina Olague, and Jane Kim before 2pm 
tomorrow (Tue, Jan 24) to stop the Redevelopment Transition Freight 
Train! See my previous post below for details on what's happening.

Call,

Malia Cohen:            415-554-7670

Christina Olague:   415-554-7630

Jane Kim:                415-554-7970

with one or more of the following 3 demands:

- Amend your Redevelopment transition legislation to be only the 
-minimal- required transfer of powers and authority necessary to comply 
with the State's deadline on February 1st.
NO other powers or authority over Redevelopment should be given to the 
City, agency staff, or any Oversight Board, until a full WELL NOTICED 
public hearing, allowing public comment, is held in mid to late 
February, so that the people of San Francisco have a strong voice in 
this process.

- The Mayor's appointment of three high level, unelected, Mayor's 
office, Planning Department, and Controller's office staff to run the 
Redevelopment Oversight Board is UNACCEPTABLE. We demand that actual 
RESIDENT representatives of the Bayview Hunters Point, Mission Bay, and 
Transbay neighborhoods be appointed to the Oversight Board, and we 
demand that you postpone these appointment decisions to full WELL 
NOTICED public hearings, ALLOWING PUBLIC COMMENT, to be held in mid to 
late February.

- The fact that there was no broad public notice of this legislation 
sent in early January, to ALL of the thousands of San Francisco 
residents who have formally commented on the Mission Bay, Hunters Point 
Shipyard phase 1 & 2, Transbay Terminal, Treasure Island and other San 
Francisco Redevelopment projects is UNACCEPTABLE. Immediate timely 
notice of the current proposed legislation, and of all future hearings 
on this matter, must go out to all such commenters who provided their 
contact information when commenting on Redevelopment projects!

That's the alert! Please call Cohen, Olague and Kim immediately so that 
the public gets a voice in this unacceptably fast tracked Redevelopment 
freight train process!

thanks

Eric Brooks
415-756-8844
http://ourcitysf.org/campaigns

 >Here is my previous email which shows links to the details on what's 
happening:

Here are the details on the sudden Redevelopment crisis which emerged 
during the MLK holiday weekend..

The Mayor's office is using the fact that San Francisco must transfer 
legal authority over SF Redevelopment projects to itself by February 1st 
as an excuse to fast track legislation that will give far -more- 
authority than necessary over Redevelopment (especially in the Transbay 
Terminal, Hunters Point Shipyard, and Mission Bay projects) to high 
level pro-developer Mayoral and Controller staff. Specifically, Lee is 
trying to put the Planning Director, Mayor's Housing Director, and the 
Controller's office in firm control of an 'Oversight Board' for 
Redevelopment in San Francisco; in legislation which gives them 
authority to make program changes without approval of the Board of 
Supervisors.

The legislation, which will probably be voted on this Tuesday, can be 
read at 
http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/bf011812_120021.pdf 
The specific section on the Oversight Board is on page 9-9 (page 33 of 
this pdf file).

The Mayor's appointees are; Nadia Sesay (Controller's Office), Olsen Lee 
(Housing Director), John Rahaim (Planning Director), and Bob Muscat (a 
state required appointment from Local 21). These appointments are 
currently 'at will' and perpetual, with no fixed term of office!

Supervisors Cohen, Olague, and Kim are co-sponsoring the Mayor's 
legislation and appointments.

I will be sending out an alert on Monday asking people to call Cohen, 
Olague and Kim to insist that the Redevelopment legislation be 
-drastically- scaled down to only fill state transfer requirements with 
no added authority or powers, delaying any such expanded powers to be 
taken up in full public hearings in February and/or March; and also 
delaying the appointments of the 'Oversight Board' for full public 
hearings in which we should insist on community representatives being on 
the Oversight Board.

Anyone who knows Cohen, Olague and Kim, please call them ASAP to insist 
on these changes!

Otherwise the Mayor's Downtown developer backers will continue to 
undemocratically and disastrously lord over Redevelopment in San 
Francisco for decades.

cheers

Eric B
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