[Sustain] URGENT: Emergency Strategy Summit On Wiener Legislation Attacking CEQA Protections (SF City Hall Basement Cafe Thu Nov 15 10am) Please RSVP!

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

The situation is urgent.

1) Scott Wiener's legislation attacking our local California 
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) protections will go before the Planning 
Commission next Thursday, November 15, shortly after 12 noon. 
(Thankfully for our purposes, the measure is Item 1 on the regular 
agenda so we will not have a long wait to speak on the item.)

2) THEN: On Monday November 19 at 1pm, the legislation goes to the Land 
Use Committee (Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, Eric Mar) on which Mar is our 
most likely ally and possibly the only one. (That hearing will likely be 
held in City Hall Room 263.)

3) THEN ALARMINGLY: The legislation is planned go to the full Board of 
Supervisors as a committee report THE VERY NEXT DAY, NOV 20, for a vote!

So we have very little time, and we need to form a sharp organized 
campaign if we are going to stop this legislation. (Scott Wiener is far 
more capable an opponent than was Alioto-Pier, and the Board of 
Supervisors is not as progressive on developer issues as it was 2 years 
ago.)

STRATEGY MEETING IN CITY HALL BASEMENT CAFE NEXT THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 
10AM (2 HOURS BEFORE PLANNING HEARING)

RSVP!

So that we can get better organized, a meeting has been set in the SF 
City Hall basement cafe at 10am on Thursday November 15.

Invited will be yourselves, environmental organizers, social justice 
groups, neighborhood groups, and historic preservation advocates.

Please RSVP right away to this email at the 'Reply To' address 
brookse32 at earthlink.net so that I can get a sense of who plans on 
attending both the 10am meeting, and the Planning Commission hearing at 
noon.

I'll follow up soon with more detail on the legislation, and proposed 
talking points.

thanks!

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City
415-756-8844

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