[Sustain] Fwd: Alert: Contact SF Supervisor David Chiu By Noon Mon, May 6, To Defend Environmental Quality Act

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

California's most important environmental law, the California 
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is under attack. In late August of last 
year, state Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) attempted to 
introduce legislation that would have greatly weakened CEQA, making it 
much harder for citizens and environmental groups to appeal bad 
corporate and developer projects that would harm ecosystems and 
communities. Thankfully, a statewide coalition of over 150 organizations 
was able to block that attack and protect CEQA at the state level.

Local Attack On San Francisco CEQA Protections

But only two months later, using the November and December election and 
holiday time as cover, San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener launched 
his own attack locally to gut San Francisco CEQA protections. In the 
guise of cleaning up some small inefficiencies in the local CEQA 
process, Supervisor Wiener's proposed amendments would force 
environmental determinations on projects to happen so quickly and so 
removed from the sight of the public, that in many cases we would not 
even find out that a problem project was happening, let alone be 
empowered to challenge it. To take immediate action to help stop this 
attack on our local environmental protections go to: 
http://tinyurl.com/cmvzkuq - or read on for more details.

Local Coalition Rises Up To Defend CEQA

In late October 2012, Our City brought together a new coalition that has 
now grown to over 41 environmental, social justice, community and labor 
organizations, which is fighting to defend our local CEQA protections. 
Together we have succeeded in drafting counter legislation to Wiener's 
attack measure. Our community-based CEQA alternative, now sponsored by 
Supervisor Jane Kim, will make CEQA more fair and efficient, but also 
make local CEQA protections stronger (not weaker).

But Supervisor Kim's measure is trailing Supervisor Wiener's proposal in 
the legislative process at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 
creating the danger of Supervisor Wiener's bad legislation becoming law.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Contact Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and our other San 
Francisco supervisors by noon Monday, May 6, to support Jane Kim's 
community alternative. Follow the link below to Sierra Club's easy to 
use CEQA action alert:

http://tinyurl.com/cmvzkuq

Please forward this email widely.

And as always, thank you for your continued involvement and action.

peace

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City

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