Hi all, The CEQA procedures legislation that was up for a vote at the SF Board of Supervisors today was, as we expected, continued to July 9 for a vote. This means that we have two more weeks to nail down our compromise with Chiu, Planning and the City Attorney; and it gives us the possible ability to get the project modification appeal procedure (which is now trailing legislation designed to give us public appeal hearings on modifications before the Environmental Review Officer) to a vote closer to, or possibly on the same day as, the main legislation. And at the very least, we should now be able to nail down the exact language of that modification appeal procedures text and make sure it is locked in as per our requirements. I'll post updates on the status of the negotiations over both texts as they come in. At this point it looks like we are going to get almost all of the -basic- protections we demanded, and we have stripped out almost all of the bad provisions of Wiener's original, with the exception that the 'first approval' remains the initial appeal trigger - but this is with the firm understanding that in return for accepting the first approval trigger, that the approval itself must be clearly established and publicly noticed, and that we -must- be given the right to appeal subsequent modifications of projects to the Environmental Review Officer. All in all what we've got, if it stays in place, is definitely not perfect, but it is massively better than Wiener's original corporate giveaway monstrosity, and will give us roughly the same protections that we have now, but with a lot of very real and strong public noticing improvements. Important Note: We may still have to do one more big round of public comment and email/phone pushing to get the modification appeal procedure voted forward as it has been agreed to. And there will also be a Planning Commission hearing (and possibly a Historic Preservation hearing) on that measure, within the next month. I'll keep you all posted on next steps. REALLY excellent job, everyone! in solidarity Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator, Our City 415-756-8844