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@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 -- "I have been criticized for idealism. But understand this. An idealist is simply a person who recognizes that if one acts on what one believes, one can change the world. Ideals are dismissed as unattainable dreams, only by those who do not take action." ~ anonymous