Turning to the other flashpoint of the day, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, acting in accordance with the mayor’s wishes, attempted to pull a rabbit out of his hat with a parliamentary trick in a transparent effort to upend efforts by progressives to place a foot patrol ballot measure, sponsored by District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, on the November ballot.

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Under ATG, each auto trip would be considered an environmental impact and would be mitigated by a predetermined impact fee. A bike lane project would have zero ATG impact, while a luxury condo building with one-to-one parking would generate some positive number of auto trips based on parking spaces and any other applicable considerations. The calculated impact fees would go to the MTA. As of mid 2010, the ATG standard has yet to be completed. The development of a minimally complicated standard has taken longer than it took to do real rocket science, to conceive and execute the Apollo project in the 1960s.

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Fiorina even had the audacity to suggest the science of global warming needs to be examined. What’s to examine when the overwhelming scientific consensus has concluded that global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity?

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As has been customary for Mayor Gavin Newsom, he failed to attend the meeting, flouting the will of the electorate which passed a 2006 advisory measure requiring the mayor to held accountable for his policies.

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