Jim Meko<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nOctober 12, 2009<\/p>\n
During the dot com boom, speculative land use development swept over the formerly industrial portions of San Francisco. Families and low income populations were displaced, service and light industrial jobs were lost and conflicts between competing uses were aggravated. No neighborhood suffered more disruption and displacement than South of Market.<\/p>\n
The Planning Department was caught up in the pay-to-play politics of the Willie Brown administration. Brown’s hand-picked Planning Commission rubber-stamped projects that ignored Code, exploited loopholes and caused irreparable damage to the fabric of our neighborhoods. In 2002, the Progressive members of the Board of Supervisors pushed through a ballot initiative that wrested control of the Planning Commission from the Mayor’s prerogative.<\/p>\n
The Board also created an experiment in community-based planning known as the Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force. The Task Force was to serve as a model for more meaningful participation in planning the future of one’s own community. The Western SoMa Community Plan is now undergoing environmental review. During this time, as the Planning Department falls silent and the deliberations move behind closed doors, politics has reared its ugly head once again. Environmental review can be the place where good intentions go to die.<\/p>\n
With the Western SoMa Task Force functioning as the de facto project sponsor, I’ve enjoyed some of the same access to the table that the land use oligarchs usually occupy. All the old power brokers from the Willie Brown days have re-emerged. Consider this a dress rehearsal for upcoming battles: CPMC, Japantown, Geary Boulevard, Van Ness Avenue and the Fourth Street corridor among others. I’ll try to share an insider’s view with you as this process unfolds.<\/p>\n
Dear President Miguel and Commissioners,<\/h5>\nIt’s unfortunate that there has been so much sniping over the Western SoMa Community Plan of late. Terrible mischaracterizations, oversimplifications and outright lies are being spread and bits and pieces of this whispering campaign are beginning to filter into several Commissioners’ remarks. Somebody certainly has your number. Let me remind you, you have also heard many hours of public testimony presented before your Commission and the vast majority of it has been very positive in support of the Plan.<\/h5>\nThere was a time when nearly all important decisions were made by small groups of insiders and frankly they made a real mess of things. The voters got fed up with bad planning and responded by bringing back District Elections; they even changed the way you were appointed. In a throwback to the bad old days, HAC (the Housing Action Coalition) and SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research) have had the audacity to claim veto power over an open public process. They are the source of the whispering campaign.<\/h5>\nSouth of Market is not a laboratory for SPUR’s half-baked theories; it’s not a blank slate. It is a living, breathing mixed-use community of people who have demonstrated a willingness to accept change but have demanded some control over the process. The Task Force has produced a moderate growth proposal that aims to preserve, rather than destroy, the existing neighborhood fabric.<\/h5>\n* The Plan responds directly to the nine priorities set out in Board of Supervisors Resolution 731-04, which established the Task Force<\/h5>\n* It was drafted with Market\/Octavia, Eastern Neighborhoods and the surrounding communities as the controlling context<\/h5>\n* To the greatest extent possible, existing zoning categories from surrounding Plan Areas were carried over into the Special Use District<\/h5>\n* The plan produces a significant increase in housing<\/h5>\n* The location of housing is focused to provide the critical mass necessary to establish a Folsom Street Neighborhood Commercial corridor<\/h5>\n* The balance of jobs and housing in the Plan is in direct response to needs identified in the Eastern Neighborhoods EIR<\/h5>\n* The Plan proposes the creation of two groundbreaking social heritage districts which honor the Filipino and LGBTQ communities<\/h5>\n* The Task Force recommends moderate height increases in sensitive areas in order to discourage displacement<\/h5>\n* Dense new neighborhoods would be created through medium and large development site controls<\/h5>\n* Benefits generated through new development would blend existing and future housing into complete neighborhoods<\/h5>\n* Nearly a quarter of the Plan is focused on transportation and transit improvements<\/h5>\n* More professional analysis has gone into housing, preservation and neighborhood economics in Western SoMa than was ever considered in the Eastern Neighborhoods process<\/h5>\nThese goals were accomplished through an open and participatory process. The Task Force consisted of 26 members, representing constituencies ranging from SRO residents to market rate developers. For the last four years, I’ve sent you weekly reminders of current Task Force activities. I’m glad that some of you have taken the time to participate. Every meeting was open to the public. Every issue has been thoroughly debated. Everyone attending committee meetings was encouraged to participate and vote. The option of submitting minority reports was made available to every member of the Task Force but none chose to avail themselves. The Draft Plan was adopted unanimously by the full Task Force and acknowledged as the preferred alternative by the Planning Commission.<\/h5>\nCan the same be said of any higher growth alternative? You’ll have to explain to me where these alternatives came from. How much outreach was undertaken? Where were the meetings held? Who generated these proposals? Were they studied by any independent consultants? Was there an open debate? Are there any meeting notes? Were votes taken? Show me the process.<\/h5>\nThe Western SoMa process has enjoyed the support of numerous agencies within the city family, involved the participation of more than a half dozen institutions of higher education, employed independent consultants whenever necessary, engaged the community in a level of participation never before seen in a planning process here in San Francisco and has benefitted from many thousands of hours of volunteer time to produce the Western SoMa Community Plan. It was not created in a vacuum.<\/h5>\nThe height increases proposed by HAC and SPUR produce only a minimal increase in housing, but they encourage speculation and displacement and conflict with citywide preservation goals. More, more, more. No allowance for the preservation of the existing neighborhood fabric. No consideration of the jobs and housing balance. No understanding of transit capacity. No concern for quality of life.<\/h5>\nThe Western SoMa Plan is based in the real world. It was developed in an open and participatory process that reflects the vision, values and principles of a broad range of the community. It responds to the needs identified by the existing community and breaks new ground through the creation of complete neighborhoods. The Board of Supervisors created this process because the existing Planning Department process was broken. It will not accept an outcome that attempts to reverse all of our gains.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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