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May 13, 2021
By Katherine Howard
On Monday, May 17th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee will vote on legislation that will undermine the effectiveness of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in San Francisco. CEQA serves to identify the potential environmental risks associated with a project, to inform the public and their elected officials, and to provide decision-makers with that identified information prior to approving the decision, so that such risks can be avoided or mitigated.
The proposed legislation would undermine CEQA in San Francisco in two ways. First, by allowing work to proceed on a project during an appeal. This legislation will affect thousands of acres of San Francisco City-owned properties‒our parks, streets, the Port properties, the airport, and SF Public Utilities Commission lands all will be put at risk. Allowing a city department to proceed without a rigorous environmental review may lead to long-lastin
U.S. Drought Monitor Downgrades Entire Bay Area and Much of State Into Extreme Drought Conditions
SF may be yellow on the COVID reopening map, but a different map has us in the red. Just two weeks after categorizing the region as being in a severe drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor has updated its map and put the entire Bay Area in the second-worst category for drought conditions.
Based on measurements of precipitation, soil moisture, river levels, and other factors, the federal drought authority said Monday that a large swath of California is now in extreme drought status. While Sacramento County and some parts of Northern California have been in the red-designated extreme category for a number of weeks, the Bay Area had been in the orange or severe category as of April 20. Last week, a lot of the Bay Area entered the red, but parts of Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties were still in the less dry category.
SF Mayor London Breed Names City Attorney Dennis Herrera to Lead Public Utilities Commission
After a scandal-plagued year at City Hall, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is going with a familiar name and face for her nomination for the next general manager of the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC): City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
Breed is tapping Herrera for the job four months after the late November indictment of former SFPUC general manager Harlan Kelly, following which he resigned from his post. Kelly was accused of accepting a bribe from permit expeditor Walter Wong, who was himself charged in the wide-ranging corruption probe by federal authorities and Kelly s wife, Naomi Kelly, would ultimately resign from her role as city administrator as well, though she has not been charged by the feds.