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2)  OPPOSE SB 951! Follow these steps to contact all your Senators:

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• ​Use this link to find your Senate Contacts & email them: 

        https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov​

• Also, Contact your individual Assemblyman/Person and Cc your Senator:

  • SF Assembly Person email address for Phil Ting:

    • assemblymember.ting@assembly.ca.gov​

 

SB 951 VOTE UPDATE

 

Yesterday, 2/6/23, the Board of Supervisors (BOS) VOTED 8-3 to OPPOSE

SB 951 & protect our Coastal Commission.  

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Also, today, 2/7/24, the California Coastal Commission unanimously voted & OPPOSED SB 951 unless certain items are amended.

https://coastal.ca.gov/meetings/agenda/#/2024/2

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Thank you very much to the 8 BOS who voted to OPPOSE this bill & who care about our coast & community!! 

If you'd like to thank them, please email them individually @:

     Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org

     ChanStaff@sfgov.org

     Catherine.Stefani@sfgov.org

     prestonstaff@sfgov.org

     mandelmanstaff@sfgov.org

     RonenStaff@sfgov.org

     waltonstaff@sfgov.org

     Ahsha.Safai@sfgov.org

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And, if you'd like to express your disappointment & let the 3 Supervisors, Engardio, Melgar & Dorsey, who voted to side with Senator Scott Wiener's SB 951 Bill. Please email your comments to:     

     joel.engardio@sfgov.org

     dorseystaff@sfgov.org

     MelgarStaff@sfgov.org
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OPPOSE SB 951 - Senator Scott Wiener is at it again!!  This will be the ruin of our most beautiful & precious resource, our California Coastline & ultimately destroying the Coastal Commission.  This is about pandering to the Developers, Real Estate industry & High End luxury units. There is NOTHING Affordable about this type of building or bill.  We are NOT Miami Beach or Manhattan! 

Please Support President Aaron Peskin & tell your Supervisor / Board of Supervisors to OPPOSE SB 951

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President Aaron Peskin is opposing Scott Weiner's takedown of the California Coastal Commission - I suggest you each email Peskin in support of the committee meeting on Monday, 2/5/2024, followed hopefully by a full board on Tuesday, 2/6/2024.  Here is the Monday 2/5/2024 agenda, and there is a link in Item 4 for the proposed resolution - https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/lut020524_agenda.pdf     

 

I believe the Monday meeting can only be attended in person, but email Peskin, the BOS & your District Supervisor, if you have time!

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Email addresses:

Aaron Peskin - Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org

BOS - board.of.supervisors@sfgov.org

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FILE NO. 240065 RESOLUTION NO.

Supervisors Peskin; Chan, Preston, Walton, Ronen, Mandelman

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS  Page 1

 

[Opposing California State Senate Bill No. 951 (Wiener) and Expressing Support for the

California Coastal Act and Recognizing the Authority of the California Coastal Commission]

Resolution opposing California State Senate Bill No. 951 (Wiener) and setting forth the

City and County of San Francisco’s support for the California Coastal Act and the

recognition of the value of the California Coastal Commission to enforce the California

Coastal Act.

WHEREAS, In 1972, California voters, alarmed that unchecked industrial and luxury-

residential development was cutting off public access to the shore of the State of California,

approved by Proposition 20, The California Coastal Zone Conservation Act was passed, to

oversee the use of and development along California's 840 mile coastline; and

WHEREAS, The California Coastal Zone Conservation Act stated “it is the policy of the

State to preserve, protect, and where possible, restore the resources of the coastal zone for

the enjoyment of the current and succeeding generations”; and

WHEREAS, Proposition 20’s voter initiative was a hard-fought campaign, which

ultimately led to the passage of the California Coastal Act by the State legislature, which was

signed into law in 1976 by Governor Jerry Brown, and which is on file with the Clerk of the

Board of Supervisors in File No. 240065, and hereby declared to be a part of this Resolution

as if set forth fully herein; and

WHEREAS, The California Coastal Act was enacted with provisions empowering the

California Coastal Commission to protect and provide for affordable housing and maximize

public access on and along the California coast, and despite actions to weaken those

authorities, the Coastal Act and the Coastal Commission are the reasons California’s coast

remains open to all Californians rather than being dominated by luxury hotels and

condominiums, as modeled by the Jersey Shore or South Florida; and

Supervisors Peskin; Chan, Preston, Walton, Ronen, Mandelman

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS  Page 2

 

WHEREAS, The Coastal Commission is the primary agency which issues Coastal

Development Permits, although once a local agency (a County or City) has a Local Coastal

Program (LCP) which has been certified by the Commission, that local agency takes over the

responsibility for issuing Coastal Development Permits; and

WHEREAS, For areas with Certified LCP's, the Commission does not issue Coastal

Development permits, and is instead responsible for reviewing amendments to a local

agency's LCP, or reviewing a small subset of Coastal Development Permits issued by local

agencies which have been appealed to the commission; and

WHEREAS, The Coastal Commission has been collaborating with local governments in

the Coastal Zone for 50 years to address the urgent issues resulting from climate change and

sea level rise and coastal hazards; and

WHEREAS, The California Coastal Management Program is widely recognized as the

most comprehensive, effective coastal management program in the country and the envy of

the nation; and

WHEREAS, The Local Coastal Program (LCP) is a policy and regulatory document

required by the California Coastal Act that establishes land use, development, natural

resource protection, coastal access, and public recreation policies for San Francisco's Coastal

Zone; and

WHEREAS, San Francisco’s Local Coastal Program was originally certified in 1986,

which policies were incorporated into the Western Shoreline Area Plan, the element of the

General Plan that establishes land use, development, and environmental policies for the

Central Coast area that encompasses San Francisco, and San Francisco’s LCP was later

amended and approved by the California Coastal Commission on May 10, 2018, after an

extensive planning process was initiated in 2015 and funded by the California Coastal

Commission and the Ocean Protection Council; and

Supervisors Peskin; Chan, Preston, Walton, Ronen, Mandelman

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Page 3

 

WHEREAS, On January 18, 2024, California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced

Senate Bill No. 951 (SB 951), on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in File

No. 240065, which is hereby declared to be a part of this Resolution as if set forth fully herein,

to reduce the geographic jurisdiction of the Coastal Commission along the Coastline in San

Francisco County, to undermine the City and County’s decades of environmental planning

collaboration with the California Coastal Commission and community stakeholders, and to

weaken the Coastal Commission’s authority to promote coastal resiliency, equitable public

access, habitat protection and other public benefits in the 15 coastal counties in the State of

California, including the ability to appeal Coastal Development Permits to the Coastal

Commission; and

WHEREAS, Despite an inaccurate narrative that the California Coastal Act somehow

blocks housing development, affordable or otherwise, the California Coastal Commission’s

own database shows that in the 52 years since the Commission was established, only two

San Francisco appeals of local coastal development permits have ever been filed – one which

was not even taken up by the Commission and one which the Commission ultimately voted to

sustain the local approval; and

WHEREAS, The majority of the areas impacted by SB 951 are identified as San

Francsico County Tsunami Hazard Areas; and

WHEREAS, The lands proposed for removal from Coastal Commission jurisdiction

include the property at 2700 Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco, which property has been proposed

for a 589-foot high, 50-story high rise luxury condominium development; and

WHEREAS, SB 951 claims to be sponsored by the City and County of San Francisco

even though the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the City’s designated policy body, has

never been consulted nor taken a position on SB 951; and

Supervisors Peskin; Chan, Preston, Walton, Ronen, Mandelman

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Page 4

 

WHEREAS, Numerous environmental organizations in the State of California, including

the Surfrider Foundation (SF Chapter), Azul, and the California Coastal Protection Network,

have already expressed alarm that SB 951 will set an adverse precedent for coastal counties

to introduce similar legislation to redefine the Coastal Commission’s jurisdiction, thereby

leading to an irreversible erosion of the mandates of the California Coastal Act to preserve

and protect California’s cherished coastline and coastal resources for public use and – even

more disturbing – to incentivize developer and real estate special interests to invest significant

time and money lobbying for special oversight loopholes so that projects (like the 2700 Sloat

Blvd. high-rise) can avoid any reasonable government oversight; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco

oppose Senate Bill 951 and set forth that the City and County of San Francisco not be listed

as a sponsor of this legislation, and that the City Lobbyist shall appropriately lobby against

SB 951 in the State legislature, per this official city policy; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be conveyed by the Clerk of the

San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Senator Wiener, all members of the California State

Senate, Assembly members Matt Haney and Phil Ting, and all members of the California

State Assembly, as well as members of the Boards of Supervisors in the 14 other coastal

counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz,

Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego.