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But this is San Francisco, which like a cantankerous president of a homeowners association, likes to stick its nose into everything its residents and business owners want to do to their own property.
Does Melgar need a city permit to build a gazebo in her own garden? She’s the well-connected, savvy former president of the San Francisco Planning Commission, but she has no idea.