Editorial: S.F. supervisors vote unanimously against common sense
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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has voted against common sense before, but not quite so explicitly.
The board on Tuesday unanimously endorsed legislation “expressly prohibiting the use of the commonsense exemption” from environmental review for projects found to have no conceivable detriment to the environment. The supervisors did so despite the pleas of city officials, who warned that the bill would subject work as minor as window replacements to costly, time-consuming bureaucracy and pointlessly block new housing.
The resolution passed just before the latest report showing California residential construction slumping amid rising homelessness and one of the nation’s worst housing shortages. The Construction Industry Research Board reported that just over 100,000 home building permits were issued last year, down 9% from the year before. That’s a little more than half what offic
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