Re: SFO voters to decide for entire Bay Area?

From: Richard Zimmerman (windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 09:17:09 PDT


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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:17:09 -0700
Subject: Re: SFO voters to decide for entire Bay Area?
From: Richard Zimmerman <windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis.com>
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Well, at this point it appears that the pro-airport San Mateo County Board
of Supervisors will also have a say on the runways.

However, the only "bay-wide" body that will have any authority over the
airport's expansion is the Bay Conservation and Development Commission which
was recently pretty much taken over by Willie Brown and his friends. (There
are 27 members of BCDC but five were appointed by Davis. The five are
clearly pro-airport as are several other members.) Those of you who live
outside of SF should get involved in local politics to make sure the BCDC
rep from your area is on our side. Yeah, I know, politics is a dirty word
but if you want to save Coyote, you are going to have to get down and get
dirty. Politics is not a spectator sport.

So San Francisco voters may be the only way to stop the runways. Peskin
(the SF Supervisor who introduced the Charter Amendment) is NOT an airport
supporter. Without the SF vote, the only people to review/approve the
project in the City would be Willie Brown Appointees. No vote of the people
is a sure thing but it sounds like a reasonable idea. But everybody is going
to have to get out and educate the public.

"We have met the enemy and he is us" Pogo (Walt Kelly)
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Remember, It's not San Francisco's Bay!

> From: Tracy Pierce <TPierce@goldengate.org-DeleteThis.com>
> Reply-To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 08:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
> Subject: RE:SFO voters to decide for entire Bay Area?
>
>
> Why should the city of SF decide this issue? While the people of SF may
> have far more valuable opinions than do the other residents of the Bay Area,
> and while the city of SF owns SFO airport, it's still NOT their bay!!
>
> While the idea being sold to you (giving the people of SF the power to kill
> the bay fill via vote) may be intoxicating, what if that vote goes the other
> way? (It would! - they just want to land on time, and that's how they're
> being sold the bay fill in the first place!)
>
> Seems to me this is just a sneaky way to make it look like 'the people'
> concerned were consulted, when actually only those people who stand to make
> money (the city of SF) would be consulted. The very idea of this being
> placed before "the voters" reeks of subterfuge and conspiracy by SF
> powers-that-be vs the Bay Area at large. The issue being sold onto the SF
> ballot is completely a red herring.
>
> Tracy (have we figured out who's the enemy yet?) Pierce



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