Two competing measures to control the city’s dot-com development boom appear headed for the November 7 ballot.

Mayor Willie Brown filed one of them this week, two minutes before the deadline. The rival initiative, backed by slow-growth activists, is called the “Daughter of Proposition M” in reference to the 1986 slow-growth measure that set the 950,000-sf annual cap on downtown high-rise construction.

Keeping the cap is one of the things the measures have in common, but there are several key differences. Generally, though, both are trying to widen the reach Proposition M, whose backers never envisioned a robust dot-com industry pushing the issue beyond downtown and into South of Market, Mission District and Potrero Hill.

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