SAN FRANCISCO-A majority of voters here, albeit just barely, appear to be approving the more restrictive of two development-limiting ballot measures that sought to limit the rate at which commercial development is encroaching on the city’s close-in neighborhoods.

Proposition L, the more restrictive growth-control measure that made it onto the ballot by citizen petition, was passing by just a few thousand votes early this morning with 93% of precincts reporting. Pro-development interests spent $2.2 million trying to defeat the measure with direct-mail pamphlets and television commercials. They preferred Proposition K, the less-restrictive alternative proposed by Mayor Willie Brown, which was soundly defeated with a 66% no vote.

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