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Board May Pull Responsibility From Mayor

SAN FRANCISCO-The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hold hearings to decide whether they will take over authority to name commissioners from Mayor Willie Brown.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on February 20, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this week voted to hold hearings on the city’s Redevelopment Agency and whether they should consider assuming authority to name commissioners from Mayor Willie Brown.

The vote to schedule hearings on the agency was brought about after the agency was criticized for denying a nonprofit organization’s bid to rehabilitate a South of Market residential hotel. Supporters of the Plaza Hotel project on Sixth and Market Streets approached the supervisors, requesting that they step in.

Redevelopment Commissioner Mark Dunlop spoke in favor of the vote because “there’s something wrong with the system.” However, P.J. Johnston, a spokesman for the mayor, says that any change in the way the commission is run would be opposed by the administration. He says that the agency has many success stories, including the Sony Metreon project and the Mission Bay development.

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