The function of the Planning Commission is to adopt and maintain a comprehensive, long-term general plan for future improvement and development of the City, as well as provide permits and zoning regulations for commercial and residential development.
Before Proposition D passed in March, the mayor had sole authority to name the powerful commission's seven members as well as the five who serve on the related Board of Appeals. Prop D granted supervisors two out of five appointments on the latter body.
Board of Supervisors President Tom Ammiano has recently created a search committee to find qualified and community-oriented commission candidates "who have the time to do the job.''
Named to the search committee are former city Planning Director Alan Jacobs, as well as leaders of labor and apartment-owner groups and community activists from the Bayview, Mission and Sunset districts, among others.
Ammiano emphasized that the 12 search committee members represent not only diverse professional experience but also diverse points of view.
The committee is expected to complete its recruiting and interviewing by mid-May and to then submit nominations to the Board of Supervisors for a vote by mid-June.
Ammiano said the search committee meetings would be held in public and the Board of Supervisors would distribute notice of them.
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