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Board of Supers Backs Down from Mayor Brown

SAN FRANCISCO-Supervisors this week set aside motions to override Mayor Willie Brown's veto of big-box store limits and to take over the city's Redevelopment Agency.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on May 02, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco supervisors this week backed away from two confrontations with Mayor Willie Brown, setting aside one motion to override his veto of big-box store limits and another to take over the city’s Redevelopment Agency.

Daly’s idea to replace the current Redevelopment Agency commission that serves at the pleasure of the mayor with an 11-member board that includes more community members drew an angry response, mainly from members of the black community who called it an ill-conceived power grab. His plan arose from discontent over several votes by the commission not to back a nonprofit developer’s bid to construct a residential hotel replacement project on Sixth Street.

Board President Tom Ammiano’s proposal to impose restrictions on big-box stores also became swamped by critics from Bayview-Hunters Point, where a community committee has been working for years to bring businesses and jobs to the underdeveloped area.

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