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Residents Demand Second Glance at Presidio Development

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco residents say that city leaders should slow down and redirect the Presidio development process to ensure that for-profit businesses are not given tax and fee breaks that would give them an unfair advantage.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on July 02, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-Appointed by the Board of Supervisors to study the impact of plans to develop the Presidio, a group of San Francisco residents this week urged city leaders to take a series of actions to reign in and redirect the process.

Joan Girardot, head of the board’s Presidio Working Group, says that among other things the city should consider suing because the project leaves out most of the public benefits initially intended by the U.S. Congress when the Presidio Trust was created to run the new national park.

Unless changes are made, she says for-profit ventures–which are not going to be subject to city or state taxes or fees–would unfairly compete with San Francisco businesses just outside the park and add to congestion as well as create other problems.

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