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Mayor Wants a Package Deal for Planning Commission

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco supervisors have approved three out of four, but Mayor Willie Brown is sticking to an "all or none" policy when it comes to choosing planning commissioners for the city's hamstrung Planning Commission.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on October 08, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco supervisors have approved three out of four of Mayor Willie Brown’s choices for the city’s currently inactive Planning Commission, but his spokesman says the mayor wants all or none.

Brown’s spokesman PJ Johnston notes that his boss is not expected to swear in the three newly endorsed planning commissioners but is likely to do so for the three approved members of the Board of Appeals. The board voted in favor of all the mayor’s picks for that board, which hears planning and other permit appeals.

Johnston criticized supervisors for failing to state on the record why they were turning down Planning Commission nominee Jeffrey Chen, who around eight months ago joined the city’s Public Utilities Commission.

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