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Planning Commissioners Take Their Places

SAN FRANCISCO-The city's newly appointed planning commissioners made public their ideas and goals this weekend. Meantime, Planning Commission President Hector Chinchilla has been charged by city prosecutors with seven misdemeanor conflict-of-interest violations during his tenure.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on November 17, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco’s brand-new planning commissioners introduced themselves to the public this weekend, offering to work together although wrangling among city officials kept the body from meeting for months.

The influential panel’s previous incarnation of was dissolved in June, since voters approved a new power-sharing plan this spring that divides nominations between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor instead of giving him all seven picks as previously authorized.

I’m glad that we’re all sitting here, frankly,” says Kevin Hughes, an electricians’ labor administrator who was appointed by Board of Supervisors President Tom Ammiano along with three others. When the board approved Ammiano’s selections but indicated it might turn down some of the mayor’s four appointees, Mayor Willie Brown yanked them all and so the planning commission has lacked a quorum to meet until a recent compromise over a different set of individuals.

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