CONGRATULATIONS!
Marge and Bob Parkhurst
[Original Message]
From: Starchild <sfdreamer@...>
To: LPSF Discussion List <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 9/12/2006 9:15:09 PM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] VICTORY! Bayview redevelopment measure officially
suspended pending decision by voters
> From: Defend Bayview Hunters Point <bmof@...>
> Date: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:58:12 PM US/Pacific
> To: starchild <sfdreamer@...>
> Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY
> Reply-To: bmof@...
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY
>
>
> SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
>
> Just before 5 pm today,Tuesday, September 12, 2006, John Arntz,
> Director of Elections for the City and County of San Francisco
> officially certified that the REFERENDUM PETITION opposing the
> creation of a Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area as successful.
>
> The Department of Elections found that more than the minimum number of
> 21,615 valid signatures were submitted by Petition sponsors. Sponsors
> had submitted in excess of 33,000 signatures on August 30th, 2006
> after a 90 day signature gathering drive. San Francisco has not seen
> a successful referendum petition drive in decades. A referendum
> allows San Francisco voters to decide on the merits of legislation
> passed by the Board of Supervisors.
>
> WHAT THIS MEANS:
>
> The Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area, passed on by the Board
> of Supervisors 7-4 , and signed into law by the Mayor on June 1, 2006,
> is now officially suspended pending an election at which the voters
> will be given the opportunity to decide. The election will most
> likely take place during a normally scheduled general election in >
2007.