As incumbent councilmembers, Coleman and Nagales, face challengers, I hope South San Francisco’s flood insurance is up-to-date as the “crocodile tears” are flowing freely. Mr. Coleman and Mr. Nagales are often whining about the nearly impossible effort to satisfy S.S.F.’s RHNA obligations, yet, they perpetuate the problem by sponsoring trips to Biotech conferences to solicit more business to our city, generating more jobs, and increased RHNA obligations. And, before anyone touts the revenue benefits to residents from these businesses, just inquire who has funded all our pretty, new, civic projects and you will find it is primarily resident taxation.
As their cry becomes “the state will come after us,” now it’s time to hire a $40,000 community facilitator, more accurately propaganda ministers, to get out their Dixie Cups and Post-it notes, to intentionally discourage the residents. Problem is, this outreach is often limited in nature, the same parties can repeatedly participate, including outside special interests, and the claimed mandate is anything other than a reflection of reality. What is a mandate are the 1,400 signatures and the “SAVE THE MSB” signs spread throughout the city declaring the desires of the people. Still, Mr. Coleman’s and Mr. Nagales’ known associations with political mercenaries such as Assemblymember Alex Lee, state Sen. Scott Wiener, and even Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose goal is to find any city government open to exploitation, might lend themselves to pursue a personal agenda other than that of the residents. It’s time to change course, elect Sharma and Ramos.
We have sparred in the past, but we are in agreement that city council members who hear the siren's song of the biotech industry instead of the voices of their constituents do a disservice to their communities.
In Redwood City, residents like myself oppose building an oversized biotech campus next to residential neighborhoods instead of a commercial district or along the US 101 corridor. Two Redwood City council members could not wait to vote in favor of the project. Twenty or more years of construction noise and forever gridlock to build labs that tower over neighborhoods is OK with them... they can't see it from their backyards. The city council member who could figuratively see the project from his backyard says nothing. A 1,700 signature petition opposing the project has been delivered to the city council. I guess that's not enough to cancel the siren's song.
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Good morning, Cory
We have sparred in the past, but we are in agreement that city council members who hear the siren's song of the biotech industry instead of the voices of their constituents do a disservice to their communities.
In Redwood City, residents like myself oppose building an oversized biotech campus next to residential neighborhoods instead of a commercial district or along the US 101 corridor. Two Redwood City council members could not wait to vote in favor of the project. Twenty or more years of construction noise and forever gridlock to build labs that tower over neighborhoods is OK with them... they can't see it from their backyards. The city council member who could figuratively see the project from his backyard says nothing. A 1,700 signature petition opposing the project has been delivered to the city council. I guess that's not enough to cancel the siren's song.
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