Er, well the Mayor at least.
-- Supervisors failed to overturn Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of legislation to restrict new parking downtown. The vote to override was 7-4 -- one shy of the minimum required. When he vetoed the proposal, Newsom said he agreed with the intent, which was to tackle traffic congestion by limiting new parking, but disagreed with some of the fine points. He proposed an alternative, which Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who carried the original legislation, introduced Tuesday.
For people not following the story. The San Francisco board of supervisors is trying to make parking really expensive downtown (read restrict supply) in an effort to convince people not to own cars. Which is of course, patently stupid, but whatever. It got vetoed. I'm curious to see the alternate legislation that was introduced Tuesday.
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