Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 11, 2007
Obstructing Referendums
Focus Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - A San Francisco ruling gives the city — and potentially other municipalities across the state — the power to sink citizen referendums beneath a paper burden.
By Ronald A. Zumbrun
In November 2006, I wrote about the Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan and the as-yet unsuccessful effort by the local citizens to put the plan on the ballot through the referendum process. The plan has been a heated topic of debate in San Francisco.
Recently, the citizens' cause suffered a second blow, this time from the judicial arm of San Francis...
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