S.F. planning, comrade Daly-style: Grease your supervisor

A guest editorial in this week's San Francisco Business Times disputes Supervisor Chris Daly's claim that he's serving a middle ground between market forces...

"Supervisor Daly contends that his most glorious triumph -- extorting an eye-popping $118 million from the Rincon Hill developers -- is some vague "community benefit." To us, it is the inevitable result of a planning process that has become downright absurdist."

"San Francisco has seen its terrain divided from one city into 11 personal fiefdoms. Whether it is Supervisor Aaron Peskin's crushing the Port's Stanford Hotel project, or Daly holding legislative threats over Rincon Hill, our new "planning process" should be renamed "grease your supervisor."