Former S.F. supervisor Sue Bierman dies after car crash
From today’s Chronicle,
Former San Francisco Supervisor Sue Bierman died Monday after she crashed her car into a Dumpster in the Cole Valley neighborhood, authorities said.Police said they got a call of a crash at 3 p.m. on the 1200 block of Shrader Street and found an 82-year-old woman behind the wheel. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Sue Bierman was 68 years old when she ran successfully for supervisor in 1992.She had already served 16 years on the planning commission, had worked in her Haight-Ashbury community, and had made a name for herself in the 1950s and 1960s when she led the fight against expansion of the freeway into the Golden Gate Park panhandle. [more...]
Back in the late 1990s, Bierman was to San Francisco as Chris Daly is now. She fought against anything that might provide homeownership opportunities or landlord protections. She is best known (during my residency in San Francisco) as the Supervisor behind Proposition G in 1998, also known as the Bierman Amendment, which restricted owner move-in evictions.
She termed-out of her position on the Board of Supervisors in 2000.
Former S.F. supervisor Sue Bierman dies after car crash [SFGate]
Former SF Supervisor Dies [SFist]
Tenants’ Union Prop G on the November Ballot – 9/10/98 [SFGov]
Eviction ruling favors landlords [SFHomeBlog]
‘Crisis’ in evictions doesn’t add up when you do the math [SFHomeBlog]
