| JFK
Drive closure proponents, tenant activists make
bid for ballot
Tiffany and Melanie Miles from
Advocates for a Safe Golden Gate Park, which is
urging the closure of John F. Kennedy Drive on
Saturdays to go with the current Sunday closure,
brought boxes containing more than 18,000
signatures of San Francisco voters to City Hall
Monday, the deadline to qualify initiatives for
the November ballot. In addition to the Golden
Gate Park group, two other groups submitted
petitions to qualify measures for the ballot.
The Housing
Rights Committee of San Francisco turned in more
than 17,000 signatures for a ballot measure that
would restrict the ability of property owners to
pass through the costs of major building
improvements to their tenants in the form of
increased rents; and the San Francisco Tenants
Union turned in more than 18,000 signatures for
a measure that would limit the yearly number of
conversions from rental units to condominiums.
The Department of Elections must certify the
signatures before the measures are officially
placed on the ballot. - Independent Staff
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