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Old Posted Jan 15, 2014, 5:24 AM
timbad timbad is offline
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ballot bust?

not sure this is the place for this, but...

another little wrinkle in the height-limit ballot saga: may be illegal to wrest authority from the city and let local voters decide in these waterfront cases.

reasoning: the City is supposed to make decisions over the waterfront on behalf of the entire state, because the latter entity ultimately holds such lands in public trust. the local population does not get sole say.

if I get their counter-argument, the measure proponents say that the local population would be carrying out the public trust protection duty themselves, so still legal.

another angle on the argument against: you can't take away power from the BoS (which the measure would do) without amending the City charter.
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