McGoldrick Casts Deciding Vote Against Mission Housing ActivistsBen Malleybyline‚ Aug. 01‚ 2007The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 yesterday to deny the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC)'s appeal, and uphold the Planning Department’s approval of the Seven Hills Properties plan at 3400 Cesar Chavez Street. Supervisor Jake McGoldrick proved to be the deciding vote. Affordable housing advocates had been specifically targeting McGoldrick with a mass e-mail and phone call campaign, knowing the result of the vote may come down to his decision. “When we met with him he just wasn’t making sense to us,” said Nick Pagoulatos of MAC. “We are deeply disappointed with McGoldrick considering he has been such a progressive supervisor. We know the supervisors understand these issues, but when power and money get involved we seem to lose.” |