I was pretty shocked that only Jamison voted for the Walmart plan at 69th and Cliff. While the neighborhood organizers had strong arguments against the plan, one fact remains the same, they had a legal right to build there. Hopefully someone interviews Jamison so he can give his reason as to why he voted for it. It seemed to me the vote was based on emotion and not fact. Could Walmart have offered a better plan? Of course they could have, but this seemed to be an ANTI-WALMART campaign from the beginning. To tell you the truth, I wish they wouldn’t build anymore stores in SF, but from what I can tell they crossed all of their T’s and dotted all of their I’s. Bizarre.
A local politician predicted it though, he told me a few weeks back that the council will vote against Walmart based on emotion, I just never thought it would be 90% of them.