Back to the Future 'Stick

The Gavster reemerged from hobnobbing with Scientologists to announce that he was going to try and have a court rule whether or not a 1997 measure calling for the building of a new Candlestick park and other development still holds. The measure was passed back then, but was put on hold after Eddie DeBartolo got in trouble with the Feds and after people realized that the measure was just as sucky as most people thought. If it can be sent to court and if the court says "yay", speculation is that the city will start building the sucker, despite the fact the measure is almost ten years old and, as everyone seems to be pointing out, goes against the normal process of city governance.

For those wondering just what the city process would be in something like this, here it is: measure is proposed, community meetings are held and held some more to get feedback and the measure is drafted. Then more community meetings are held as complaints are raised that enough meetings have been held. Finally, the measure goes up for a vote and thousands of dollars are spent trying to say either that the measure would cause poor people getting rich and sky-high tax revenues or is really part of a secret plan by a cabal of neo-cons bent on having San Francisco taken over by single Evangelical Yuppies. If Measure doesn't pass, go back to the beginning and repeat the process. If measure is passed, lawsuits are quickly filed and the measure is put on hold while suit and counter-suit makes it's way through court. Once it makes it's way through court, demonstrators launch protests and the Board of Supervisors put the kibosh on the plan until more community meetings are held and changes are made. After it finally makes it through the Board of Supes (if it does at all), a new measure is quickly proposed calling for repealing of previous measure. Go back to Step 1.