Task force accused of Brown Act violations

Development Services says committee is
advisory and not in
con?ict of interest
By David Harvey
SDUN Reporter
At the San Diego City Council’s
Land Use and Housing (LU&H)
committee meeting on Feb. 3, repre-
sentatives from the city’s community
planning groups asked the commit-
tee to postpone action on a Develop-
ment Services Department incentive
program report designed to promote
sustainable projects. Among the in-
centives were items that potentially
could change the community plan-
ning process.
Leo Wilson, Reynaldo Pisano and
James Feinberg from the city’s Com-
munity Planners Committee – made
up of chairpeople from the 43 com-
munity planning groups charged
with advising the city on land use and
development – told LU&H they were
concerned about Development Ser-
vices’ Technical Advisory Committee
(TAC), which devised the incentive
report.
TAC is weighted with building
industry representatives and other
development-friendly members, they
said, and TAC’s meetings are inad-
equately noticed.
“Development Services is not a
special interest group. They shouldn’t
just be listening to [TAC],” Wilson
said. “I think the fact that they’re just
hearing one voice says they’re not do-
ing their job right.”
District 3 Councilmember Todd
Gloria chairs LU&H, which includes
Councilmembers Sherri Lightner,