Village Preservation explains:
“In a monumental shift, the recently-approved ballot measures 2, 3, and 4 moves unilateral land-use decision-making authority to the Mayor for a broad range of land use decisions. This cuts the City Council and the public out of much of the process. Backed by a well-funded real estate lobby and sold as a plan to ‘fast-track affordable housing,’ these measures will instead invite gentrification, weaken tenant and small business protections, reduce infrastructure investment, and enable corrupt, closed-door dealmaking.“