one example of why community meetings are not democratic: the elected official who authored the laws that made this Marina Safeway project possible, Scott Wiener, won the Marina neighborhood decisively in the recent Congressional primary:
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Laura Waxmann
@laura_waxee
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
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