Mayor London Breed holds the power to commandeer property, according to the memo, but she would also need to have the approval of the Board of Supervisors before doing so. The county health officer would also have the emergency power needed to commandeer property and wouldn't need the board's go-ahead.
Among the city's myriad privately owned buildings are the headquarters of the region's tech giants, like Salesforce Tower in its East Cut neighborhood and the Twitter building in Mid-Market.voted unanimously to pass an emergency ordinance But if Breed does decide to veto it, the prospect of exercising emergency power to commandeer private property in the city for the same purpose could be an alternative.
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Why don't they use all the empty hotel rooms first? Or San is another country out to nationalize US companies? 🤐
Slow news day?