City Council EXPRESS: July 27, 2011

Welcome to a new Patch feature: City Council EXPRESS. In addition to bringing you full news stories on issues at school board meetings, @SSFPatch will now live-Tweet school board meetings using the hastag #ssfusdboard. Afterwards, we'll compile the Tweets into an article that will let you see what happened at the meeting at a glance.

You can also check out City Council EXPRESS on Storify for a multimedia version of the same story.

• I'll be tweeting tonight's SSF city council meeting...#ssfcouncil at 19:17
• Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Rep. presents ceremonial check for $79,725 to council for Energy Efficiency Projects in South City #ssfcouncil at 19:21
• Discussion over rezoning in South City set to begin#ssfcouncil at 19:30
• Staff: "General objective [of rezoning] was to look for opportunities, not to have impact on existing neighborhoods" #ssfcouncil at 19:34
• Max. height for Kaiser buildings is 80 ft. Can go to 120 ft. with special approval #ssfcouncil at 19:42
• Staff: "Kaiser plan is 20-30 year vision" #ssfcouncil at 19:47
• Staff: Population will boost, need to provide housing for new residents, families with children #ssfcouncil at 19:49
• Staff studied what shadows would look like from 80 ft and 120 ft tall buildings. Staff seems to be advocating for 120 ft#ssfcouncil at 20:03
• Public debate over rezoning has some community members extremely upset #ssfcouncil at 20:19
• Community members advocate new/updated library, but not much else has been mentioned #ssfcouncil at 20:20
• South City community members, city council very much in favor of project...not in favor of lofty buildings #ssfcouncil at 21:01
• City council votes to approve El Camino Real/Chestnut Area Plan w/ room for future amendments #ssfcouncil at 21:50

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