Open-container drinking may be coming to Chestnut Street, but that’s only the first of a packed week at City Hall. Supervisors and city commissions will weigh everything from a public bank and a crackdown on drug use in supportive housing to an audit of the financially troubled California Academy of Sciences, new police body camera rules and the latest step in San Francisco’s long-running effort to wrest its electric grid from PG&E.
Monday’s Rules Committee meeting features a vote on Supervisor Stephen Sherrill’s bill to authorize yet another entertainment zone, this time covering Chestnut Street. It will join the 30 or so neighborhood areas already designated where open container laws will be relaxed during certain events like street fairs and night markets, boosting neighborhood businesses.
The committee will also vet several commission appointments, including coffee entrepreneur Rich Lee, banker Vanessa Hartigan and longshoremen’s leader Willie Adams to the Port Commission. All these items will be forwarded to the full board for deciding votes on Tuesday…