San Francisco leaders seem to have struck a temporary truce in an escalating showdown over plans to expand a recently opened homeless shelter in The City’s Bayview neighborhood.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors had been set to vote on Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposal to increase capacity at the site — known as Jerrold Commons — with an 82-bed expansion. The plan had sparked furious pushback from Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents the area and has been arguing that his district is already struggling with an overaccumulation of shelters for homeless people.
But 11th-hour talks between Walton and the mayor’s office defused the tense standoff and delayed any final decision about the expansion plans, according to Walton’s office…