San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has laid out a new strategy to save the city’s transit system from financial collapse: Raise property taxes.
The mayor introduced the concept in a letter he sent Tuesday to the city’s director of transportation, Julie Kirschbaum.
“We believe that a parcel tax is the best mechanism to generate the level of funding needed to support Muni service and that it can be structured in a way that is fair and affordable,” Lurie wrote, providing the most detailed picture to date of the Muni ballot measure he first pitched in March…