"Golf at Sharp Park Tentative After Supes Pass Avalos Ordinance"

Camden Sweda explains today's possible setback for Alister MacKenzie's Sharp Park, as supervisor John Avalos's bill to help his standing with segments of the environmental community was passed, opening the door for the City of San Francisco to negotiate a handover of Sharp Park to the National Park Service.

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, the most vocal opponent of the ordinance on the board, said that Chiu and Avalos’s amendments did not change the thrust of the legislation, which he said was to turn the golf course into a park.

“An option of closing the golf course is implicit in this,” he said. “The concept that the GGNRA might make an agreement with us to keep the golf course open is news to me. I’d like to ask the members of this board if they’ve ever once heard that the GGNRA will take this and keep the golf course. Please show us.”

The board’s vote, with six ayes and 5 nays, is not veto-proof, however. San Francisco Ed Lee could step in negate the legislation.

According to C.W. Nevius of the San Francisco Chronicle, Mayor Ed Lee is likely to veto the bill, "and it will have been sound and fury that accomplished nothing."