Yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced he was appointing Ryan Brooks to the Planning Commission.
That announcement necessarily meant that someone else on the Planning Commission was about to get bumped.
And today, the Planning Commission announced that the Mayor had accepted the resignation of Planning Commission President Dwight Alexander.
The latter move wasn’t entirely unexpected, given the shenanigans that occurred behind the scenes at the Planning Commission earlier this year.
And nor was the former, given that Sups. Sophie Maxwell and Bevan Dufty both expressed support for the idea of appointing Brooks to another commission, when they rejected his reappointment to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission last week.
But with Alexander gone, it remains to be seen who ends up as the new Commission president, and what course the Commission—and the Planning Department’s new director John Rahaim—choose to steer in 2008…Stay tuned.