"During the Joel Engardio recall campaign, Engardio's opponents popularized a sound bite claiming that Engardio's support for Mayor Daniel Lurie's upzoning plan would turn Ocean Bean into Miami Beach. Though with Engardio now recalled, the Miami meme remains entrenched in the discourse."
"Lurie himself, District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and state Senator Scott Wiener all faced voters at town hall meetings this week, in neighborhoods most affected by the upzoning. And all of them said that the Miami Beach-ification would happen if SF did pass Lurie's upzoning plan. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I think our neighborhoods are what make us so dynamic and unique, Lurie told a testy and skeptical crowd at the Sunset Recreation Center Monday night, according to the Chronicle. I also do not want Ocean Beach turned into Miami Beach."
"Nobody wants Miami Beach. That's an interesting point of where we can all come together, Sherrill told his constituents. We don't want Miami Beach. And this plan isn't going to get Miami Beach, but the builder's remedy could. This builder's remedy Sherrill speaks of is the threat of San Francisco losing all local control of housing approval if we do not comply with a state-mandated requirement to build 82,000 new housing units by the year 2031."
Mayor Daniel Lurie's family-zoning upzoning proposal has provoked heated town-hall confrontations across neighborhoods most affected by the plan. Both critics and supporters invoke the "Miami Beach" analogy to warn against beachfront-style high-rises and altered neighborhood character. Key officials, including Lurie, Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and State Senator Scott Wiener, addressed skeptical constituents while emphasizing neighborhood preservation and housing goals. Supporters warn that failure to approve local upzoning could trigger the state's builder's remedy, which would remove local control if San Francisco fails to meet mandated housing targets.
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