SEC. 3.500. FINDINGS
§ 3.500
The Board of Supervisors establishes that developers must disclose donations they make to nonprofits that communicate with the city about major development projects, to maintain public trust in land use decisions and allow the public to evaluate those decisions fairly.
The city believes the public needs to know when developers give money to nonprofits that talk to the city about big building projects. This helps people trust that the city's decisions about land use are fair. This chapter requires developers to tell the public about these donations.
- Controversial:Disclosure requirements for developer donations are a subject of legitimate public debate regarding transparency, developer burden, and whether such rules effectively address concerns about conflicts of interest in land use decisions.
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Official text
The Board of Supervisors finds that public disclosure of the donations that developers make to nonprofit organizations that may communicate with the City and County regarding major development projects is essential to protect public confidence in the fairness and impartiality of City and County land use decisions. The Board further finds that disclosure is essential to allow the public to fully and fairly evaluate the City and County’s land use decisions. It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to impose reasonable disclosure requirements on developers to provide the public with information about these donations.
(Added by Ord. 98-14 , File No. 130374, App. 6/26/2014, Eff. 7/26/2014; re-enacted by Proposition D, 3/5/2024, Eff. 4/12/2024, Oper. 10/12/2024)
(Former Sec. 3.500 added by Ord. 71-00, File No. 000358, App. 4/28/2000; repealed by Proposition E, 11/4/2003)