November 2024: Re-Elect Supervisor Myrna Melgar for District 7

The San Francisco League of Conservation Voters endorses Supervisor Myrna Melgar for re-election to the Board of Supervisors representing District 7 in the southwestern portion of the city. 

During her first term as supervisor, Melgar established a strong record addressing the most important environmental issue facing San Francisco and the world: climate change. Two of the key ways San Francisco can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change are through denser housing and increased transit use. As chair of the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee, Melgar has been a leader on both issues.

Because of San Francisco’s mild climate, extensive public transit system, walkability, and high concentration of jobs, it is an ideal location from an environmental perspective for maximizing new multifamily housing. Supervisor Melgar has led the charge on enacting legislation to allow small-scale multifamily housing in the historically lower-density neighborhoods that dominate her district. She has worked to advance a large-scale housing development around the Stonestown shopping mall and also supports efforts to allow more multifamily housing along major transit corridors in District 7 and throughout the city.

Melgar has also supported efforts to improve Muni, enhance pedestrian safety, and expand a safer bicycle network. She endorsed Muni’s proposal to implement a series of enhancements along Ocean Avenue to reduce delays on the K-Ingleside line and to make walking there safer. She advocated for traffic changes at the West Portal station both to reduce Muni delays there and to improve pedestrian safety after a motorist killed a family of four waiting at an adjacent bus stop. She supported a project to establish protected bike lanes along Frida Kahlo Way adjacent to City College’s main campus. She has also supported projects outside of District 7 such as establishing the car-free promenade on the eastern half of JFK in Golden Gate Park and making the Great Highway between Lincoln and Sloat car-free on weekends. She is sponsoring a ballot measure to convert that stretch of the Great Highway into a permanent park. 

All of those projects faced opposition, including from other candidates in the race, but she was willing to take the political heat in order to make walking, biking, and transit safe, convenient, and attractive alternatives to driving.  

Supervisor Melgar has a strong record on other environmental issues, such as electrification of city-owned vehicles, incentives for electric bikes, transitioning from gas-powered leaf blowers to electric ones, and promoting reusable foodware. 

Although her record is excellent, it is not perfect. We are disappointed in Supervisor Melgar’s very recent effort that extended a 20-year lease to a gas station in Twin Peaks on city owned property. Even so, we are enthusiastic in our support for her in this election. She is a great choice and without question the best choice in this race. 

Please vote to re-elect Myrna Melgar as District 7 Supervisor.