Connie Chan
Opposes
Everything
Schools
- Connie
ChanNO72% of voters said yes The 2022 school board recall
February 2022
Opposed the recall of three school board members who kept schools closed during the pandemic and tried to rename 44 of them. Her office said she "opposed all recalls." Voters passed it with 72%.
Sources: KQED, NPR, results
Public safety
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ChanNOOpposed them on the 2018 ballot and still does. Tasers for police officers
2018 and 2024
Opposed the 2018 measure to equip SFPD with tasers and, according to her campaign in January 2024, "remains opposed to arming cops with the electroshock weapons." San Francisco is the only major U.S. city whose patrol officers do not carry them.
Sources: SF Green Party questionnaire, SF Examiner, Jan 16, 2024
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ChanNOOpposed it at a 2020 candidate forum. Hiring more police officers
2020
Opposed hiring more officers during her first campaign for supervisor and said at a candidate forum: "Definitely, it is time [to] dismantle and restructure our police department."
Source: SF Standard, Apr 1, 2024
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ChanNO53% of voters said yes The sidewalk tent ban (Prop Q)
November 2016
Opposed the measure prohibiting tents on public sidewalks. It passed.
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ChanNO55% of voters said yes The recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin
June 2022
Opposed the recall. Voters removed Boudin with 55% of the vote.
Housing
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ChanNO7 for4 againstPassed 7 to 4. The Family Zoning Plan
December 2025
Voted no on Mayor Lurie's plan to allow taller apartment buildings along commercial corridors on the west and north sides, which passed 7 to 4. Before the vote she called the plan a "monstrosity" and proposed amendments that would have removed every site with existing homes from it.
Sources: SF Standard, Dec 2, 2025, SF Standard, Sept 2, 2025, The Frisc
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ChanNO7 for4 againstHer resolution to oppose the law failed 4 to 7 Apartments near transit (SB 79)
July 2025
Sponsored a Board of Supervisors resolution to oppose the state law that allows apartment buildings near major transit stops, saying it would "undo years of thoughtful community planning." The Board rejected her resolution 7 to 4.
Sources: SF Examiner, Board vote, July 22, 2025
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ChanNO9 for2 againstPassed 9 to 2. Ending neighbor-triggered hearings for housing that follows the rules
December 2023
Voted no on the Constraints Reduction Ordinance, which ended Planning Commission hearings and neighborhood notification for code-compliant housing in well-resourced neighborhoods. It passed 9 to 2. She has since said discretionary review is "empowerment for neighborhood input" and that abuse of it "does not mean we abandon it."
Sources: The Frisc, Mission Local, May 2026
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ChanNO3 for8 againstBoard voted 8 to 3 to block the homes 495 homes on a SoMa parking lot (469 Stevenson)
October 2021
Voted to reject the environmental report for a 495-home building on a Nordstrom valet parking lot, blocking the project. The state investigated the vote and the Governor later intervened.
Sources: SF Standard, SF Chronicle
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ChanNO4 for7 againstBoard voted 7 to 4 to reverse the exemption 10 townhouses on Nob Hill (1151 Washington)
June 2023
Voted to reverse the environmental exemption for 10 townhouses after neighbors appealed, delaying the project. The motion passed 7 to 4.
Sources: Board motion M23-098, SF Examiner
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ChanNOBlocked it in committee, then ran a rival measure against it. Mayor Breed's housing streamlining measure
2022
Refused to advance the Mayor's charter amendment out of committee, then wrote a competing ballot measure (Prop E) that the Chronicle called "cheap political theater" and SPUR said "was designed to block the passage of Prop D." Both measures failed.
Sources: The Real Deal, SF Chronicle editorial, SPUR
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ChanNORejected the developer's proposal and threatened to landmark the site. Homes at the Alexandria Theatre
2023
Rejected a developer's proposal to build housing at the Richmond District theater that has sat vacant since 2004, at one point threatening to landmark the property. Redevelopment was finally approved in 2025.
Sources: Richmond Review, SF Examiner, 2025
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ChanNO8 for2 againstPassed 8 to 2. Removing North Beach's special zoning restrictions
October 2025
Voted no on Supervisor Danny Sauter's ordinance eliminating the North Beach Special Use District, decades-old rules that limited storefront sizes and restricted homes above ground floors. The district's own supervisor asked for the change. It passed 8 to 2.
Sources: Board of Supervisors, Oct 28, 2025, GrowSF
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ChanNOCame out against the project. Redeveloping the Marina Safeway with homes
December 2025
Opposed the plan to rebuild the Marina Safeway site with new homes on top of a new store.
Source: Mission Local
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ChanNOAnswered no when asked directly. Building more market-rate homes at all
May 2026
Asked whether San Francisco needs to build more market-rate housing, the kind about 90% of San Franciscans live in, she answered: "No, I believe that if your demand is affordable housing, then your supply has to be affordable housing."
Source: Mission Local
Homelessness
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ChanNO9 for2 againstPassed 9 to 2. The SoMa sobering center
February 2026
One of two supervisors to vote against the $14 million contract for a sobering center, a place where people intoxicated on the street can be taken instead of jail or the emergency room. It passed 9 to 2.
Sources: Mission Local, KQED
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ChanNO7 for4 againstPassed 7 to 4. Drug-free supportive housing
July 2026
Voted against requiring new city-funded supportive housing to be drug-free, so that people leaving treatment can choose a building where drugs are not allowed. Until then only 42 of the city's 8,500 supportive housing units were drug-free. It passed 7 to 4.
Sources: Mission Local, SF Chronicle
Transit
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ChanNO10 for1 againstPassed 10 to 1. Chan was the only no. The bridge toll that kept Muni and BART running
July 2023
Cast the only no vote, 10 to 1, on a resolution backing the state bill to raise bridge tolls and keep Muni and BART running through their fiscal cliff.
Source: SF Examiner
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ChanNO7 for4 againstPassed 7 to 4. - Connie
ChanNO9 for2 againstPassed 9 to 2. Weekend car-free Great Highway
December 2022
One of two supervisors to vote against extending the weekend closure of the Great Highway to cars through 2025.
Source: SF Chronicle
Small business
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ChanNOCame out against the Mayor's plan. Tax incentives to bring businesses downtown
March 2023
Opposed Mayor Breed's plan to attract new businesses to a struggling downtown with tax breaks.
Source: The Real Deal
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ChanNOVoted to make them stay open all night. Letting small businesses close their parklets overnight
July 2021
Voted to require parklets to stay open around the clock, adding a burden on restaurant owners trying to survive the pandemic.
Source: SF Chronicle
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ChanNOVoted to overturn the extension and lost. The Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel
March 2021
Voted to overturn a four-year extension for the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park, after two city committees had already approved it. She lost.
Source: SFist
Wiener builds. Chan blocks.
On the votes that decided whether San Francisco builds homes, funds transit, and offers treatment, Connie Chan has been on the losing side of her own Board, often nearly alone. Scott Wiener has spent a decade writing the laws she voted against. That is why GrowUSA supports him for Congress.