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industry. Among the other high-profile projects he authored and shepherded through the Board included the building of the San
Francisco Giants ballpark, the Mission Bay development plan, the downtown Bloomingdale's project, reforming and reorganizing the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and building an underground parking garage for
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Yaki was well known for his ability to broker compromises and make difficult deals, particularly when it came to thorny development issues in San
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Republican appointees on the Commission itself – argued that it no longer served any useful purpose and conducted partisan investigations meant to embarrass Republicans. After 2004, when Bush appointed two conservative Commissioners who had recently
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where Yaki was adamantly opposed what he believed was a "partisan" and "kangaroo court" approach to the case by the majority. Yaki, and his colleague, Arlan
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Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian ancestry. His mother's father was a senior diplomat for the government of China at the League of Nations, and his father retired as a senior diplomat for the U.S. State Department.
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Republican Party registrations to the two "independent" seats, obtaining a six-member conservative majority bloc, the Commission dramatically scaled back its activities and canceled several ongoing investigations. During the
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Economic Development and Telecommunications Committee from 1997-1999, was elected by his colleagues to head the San Francisco County Transportation Authority in 1999. He also served as a Director of the
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administration, this conservative bloc reversed its position and began using the
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