Cooler heads prevail in San Francisco

Paint chain store cleared to open.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave approval Tuesday for an ICI Paints chain store to open at the intersection of Cesar Chavez Street and South Van Ness Avenue. The paint store's application for a permit to open at that location, which owners sought after closing a store on Market Street, had been denied by the city's Planning Commission. The supervisors' vote overturned that decision.

But it is incredible that such a decision even gad to get to the Board of Supervisors In fact it's absurd from the facts as I know them that the matter had to even go to the Planning Commission.