Opinion | Daniel Lurie isn't the mayor I thought he'd be — so far, he's better

The mayor also has achieved a number of political victories, large and small. He has charmed the Board of Supervisors, who supported his first major public-safety legislation by a 10-1 vote, even though they surrendered some contract-approval authority. He also carried the day in a lesser-noticed 9-2 board vote on a plan that makes it easier to convert offices to housing, including by removing affordable-housing requirements — long a sacred cow of San Francisco politics.

And what is likely the first instance of Lurie making a tough decision that disappoints a political bloc that supported him, his Planning Department issued a density-increasing upzoning recommendation — the mayor cheekily branded it a “family zoning” plan — that mirrors what Breed had proposed and already has enraged west-side NIMBYs who helped elect Lurie. According to conversations I’ve had, Lurie personally handled the details of the upzoning proposal, a plan that, if approved this year by the Board of Supervisors, will please some and annoy others, and shows the mayor is willing to make tough calls that he thinks are right.