San Francisco’s wariness of Amazon may quickly lengthen to the corporate’s seemingly ubiquitous delivery community. Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton has launched laws that might impose an 18-month moratorium on new parcel supply services within the metropolis, whether or not from Amazon or others. Officials on the Board or the Planning Commission would use the pause to check the potential impression these places have on the neighborhood, together with well being points (like air air pollution and visitors) and the general public curiosity.

In a press release, the Teamsters and different unions backing the measure had been involved firms like Amazon would drag down pay, advantages and dealing situations for town. The proposed moratorium would assist communities “set the standards” and resolve if they need these services within the first place, Walton added.

The effort comes after San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development signed a January memorandum of understanding with Amazon to start out negotiations for a Mission Creek supply hub with out informing or involving the neighborhood. These types of agreements are frequent, however Walton noticed this as Amazon attempting to enter town with out enter from the very folks its facility would have an effect on.

There’s no certainty the laws will go. It’s additionally unclear how Walton and the Board would use any willpower that Amazon and different supply providers’ services would hurt San Francisco residents.

We’ve requested Amazon for remark. The firm has confronted comparable opposition in different components of California, and backed out of plans for a second headquarters in New York City following criticism. Activists and politicians raised issues about attainable gentrification in New York, town’s $3 billion in proposed subsidies and Amazon’s total practices. Amazon has additionally been a staunch opponent of unionization, organising a confrontation with more and more pro-union staff and the politicians who help them.