SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio accepted defeat and doubled-down on Sunset Dunes park as his shining achievement.

Engardio was a driving force behind shutting down a 2-mile-long stretch of the Great Highway along the Pacific Ocean to vehicles, making space for the creation of the park.

Preliminary results from Tuesday's special election show nearly 65% of District 4 voters supported recalling Engardio.

"My time as a city supervisor will be shorter than expected. I accept the election results. But we can still celebrate. We are on the right side of history. Sunset Dunes is a success. The feared traffic 'carmageddon' never came. We created something positive. Very soon, we will wonder why this was ever a controversy," Engardio wrote.

During last November's

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