Board approves limits on new city-funded shelters, adjusts neighborhood commercial rules and adopts food-sourcing goals; several liquor and other resolutions OK

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Sept. 2 passed three ordinances addressing shelter siting, neighborhood commercial use-size rules and city food‑purchasing goals, and adopted several other resolutions and proclamations.

An ordinance that restricts where the city may site new city‑funded homeless shelters and certain behavioral health residential facilities passed 9–2. The measure prohibits placing a new city‑funded shelter in a neighborhood where that neighborhood’s share of the city’s shelter and transitional housing beds exceeds the neighborhood’s share of the city’s unsheltered population, bars new city‑funded shelters within 300 feet of an existing city shelter, and includes a board waiver provision for cases “in the public interest.” The ordinance sets a sunset date of Dec. 31, 2031. Supervisors Chan and Chen voted no; nine supervisors voted aye. The ordinance was finally passed by roll call.

A separate ordinance changing how use‑size limits are applied in several neighborhood commercial districts also passed 9–2. That ordinance allows specified nonresidential uses that exceed use‑size limits to divide into smaller spaces that may nevertheless exceed size limits without conditional use authorization, adjusts use‑size limits to round numbers across neighborhood commercial districts, and affirms the related CEQA determination. Supervisors Chan and Chen voted no; nine supervisors voted aye. The ordinance was finally passed by roll call.

The board approved on first reading, as amended, an ordinance revising food‑purchasing goals and reporting for the Department of Public Health and the Sheriff’s Department at city hospitals and jails. Supervisor Walton moved the amendment that sets phased sourcing targets for Department of Public Health food purchases from medium and…