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Committee narrows Market & Octavia fee-waiver, forwards waiver for 26 pipeline projects to full board
Summary
After public debate, the Budget and Finance Committee voted 3-0 to forward an amended ordinance that waives five Market & Octavia area plan impact fees for the current 26 pipeline projects (about 2,700 units) while continuing a duplicate unamended file for further consideration of future projects.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 10 advanced to the full Board of Supervisors an amended ordinance that waives certain Market & Octavia area-plan development impact fees only for projects already in the planning pipeline, following robust public comment from neighborhood groups, labor and developers.
The ordinance as introduced would have eliminated five localized impact fees in the Market & Octavia area and the Van Ness & Market Special Use District (two affordable-housing fees and three community infrastructure fees) and would have sunset the Market & Octavia Community Advisory Committee (CAC) six months after enactment. City staff reported that the Market & Octavia area plan (adopted Feb. 2007) helped produce about 4,800 housing units since 2008 and generated roughly $53 million in community infrastructure fees, most of which have been spent.
Jacob Bentliff of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development told the committee that development in the area has…
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