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Committee advances ordinance to allow hotels and motels for interim drug-free recovery housing; three named sites added and amendments continued
Summary
The committee agreed to amendments adding three named sites (Sharon Hotel, the KEEN, and the Marina Inn) to an ordinance authorizing interim housing in tourist hotels and motels, approved the amendments, and continued the ordinance as amended to the June 16 committee meeting for further review.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on June 9 advanced amendments to an ordinance that would allow tourist hotels and motels to be used for interim housing without abandoning their tourist-hotel land use designation and would allow certain shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels to reestablish hotel use when shelter operations end.
Supervisor Mark Dorsey (appeared as a supporter) and the ordinance sponsor framed the change as a technical tool to enable recovery-oriented, drug-free interim housing options. Emily Cohen, deputy director at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said the duplicate file returns to the committee with substantive amendments and three newly named sites added to the ordinance rather than broadening the ordinance citywide. The three sites named in the committee presentation are the…
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