Board adopts wide set of ordinances, leases and grants; rezoning notice change passes after split vote

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 29 approved a large set of ordinances, resolutions and contracts covering planning-code changes, leases, grant acceptances and administrative contracts.

The board approved most items on consent or by a single roll call. Key outcomes included final passage of a planning-code amendment to add notice requirements for rezoning (item 7), multiple lease approvals and an $8.5 million appropriation to pay for tenant improvements tied to the city's new lease at 1455 Market Street (item 8). Dozens of federal grant acceptances for housing and homelessness programs also were authorized.

Why it matters: the items approved include policy and budget actions that enable ongoing real estate leases for city agencies, acceptance of federal housing grants, procurement contracts and two planning-code amendments that affect future development notifications and seismic-retrofit assessments.

Votes at a glance (selected items recorded on the April 29 agenda) - Item 7 — Ordinance amending the planning code to require notice of rezoning to comply with housing-element law and to affirm a CEQA determination: final passage, roll-call vote 8 ayes, 3 no (Supervisor Dorsey, Supervisor Mahmood, Supervisor Melgar voted no). Outcome: approved. - Item 8 — Ordinance to appropriate $8,500,000 from projected revenue surplus and related transfers for tenant improvements and related costs at 1455 Market Street: passed on first reading (roll call 11 ayes). Outcome: approved (first reading). - Item 9 — Resolution authorizing a first amendment…