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Planning Commission advances MUO code changes to ease health‑service sites, approves narrower review of Mission Street corners
Summary
The Planning Commission debated and ultimately approved staff recommendations to exempt health service uses — including reproductive health clinics — from large-use limits and retail-ratio requirements in the Mixed Use Office (MUO) district, while asking staff to study whether the change should exclude MUO parcels west of Seventh Street.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on April 17 advanced changes to the MUO (Mixed Use Office) zoning district that would exempt health service uses — including reproductive health clinics — from existing retail-size limits and the MUO retail‑ratio requirement.
Planning Department staff told the commission the amendments were intended to grant flexibility for health service providers to occupy large vacant retail and office spaces in the MUO, an area that includes parts of the Second Street/Townsend corridor, South Beach and the Embarcadero. Madison Tam of the Planning Department said the change would prevent health service uses from triggering conditional use authorization solely because of size and would lift the hard cap on use size that now applies in MUO.
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