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Supervisor Safaie unveils draft effort to streamline San Francisco site-permit process to cut months from development timeline
Summary
Supervisor Ahsha Safaie and Supervisor Mirna Melgar said they are drafting building code amendments to make site permits mandatory, limit early reviews to planning, building and fire departments and create a clearer entitlement milestone, with the goal of reducing permit time by months to years.
Supervisor Ahsha Safaie told the board March 14 that she and Supervisor Mirna Melgar have drafted code changes intended to speed San Francisco—s building-permit process by re-establishing and narrowing the scope of the "site permit" milestone.
Safaie told colleagues the city—s current site-permit process has expanded over time and now mirrors the building-permit review, adding multiple departmental reviews and routing steps. "We want to strip that back and we want to have only the planning department, the building department, and the fire department weigh in with early comments," Safaie said, adding the change is intended to create a clearer "hard stop" where…
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