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Board advances several housing and educator-housing streamlining measures, citing need for family-friendly units
Summary
The Board of Supervisors advanced several housing-streamlining ordinances on Aug. 11, including zoning and planning-code changes to ease approval of 100% affordable and educator housing and a requirement that at least 10% of educator-housing bedrooms be three-bedroom units to better accommodate families.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Aug. 11 moved several housing-related ordinances forward on first reading, unanimously approving measures intended to speed approvals for dedicated affordable housing and educator housing and to encourage more family-sized dwelling units.
Key items advanced included: - A Planning Code amendment (Item 22) to allow extra height for projects that are 100% affordable or constitute educator housing, reduce the minimum lot-size threshold for those projects from 10,000 square feet to 8,000 square feet and remove the minimum threshold for vacant lots and surface parking lots in certain circumstances. Supervisor Sandra Fewer and colleagues said the changes would help deliver new permanently affordable developments and educator housing that otherwise face…
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