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Board eases zoning rules to expand child care capacity, ordinance passes unanimously on first reading
Summary
The board passed an ordinance on first reading to make child care facilities principally permitted in most zoning districts and to allow shared open space with residential uses, intended to ease space constraints and speed new child care openings.
The Board of Supervisors on July 18 unanimously approved on first reading an ordinance to change city zoning rules to expand sites where child care facilities can operate and to allow residential open space to meet child care open-space requirements during weekday operating hours.
Why it matters: San Francisco faces a shortage of affordable child care slots for infants and toddlers. Sponsors said the zoning changes remove municipal barriers that make it difficult for providers and developers to set aside safe, compliant space for…
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