Board hears emergency measures after cityofficials report steep loss of residential care beds; supervisors seek action on city-run ARF

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced a resolution and accompanying interim zoning controls on Sept. 3 aimed at slowing the loss of San Franciscoresidential care facilities and to require conditional use authorization for changes of use from a residential care facility to other uses.

Mandelman said the controls are intended as an 18-month stopgap while the city develops longer-term solutions. He told colleagues the city has 21 fewer residential care facilities than in 2012 — a roughly 26 percent decline that equates to the loss of about 112 beds — and that the Department of Public Health had identified three additional planned closures. "The intent of these interim controls is to discourage further closures and conversions of our scarce residential care facilities, slow their loss, and give the city additional time to address this challenge," Mandelman said.

The resolution asks…