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Board advances planning change to allow 100% affordable housing on select undeveloped SALI parcels
Summary
Supervisor Kim amended a planning-code ordinance to permit 100% affordable housing on certain undeveloped parcels in SALI zoning and duplicated the file for referral to the Planning Department; the board took the measure as amended and re‑referred the duplicate to Land Use.
Supervisor Kim introduced and won board approval of amendments to an ordinance that would allow 100% affordable housing on specified undeveloped parcels in the city's SALI zoning districts and on certain surface parking lots.
The change amends the planning code language to replace the word "structures" with "buildings," a clarification Supervisor Kim said was necessary because "structures include general advertising signs like billboards, which would prevent the construction of affordable housing," and to avoid blocking housing development on small accessory structures. "This ordinance . . . permits 100% affordable housing on these Sally lots," Kim said during her remarks. The board accepted Kim's first amendment without objection and passed the ordinance's first reading as amended.
Kim also introduced two additional amendments that she said require rereferral to the Planning Department. To allow the board to act on a portion of the package immediately while sending the remainder back for review, Kim had the clerk duplicate the file; the board approved duplicating the file and, after a motion by Supervisor Peskin and second by Supervisor Kim, re-referred the duplicated file to the Land Use Committee. Kim told colleagues there was a particular parcel with interest from the Tipping Point Foundation for a 100% affordable project for formerly homeless individuals.
Why it matters: The amendments are intended to balance preservation of light-industrial and arts uses in parts of South of Market with new opportunities to build fully affordable housing on parcels that are currently undeveloped or that contain only surface parking. The board's action moves the immediate clarification forward while routing substantive changes through the Planning Department for additional review.
Next steps: The original ordinance passed first reading as amended; the duplicated file was sent to the Land Use Committee for further consideration, as directed by the board.
