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Board continues inclusionary-housing charter hearing; sponsors and opponents seek technical fixes before ballot
Summary
After a marathon public hearing Feb. 23, the Board of Supervisors continued consideration of a proposed charter amendment to move inclusionary-housing rules into the board’s authority and set interim on-site requirements at 25%, with the item continued to March 1.
The Board of Supervisors held a long, sometimes heated committee-of-the-whole hearing Feb. 23 on a proposed charter amendment that would remove the city’s inclusionary housing ceiling from the charter and impose interim controls that raise on-site affordability to 25% (15% low-income and 10% middle-income). After hours of testimony and debate, the board voted to continue the item to March 1.
Supervisor Jane Kim, the measure’s sponsor, said the amendment would remove the 2012 charter cap and enable the board to set inclusionary levels by ordinance. As an interim control, the measure would require 25% of units in new residential developments of a certain size to be below market rate: 15% targeted to lower-income households and 10% targeted…
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