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Board continues planning‑code dashboard measure after debate over reporting scope and workload
Summary
Supervisors debated a proposed planning department housing production dashboard and amendments to add middle‑income and unit‑type metrics; planning staff warned broadening the requirement could force production of new reports for many ministerial approvals. The board continued the item one week for staff and sponsors to refine language.
The board continued consideration of an ordinance to amend the planning code to create a monitoring mechanism for housing preservation and production policies, after a substantive discussion about scope and administrative workload.
Supervisor Weiner proposed amendments to expand monitored categories to include middle‑income housing (up to 150% of AMI), detailed unit size breakdowns (efficiency, studio, 1‑bed, 2‑bed, 3‑bed and above) and revenue tracking. Weiner said the change would give the planning commission and the public a fuller picture of what is being produced in the city beyond low‑income units.
Planning Department representative Anne Marie Rogers said the department was concerned that, as drafted, the ordinance could require a dashboard attachment to staff reports for all projects of five or more units, including many projects currently approved through ministerial plan review that do not have staff reports. Requiring reports for those projects would create additional time and cost burdens. Rogers said the department could implement the dashboard for cases that already generate reports (planning commission hearings, historic preservation commission hearings and appeals to the board) and suggested working with sponsors to craft language that captures relevant projects without creating undue work.
Supervisors debated narrower and broader approaches and ultimately voted to continue the item for one week to allow planning staff and sponsors to produce refined drafting that would capture reports that go before planning, historic preservation and the board without requiring a new reporting regime for ministerial approvals.
The item was continued to the board's October 23 calendar.
