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Board advances changes to inclusionary housing rules, adopts differential requirement for high-rise projects
Summary
The board amended and passed on first reading changes to residential inclusionary affordable housing rules that update section 3.15 of the Planning Code, including a lower requirement (12%) for projects over 120 feet that do not request zoning changes and an updated in-lieu fee schedule.
The Board of Supervisors advanced an ordinance on April 17 amending the city’s inclusionary housing rules by revising Planning Code section 3.15 and related provisions. The item passed on first reading after the board accepted a technical cleanup and approved a divided question about the inclusionary percentage for certain high-rise projects.
Supervisor McGoldrick, the ordinance’s author on the floor, asked the city attorney to present a technical amendment to remove language requiring periodic 50-year updates to affordability covenants; Deputy City Attorney Susan Cleveland Knowles described the change as a “technical cleanup” intended to correct language left over from a committee amendment. The council adopted that technical amendment without objection.
The more substantive debate centered on a…
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