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Board approves first‑reading cap on market‑rate micro‑units after heated debate
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved two companion measures to allow smaller "efficiency" dwelling units and to add a planning‑code cap on market‑rate micro‑units, advancing the proposals on first reading after amendment (10–1).
The Board of Supervisors passed, on first reading, two companion ordinances to allow smaller “efficiency” dwelling units in new structures and to add planning code limits on market‑rate micro‑units, approving the measures as amended by a 10–1 roll call vote on Nov. 20.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, sponsor of the measures, said the legislation “will allow, for the creation of smaller efficiency units, also known as micro units,” and described them as an additional housing option that “will rent for less than one‑bedrooms.” He said the policy is intended to add flexibility to housing production amid San Francisco’s…
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