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Committee backs Central SoMa amendments to reduce commercial requirements and preserve key-site benefits

5144498 · March 10, 2025
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Summary

The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted to forward two ordinances to the full Board that would reduce commercial development requirements in Central SoMa and the Transit Center District, with amendments to preserve negotiated key-site community benefits.

The Land Use and Transportation Committee on March 10 recommended two related ordinances to the full Board of Supervisors that would reduce commercial development requirements in the Central SoMa Special Use District and the Transit Center District subarea.

Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who sponsored the planning-code amendments, told the committee the changes are meant to provide flexibility for developers while retaining negotiated public benefits on key sites. "We are creating this program by calling out the key sites and the benefits that are associated with each," Dorsey said, explaining the exemption…

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