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Planning Commission approves settlement-driven code change to allow Hotel d'Arts conversion
Summary
The San Francisco Planning Commission on March 6 unanimously adopted a Planning Department recommendation to amend the planning code to allow conversion of 38 residential-hotel units at 447 Bush Street to tourist-hotel use as part of a court settlement; in exchange, units at two other properties would be made subject to the hotel-conversion ordinance.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on March 6 unanimously adopted a Planning Department recommendation to amend the planning code so that a tourist hotel would be a principally permitted use for all 51 units at 447 Bush Street, known as Hotel d'Arts, and to waive conditional-use and certain fees tied to converting 38 residential hotel units at that address.
Planning staff said the ordinance and fee waivers are part of a settlement resolving federal litigation that challenged a 2023 Board of Supervisors amendment to the hotel conversion ordinance. Aaron Star, manager of legislative affairs for the Planning…
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