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Planning Commission denies Mosser Hotel conversion; proposed swap with Minna Hotel rejected 5–2
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5–2 to deny a conditional use authorization that would have converted 72 residential rooms at the Mosser Hotel (54 Fourth Street) into tourist rooms on the basis that the proposed one‑for‑one replacement at 509 Minna Street did not meet comparability and market‑return tests required by city law.
The Planning Commission on March 20 denied a conditional use authorization (CU) for the Mosser Hotel at 54 Fourth Street that would have converted 72 of the hotel’s residential rooms into tourist rooms and proposed to satisfy the city’s residential‑hotel one‑for‑one replacement requirement by designating 72 rooms at 509 Minna Street as residential hotel rooms.
Why it matters: Chapter 41 of the San Francisco Administrative Code protects residential hotel units (often SROs) and requires one‑for‑one replacement when owners seek to convert rooms to tourist use. The project sponsor proposed swapping the Mosser’s residential rooms to the Minna property so the Mosser could operate more fully as a tourist hotel and the Minna could operate as nonprofit‑run group housing.
Staff summary and public input:…
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