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Supervisors approve Central SoMa package to reduce commercial requirements, open area to more housing
Summary
The board passed on first reading a planning package that reduces commercial development requirements in Central SoMa and the Transit Center district and modifies related land-dedication and zoning rules to allow more residential development while retaining negotiated community benefits.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 18 passed on first reading a legislative package of planning-code amendments designed to reduce mandatory commercial development requirements in the Central SoMa special planning area and the Transit Center district, and to allow certain residential projects to meet modified land-dedication rules.
Supervisor Shamann Dorsey, speaking in support of the package, framed the changes as a way to ‘‘open up Central SoMa and the transit…
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