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City planners outline draft adaptive reuse zoning ordinance to speed residential conversions
Summary
Planning staff presented draft Title 30 zoning amendments to codify commonly approved modifications that would ease conversion of nonresidential buildings into housing, and invited Architectural Board of Review input on State Street ground-floor activation requirements and other details.
City planning staff on March 17 gave the Architectural Board of Review an update on a draft adaptive reuse ordinance intended to encourage conversions of existing nonresidential buildings to residential units without changing the board's review role.
Dana Falk, a long-range project planner in the Planning Division, told the board the proposed ordinance would "codify some commonly approved zoning modifications to facilitate the conversion of nonresidential buildings to residential units." Falk said the effort follows the housing element the city adopted in December 2023 and certified by the state in February 2024, and is intended to reduce the planning process for conversions that already often receive similar relief.
The draft ordinance would create four applicability…
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