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Committee backs changes easing commercial requirements in Central SoMa, sends amendments to full Board
Summary
The committee voted to amend and forward ordinances that reduce commercial development requirements in the Central SoMa area and remove a Transit Center commercial special use district; amendments aim to retain negotiated public benefits for key sites and allow flexibility for residential projects under defined conditions.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted March 10 to send two linked ordinances to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation, amending the general plan and the Planning Code to reduce commercial development requirements in Central SoMa and the Transit Center district.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6) framed the items as updates to the Central SoMa plan that would provide developers flexibility to build residential projects instead of requiring nonresidential floor area in all cases, while retaining negotiated public benefits…
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