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Planning Department outlines tenant-protection ordinance to limit displacement during housing projects
Summary
Planning staff presented a draft municipal ordinance to codify and expand protections tied to California's SB 330 and to strengthen replacement, relocation, and notification rules for projects that would remove existing units. Community groups urged stronger, enforceable measures and immediate implementation alongside rezoning.
The San Francisco Planning Department on Feb. 27 presented a draft citywide ordinance to strengthen tenant protections tied to the Housing Crisis Act (SB 330) and to reduce direct displacement when new housing is built.
The department said the proposal would codify SB 330's "no net loss" requirement, clarify how units and tenancy are determined, require 1-for-1 replacement of protected units, and expand tenant-notification and relocation steps to improve implementation and enforcement. Planning staff said the ordinance is intended to be introduced alongside the housing-element rezoning this spring but offered as a stand-alone, citywide ordinance that would remain in place if the state law sunsets.
"The proposed ordinance scope is to do a targeted and strategic update to the municipal code to codify elements of SB 330 to minimize and mitigate the risk of direct displacement due to residential demolitions as new housing is built,"…
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