Committee backs removing retail size limits for health and reproductive clinics in MUO District east of 7th Street

The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to forward an ordinance that would eliminate retail-use size limits on health service uses and reproductive health clinics in the Municipal (MUO) District east of Seventh Street to the full board with a positive recommendation.

The ordinance, introduced as agenda item 1, would amend the Planning Code to remove numerical retail-ratio limits for those specific uses in the MUO District east of Seventh Street, and affirms Planning Department determinations and findings of consistency with the General Plan and Planning Code Sections 101.1 and 302.

Supervisor Mirna Melgar, chair of the committee, moved to forward the item. "I'd like to make a motion that we, forward this item with a positive recommendation to, the full board," Melgar said before the vote. There was no public comment on the item. The clerk recorded three ayes—Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen, Member Bridal Mahmood and Chair Melgar—and the motion passed.

Committee members said the measure had been heard previously with substantive amendments and was scheduled for a final vote this week. Ms. Tam, who spoke briefly before public comment, thanked the committee for hearing the item two weeks earlier and urged a positive recommendation.

The ordinance text filed with the committee references Planning Code Section 101.1 and Section 302 for findings of consistency with the General Plan and public necessity, convenience and welfare; the committee did not provide additional implementation details during the hearing.

The item is expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda on June 10, 2025, unless otherwise stated.

Ending: The committee took formal action only to recommend the ordinance to the full board; no final adoption occurred at the committee meeting.