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Commission backs ADU code changes to comply with state law, asks staff to reconcile local standards
Summary
The commission recommended approval of a planning-code amendment to align San Francisco rules with recent state ADU law, while asking staff to retain objective architectural-review standards where they do not conflict with state requirements and to return with a list of any conflicts.
Planning Department staff presented a planning-code amendment on Nov. 4 intended to bring San Francisco’s accessory-dwelling-unit (ADU) regulations into compliance with recent state law changes. Veronica Flores summarized two main ADU paths under state law — "streamlined" and "ministerial" — and described a new junior-ADU category, a 60-day deadline for issuing permits for state-mandated ADUs, and proposed changes to Articles 10 and 11 to exempt qualifying state-mandated ADUs from Certificates of…
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