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Historic-exemption amendment recommended for landmark buildings, commission rejects staffsquare-foot limit
Summary
The Historic Preservation Commission recommended a Planning Code amendment to exempt certain landmark buildings from specific Prop X conditional-use and replacement requirements but removed staff's proposed 49,999-square-foot cap, voting unanimously to forward the ordinance recommendation without that modification.
Diego Sanchez, planning department staff, presented an ordinance proposing to exempt individually listed landmark buildings from aspects of Proposition X that otherwise require conditional-use authorization and on-site replacement when converting or demolishing production, distribution and repair (PDR), arts or institutional community spaces. Sanchez told the commission the ordinance would allow limited conversions of up to 50% (or up to a square-foot limit recommended by staff) for landmarked sites while preserving replacement requirements and limiting eligibility to buildings landmarked by July 1, 2016.
Owners and neighborhood groups sharply disagreed on the ordinance's likely effects. Peter…
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