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Planning department outlines threats and next steps for PDR policy; commission asks for more analysis
Summary
Planning staff briefed the commission on Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) uses, noting San Francisco’s long-term decline in industrial jobs, the current footprint and clusters, risks from conversions to office, and potential legislation to protect PDR uses in landmark buildings. Commissioners asked staff for hard numbers and for the preservation element to integrate PDR concerns.
City planning staff delivered an informational briefing on June 18 about Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) uses and the department’s work to support and protect industrial employment in San Francisco.
Steve Wertheim (Planning Department) told the Historic Preservation Commission that PDR remains essential for the city’s economy — supplying services that cannot be offshored — but that the sector has declined over decades. “Today we have about 63,000 PDR jobs — about 10 percent of the city’s workers,” he said, and described clusters in South of Market, Northeast…
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