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Commission urges Board of Supervisors to extend all-electric rule to major renovations
Summary
The Commission on the Environment voted unanimously to ask the Board of Supervisors to expand the All-Electric New Construction Ordinance so major renovations are subject to the same no-fossil-fuel requirements, with phased exceptions for affordable-housing projects and limited reuse of recently installed systems.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment on Oct. 28 voted to send a resolution to the Board of Supervisors asking that the city's All-Electric New Construction Ordinance be updated to cover major renovations that effectively replicate new construction.
Cindy Comerford, the department's climate program manager, and Nick Kessner, senior building decarbonization coordinator, told commissioners that some gut rehabs and large additions have been treated as exempt despite involving full mechanical-system replacements. They said the…
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