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Commission advances Mayor's EV charging ordinance to ease permitting for public chargers
Summary
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted March 22 to advance Mayor Breed's proposal to amend the planning code to speed permitting for public electric vehicle charging locations, including by-right conversions of certain existing auto uses and defined rules for fleet charging.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted March 22 to advance mayoral legislation designed to make it easier to build public electric vehicle charging stations across the city.
Sarah Owens, Mayor Breed's environmental policy adviser, told commissioners the ordinance updates the planning code to create explicit, modern land-use pathways for stand-alone EV charging locations and to allow certain existing auto-oriented uses to convert to charging sites by right. Owens said San Francisco needs "1,400 public level 2 and 350 DC fast chargers by 2030" and that the proposal would…
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