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Commission adopts objective storefront security‑gate standards with clarifying edits

San Francisco Planning Commission · October 26, 2023
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Summary

The commission adopted objective design standards for roll‑up storefront security gates—requiring concealed coils, coil hoods, non‑motorized mechanisms and protection of transom windows—amending language for clarity; motion passed 5–1.

On Oct. 26 the Planning Commission adopted objective design standards for storefront security gates intended to reduce storefronts’ visual disruption while allowing modern opaque roll‑down gates in commercial corridors. Staff and the city architect presented standards that conceal coil hoods behind a sloped awning, prohibit motorized chain or motor boxes where feasible, require visible viewing windows for less‑permeable gates and forbid concealment…

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