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Votes at a glance: Planning Commission actions on July 13, 2023
Summary
Summary of formal votes taken by the Planning Commission on July 13, 2023, including legislative recommendations and project approvals.
The Planning Commission took the following formal votes during the July 13 hearing:
- Inclusionary housing and impact-fee package (Item 15): Commission recommended approval of a package temporarily reducing inclusionary rates and adjusting fees, 5–1 (Commissioner Imperial opposed). Key staff: Kate Connor (Planning), Ted Egan (Controller), Ted Conrad (OEWD). (Provenance: SEG 948–SEG 2471)
- Development impact fee indexing and fee-deferral ordinance (Item 16): Commission recommended approval to replace volatile indexation with a flat 2% annual index, lock-in fees at project approval, reinstate a fee-deferral program (housing fees excluded), and adopt small-business amendments eliminating many change-of-use fees; vote 5–1 (Commissioner Imperial opposed). (Provenance: SEG 2472–SEG 3065)
- Commercial-to-residential adaptive reuse (Item 14): Commission approved staff modifications and amendments facilitating office-to-housing conversions, including loading and sign exemptions and a higher Transit Center threshold; vote unanimous 6–0. (Provenance: SEG 831–SEG 947)
- HOME-SF project authorization, 4199 Mission Street (Item 17): Commission approved a six-story, 40-unit HOME-SF project with 12 (30%) on-site affordable units and related zoning modifications; vote unanimous 6–0. (Provenance: SEG 3066–SEG 3440)
- Nob Hill Masonic Center (Item 18): Commission approved an amendment increasing large-event allowance from 79 to 91 events annually (54-music-event cap unchanged); the Masonic and Live Nation pledged additional neighborhood mitigation measures; vote unanimous 6–0. (Provenance: SEG 3442–SEG 4143)
- Discretionary review requests (Items 19 and 20): The commission declined to take discretionary review for the project at 5020 Eighth Street (shadowing concerns) and the project at 900 Chenery Street (privacy/character concerns) and approved both projects as proposed (each vote 6–0). (Provenance: SEG 4150–SEG 4640 and SEG 4642–SEG 5093)
These outcomes now move to the Board of Supervisors where applicable (particularly the code and ordinance changes).
