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Planning Commission approves temporary reduction in inclusionary requirements and fee changes after TAC feasibility study
Summary
The Planning Commission on July 13 recommended approval of an ordinance to lower inclusionary housing rates and some impact fees for projects in specified pipelines, adopting staff modifications and delegating certain administrative adjustments to Planning Department staff. The controller—s feasibility analysis found many prototypes financially infeasible under current rules.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on July 13 advanced a package of changes that temporarily reduces the city—s inclusionary housing requirements and adjusts related fees for certain projects, citing a controller-led economic feasibility study that found many proposed housing prototypes cannot pencil under current obligations.
The commission voted 5–1 to approve the ordinance and staff—s recommended modifications, with Commissioner Imperial opposed. The motion, made by Commissioner Koppel and seconded by Commissioner Diamond, includes two time-limited windows of relief for projects already in the pipeline and for projects approved through Nov. 1, 2026, along with administrative procedures to implement the reductions without obligating each project to return to the commission.
Why it matters: the controller—s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and its consultant Century Urban modeled 20 development scenarios and concluded that, for the apartment prototypes they studied, "no project is feasible even if land was free," a finding the controller—s representative, Ted Egan,…
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