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Planning Commission delays vote on mayor—s EV charging zoning changes for equity review
Summary
The Planning Commission on March 24 continued Mayor Breed—s ordinance to update the planning code for electric vehicle (EV) charging to April 14, asking staff to produce more analysis on equity, job impacts and potential concentration of fleet charging in industrial districts.
San Francisco — The Planning Commission on Thursday voted 4— to 2 to continue Mayor London Breed—s proposal to revise the planning code for electric-vehicle charging, giving staff three weeks to return with more analysis on geographic equity and workforce impacts.
Sarah Owens, the mayor—s environmental policy advisor, told commissioners the ordinance would create two explicit planning-code uses — public EV charging locations and fleet charging — to speed permitting and make it easier to convert existing automotive sites (gas stations, parking lots) to chargers. "San Francisco needs a total of 1,400 public level 2 chargers and 350 DC fast chargers by 2030," Owens said, adding the city currently has about 1,016 public chargers, of which roughly 104 are fast chargers.
Planning staff described the fine-grained zoning approach in the draft: many residential districts, Chinatown and some eastern neighborhoods would not…
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