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Staff outlines likely effects of SB 330 on city review timelines, public testimony and tenant protections
Summary
Planning Department staff gave a detailed briefing on SB 330, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, warning it would limit certain local down-zoning actions, create a 'law of the day' vesting rule for projects, and add replacement-unit and relocation protections; public commenters argued both that the bill would protect tenants and that it would curtail local control.
Jacob Bintliff, a planning department staffer, led an informational briefing on SB 330, telling the San Francisco Planning Commission that the bill "would be in effect for 5 years until January first of 2025" and outlining how it would constrain local actions to reduce housing capacity, limit the number of hearings on some projects and impose time frames for approvals. Bintliff said the measure would bar jurisdictions from adopting blanket downzonings compared with a January 1, 2018 baseline unless an offsetting upzoning preserves net housing capacity. He also described a vesting rule that would let projects rely on the "law of the day" when…
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