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Planning staff says housing-review reforms are reducing delays but targets not yet met
Summary
Planning Department staff updated the commission on implementation of the Mayor's 2017 executive directive on housing production, saying consolidated project review and simplified CEQA checklists have shortened some steps but plan-check and post-entitlement targets still lag. Staff committed to continued process changes and new on-line tools.
The San Francisco Planning Department told the Planning Commission on Feb. 14 that it has begun to deliver on the Mayor's 2017 executive directive to speed housing approvals but that key targets remain a work in progress.
Jacob Bentliff, who led the presentation for the department, said earlier process changes ' including a consolidated project application, a shortened preliminary project assessment (PPA) timeline and a consolidated 90-day plan-check letter ' are intended to make approval time frames predictable. Bentliff said the department has reduced certain review steps and moved some environmental determinations…
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