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Planning Commission backs ordinance to extend grandfathering deadline for inclusionary housing
Summary
The Planning Commission approved an amendment to the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance to give certain grandfathered projects more time to obtain site permits, a change city staff and the mayor’s office said would preserve thousands of planned housing units including hundreds of permanently affordable homes.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Oct. 18 unanimously approved an ordinance from Mayor London Breed that shifts the deadline by which earlier-entitled projects must obtain site permits in order to keep their grandfathered inclusionary housing rates.
The change affects projects that filed environmental applications before Jan. 12, 2016, and staff said it would prevent the loss of roughly 4,000 units citywide — “including over 600 permanently affordable units,” City project manager Chrisia Tano said during the commission’s hearing.
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