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Planning Commission backs mayor—s process-improvement package after changes to notice and pop-out rules
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended the Mayor—s process-improvement ordinance with amendments: restore a 30-day notice standard, keep neighborhood notice for small rear-yard "pop-outs," require a commission policy for postcard/posting specifics before implementation, and add prevailing-wage and local building-code language to the 100% affordable streamlining. The commission voted to send the amended package to the Board of Supervisors.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on June 7 recommended approval of a package of planning-code "process improvements" proposed by the mayor—s office, but only after the commission amended several high-profile provisions to protect neighborhood notice and tenant interests.
Planning staff and the mayor—s Office of Economic and Workforce Development presented the ordinance as a set of administrative reforms aimed at speeding up approvals for routine projects and freeing staff time for major entitlements. Staff said the changes would standardize mailed and posted notices (moving toward a single postcard format and online materials), allow administrative approval of many 100% affordable…
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