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Planning Commission approves hours-extension PCA, self‑storage provision for 777 Brannon, and CorePower yoga conditional use
Summary
The commission approved a planning code amendment to allow limited nonconforming uses to request extended operating hours, approved legislation allowing the city to lease and later restore self‑storage use at 777 Brannon for police evidence storage, and granted a conditional use authorization to CorePower Yoga at 100 Church Street.
The Planning Commission approved several code and land‑use items on April 19.
Item 8: Planning Code amendment (hours). The commission approved an ordinance amending Planning Code section 186 to allow certain limited nonconforming uses to request conditional use authorization to operate later hours; the Department recommended the change after a conditional use hearing for an arts/performance venue (known locally as Chicken John’s). Commissioners noted the Office of Economic and Workforce Development had suggested permitting extensions up to 2 a.m. in some cases; on the hearing record the commission approved the code change unanimously.
Item 10: Limited‑use ordinance for 777 Brannon (self‑storage/evidence). City Real Estate Director John Updike and Planning staff presented a narrowly drawn ordinance to allow premises leased by the City and County of San Francisco for public‑safety uses to resume preexisting self‑storage use after the city vacates. Staff recommended modifications to clarify permitting chronology, fees and notice procedures; the commission approved the ordinance with staff modifications, allowing the city to proceed with a lease for evidence storage at 777 Brannon while preserving narrowly circumscribed limits so other self‑storage uses would not gain broad rights elsewhere.
Item 15: 100 Church Street (CorePower Yoga). Commissioners approved a conditional use authorization for CorePower Yoga to occupy a vacant 4,700‑square‑foot storefront at Church and Duboce. The department found the formula‑retail concentration in the 300‑foot radius met thresholds, the storefront would activate a vacant block, and the applicant pledged neighborhood outreach, context‑sensitive signage and mural maintenance commitments; the motion to approve passed unanimously.
Each of these actions included staff conditions and modified language read into the record.
