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Planning Commission forwards split recommendations on inclusionary housing after marathon hearing
Summary
After hours of testimony from supervisors, planning staff and hundreds of public commenters, the Planning Commission on April 27 adopted a set of recommendations on two competing inclusionary housing ordinances and sent a modified package to the Board of Supervisors, blending staff feasibility findings with adjustments to income bands and implementation requests to the Mayor’s Office of Housing.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on April 27 forwarded a detailed set of recommendations to the Board of Supervisors after a daylong hearing on proposed revisions to the city’s inclusionary affordable housing rules.
Planning Department staff told the commission the Board’s controller had modeled a feasible range for on‑site inclusionary requirements and found 14–18 percent broadly feasible for typical rental prototypes. Staff recommended maximum on‑site rates at the high end of the controller’s range for larger rental projects and a three‑tier income approach to close a gap in the city’s coverage of households between low and moderate incomes. Jacob Bentliff of the Planning Department summarized the controller’s approach and emphasized the study solved for residual land value to estimate when requirements would make projects infeasible.
The mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, represented by Deputy Director Kate Hartley, backed…
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