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Neighborhood groups urge delay of draft Urban Design Guidelines, call for deeper outreach
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Multiple neighborhood organizations urged the San Francisco Planning Commission to postpone adoption of the draft Urban Design Guidelines, saying the public outreach promised in January did not occur and asking staff to clarify how the UDGs would relate to existing Residential Design Guidelines and the general plan.
Several neighborhood organizations told the San Francisco Planning Commission that the department’s draft Urban Design Guidelines (UDGs) need more public vetting before adoption.
At the public-comment portion of the Sept. 8 meeting, speakers from the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, Liberty Hill Neighborhood Association, Telegraph Hill Dwellers and other groups argued the department did not deliver the five-month outreach process the January executive summary promised. "We were under the impression ... that there would be five months of draft interaction," Lisa Fromer of Liberty Hill…
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