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Planning Commission backs ordinance to allow game arcades in SLI areas with limits
Summary
The commission recommended approval of a code change to permit amusement game arcades ("barcades") in targeted districts, limiting the new use to service light industrial (SLI) zoning with conditional use authorization to preserve neighborhood review. The vote was unanimous.
The San Francisco Planning Commission recommended approval on Sept. 29 of a planning code amendment that would permit amusement‑game arcades — often called "barcades" — in some South of Market and Eastern Neighborhood mixed‑use districts, with key geographic limitations.
Staff said the ordinance originally aims to correct an omission that left two parcels out of a prior rezoning; Aaron Starr explained the change would reclassify selected parcels into the Upper Market NCT or the appropriate neighborhood commercial transit district. The immediate driver was a…
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