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Planning staff outlines MAP 2020 solutions as community presses for faster monitoring
Summary
City planning staff summarized MAP 2020 solutions and monitoring targets on June 23, drawing praise and urgent requests from Mission community groups for faster publication of the Eastern Neighborhoods monitoring report and stronger protections for PDR, arts and small businesses.
San Francisco — Planning Department staff on Thursday presented an update on MAP 2020, the Mission-area plan designed to limit displacement and preserve neighborhood-serving businesses, telling the Planning Commission the department has identified a matrix of solutions and a set of urgent items to deploy within six to 12 months.
Claudia Flores, a department project lead, said the plan’s matrix identifies who will lead items, timing and rough costs, and separates proposals the city is moving forward on from those that are not feasible now. “The change we see in the neighborhood is not a natural demographic change,” Flores said, pointing to the combination of historic policies, market pressures and recent development that have driven loss of socioeconomic diversity in the Mission.
Community groups and speakers in the public comment period urged quicker action and earlier release of the monitoring report, which residents say is already late. “By August the planning department will be out of compliance,” said Dairo Romero of the Mission Economic Development Agency, noting a July 1 statutory deadline for the monitoring report. Romero and others pressed staff to finalize targets for production, PDR preservation and neighborhood-specific protections.
The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development reported progress: Kate Hartley said MOHCD has secured funding for roughly 750 affordable units for the Mission and that the mayor and board have approved a budget augmentation for MAP 2020 staff and consultants. Planning staff noted an additional MAP 2020 resource request of nearly $3 million to support zoning work, enforcement and outreach.
Commissioners focused their questions on implementation and metrics. Commissioner Antonini asked for verification of how many units analyzed in the Eastern Neighborhoods EIR have actually been built; staff provided figures showing completion rates well below entitlement counts. Commissioners also urged staff to coordinate with other city agencies — including MOHCD and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development — to speed tenant protections, business-relocation assistance and enforcement staffing.
The Planning Commission did not take a vote on the MAP 2020 update but asked staff to return with more detailed zoning proposals and monitoring targets before fall so the Commission can consider formal endorsement and zoning actions.
