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Planning staff warns of uncertainties as state seeks to streamline housing approvals
Summary
Planning Department staff told the commission the governor's 'Streamlining Affordable Housing Proposals' would route some qualifying housing projects to ministerial approval, shorten review clocks and remove CEQA for certain sites, but staff said the bill's vague language leaves unresolved questions about historic protections, variances and how local inclusionary rules would apply to replacements.
Planning Department staff briefed the San Francisco Planning Commission on a rapidly changing state proposal the governor introduced to speed housing approvals statewide, saying the bill would make some residential projects "by right" if they meet objective standards and provide set levels of affordability.
"This is legislation that is intended to make certain types of residential projects by right statewide," Anne Marie Rogers, Planning Department staff, told the commission. She said the legislation would remove CEQA review for qualifying projects and impose short, statutory review clocks: 30 days to determine compliance with objective standards and a 90‑day…
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