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Planning Commission backs supervisors’ plan to move inclusionary rules into code, recommends technical fixes
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 4–3 to recommend approval of an ordinance that would move the city’s inclusionary housing rules from the charter into the planning code and raise on‑site affordability requirements for large projects, while adding a phased grandfathering schedule and a recurring feasibility study. The commission directed staff and the Board to clarify entitlements and carve‑outs.
San Francisco’s Planning Commission on March 31 recommended that the Board of Supervisors approve a comprehensive ordinance to move inclusionary housing requirements out of the city charter and into the planning code and to increase on‑site inclusionary obligations for large projects.
Supervisor Jane Kim, a co‑sponsor of the measure, told the commission the proposal is intended to deliver more low‑, middle‑ and moderate‑income units by creating a tiered system. “For projects of 25 units or more we are raising the on‑site affordability to 25%,” Kim said in her presentation, adding that the measure would set separate shares for low/very‑low and middle‑income units and would apply…
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