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Neighborhood groups press Planning Commission for more outreach on Article 2 code rewrite
Summary
Neighbors, business associations and commissioners raised process and clarity concerns about a 460‑page Article 2 rewrite of the San Francisco Planning Code; the Commission voted to continue the item for additional outreach and clarification.
The Planning Commission on Oct. 23 pushed the department’s Article 2 Planning Code reorganization — a Phase 1, 460‑page proposal to consolidate use definitions and convert use tables into zoning control tables — to Nov. 20 after hours of public comment pressing for more outreach and clearer redlines.
Planning Department legislative manager Aaron Starr told the Commission the draft seeks to reorganize Article 2 for clarity and to avoid substantive changes where possible. "Most of these uses in the code are accounted for in each district now," Starr said during the staff presentation, framing the proposal as primarily…
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