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Planning Department outlines procedural fixes, tracking and new ombudsman role in response to mayor's housing directive
Summary
Planning Department staff summarized a multi-part response to the mayor's housing directive including priority processing for deeply affordable projects, a proposed housing ombudsman, a policy shift to legalize rather than remove some illegal units, mandatory review for unit eliminations and concurrent interagency reviews to speed approvals.
The San Francisco Planning Department on Thursday told the Planning Commission it has prepared short-, medium- and long-term recommendations in response to the mayor's housing directive, and staff outlined several near-term procedural changes intended to speed construction of affordable housing.
Planning Department staff said projects that are entirely affordable or that include at least 20% on-site affordable units (or 30% off-site) will be placed ahead in the processing queue, a change staff estimates…
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