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Planning Commission backs update to transit impact fee with policy credits and extended grandfathering
Summary
The Planning Commission on July 19 recommended updates to the citywide Transit Impact Development Fee (TIDF): lower the exemption threshold, expand covered uses, adopt a policy-credits program for small businesses and reduced-parking projects, and extend grandfathering for nonprofit and net-new uses to January 2014.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend a package of changes to the city’s Transit Impact Development Fee intended to better align fee structure with a recent SFMTA nexus study and the proposed Transportation Sustainability Program.
Planning Department senior staff Alicia Jean Baptiste told commissioners the draft ordinance lowers the current exemption threshold from 3,000 gross square feet to 800, expands the types of uses subject to the fee (including certain nonprofit, institutional, PDR, automotive services and wholesale storage uses), clarifies prior-use credit timing, and adjusts administrative roles among Planning, DBI and the SFMTA. She said the revised fee rates would generally increase most categories but set rates no higher than…
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