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Planning staff unveils formalized review process and other internal reforms
Summary
Planning Department staff presented a final report on a two-year Action Plan and outlined a new three-stage, required Preliminary Project Assessment (PPA) intended to give early site-specific guidance to developers, increase transparency for the public and shorten the environmental and entitlement review timeline.
The San Francisco Planning Department laid out details of an internal Action Plan and a revised development-review system during the commission's Jan. 13 meeting, saying the package is intended to provide earlier notice to neighborhoods and more consistent, enforceable conditions of approval.
Director Ram and senior staff said the Action Plan, work that began more than two years ago, produced standardized conditions of approval, a consultant pool for environmental work, updated forms and an effort to expand in-house technical capacity. Kelly Amder, who presented the status update for staff, said the department rewrote more than 300 commonly used conditions to make them clearer, enforceable and to identify the agency responsible for…
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