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Planning staff outlines Bay Area community risk‑reduction plan; commissioners press on greenhouse‑gas accounting
Summary
Planning staff told the San Francisco Planning Commission that no Bay Area city has yet produced a community risk‑reduction plan and described a citywide, programmatic approach to avoid duplicative EIR work; commissioners pressed staff on how air‑district methodology handles infill, commuting emissions and health factors.
Planning staff briefed the San Francisco Planning Commission on an exploratory community risk‑reduction plan and a citywide, programmatic approach to environmental review that staff said would avoid repeating EIR analyses for small infill projects.
A planning staff member told commissioners, “Nobody's done this community risk reduction plan, so we don't even know what it might look like,” and said the city is trying to develop a methodology over the coming months to avoid requiring new, project‑level EIRs…
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