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Planning Commission backs green-landscaping ordinance with SFPUC water amendments
Summary
The San Francisco Planning Commission recommended approval of a citywide Green Landscaping Ordinance on Feb. 18, urging additions from the SFPUC to limit water impacts. The vote was 5–2 after hours of public testimony on permeable surfaces, street trees and enforcement triggers.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Feb. 18 recommended that the Board of Supervisors approve a proposed Green Landscaping Ordinance that would require greater permeable surfaces, expand street-tree and parking-area screening rules citywide, and add new triggers that bring landscaping requirements into play when building changes occur.
Planning staff described the proposal as amendments to five planning-code sections and three new definitions that together seek "a more comprehensive greening effort in the city," including a requirement that at least…
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