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Planning Commission backs stricter limits on new garages, recommends ordinance to supervisors
Summary
The commission voted 6–1 to recommend Supervisor Chu's ordinance tightening approvals for new garage openings and curb cuts in Northeast neighborhoods, keeping conditional-use review and adding a 10-year no-fault-eviction restriction for affected properties.
The San Francisco Planning Commission voted to recommend to the Board of Supervisors an ordinance that would make new curb cuts and garage openings in parts of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and nearby areas subject to stricter review.
Commissioners approved the motion 6 to 1 after a multihour hearing in which neighborhood groups, tenants and property owners clashed over the measure. Supporters cited research showing a recent pattern in which landlords pursue Ellis Act or other no-fault evictions, then obtain garage…
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