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Planning staff lays out Eastern Neighborhoods zoning controls for parking, retail, arts and SROs
Summary
Planning Department staff told the San Francisco Planning Commission that the Eastern Neighborhoods rezoning would replace parking minimums with parking maximums, keep formula-retail restrictions, bolster protections for arts and require replacement of demolished PDR space; staff also proposed revised SRO standards and additional design review for larger projects.
Planning Department staff on June 19 gave a detailed briefing on zoning controls proposed under the Eastern Neighborhoods plan, saying the package is intended to preserve industrial-serving PDR uses while encouraging housing and neighborhood-serving retail where appropriate.
Ken Rich opened the overview and Steve Wertheim led the zoning details. Staff said the plan replaces many current parking minimums with parking maximums and targeted caps that vary by district: for many South of Market mixed-use districts staff proposed 0.25 spaces per dwelling unit as the default, with commission discretion to allow more for larger units, and higher…
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