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City leaders present economic plan; planners and commissioners debate Eastern Neighborhoods zoning and PDR protections
Summary
City staff presented an economic development plan under Proposition I that prioritizes job growth, stable revenues and retained middle-income employment. Commissioners and the Comptroller—s office debated how Eastern Neighborhoods rezoning and PDR (production/distribution/repair) zones could help or hinder keeping knowledge-sector firms and middle-income jobs in San Francisco.
San Francisco—s Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Comptroller—s Office briefed the Planning Commission on March 20 on a city economic plan implementing Proposition I, framing four priorities: more jobs and faster job creation, better mid- and lower-income job pathways, more stable tax revenues and a strategy to help firms grow and stay in the city. Michael Cohen, director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, described the plan as a framework tying land-use policy to economic goals; Ted Egan, the comptroller—s chief economist, summarized findings that the city has lost middle-income jobs and that growth has been concentrated at the high and low ends of the wage scale.
Egan told commis…
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