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Zoning administrator proposes tying some parking variances to affordable units; commission and public probe data limits
Summary
Planning staff and the zoning administrator debated a proposal to require affordability conditions on certain parking variances (e.g., rental at 60% AMI) in exchange for reduced or eliminated parking. Public commenters and several commissioners asked for San Francisco-specific data and raised practical and equity concerns.
Zoning Administrator Badner presented a policy proposal August 10 to make affordability a condition for some parking variances — for example, requiring that a unit subject to a variance be rented at 60% of area median income (AMI) or sold at 100% AMI in exchange for granting reduced or no off‑street parking. Badner described Bay Area studies that show lower car-ownership rates among lower-income households and said…
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