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Committee advances amended housing-streamlining ordinance to full Board without recommendation, duplicates file for further edits
Summary
Facing an HCD Policy & Practice Review and intense public debate, the committee adopted multiple amendments to remove demolition carve‑outs for rent‑controlled units, added historic‑building protections, duplicated the legislative file for further amendment, and sent the amended measure to the Board as a committee report without recommendation.
A broad Planning Code package designed to streamline housing approvals and to implement elements of San Francisco’s housing element was the central and most contested item at the Nov. 27 Land Use hearing. The Department of Planning, the mayor's office and the Board have been working with the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) after HCD’s Policy & Practice Review (PPR) letter prompted a 30‑day response window.
Planning staff and supervisors described iterations of the ordinance intended to remove certain discretionary reviews for specified housing types (including some state density bonus delegations), adjust setback/open‑space rules, expand…
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