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Committee advances adaptive‑reuse package to encourage downtown conversions; votes to continue final action
Summary
The committee advanced amendments aimed at streamlining commercial‑to‑residential conversions and voted to continue both the zoning amendments and a parallel impact‑fee waiver ordinance to June 12, 2023, after adopting sponsor and staff modifications including expanded eligibility and fee clarifications.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee advanced a two‑part package intended to encourage commercial‑to‑residential conversions downtown, adopting planning‑staff amendments and voting to continue final action to the full Board on June 12, 2023.
Board President Aaron Peskin and Mayor’s Office collaborators framed the package as a response to large amounts of vacant office space downtown and as a way to diversify uses in the C3 core and Union Square. Planning Department staff described three policy goals: expand housing downtown, diversify commercial uses, and streamline entitlements. The program would create a new commercial‑to‑residential adaptive reuse section in the Planning Code that, among other provisions, defines eligible zones and allows selected zoning modifications to support conversions.
Planning staff said draft eligibility would apply to C districts east…
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