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Board approves amended plan to add planning staff after analyst recommends smaller staffing package
Summary
The Board approved an amended supplemental appropriation for the Planning Department to address a backlog of permits, agreeing with the Budget & Legislative Analyst to fund eight of 10 requested limited-term positions now and revisit additional staffing during the June budget process.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Subcommittee on March 6 approved an amended supplemental appropriation to help the Planning Department reduce a multi‑hundred‑project backlog.
Planning Director John Ram told the committee the department has more than 400 projects in its pipeline and asked for a supplemental appropriation of about $3.2 million and 10 limited‑term positions to accelerate permit and case reviews and to support digitization and a new project tracking system. "Many very large projects have come in for…
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