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Committee adopts sponsor amendments and continues all‑electric new‑construction ordinance one week
Summary
Land Use Committee heard hours of testimony for and against the proposed ordinance to require all‑electric new construction and voted to adopt sponsor clarifications, add non‑impairment language for development agreements, and continue the item one week to finalize restaurant waivers and other details.
The committee spent extensive time Oct. 19 discussing a proposal to require all‑electric power for new building permits filed beginning Jan. 1, 2021, with limited exceptions and an administrative process for waivers.
Sponsor Supervisor Rafael Mandelman described feasibility examples — including an affordable nine‑story project — and proposed two technical amendments: incorporate DBI administrative‑bulletin language to clarify feasibility and to prevent financial infeasibility from…
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