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Supervisor Preston Wins Phased Approach for Market‑Octavia 'Hub' Plan; Committee Advances Three Key Sites
Summary
After lengthy testimony from labor, community groups and developers, the committee accepted Supervisor Dean Preston’s amendments to phase the Market & Octavia 'Hub' area plan: three vetted projects (30 Van Ness, 10 S. Van Ness, 98 Franklin) advance now; remaining parcels are paused pending a community‑led racial and social equity analysis and further amendments were forwarded to the Board.
The Land Use committee took up a major package of four related items (general plan and zoning amendments, a Housing Sustainability District overlay, and related code changes) to implement the Market & Octavia area plan, commonly called the Hub.
Planning staff described the package as a substantial rezoning across roughly 84 acres intended to add housing capacity (about a 20% increase compared with current entitlements), provide up to $682 million for affordable housing and nearly $1 billion in total public benefits for parks, transit and community facilities, and apply a new racial and social equity assessment tool.
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