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Committee delays major Market & Octavia ‘Hub’ rezoning after lengthy testimony on housing, equity and displacement
Summary
The committee heard presentations on a package of four measures to amend the Market & Octavia area plan and create a Hub Housing Sustainability District that could add about 1,600 housing units (including ~400 affordable) and generate hundreds of millions for public benefits. After hours of public comment split between supporters and groups urging an equity review, supervisors voted to continue the package one week (3-0).
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Monday took up a multi-part rezoning package for the Market & Octavia area — called the “Hub” — that planning staff said would allow taller housing near transit and generate large revenues for affordable housing and public infrastructure, but drew extensive public comment both supporting and urging delay for a racial and social equity analysis.
Anne Marie Rogers, the Planning Department’s director of citywide policy, told the committee the Hub responds to prior Board direction to add housing near downtown and to center equity. Lily Langlois, the department’s plan manager, outlined the package of four legislative pieces — a general-plan amendment, planning-code amendments, a zoning-map amendment, and a business-and-tax regulation…
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