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Committee adopts amendments and sends San Francisco smoke‑free multiunit housing ordinance to full Board
Summary
After a Department of Public Health presentation and extensive public comment, the committee adopted non‑substantive amendments and voted 3‑0 to forward the ordinance (which includes a medical‑cannabis exemption and eviction protections) to the full Board without recommendation.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on Nov. 12 adopted amendments to an ordinance that would prohibit smoking inside private dwelling units in multiunit housing buildings of three or more units and then forwarded the measure to the full Board of Supervisors without a committee recommendation.
Board President Norman Yee, the ordinance’s lead sponsor, told the committee the change would extend residents’ right to breathe smoke‑free air in their homes, and he summarized three clarifying amendments: maintain the existing common‑area prohibition for two‑unit buildings while applying the new rule to buildings with three or more units; explicitly cover housing used to provide childcare;…
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