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Supervisors send Ocean Avenue ordinance to full board to preserve small storefronts and add arts uses
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted 3–0 to send to the full Board an ordinance that would limit lot frontages, encourage smaller commercial spaces on Ocean Avenue, relax some neighborhood-notice requirements for certain uses, and add arts activity as a permitted use to help small businesses recover.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Wednesday voted to send to the full Board of Supervisors an ordinance aimed at preserving smaller storefronts on Ocean Avenue and legally recognizing arts activity as a ground-floor use.
The ordinance, brought by Supervisor Yee and presented by his chief of staff Jen Low, would require planners to consider smaller commercial spaces when large lots are created, limit lot frontages to 50 feet on Ocean Avenue’s Neighborhood Commercial Transit (NCT) district, create specified exceptions from neighborhood-notice procedures for certain uses, and affirm related planning findings. "This legislation aims to do two things," Jen Low said: to…
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