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Committee forwards 18‑month interim zoning controls to slow conversions of residential care facilities
Summary
The committee unanimously forwarded an 18‑month interim zoning resolution requiring conditional use authorization for conversions of residential care facilities to give the city time to prevent closures and assess capacity; sponsors cited a 26% decline in facilities since 2012 and proposed two nonsubstantive amendments.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Sept. 23 voted to forward to the full Board of Supervisors a resolution imposing 18‑month interim zoning controls that would require conditional use authorization before a residential care facility can be converted to another use. The committee adopted two nonsubstantive drafting amendments and added co-sponsors "without objection."
Supervisor Mandelman, who introduced the resolution, said the measure is intended as "an urgently needed stop gap measure to preserve a crucial component of our city's housing stock for vulnerable disabled and elderly residents." He said the resolution responds to documented losses: "San Francisco has 21 fewer residential care…
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