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Committee advances amendment to hotel conversion rule amid SRO owner objections and pending litigation
Summary
The committee advanced an amendment to the administrative code to change the definition of tourist/transient use under the hotel conversion ordinance (effective tenancy term under discussion). SRO owners and an industry coalition warned the change could displace weekly renters and urged the committee to wait for a pending court decision; committee forwarded the item to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted to send to the full Board an ordinance amending the administrative code to revise the definition of "tourist or transient use" under the hotel conversion ordinance, a change tied to the minimum tenancy term used to distinguish conversions to hotels. The clerk read the item and committee members noted it had been continued from the prior week with a title amendment.
Multiple speakers representing SRO owners and the San Francisco SRO Hotel Coalition argued the proposed change should include…
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