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Land Use Committee continues planning-code change to streamline large affordable-housing review
Summary
The committee continued an ordinance (Item 1) that would shift review of certain large affordable-housing projects to the planning department and affirmed it will return to the chair for further negotiation among stakeholders.
The Land Use Committee on July 9, 2018 agreed to continue an ordinance amending the planning code to streamline review of large affordable-housing projects and to have that item returned to the call of the chair while parties negotiate.
Chair Katie Chang opened discussion of Item 1, describing the measure as intended to provide planning-department review of large projects located in C-3 districts and to affirm appropriate findings. Supervisor Jane Kim moved to continue the item to the call of the chair so stakeholders could pursue ongoing conversations; the motion passed without objection.
The committee signaled that cleanup language will be made before full-board consideration, including clarifying 'buildable area' language and how the planning and building departments coordinate on procedural matters. No formal vote on the ordinance on the merits was taken at the committee; the continuation preserves space for negotiation and technical amendments before the item returns to the committee or the full Board of Supervisors.
