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Supervisors’ Land-Use Panel backs ordinance to ease zoning rules for child care centers
Summary
The Land Use Committee voted to forward an ordinance that would simplify Planning Code definitions for child care, make most child care centers principally permitted, exempt them from neighborhood notification, and allow shared open space during weekday hours to expand capacity.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee voted July 10 to send an ordinance to the full Board that would loosen local zoning rules to help expand child care capacity across the city. Sponsor Supervisor Norman Yee said the measure responds to a severe shortage of licensed care for young children.
Planning Department staff said the measure would replace multiple, conflicting local definitions with a single definition consistent with state law, allow child care facilities to be principally permitted in…
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