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Committee backs new dwelling-unit mix option to encourage more family-sized units, continues item for technical fixes
Summary
Supervisors accepted an amendment offering developers an alternate dwelling-unit mix (35% two- or three-bedroom units with a 10% three-bedroom floor) to encourage family-sized units; committee continued the item one week to resolve technical zoning references.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee on April 17 approved consideration of a new dwelling-unit mix option intended to encourage more family-sized housing in specified districts and continued the item one week for technical adjustments.
Supervisor Norman Yee said the amendment of the whole would offer developers an alternative unit-mix option requiring 35 percent of dwelling units to have two or three bedrooms and establishing a 10 percent minimum of three-bedroom units. Yee said the option is intended to be economically neutral to developers while producing more three-bedroom units than current options.
Planning staff (Aaron Starr) noted the Planning Commission recommended providing the new option in specified districts (Eastern Neighborhoods and several form-based districts) and suggested expanding the option to other density-controlled neighborhoods. Public testimony — from multifamily developers, neighborhood groups and SPUR — generally supported the amendment as a flexible additional option to produce more family-sized units, while noting potential interactions with forthcoming inclusionary-housing requirements.
Action and next steps: The committee accepted the amendment of the whole and an additional amendment to include more districts for consideration, then voted to continue the item for one week (to April 24) so staff can resolve a zoning reference and other technical edits before the file moves forward.
