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Committee advances Planning Code updates to parking and loading rules
Summary
The Land Use Committee advanced an ordinance to update off‑street parking and loading requirements, consolidating and clarifying parking calculations and correcting cross‑references. Planning staff said changes align charts with the Planning Code reorganization; the committee moved the item to the full Board with amendments and a recommendation.
The Land Use Committee on April 24 advanced an ordinance to amend San Francisco’s Planning Code to update off‑street parking and loading requirements, streamline several parking rules and correct clerical errors.
Planning Department legislative staff Diego Sanchez told the committee the measure brings parking and loading tables into alignment with Phase 1 of the Planning Code reorganization and consolidates complex provisions. Sanchez said the proposal reduces five accessory‑parking provisions to two, revises the definition for occupied floor area and relocates conditional‑use findings into a single conditional‑use section to reduce confusion.
"These tables are used to determine parking requirements based on land use or land use activity. They are currently out of date, and these references should be updated," Sanchez said.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin pressed staff for a concrete example. Sanchez said a two‑unit residential building in an RH‑2 district that today could have up to four off‑street spaces would be limited to three under the proposed 150% or 1‑per‑2,000‑square‑foot rules in certain circumstances.
Dylan Au Young of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency testified in support, saying SFMTA appreciated the alignment with recent transportation‑demand management policy. "SFMTA supports this off street parking and loading requirements legislation," Au Young said.
Supervisor Peskin moved to adopt the department’s amendments and forward the ordinance to the full Board with a recommendation; the motion was taken without objection.
What happens next: The ordinance will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda for final consideration on May 2, unless otherwise scheduled.
