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Committee forwards amended inclusionary housing ordinance to full Board amid debate over 25% requirement
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee approved amendments and voted to send an implementing inclusionary housing ordinance to the full Board with a 2–1 committee vote. Critics said setting a 25% rate without a feasibility study risks reducing overall housing production; supporters said amendments protect pipeline projects and will be guided by a forthcoming controller study.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on May 3 advanced an amended implementing ordinance to carry out the 25% inclusionary target approved in the charter amendment, forwarding the measure to the full Board with a committee recommendation.
Supervisor Erin Peskin, who presented and read multiple technical and substantive amendments into the record, said the changes clarified fee limits, added litigation‑related deadline extensions, and preserved certain project‑specific approvals. Peskin also told the committee the ordinance and associated amendments had already helped produce roughly 200 units of affordable housing that otherwise would not have been built.
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