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Committee approves hospital fee changes to San Francisco’s Transportation Sustainability Fee and forwards ordinance to full Board
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to forward amendments to the planning code establishing a citywide Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) that includes an $18.74 fee per net new hospital bed and an $11 fee on medical-service buildings over 12,000 sq ft; the change narrows prior hospital exemptions and clarifies calculation rules.
The San Francisco Land Use and Transportation Committee unanimously approved amendments to the city’s planning code on Thursday to apply a new Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) to certain hospital and medical-service developments and forwarded the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.
Chair Supervisor Malia Cohen, who led negotiations with the hospital council and multiple city departments, said the compromise replaces an earlier, broader exemption for hospitals. "The first is an $18.74 fee on net new hospital beds, effective immediately," Cohen read into the record, and described a separate "$11…
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