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Supervisors amend Transportation Sustainability Fee but continue ordinance for redrafting
Summary
After lengthy presentations and public comment, the Land Use and Transportation Committee adopted several amendments to the proposed Transportation Sustainability Fee — including removing a plan-area credit, raising a PDR exemption threshold, eliminating a hospital exemption, shortening the feasibility study review period, adding a nonprofit student‑housing exemption and tiering fees — and voted to continue the measure for two weeks so city attorneys can draft a consolidated ordinance.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee spent the bulk of its meeting debating a proposed Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) that would establish a citywide fee to fund transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and suspend the existing Transit Impact Development Fee while the TSF is operative. The proposal, introduced by the mayor with Planning and SFMTA staff, followed a nexus study and economic feasibility work and drew extensive public comment from universities, hospitals, developers, transit advocates and neighborhood groups.
Chair Supervisor Malia Cohen described several amendments she circulated, including removal of the plan-area credit (which she said could keep approximately $1.1 million per year in neighborhoods where development is occurring), raising the PDR exemption threshold from 800 to 1,500 gross square feet, and removing the hospital exemption so large trip-generating hospitals pay the fee. SFMTA and consultant staff described years of stakeholder…
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