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Board committee advances citywide Transportation Sustainability Fee despite hospitals' plea for exemption
Summary
The Land Use Committee voted to forward a new citywide Transportation Sustainability Fee to the full Board with a positive recommendation, after hospitals and the Chamber urged restoring a charitable exemption; supervisors debated whether to reinstate the hospital exemption but moved the ordinance forward for Nov. 3.
San Francisco's Land Use Committee voted to forward an ordinance that establishes a new citywide Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) and suspends the existing transit impact development fee, even as hospital representatives urged supervisors to reinstate a charitable exemption for nonprofit hospitals.
Corey Teague of the San Francisco Planning Department told the committee the latest package includes mainly technical clarifications: revised grandfathering language, a proportional methodology for applying a tiered residential fee, and clarified wording for feasibility studies. "The amendments we are proposing are not substantive. They are, for clarification purposes,"…
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