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Committee amends and advances PDR/arts preservation initiative; continues measure for further review
Summary
Supervisor Jane Kim presented a planning‑code initiative to require conditional use authorization and replacement of PDR, institutional and arts/community space; the committee adopted multiple amendments, agreed on exemptions (including for 100% affordable projects and certain approved projects), adopted a grandfathering exemption for projects with environmental evaluations submitted by 06/14/2016, and continued the item for a special Rules Committee meeting.
Supervisor Jane Kim told the Special Rules Committee the proposed ordinance would require conditional‑use review and replacement when production, distribution and repair (PDR), institutional, community or arts‑activity space is converted. Kim said the measure aims to preserve workspace and community uses as the city grows and to offer developers a clear set of replacement rules.
Kim proposed a package of amendments during the hearing: grammatical corrections, adding the Mission neighborhood to statements of impact, aligning the conditional‑use and replacement requirements so they apply to the same plan areas, exempting Port and Recreation and Park…
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