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Rules Committee advances amended PDR replacement and conditional‑use measure, but supervisors and stakeholders press for more study
Summary
The Rules Committee signed off on several amendments to a proposed ballot ordinance requiring conditional‑use review and replacement space for PDR, arts and institutional/community uses, adopting grandfathering and zoning changes while continuing the item for further work and eliciting objections from Supervisor Malia Cohen and developer and labor representatives.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ special Rules Committee advanced, with amendments and a continuation for further work, a proposed ballot ordinance that would require conditional‑use authorization and replacement space when production, distribution and repair (PDR), arts or institutional/community uses are converted. The committee met July 18, 2016, and accepted several sponsor‑proposed changes while stakeholders and some supervisors urged a legislative approach and more analysis.
The ordinance proposed for submission to voters would add a conditional‑use (CU) trigger for conversions of PDR, arts and institutional/community uses in the Mission, Eastern SoMa and Western SoMa area plans (and Central SoMa if adopted) and would require replacement space in enumerated zoning districts. Planning staff and the sponsor outlined tiered replacement ratios and exemptions during the hearing. April Vanarasian Ng of Supervisor Kim’s office said the amendments clarify that replacement space must match the prior non‑temporary use (so a prior PDR would be replaced by PDR)…
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