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City narrows Chapter 7 changes, adds waiver process for some affordable housing projects
Summary
Staff proposed modest updates to municipal green building rules: continuing the municipal natural gas equipment inventory, streamlining requirements for small projects, updating references to LEED v5, clarifying biodiversity plant lists and expanding waiver options for affordable housing pursuing major-renovation compliance.
San Francisco's Environment Department on Monday presented a limited set of updates to Environment Code Chapter 7 that focus on implementation details, inventory maintenance and a new waiver pathway for certain affordable-housing projects.
Nick Kessner, senior building decarbonization coordinator, told the commission the update is not as comprehensive as the department's 2023 overhaul but includes several operational changes: departments will continue to maintain the municipal natural gas equipment inventory so it does not become…
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