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Planning Commission recommends approving Shared Housing Reform Act with modifications, 4–2
Summary
The commission voted 4–2 to recommend approval of the Shared Housing Reform Act (Ordinance No. 250,719), which replaces the term 'family' with 'household', sets a nine‑lease threshold for new construction, and reclassifies small residential care facilities as residential uses; commissioners added modifications to exempt residential care facilities from inclusionary requirements and shorten staff report‑back to two years.
The San Francisco Planning Commission recommended approval on Nov. 13 of an ordinance to modernize the planning code’s definition of who can occupy a dwelling unit, advancing a substitute sponsored by Supervisor Bilal Mahmood.
Raynel Cooper, a legislative aide for Supervisor Mahmood, told commissioners the measure replaces the planning‑code term “family” with “household,” removes shared‑meal and blood‑relationship requirements, and creates a lease cap intended to preserve inclusionary housing triggers. "Moving away from a relationship based definition of dwelling unit helps bring our definition better in line with those at the state level," Cooper said.
Planning staff explained the…
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