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Commission endorses shifting planning fees earlier and adopts planning-code corrections

San Francisco Planning Commission · October 23, 2025
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Summary

The commission unanimously recommended an ordinance to collect planning fees at application submission (rather than at building-permit issuance) and approved a separate batch of planning-code corrections; staff said the changes improve cost recovery, predictability and streamline fee tables for CEQA.

On Oct. 23 the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a planning-fees ordinance that shifts fee collection from building-permit issuance to the submission of development applications and to approve a 2025 code corrections ordinance addressing cross-references and other technical fixes.

Veronica Flores (Planning Department) told commissioners the fee-timing change aligns fee collection with staff review,…

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