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San Bruno staff outlines TOC housing-policy options, eviction-reporting concerns and long-range economic strategy

San Bruno City · August 20, 2025
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Summary

Staff presented a package of housing production and protection policies to meet TOC (tier 6) compliance, including condo-conversion limits, tenant-relocation pay, and a debated eviction-notice reporting requirement; staff warned the city lacks enforcement capacity and outlined a multiyear outreach, EIR and consultant plan leading to public hearings this fall.

San Bruno staff on Wednesday outlined a suite of housing production, protection and preservation policies the city would need to adopt to meet Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) tier-6 compliance, and described a parallel economic-development initiative intended to attract private investment.

The presentation, delivered by a city staff member, said the city must adopt at least two policies in each of three categories—production, regulation and protection—to satisfy the housing-element requirement tied to TOC. The staff member said the first public hearings are scheduled for September with a tentative City Council hearing in October.

"We're both on meeting the minimum requirements of tier 6 compliance, in order to maintain eligibility for regional transportation funding," the staff member said, framing the timeline and the need to align local ordinance language with state/regional requirements.

Key policy proposals included: codifying development-certainty provisions without a sunset to secure long-term credit for production policy #7; a…

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