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San Francisco supervisors approve consent slate including Harvey Milk Plaza landmark and ban on algorithmic rent tools
Summary
At its Sept. 3 meeting the Board of Supervisors adopted multiple consent ordinances and resolutions, including designation of Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag installation at Harvey Milk Plaza as a landmark and a city ordinance prohibiting algorithmic devices from setting rents or managing occupancy levels for residential units.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Sept. 3 adopted a series of consent ordinances and resolutions, including landmark protection for the rainbow flag installation at Harvey Milk Plaza and a prohibition on algorithmic devices used to set rents.
The board took the consent agenda and individual items without objection. The planning code was amended to designate Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag installation at the southwest corner of Market Street and Castro Street as a city landmark. Supervisors also adopted an administrative-code amendment that, according to the clerk’s reading, "prohibit[s] the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels for residential dwellings" in San Francisco.
Supporters framed the algorithmic-device prohibition as a tenant-protection measure and a national example. During the meeting President Peskin described the ordinance as a step that will make San Francisco “the 1st city in America to pass such a law” (per the meeting transcript). The ordinance text read into the record exempts appliances covered by federal law where preemption applies.
Other items finalized on the consent calendar included a transportation-code amendment waiving fees for certain temporary street closures for events through June 30, 2027, and a mix of grant-authorizing resolutions for Recreation and Parks, the Department of Public Health and other departments.
Taken together, the actions advance local preservation, event management, public-health programming and tenant-protection policy. The board closed the consent segment and moved on to other business and public comment.
