"DoorDash, the on-demand delivery app, plans to launch a drone testing site on Folsom Street, but the Teamsters Union Local 665, which represents over 70,000 workers in the Bay Area, is pushing back. In August, DoorDash leased a warehouse at 1960 Folsom St. with the intention of developing "aerial delivery systems," using drones that would fly up to 150 feet and eventually deliver some of the orders that today are transported by the company's drivers."
"The same month, the city's zoning administrator, at the request of DoorDash Labs, a subsidiary of the delivery company, determined that the firm could operate drone testing at the Folsom Street site, which is located within a PDR district - "production, distribution and repair." The latter encompasses a wide range of industrial uses from sound engineering to food distribution to auto shops."
DoorDash leased a warehouse at 1960 Folsom Street to develop aerial delivery systems and test drones that could fly up to 150 feet and eventually deliver customer orders. The city's zoning administrator determined that drone testing qualifies as a laboratory use allowed in PDR districts, which permit production, distribution and repair activities. The Teamsters Union Local 665 appealed that decision, arguing drone testing does not fit the city's laboratory definition and would threaten blue-collar jobs in the Mission. PDR zoning aims to retain manufacturing and preserve jobs for low- and middle-income residents, and roughly 23 percent of local employees work in PDR businesses.
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