"In a marathon meeting that lasted more than 10 hours, the San Francisco Planning Commission late Thursday night voted 4-3 to recommend that the Board of Supervisors pass Mayor Daniel Lurie's plan to upzone vast swaths of the city. The plan, branded by Lurie as the Family Zoning Plan, took a long-standing project to rezone the city's western neighborhoods (until April it was known as the Western Neighborhoods plan) and expanded its reach and scope."
"Speaking to a room filled mostly with Planning Department staff at 7:45 p.m. (most public commenters left after saying their piece) Planning Commissioners advocated for amendments and legislation to accompany the plan, particularly protections for small businesses and tenants displaced by new development, plus a better plan to ensure that affordable housing, not just market rate housing, will be built."
"These amendments and bills were enough to satisfy four members of the Commission. "We're stuck in a decades-long cycle of housing scarcity. That scarcity creates uncertainty, fear, and inequality," Commissioner Lydia So said. "Mayor Lurie's family zoning plan offers a relatively reasonable, locally driven path forward.""
The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 4-3 after a marathon meeting to recommend the Board of Supervisors adopt Mayor Daniel Lurie's Family Zoning Plan. The plan expands a longstanding Western Neighborhoods rezoning effort to allow higher and denser development across the west side and in portions of North Beach, the Marina, the Castro, NoPa, Noe Valley, and the Haight. Commissioners sought accompanying amendments and legislation to protect small businesses, tenants displaced by new development, and to ensure production of affordable housing rather than only market-rate units. Four commissioners supported the plan conditional on those amendments, while one commissioner criticized it as responding only to mandated housing numbers without offering a broader vision.
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