Officials estimate the law, Senate Bill 423, will cut approval time for projects in San Francisco from two years to six months, streamlining that housing advocates consider a much-needed course correction in a city where construction is beset by delays and high costs.
The state-mandated change will transform the City by the Bay from having one of the longest approval times for new housing to one of the shortest, said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who wrote SB 423, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in October.
The law now shields the majority of housing projects from the Board of Supervisors' scrutiny and allows developers to skip through the long wait times, hearings and environmental review processes that tack months, if not years, on to a project's timeline - causing some efforts to stall or be blocked completely.
Wiener said the new rules will spare developers from the 'hyper-political mosh pit' of the housing permitting process in San Francisco, where regulations on where and how homes get built are notoriously stringent.
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