San Francisco Planning Department : Planning Code Change Summaries

Recent Changes to the Planning Code

Below are summaries of recently adopted planning and land use legislation, and links to the adopted ordinances (beginning with most recent). For information on pending legislation, please contact the sponsoring entity or the Clerk of the Board. Please note that while there may be a delay between the effective date of legislation and the integration of that legislation into the online Planning Code, the Department is obligated to implement new legislation upon the effective date.

Board File #	Code Summary	Adopted Ordinance
12-1033	LCCUs in RTO-M Districts	NO. 0231-12
12-0996	Efficiency Dwelling Units: Numerical Cap and Open & Common Space Requirements	NO. 0242-12
12-0882	Administrative Code - Housing Trust Fund Monitoring Reports	NO. 0230-12
12-0816	Port Pre-Payment of Jobs-Housing Linkage Fee	NO. 0232-12
12-0773	Reinstating Liquor Controls and Establishing CU Requirement for Limited Restaurants in Union Street NCD	NO. 0214-12
12-0665 12-0666 12-0667 12-0685	Transit Center District Plan	NO. 0182-12 NO. 0183-12 NO. 0184-12 NO. 0185-12
12-0631	Parking Tax Simplification for Residential Properties	NO. 0209-12
12-0528	Mills Act Contracts and Fee Reduction	NO. 0190-12
12-0523	Transit Impact Development Fee Update	NO. 0247-12
12-0471 12-0472 12-0751	LCCUs, LCUs, Bike Parking, Automobile Service Station Conversions, and Clerical Modifications	NO. 0173-12 NO. 0174-12 NO. 0176-12
12-0353	19th Avenue – Mechanical Carwashes	NO. 0201-12
12-0241	Outer Sunset and Parkside Named NCDs	NO. 0175-12
12-0220	Signage Requirements for Privately-owned Public Open Spaces	NO. 0228-12
12-0188	Small Business Month May 2012 – Planning, Building Codes - Fee Waiver	NO. 0063-12
12-0047	Adding Financial Services as Formula Retail	NO. 0106-12
11-1374	Student Housing	NO. 0188-12
11-1337	Extension of Time for Legitimization of Existing Nonconforming Uses in the Eastern Neighborhoods	NO. 0061-12
11-1305	Glen Park Neighborhood Commercial Transit District (Glen Park NCT)	NO. 0035-12
11-1247	Five Foot Height Bonus on Certain NC Districts in the Richmond District	NO. 0092-12
11-1078	India Basin Industrial Park Special Use District Amendment	NO. 0026-12
11-0853	New Planning Code Public Artworks Requirement	NO. 0062-12
11-0786	Eastern Neighborhoods Code Cleanup	NO. 0196-11
11-0785	Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings	NO. 0199-11
11-0767	Mission Alcohol Restricted Alcohol Use District	NO. 0220-11
11-0592	Inner Clement, Outer Clement and Geary Neighborhood Commercial Controls	NO. 0170-11
11-0590	Reconstruction of Buildings or Uses Damaged or Destroyed by Calamity, Fire or Acts of God	NO. 0224-11
11-0506	Limited Live Performance Permit for Indoor Locales	NO. 0172-11
11-0482	Miscellaneous Technical Amendments	NO. 0140-11
11-0448	City Center Special Sign District	NO. 0195-11
11-0277	Vintage Sign Controls	NO. 0160-11
11-0070	Upper Fillmore NCD	NO. 0056-11
11-0024	Correction to Market and Octavia Area Plan Zoning	NO. 0060-11
11-0010	Active Use on Certain Fillmore & Upper Market Properties	NO. 0062-11
11-0009	Area Plan Fee Waiver Criteria for Affordable Housing	NO. 0047-11
10-1537	Urban Agriculture	NO. 0066-11
10-1523	Development Impact and In-Lieu Fees	NO. 0055-11
10-1464	Upper Market Neighborhood Commercial District Controls	NO. 0025-11
10-1445	Banners on the Path of Gold	NO. 0013-11
10-1351	New Regulations for Street Food (a.k.a. Mobile Food Facilities)	NO. 0297-10
10-1350	Parking in SoMa	NO. 0109-11
10-1313	Bayshore Boulevard Home Improvement Special Use District	NO. 0313-10
10-1247	The Visitacion Valley Community Facilities and Infrastructure Fee and Fund	NO. 0003-11
10-1200	Section 128: Transfer of Development Rights	NO. 0256-10
10-1194	Pedestrian and Streetscape Improvements (Better Streets Plan)	NO. 0310-10
10-1095	Affordable Housing Exemption for Qualified Student Housing	NO. 0321-10
10-1094	Child Care Feasibility Study	NO. 0001-11
10-1091	Notice Requirement for “Other Entertainment” in the Van Ness Avenue SUD	NO. 0005-11
10-1057	Health Care Services Master Plan	NO. 0300-10
10-1053	Consistent Street Frontages II	NO. 0063-11
10-0917	Area Plan Impact Fee and Jobs-Housing Linkage Program Modifications	NO. 0270-10
10-0829	Car-Share Controls	NO. 0286-10
10-0804	Child Care Facilities	NO. 0365-10
10-0434	Castro Street NCD – Eating & Drinking Uses	NO. 0229-10
10-0047	Affordable Housing Controls	NO. 0036-10
10-0046	Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program Section 415	NO. 0312-12
10-0041	Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permits and Associated Fees	NO. 0012-11
09-1475 09-1476	Integrating the Market and Octavia Plan Level Historic Preservation Survey into the Market and Octavia Plan	NO. 0072-10 NO. 0081-10
09-1453	Green Landscaping Ordinance	NO. 0084-10
09-1251 09-1275	Development Stimulus & Fee Reform	NO. 0107-10 NO. 0108-10
09-1271	Street Frontages For Most Districts	NO. 0085-10
09-1209	Interim Zoning Controls for the Bayshore Corridor	NO. 0115-10
09-1208	Noe-24th Street NCD – Eating & Drinking Uses	NO. 0101-10
09-1165	Off-Street Residential Parking & Garage Requirements in District 3	NO. 0077-10
09-1053	Voluntary Soft-Story Seismic Upgrades on Wood-Frame Buildings	NO. 0054-10
09-0963	Tobacco Paraphernalia Establishments on Polk Street	NO. 0389-09
09-0962	Change in Definition of Tobacco Paraphernalia Establishments & Changes to T.P.E’s Within the Polk Street NCD	NO. 0003-10
09-0906	Double-Density Bonus: Sections 209.1(m) & (n) & 102.6(1)	NO. 0130-10
09-0867	Planning Code Amendment Related to the San Francisco Bicycle Plan	NO. 0187-09
09-0554	Building Code: Vacant & Abandoned Buildings	NO. 0194-09
09-0523	Eastern Neighborhoods Citizens Advisory Committee	NO. 0230-09
09-0420	India Basin Industrial Park Rezoning and New SUD	NO. 0141-09
09-0402	New Massage Controls	NO. 0139-09
09-0392	Amendment to Planning Code Section 309.1: Height Modifications in Downtown Residential (DTR) Districts	NO. 0142-09
09-0319	5’ Height Exception for Ground Floor Commercial Uses in NC-1 Parcels in District 11	NO. 0005-10
09-0274	Union Street NCD: Small Self-Service Restaurants and/or Specialty Food, Self-Service Uses	NO. 0098-09
09-0141	Haight Street NCD & Lower Haight Street Tobacco Paraphernalia Restricted Use District: Tobacco Paraphernalia Establishments	NO. 0151-09
09-0026	Amendments to Building Code Section 109A Certificates of Completion & Occupancy and Amendments to Planning Code Section 359 Payment of Fees Prior to Issuance of Certificate of Occupancy	NO. 0103-09
08-1620	2008 Ordinance to Correct Inadvertent Errors in the Planning Code	NO. 0051-09
08-1564	Regulate the Conversion of Large Tourist Hotel Rooms into Condominiums	NO. 0014-09
08-1504	Amendments to Planning Code Sections 803.4 and 815: Massage Services in South of Market Residential/Service Mixed Use District	NO. 0049-09
08-1249	315.6: Affordable Housing Requirements - In Lieu Fees Being Set Aside for Small-Site Rehabilitation of Buildings	NO. 0063-09
08-1247	Conditional Use Authorization for New Development in Bernal South Slope	NO. 0294-08
08-1234	Chinatown: Formula Retail Regulations	NO. 0269-08
08-1232	Formula Retail CU in RC-4 Districts (Van Ness Avenue)	NO. 0301-08
08-1100	Amendments Relating to Allowing a Five-Foot Height Bonus for Active Ground Floor Uses for Certain Parcels along Mission Street and Minor Revisions to Section 263.20	NO. 0321-08
08-1004	Interim Controls on Major Rights of Way Along & Near the Southern 19th Avenue Corridor	NO. 0457-08
08-1002	Amendments relating to Violations of Provisions Relating to General Advertising Signs	NO. 0290-08
08-0934	Amendments relating to the San Francisco Health Code, the Building Code and the Mechanical Code to require special ventilation for residential development in “Potential Roadway Exposure Zones”	NO. 0281-08
08-0883	Creating the New Mission-Harrington Special Use District	NO. 0253-08
08-0696	Article 7 Eating & Drinking Definitions & North Beach NCD Controls	NO. 0245-08
08-0282	Section 315.5 - Off-Site Affordable Housing Requirements	NO. 0198-08
08-0232	Medical Cannabis Dispensaries Permit Deadline	NO. 0090-08
08-0210	Section 317 - Loss of Dwelling Units through Merger, Conversion, and Demolition	NO. 0069-08
08-0156	Conditional Use for Specified Educational Services in Western SoMa	NO. 0035-08
08-0095	Requirements for Off-Street Parking & Loading	NO. 0112-08
08-0065	Interim Moratorium on Enterprises that Sell Tobacco Paraphernalia	NO. 0064-08
07-1674	North Beach Height Clarification	NO. 0087-08
07-1669	Section 719 – Haight Street NCD Full-Service Restaurants	NO. 0088-08
07-1651	Administrative Penalties	NO. 0057-08
07-1564	Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area C Interim Controls	NO. 0697-07
07-1534	Interim Moratorium on Institutional Uses in the Western SoMa	NO. 0280-07
07-1531	New Fringe Financial Restricted Use District in the Excelsior	NO. 0075-08
07-1528	41-F Administration Code: Large Tourist Hotel Conversion Ordinance	NO. 0041-08
07-1464	Section 785 – Excelsior Alcohol Restricted Use District	NO. 0070-08
07-1216	Wind Turbine Height Exemption in Bernal Heights SUD	NO. 0247-07
07-1122	Interim Zoning Controls Requiring CU for New Development in the Bernal Heights Brewster/Joy Neighborhood	NO. 0564-07
07-0851	Polk Street NCD – Non-Residential Use Size Change	NO. 0251-07
07-0738	Inner Clement NCD – 3 New Full-Service Restaurants & Wine/Beer Bars	NO. 0250-07
07-0678	Revisions to the Institutional Master Plan & Health Planner Review	NO. 0279-07
07-0671	Fringe Financial Legislation Summary	NO. 0269-07
07-0617	Article 7 - Grocery & Liquor Stores Definition Change	NO. 0260-07

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