Good afternoon, everyone.

This meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the May 19th, 2025 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Mirna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Chian Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmud.

The committee clerk today is Mr.

John Carroll.

And I would also like to acknowledge Jeanette Egenlauf at SFGov TV for supporting us staffing this meeting and broadcasting it.

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Clerk, do you have any announcements?

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Thank you.

Mr.

Clerk, please call item number one.

Agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to eliminate retail use size limits on health service uses in the mixed use office district.

It affirms the planning department's determination or to sequel and makes findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1 as well as findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare pursuant to planning code section 302.

Thank you, Mr.

Carroll.

So uh we have Madison Tam here from Supervisor Dorsey's office, a sponsor of this legislation, as well as Veronica Flores from the planning department.

Welcome, Ms.

Tam.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh good afternoon, Chair Melgar.

Excuse me, Chair Melgar, Vice Chair Chen, and Supervisor Mahmood.

This legislation allows for more flexibility and a diversity of uses by eliminating retail use size limits for health service uses and retail ratio requirements in the MUO or mixed use office district.

The part of the MUO district affected by this legislation is at the crossroads of downtown South Beach, South Park, and the embarcadero, neighborhoods with dense housing, office uses, other commercial uses, which offers easy access for both transportation and cars.

This district is also close to the UCSF Mission Bay campus, and it makes it really an ideal location for these purposes for health service uses.

The office and commercial real estate market has changed drastically since 2020, and the supervisor has been very interested in assessing how the code can provide for more flexibility for current and future conditions.

And he's been sponsoring legislation to make the appropriate changes at both the project and district level.

After introducing this legislation, we became aware of an interest from a reproductive health clinic in the district.

So we're supportive of the staff recommendation that you'll hear about in a moment and some of the other commission recommendations.

So uh earlier I circulated amendments and you have a hard copy that implement the staff and commission recommendations, which are the following.

So first, we've added findings that speak to some of the uh rationale that I just mentioned.

Second, we're limiting the scope of the changes in the the of the changes proposed in the legislation to the parts of the MUO that are east of 7th Street.

This was a commission recommendation.

The MUO is a non-contiguous district, so there's two distinct parts of it.

In alignment with Prop O, we're including reproductive health clinics from the proposed exemptions from size limits and removing the retail requirement within the MUO.

So these amendments are substantive.

So, Chair, I'd ask that uh after public comment uh the committee adopt the amendments and continue this item to your next meeting.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Tam.

Welcome, Ms.

Flores.

Thank you, Chair Melgarn.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

Veronica Flores, Planning Department staff.

The planning commission heard this item on April 17th, during which time they adopted a recommendation for approval with modifications.

Um Ms.

Tam already went through these um recommended modifications, but just want to reiterate um the three modifications were to include the reproductive health clinics, remove the retail racial requirements within the MUO.