The Land Use and Transportation Committee met on October 6, 2025, to consider several ordinances and resolutions. Key agenda items included modifications to commercial districts for automotive services, a commemorative street naming for photographer Jim Marshall, landmark designations for 16 historic properties, and zoning amendments for District 3 aimed at easing small business restrictions. The committee approved most items for referral to the full Board of Supervisors, with one zoning item continued for further discussion after amendments.
Good afternoon, everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the October 6, 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 Cheyenne Chen, and Supervisor Bilal Mahmud. The committee clerk today is John Carroll, and I also like to thank Haime Chevery from SFGov TV for supporting us in broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Please ensure that you've silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices you've brought with you into the chamber today. If you have any documents to be included as part of any of today's files, you can submit them directly to me. Public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called. Please line up to speak along your right hand side of this room. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. First, you may email your written comment to me at J-O-H-N. Period C-A-R-R-O-L-L at SFGOV.org. Or you may send your written public comment via U.S. Postal Service to our office in City Hall. And the address for that is one, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place, Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. If you submit your public comment in writing, I'll forward your comments to the members of this committee and also include your comments as part of the official file on which you are commenting. And agenda items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of October 21st, 2025, unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you so much. Let's go ahead and call item number one, please, Mr. Clerk. Agenda item number one is an ordinance modifying the Geary Boulevard Neighborhood Commercial District to authorize outdoor hand washing, vacuuming, and detailing of automobiles as an accessory use in certain automotive service stations. It affirms the planning department sequidetermination and makes findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1 and findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare pursuant to planning code section 302. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, this item was continued from the last time we met because it had substantive amendments. We're not uh getting a presentation today, nor is Supervisor Chan here to talk about our item. So I will go ahead uh, you know, if there's no comments or questions from any of my colleagues, um, let's go to public comment on this item and then we can move it. Thank you, madam chair. Land use and transportation will now hear public comment related to agenda item number one, permitting outdoor hand washing, vacuuming, and detailing of automobiles in the Geary Boulevard in CD. If you have public comment for this item, please come forward to the lecture in at this time. And Madam Chair, it appears we have no speakers. Okay, no public comment. So public comment on this item is now closed. I'd like to make a motion that we uh approve this item to go to the full board uh with a recommendation today. On the motion offered by the chair that this ordinance be sent to the board of supervisors with a recommendation of land use and transportation. Vice Chair Chen. Chen I, Member Machmood Machmood I, Chair Melgar. Aye. Melgar, I. Madam Chair, there are three ayes. Okay, thank you. Uh let's go ahead and call item number two, please. Agenda item number two is a resolution adding the commemorative street name Jim Marshall Way to 16th Street between Noe and Castro in recognition for his contributions to capturing the cultural and music history of San Francisco. Thank you. We are now joined by Board President Raphael Mandelman, who's a sponsor of this item.