The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Land Use & Transportation Committee met on December 1, 2025 (regular meeting) and advanced several land use and tenant protection measures. Key actions included: (1) recommending approval of a Building Code change setting a 365-day building permit application expiration timeline (2–1 vote); (2) approving amendments and recommending approval of an inclusionary housing alternative tied to voluntary rent control in targeted west-side/high-resource areas (3–0); (3) adopting substantive amendments to the Residential Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO) and continuing the item one week to December 8, 2025 (3–0); and (4) forwarding an expansion of the Central Neighborhoods Large Residence SUD (3–0). The Committee also advanced the “Family Housing Zoning Program / Housing Choice San Francisco Program” package (items 5–7 and 9) with amendments and a positive recommendation (2–1), and tabled a duplicated ordinance vehicle file (item 8) (2–1).
Building permit expiration timing (Item 1; sponsor: Supervisor Bilal Mahmood)
Inclusionary housing alternative via voluntary rent control + land dedication (Item 2; sponsor: Chair Myrna Melgar)
Residential Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO) amendments (Item 3; sponsor: Supervisor Cheyenne Chen; additional amendment by Chair Melgar)
On the TPO (Item 3):
On the Family Housing Zoning Program / Housing Choice SF (Items 5–9):
Item 1 (Building Code permit expiration): Sent to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
Item 2 (Inclusionary alternative via rent control/land dedication): Adopted amendments and sent to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
Item 3 (Residential Tenant Protection Ordinance amendments):
Item 4 (Central Neighborhoods Large Residence SUD expansion; Corona Heights SUD merged/deleted): Sent to the full Board with a positive recommendation as a committee report.
Items 5–9 (Family Housing Zoning Program / Housing Choice SF package):
Next steps noted by the Clerk at the outset: Items acted upon were expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of December 9, 2025, unless otherwise stated (Item 3 was explicitly continued to December 8, 2025 at committee).
Okay, good afternoon everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the December 1st, 2025 regular meeting of the Land, Use, and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I hope everyone had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday last week. I'm Supervisor Myrna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Cheyenne Chen, and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood. The Committee Clerk today is Elisa Samara, and I also want to thank Jeanette Engelauf with SFGovTV for staffing this meeting and broadcasting it to folks in their homes. Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes, Madam Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices you have. Documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the Clerk. 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 on your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. First, you can email them to the land use clerk, John Carroll, at john.carrroll at sfgov.org. Or you may send your written comments via U.S. Postal Service to our office at City Hall. 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlick Place, room 244, San Francisco, California 94102. If you submit public comment in writing, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of December 9th, 2025, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. I appreciate all the members of the public who are here I just wanted to go over a few things because I've heard some feedback that folks are confused especially to the family zoning item of what we are doing and what the public participation will be since this is the fourth hearing of the rezoning item we will limit comment from the public to one minute but we will take public comment because that is required. And we have really two files, one that we created when we duplicated it when this was first introduced and had to go back to planning. Planning heard the amendments in that file which supervisor President Mandelman's amendments dealing with historic preservation and I I understand that the supervisor and the planning department have agreed on all the modifications. It's not controversial. So what we will do is take those amendments into the original file and then table that second file. We're not tabling the amendments. We're just tabling the file because it's a vehicle and it's already served its purpose. We will hopefully, if my colleagues agree, vote on the amendments and put it in the original file, and then we will vote on that file. So that is what we're doing. It is an action, so we will take public comment on that action, but it is about the entirety of the family zoning plan, not just those amendments. So keep that in mind. Okay, so with that, Mr. Clerk, I'm sorry, Madam Clerk, let's go to item number one. Thank you. Yes, agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the building code to revise the timing of expiration of certain building permits and building permit application and affirming the CEQA determination. Thank you so much. Okay, so this was introduced by Supervisor Mahmood. So the floor is yours. Colleagues, appreciate the vote to support this ordinance last time. Again, this ordinance is about amending the building code to reduce some red tape and bureaucracy for any applications submitted to the building department so that it shall expire within 365 days of submittal. Colleagues hope to have your vote again for a second time. Okay. Thank you so much. We took this. We've already heard this item. So Supervisor Chen.