The Land Use and Transportation Committee met in City Hall with Chair Supervisor Myrna Melgar, Vice Chair Supervisor Cheyenne Chen, and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood. The committee considered two ordinances: (1) proposed Planning Code changes related to driveway parking (continued to allow further amendments by the sponsor), and (2) Building Code amendments establishing an expedited permitting process for hydrogen fueling station equipment installation to comply with a 2024 state law (SB 1418). Items were noted as expected to appear on the full Board of Supervisors agenda of January 27, 2026, unless otherwise stated.
Item 1: Planning Code—permit parking of up to two operable vehicles in certain yards/setbacks (with exclusions)
Item 2: Building Code—hydrogen fuel station equipment installation permitting
Hello, good afternoon everyone. A meeting will come to order. Welcome to the January 12, 2025 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. I am Supervisor Myrna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood. The committee clerk today is John Carroll. I would also like to acknowledge Suis Enos from SFGovTV for staffing 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 may have 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 comments to me at john.carroll at sfgov.org, or you may send your written public comment to our office in City Hall, that is the Clerk's Office, room 244 in City Hall's address is 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California 94102 if you submit public comment in writing I will 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 items on today's agenda are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of January 27th 2026 unless otherwise stated thank you mr. clerk please call item number one agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to permit parking of up to two operable vehicles not including boats trailers recreational vehicles mobile homes or buses in driveways located in required front setbacks side yards or rear yards the ordinance affirms the Planning Department's secret determination and makes findings of consistency with the general plan and they had priority policies of Planning Code section 101 point one as well as Planning Code section three zero two okay thank you so So the mayor, who is the sponsor of this legislation, is still working out some amendments to the legislation and has requested that we continue this item. So I will make a motion to continue this item to our next meeting of Monday, January 26, after we take public comment. Thank you, Madam Chair. Land use and transportation will now hear public comment related to agenda item number one, planning code changes permitting parking in driveways. If you have public comment for this item, please line up to speak and come forward to the lectern now. Good morning, Supervisors. Tom Adulovich with Livable City. As we've discussed before, this ordinance kind of presented itself as just like a little bit of car populism, right? If you've got a driveway, you can park in it. It's a deeply flawed piece of legislation because it does a whole lot more than that. It would allow the creation of driveways to garages that don't exist, neither the garage nor the driveway in front yards, rear yards, etc. all over the city. So basically would lead to large-scale paving of people's yards. It would also absolve developments. Right now if you convert living or car space, car storage space off street to a storefront or to living space, you're supposed to seal up the driveway, you're supposed to put the curb back, you're supposed to put in street trees, you're supposed to heal the city, you're supposed to put in a better sidewalk and green the place, it would absolve developers of that responsibility. Now, I think there's a few problems with this.