The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors met on July 13, 2026, at 10:15 AM (scheduled) but the transcript begins with "Good afternoon," indicating the meeting likely occurred later in the day. Chaired by Supervisor Mirna Melgar, joined by Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmud, the committee considered three ordinances and a hearing on transit accessibility for families. The three ordinances were all approved unanimously and forwarded to the full Board. The hearing was continued to the call of the chair.
Good afternoon everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the July 13th, 2026 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'm Supervisor Mirna Melgar, chair of this committee, joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal Mahmud. The committee clerk today is uh John Carroll, and I also want to give a special thanks and shout out to Kalina Mendoza from SFgov TV for staffing us during 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 that 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 comments to me at J O H N period C A R R O L L at SFGOV.org. Or you may send your written comments via U.S. Postal Service to our office in City Hall. The clerk's office is room 244 and City Hall's address is one. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place, San Francisco, California 94102. If you submit public comment in writing, I will forward your comments to the members of this committee, and I will also include your comments as part of the official file on which you are commenting. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of July 21st, 2026, unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you so much. Um Mr. Clerk, let's go to item number one, please. Agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to increase the number of guest rooms for hotel uses permitted as a conditional use in RH2, residential house two family, RH3, residential house three family, RM1, residential mixed low density, RM2, residential mixed moderate density, RM3, residential mixed medium density, RM4, residential mixed high density, RTO1, residential transit oriented neighborhood, and RTOM residential transit oriented mission districts, from five or fewer rooms to ten or fewer rooms. Specified that the planning commission shall consider the effects on an existing home's quality and viability as an independent dwelling unit where a conditional use application seeks to establish a hotel within a single family home, affirming the planning department's secret determination and making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section one and one point one and making findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare pursuant to planning code section 302. Okay, thank you. Good afternoon, Chair Melgar, uh Supervisor Chen and Supervisor Mahmood. Um this is the same item from uh two weeks ago at the last line use and transportation meeting. I was forwarded to this meeting because of the substantive amendments. Um I can speak to it again if you would like. Um it's uh our legislation to help out bed and breakfasts um in residential districts by increasing the uh cap on the number of rooms they can have from five to ten. Um pending your questions, um that'll be it for my remarks. Okay, I I did have one question, um, and that is do you did you consider when you were uh working with the planning department on this on putting uh controls over the total number of fees uh that could go in a within a residential area? Or is that existing? Uh there's no total cap on the number. I believe from uh our view as well as the planning department's review when we were uh speaking them through the process um the sort of gate on having too many of these, and you know, for example, you know, maybe trying to take away housing, um, is the fact that these all have to be approved conditionally as conditional use authorizations. Um so every single uh one of these, if if they want to have um, you know, anywhere from five and ten rooms will have to be approved as a conditional use authorization by the planning commission. Okay, so if there was any neighborhood concern uh over this use, it would happen at the access number of of you know uh application that gets approved through the natural process. Absolutely, they would get notified and would be able to speak to their concerns. Okay, thank you so much. Um, I don't see anyone else on the roster with questions or comments, so let's go to public comment on this item, please. Thank you, madam chair, land use and transportation. We'll now hear public comment related to agenda item number one, hotel uses in RHRM and RTO districts. If you have public comment for this item, please come forward to the lector. And madam chair, it appears we have no speakers. Okay. Public comment at this item is now closed. Uh colleagues, I'd like to make a motion that we send this item forward to the full board with a positive recommendation.