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MESSAGE FROM SUPERVISOR STEPHEN SHERRILL










Friends,

I’m excited to report that, on Monday, the Land Use Committee here at the Board accepted our amendments to the Family Zoning Plan. This has been a painstaking process, but I’m very grateful to the neighborhood associations and residents who weighed in on these.

Our amendments focused on two main areas:
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Incentivizing new projects to prioritize larger units (with 2 and 3 bedrooms) more suitable for families, and
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Ensuring existing community resources are maintained (including: an important senior living facility, a critical dialysis clinic, and the Marina Safeway).District 2 was the only Supervisorial district to successfully amend the Family Zoning map (
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Throughout the year, I’ve heard from hundreds of residents about how we can thoughtfully add more homes and families to our neighborhoods, ensuring the next generation of San Franciscans can not only live here but thrive here.

I’ve met with every neighborhood association and reviewed our district parcel by parcel to identify where new housing capacity can be added while still protecting the community resources that matter most. From these conversations, we developed a strategy that concentrates new density near existing tall buildings, on underused surface-level parking lots, and along commercial corridors with frequent transit — places where people can enjoy the walkable, vibrant neighborhoods that make San Francisco so special.

Now let’s get into the details:


As many of you are aware, the
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Family Zoning Plan has gone through several hearings at the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee, chaired by Supervisor Myrna Melgar. Most recently, the Family Zoning Plan was heard at the November 17th committee hearing this week, and it will be heard again on Monday, December 1st. This timeline keeps the City on track to approve the Family Zoning Plan plan before a state-mandated January 2026 deadline. If we don’t meet this deadline, we risk:
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The State taking control of our local zoning rules, potentially overriding them altogether,
- Losing hundreds of millions in state funding needed to keep MUNI running and to sustain affordable housing.
Beginning with the October 20th committee hearing, I — along with several other Supervisors — brought varied amendments to the plan to varying success. During the October 20th meeting, I joined Supervisor Danny Sauter to introduce amendments that incentivized future projects to build more family-sized homes as opposed to studios and one-bedrooms (
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At the most recent committee hearing on November 17th, I successfully brought a few tailored amendments to the zoning map, helping ensure that community resources are prioritized and that this plan meticulously analyzes impacts parcel-by-parcel wherever possible. These most recent map changes include lowering potential building heights at a senior living facility and dialysis clinic on Geary Blvd, the Aquatic Park area on North Point St., and removing the Marina Safeway from the Family Zoning Plan. I focused on these three specific areas because it is vital that the future of housing in San Francisco accommodates existing community resources as we plan for future growth.

These map changes were a result of multiple rounds of community outreach that my office conducted through town halls, meetings with neighborhood associations, door knocking chats with residents, office hours over coffee, and more.


Again, my office was the only Supervisorial district to successfully amend specific parcels on the zoning map (
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SF Examiner ). These amendments were added to the zoning map because my office was meticulous, worked within state requirements, and pushed forward these tailored changes on behalf of District 2 constituents.


I recognize that everyone will not see eye-to-eye on this plan. But I know that we share a common goal: making this city accessible, affordable, and attractive so that all San Franciscans can live, grow, and thrive.


As always, I welcome everyone to the many more community discussions that we will have on the future of housing in San Francisco. These proposed changes are one step of perhaps twenty to improve the cost of living in San Francisco. My office will continue to work on the remaining steps, including reducing construction costs, expediting our onerous permitting process, and other recommendations from housing policy experts. If we stop the affordability conversation with the passage of the Family Zoning Plan, we will have failed in our goal.


There are many more issues this Board of Supervisors must address, including public safety, downtown revitalization, strengthening our transit system, and more.


I look forward to tackling these issues together.


Best,


Stephen Sherrill








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