# Board of Supervisors Minutes: July 15, 2025

- Meeting date: 2025-07-15
- Document type: minutes
- Pages in official PDF: 32
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## Structured legislative records

### File 250542: Planning Code - Fenestration, Transparency, and Sign Requirements Generally; Sales and Service Uses in the C-3 and RC Districts

- Pages: 25
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: , and conditionally permit catering and laboratory uses on the ground floor in the RC Districts; 4) update transparency and fenestration requirements for ground floor actives uses and exempt child care facilities, homeless shelters, mortuaries, religious institutions, reproductive health clinics, and school uses from those requirements; 5) modify the definition of a Window Sign; 6) modify Planning review and approval of changes in copy of a Sign and Wall and Window Signs applied to doors, windows, or building facades; 7) modify the definition of a Non-Residential Use for the purposes of certain development impact fee waivers; and 8) modify permitted and required ground floor uses in the RH-DTR (“Rincon Hill Downtown Residential”) District, including uses in certain historic buildings, subject to various conditions; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and making findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare pursuant to Planning Code, Section 302. PASSED, ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton

### File 250727: Opposing California State Senate Bill No. 79 (Wiener) Unless Amended - Housing Development: Transit-Oriented Development

- Pages: 25

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### [Page 25](https://sfbos.info/documents/1100/2025-07-15-minutes#page-25)

Board of Supervisors                             Meeting Minutes                                              7/15/2025




COMMITTEE REPORTS


Recommendation of the Land Use and Transportation Committee


250542 [Planning Code - Fenestration, Transparency, and Sign Requirements Generally;
       Sales and Service Uses in the C-3 and RC Districts]
            Sponsors: Mayor; Sauter, Dorsey, Mahmood and Sherrill
            Ordinance amending the Planning Code to 1) principally permit certain non-retail sales and service
            uses, including general office, design professional, business services, non-retail professional
            services, and trade offices, on the ground floor in the C-3 (“Downtown Commercial”) Districts through
            December 31, 2030, after which such uses will be conditionally permitted, and make accompanying
            revisions to required ground floor uses and Floor Area Ratio; 2) principally permit retail sales and
            service uses on the second floor and above in the RC (“Residential-Commercial”) Districts; 3)
            principally permit non-retail sales and service uses on the second floor and above, and conditionally
            permit catering and laboratory uses on the ground floor in the RC Districts; 4) update transparency
            and fenestration requirements for ground floor actives uses and exempt child care facilities, homeless
            shelters, mortuaries, religious institutions, reproductive health clinics, and school uses from those
            requirements; 5) modify the definition of a Window Sign; 6) modify Planning review and approval of
            changes in copy of a Sign and Wall and Window Signs applied to doors, windows, or building
            facades; 7) modify the definition of a Non-Residential Use for the purposes of certain development
            impact fee waivers; and 8) modify permitted and required ground floor uses in the RH-DTR (“Rincon
            Hill Downtown Residential”) District, including uses in certain historic buildings, subject to various
            conditions; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental
            Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan and the eight priority policies
            of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and making findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare
            pursuant to Planning Code, Section 302.
            PASSED, ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill,
                 Walton


250727 [Opposing California State Senate Bill No. 79 (Wiener) Unless Amended - Housing
       Development: Transit-Oriented Development]
            Sponsors: Chan; Chen, Fielder and Walton
            Resolution opposing California State Senate Bill No. 79, Housing Development: Transit-Oriented
            Development, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener, and similar future legislation, unless amended to
            give Local governments adequate ability to formulate local plans through its local legislative process,
            in which local governments and residents have adequate review and oversight of community planning,
            including affordability requirements, and residential and commercial tenant protections.
            (This item was not sent as a committee report.)



ROLL CALL FOR INTRODUCTIONS
            See Legislation Introduced below.




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