# Board of Supervisors Minutes: September 2, 2025 - Meeting date: 2025-09-02 - Document type: minutes - Pages in official PDF: 23 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/1106/2025-09-02-minutes) - [Authoritative City PDF](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1335420&GUID=D5DAFD48-2CA5-4107-A064-0CB83132F740) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City PDF is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 250702: Building Code - All-Electric Major Renovations - Pages: 4-5 - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 250702 [Building Code - All-Electric Major Renovations] Sponsors: Mandelman; Mahmood, Fielder and Melgar Ordinance amending the Building Code to require buildings undergoing major renovations to remain or convert to All-Electric Buildings with exceptions for physical and technical infeasibility, commercial food establishments, non-residential-to-residential conversions, buildings with recent major system replacements, and 100% Affordable Housing; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage. Ordinance No. 174-25 FINALLY PASSED The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton ### File 250487: Administrative Code - Equitable Citywide Access to Shelters, Transitional Housing, and Behavioral Health Services - Pages: 5-6 - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 250487 [Administrative Code - Equitable Citywide Access to Shelters, Transitional Housing, and Behavioral Health Services] Sponsors: Mahmood; Walton, Dorsey, Sauter and Melgar Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to promote equitable access to shelter and behavioral health services by prohibiting the City from siting a new, City-funded homeless shelter, transitional housing facility, or certain behavioral health residential care and treatment facilities (collectively, “Covered Facilities”) in a neighborhood where the neighborhood’s share of the City’s shelter and transitional housing beds exceeds the neighborhood’s share of the City’s unsheltered persons, and prohibiting the City from siting a new City-funded homeless shelter within 300 feet of an existing homeless shelter; and authorizing the Board of Supervisors to waive these prohibitions upon a finding that approving the Covered Facility or homeless shelter at the proposed location is in the public interest; and providing that this ordinance shall sunset on December 31, 2031. (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisors Chan and Chen voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 172-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton - Noes: Chan, Chen ### File 250634: Planning Code - Use Size Limits - Pages: 6 - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 250634 [Planning Code - Use Size Limits] Sponsors: Melgar; Sherrill, Sauter and Dorsey Ordinance amending the Planning Code to eliminate limits on Non-Residential Use Sizes in the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD), Polk Street NCD, West Portal Avenue NCD, North Beach NCD and North Beach Special Use District, Regional Commercial Districts, and Residential-Commercial District; allow specified Non-Residential Uses that exceed the Use Size limits to divide into smaller spaces that may continue to exceed the Use Size limits, without conditional use authorization; adjust the Use Size limit in all NCDs to a round number; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; 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. (Supervisors Chan and Chen voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 173-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton - Noes: Chan, Chen ### File 250753: Administrative Code - Food Purchasing for Hospitals and Jails - Pages: 6-7 - Vote 1: continuance - Action: 250753 [Administrative Code - Food Purchasing for Hospitals and Jails] Sponsors: Walton; Fielder, Chan, Chen and Mandelman Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to revise the goals and reporting requirements for food purchasing by the Department of Public Health and the Sheriff’s Department for City hospitals and jails; and revising the sunset date such that the program’s standards and reporting requirements will remain in effect until December 31, 2035. Supervisor Mandelman requested to be added as a co-sponsor. Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisor Chan, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE, on Page 6, Lines 20-22, by adding ‘source 5% of food from medium/small farms by January 2027, and increase sourcing from medium/small farms to 5-7% by January 2028, and to 10-15% by January 2032’; and on Page 7, Lines 23-24, by adding ‘DPH will continue to adhere to patient dietary protocols if plant-based foods are not appropriate substitutes for a patient’. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton - Vote 2: first-reading - Action: PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton ## Extracted text ### [Page 5](https://sfbos.info/documents/1106/2025-09-02-minutes#page-5) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 9/2/2025 REGULAR AGENDA UNFINISHED BUSINESS Recommendation of the Budget and Finance Committee 250487 [Administrative Code - Equitable Citywide Access to Shelters, Transitional Housing, and Behavioral Health Services] Sponsors: Mahmood; Walton, Dorsey, Sauter and Melgar Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to promote equitable access to shelter and behavioral health services by prohibiting the City from siting a new, City-funded homeless shelter, transitional housing facility, or certain behavioral health residential care and treatment facilities (collectively, “Covered Facilities”) in a neighborhood where the neighborhood’s share of the City’s shelter and transitional housing beds exceeds the neighborhood’s share of the City’s unsheltered persons, and prohibiting the City from siting a new City-funded homeless shelter within 300 feet of an existing homeless shelter; and authorizing the Board of Supervisors to waive these prohibitions upon a finding that approving the Covered Facility or homeless shelter at the proposed location is in the public interest; and providing that this ordinance shall sunset on December 31, 2031. (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisors Chan and Chen voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 172-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 9 - Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton Noes: 2 - Chan, Chen City and County of San Francisco Page 734 Printed at 1:02 pm on 10/6/25 ### [Page 6](https://sfbos.info/documents/1106/2025-09-02-minutes#page-6) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 9/2/2025 Referred Without Recommendation From the Land Use and Transportation Committee 250634 [Planning Code - Use Size Limits] Sponsors: Melgar; Sherrill, Sauter and Dorsey Ordinance amending the Planning Code to eliminate limits on Non-Residential Use Sizes in the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD), Polk Street NCD, West Portal Avenue NCD, North Beach NCD and North Beach Special Use District, Regional Commercial Districts, and Residential-Commercial District; allow specified Non-Residential Uses that exceed the Use Size limits to divide into smaller spaces that may continue to exceed the Use Size limits, without conditional use authorization; adjust the Use Size limit in all NCDs to a round number; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; 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. (Supervisors Chan and Chen voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 173-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 9 - Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton Noes: 2 - Chan, Chen Recommendation of the Rules Committee 250753 [Administrative Code - Food Purchasing for Hospitals and Jails] Sponsors: Walton; Fielder, Chan, Chen and Mandelman Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to revise the goals and reporting requirements for food purchasing by the Department of Public Health and the Sheriff’s Department for City hospitals and jails; and revising the sunset date such that the program’s standards and reporting requirements will remain in effect until December 31, 2035. Supervisor Mandelman requested to be added as a co-sponsor. Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisor Chan, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE, on Page 6, Lines 20-22, by adding ‘source 5% of food from medium/small farms by January 2027, and increase sourcing from medium/small farms to 5-7% by January 2028, and to 10-15% by January 2032’; and on Page 7, Lines 23-24, by adding ‘DPH will continue to adhere to patient dietary protocols if plant-based foods are not appropriate substitutes for a patient’. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton City and County of San Francisco Page 735 Printed at 1:02 pm on 10/6/25