249.10

SEC. 249.10. 600 TOWNSEND STREET WEST SPECIAL USE DISTRICT. (a) Location. A special use district entitled the “600 Townsend Street West Special Use District” (“SUD”) consisting of Assessor’s Parcel Block No. 3783, Lot No. 008, is hereby established for the purposes set forth below. The boundaries of the SUD are designated on Sectional Map No. SU08 of the Zoning Map. (b) Purpose. The purpose of this SUD is to allow the legalization of the longstanding office use at 600 Townsend Street West. (c) Controls. The Planning Code shall control except as otherwise provided in this Section 249.10. If there is a conflict between other provisions of the Planning Code and this Section 249.10, this Section 249.10 shall prevail. (1) Uses. (A) Office Uses shall be principally permitted on all floors. (B) Section 803.9(e) (“Vertical Controls for Office Uses”) shall not apply. (2) Development Controls. For any project that receives an Office Allocation pursuant to Section 321 after January 1, 2025, and proposes a change of use to Office within the building as it exists as of the effective date of this SUD, the following development controls shall apply. These controls shall also apply in the event the existing building is damaged or destroyed by fire, or other calamity, or by Act of God, or by the public enemy and is replaced with a substantially similar building. (A) Open Space. The open space requirement for changes of use to Office within Eastern Neighborhood Mixed Use Districts in Section 135.5 shall be a maximum of 2,600 gross square feet. (B) Bicycle Parking. The requirement for Class 2 bicycle parking in Section 155 et seq. shall not apply. All other requirements of Section 155 et seq., including Class 1 bicycle parking, shall apply. (C) Streetscape and Pedestrian Improvements. The streetscape and pedestrian improvement requirements in Section 138.1 shall not apply. (D) Transportation Demand Management. The Transportation Demand Management plan and program requirement in Section 169 et seq. shall not apply. (3) Impact Fees. (A) Projects that file a Development Application between January 1, 2025 and November 1, 2026 to establish an Office use pursuant to this Section 249.10 shall pay only the following Development Impact Fees under the Planning Code:

(i) Child-care (Planning Code Section 414): $0.99 per gross square foot; (ii) Jobs-Housing Linkage Program (Planning Code Section 413): $7.94 per gross square foot; and (iii) Transportation Sustainability Fee (Planning Code Section 411A): $1.87 per gross square foot. (B) The Development Impact Fee rates prescribed in this Section 249.10 include the 33% reduction available under Section 403 and shall not be offset by any further waiver or reduction. (Added by Ord. 47-25, File No. 250125, App. 4/17/2025, Eff. 5/18/2025) SEC. 249.11. 530 SANSOME MIXED-USE TOWER AND FIRE STATION SPECIAL USE DISTRICT. (a) Purpose. A Special Use District entitled “530 Sansome Mixed-Use Tower and Fire Station Special Use District” (the SUD) is hereby established, the precise boundaries of which are shown on Sectional Map SU01 of the Zoning Map. The purpose of the SUD is to implement the land use controls for the 530 Sansome Mixed-Use Tower and Fire Station 13 Development Project (the Project), which is subject to a Development Agreement, approved by the Board of Supervisors in the ordinance contained in Board File No. 250698 (the Development Agreement). The Project will provide several benefits to the City, such as a new fire station, privately owned and maintained public street improvements, and affordable housing contributions paid to the City earlier than otherwise required by the Planning Code. (b) Relationship to Other Planning Code Provisions. Applicable provisions of the Planning Code shall control in the SUD except as otherwise provided in this Section 249.11. If there is a conflict between other provisions of the Planning Code and this Section 249.11, this Section 249.11 shall prevail. (c) Relationship to the Development Agreement. This Section 249.11 shall be read and construed consistent with the Development Agreement, and all development within the Project Site that is subject to the Development Agreement shall satisfy the requirements of the Development Agreement for so long as the Development Agreement remains in effect. (d) Conditional Use. Notwithstanding otherwise applicable use, design, project authorization, or approval process requirements set forth for development projects in the underlying C-3- O zoning district, a development project within the SUD may be approved pursuant to the conditional use authorization provisions set forth in Section 304.8. (e) Conditional Rescission of Landmark Designation for 447 Battery Street. The otherwise applicable procedures for rescinding an Article 10 landmark designation do not apply in the SUD. The Board of Supervisors rescinds the landmark status of the building at 447 Battery Street (Assessor’s Block 0206, Lot 002; “447 Battery Street”), which rescission shall be contingent and only effective upon the City acquiring fee title to 447 Battery Street. Upon the City acquiring such fee title, the City Attorney shall cause Landmark No. 299 in Appendix A to Planning Code Article 10 to be removed from the Planning Code. Except as required under the California Environmental Quality Act, any new legislation that would impose requirements for the historic preservation or rehabilitation of the buildings within the SUD existing as of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 250697 creating the SUD shall not apply unless and until this Section 249.11(e) is amended accordingly or eliminated. (Added by Ord. 197-25, File No. 250697, App. 10/27/2025, Eff. 11/27/2025, Oper. 11/27/25) Editor’s Note: Section 249.22 was originally designated 249.11 when enacted by Ord. 245-25, approved 12/12/2026 and effective 1/12/2026, and was redesignated at the direction of the Office of the City Attorney in order to avoid conflicting with previously existing material. SEC. 249.12. 1500 MISSION STREET SPECIAL USE DISTRICT. (a) Purpose. There shall be a 1500 Mission Street Special Use District, which is comprised of Lots 006 and 007 in Assessor’s Block 3506, whose boundaries are designated on Zoning Map SU07 of the Zoning Map of the City and County of San Francisco. This district is intended to facilitate a transit-oriented, high-density, mixed-use residential project and a City and County of San Francisco office development. This area was identified in the Downtown Plan and the Market and Octavia Area Plan of the General Plan as an area to encourage housing adjacent to the downtown and government offices near other governmental functions in the Civic Center and City Hall. (b) Use Controls. References to the 1500 Mission Street Special Use District in this subsection shall be as of the effective date of this Section 249.12. (1) Ground Floor Uses. Public agency office space shall be permitted at the ground floor. (2) Residential Affordable Housing Program. The provisions of Section 249.33(b)(3) of this Code shall apply within this Special Use District, except that the Affordable Housing Fee and the off-site housing alternative shall be equivalent to 27.5% of the number of units in the project, and the on-site percentage shall be 13.5% of the number of units in the project. (3) Usable Open Space for Dwelling Units. Requirements for common usable open space pursuant to Section 135 may be met by providing one of the publicly-accessible types delineated in Section 249.33(b)(4). (4) Obstructions over Streets and Usable Open Space. Overhead horizontal projections intended primarily to reduce ground level wind speeds which leave at least 7½ feet of headroom may extend over a street, common usable open space, sidewalk, or setback where the depth of any such projection is no greater than the headroom it leaves, and in no case is greater than 20 feet. (5) Lot Coverage. The provisions of Section 249.33(b)(5) shall apply within this Special Use District. (6) Floor Area Ratio. The maximum FAR allowed shall be that described in Section 123(c), provided that it shall not be greater than 9:1. Gross Floor Area shall have the meaning as defined in Section 102, and shall include all residential uses, except for residential uses that are affordable units as defined in Section 401 and the affordable units’ proportional share of residential common areas and amenities. Floor Area Bonuses, as set forth in Section 249.33(b)(6)(B), shall apply within this Special Use District. (7) Mid-Block Alley. An east-west mid-block pedestrian alley of not less than 25 feet in width shall extend from South Van Ness Avenue to the western main lobby entrance of the proposed City office building. Additionally, a north-south alley of not less than 25 feet in width shall extend from Mission Street to the aforementioned east-west mid-block pedestrian alley. These two alleys shall be subject to the provisions of Section 270.2(e) through 270.2(i), except for subsections 270.2(e)(5) and 270.2(e)(14). Additionally, the Planning Director may waive or modify subsection 270.2(e)(9) in the case of documented exceptional circumstances and operational conditions relating to the unique nature of the City’s tenancy on the site. Other provisions of Section 270.2 shall not apply within this Special Use District. (8) Off-Street Parking. To accommodate public agency fleet parking and short-term parking associated with a public-serving permit center, the maximum amount of off-street parking that may be provided within the proposed City office building shall be one space for each 3,000 gross square feet of floor area. Off-street parking within other buildings in this Special Use District may be used on a temporary or ongoing basis as additional accessory parking for the proposed public agency office space. (9) Dwelling Unit Exposure. Provisions of Section 140(a)(1) shall apply within this Special Use District. The additional five horizontal feet of open space required at subsequent floors pursuant to Section 140(a)(2) shall be capped at 65 feet in every horizontal dimension. (10) Access to Off-Street Parking and Loading. In consideration of City policy to restrict curb cuts and off-street parking and loading access on South Van Ness Avenue and Mission Street, the residential component and the City office component shall each be permitted to provide separate parking and loading ingress and egress openings on the 11th Street frontage of no greater than 24 feet in width each, in lieu of the limitations set forth in Sections 145.1(c)(2) and 155(s)(5). To the extent feasible as determined by the Planning Director, in consultation with the Director of Real Property, in order to facilitate the preservation of a portion of the 11th Street façade of the existing 1500 Mission Street building, enhance pedestrian conditions, and further activate 11th Street, a shared ingress (but not egress) to both the residential component and the City office component shall be provided to reduce the residential component opening to no greater than 12 feet in width. (Added by Ord. 101-17, File No. 170348, App. 5/24/2017, Eff. 6/23/2017) SEC. 249.13. GEARY BOULEVARD/DIVISADERO STREET SPECIAL USE DISTRICT.