Planning Code - Temporary Homeless Shelters in Certain Industrial and Mixed-Use Districts
Ord. No. 0213-16
in effectFILE NO. 160960
ORDINANCE NO. 213-16
[Planning Code - Temporary Homeless Shelters in Certain Industrial and Mixed-Use Districts]
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to allow temporary Homeless Shelters in the
Production, Distribution, and Repair, the WSoMa Mixed Use-Office, and the
Service/Arts/Light Industrial zoning districts, subject to conditional use authorization;
affirming the Planning Commission's determination under the California Environmental
Quality Act; making findings of public convenience, necessity, and welfare under
Planning Code, Section 302; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan,
and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1.
NOTE:
Unchanged Code text and uncodified text are in plain Arial font.
Additions to Codes are in single-underline italics Times New Roman font.
Deletions to Codes are in strikethrough italics Times 1'lcv.· Roman font.
Board amendment additions are in double-underlined Arial font.
Board amendment deletions are in strikethrough Arial font.
Asterisks (* * * *) indicate the omission of unchanged Code
subsections or parts of tables.
Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco:
Section 1. Environmental and Land Use Findings.
(a) On September 22, 2016, after a duly noticed public hearing, the Planning
Commission, in Resolution No. 197 41, adopted findings that the actions contemplated in this
ordinance are not, in and of themselves, subject to the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.). A copy of said
Resolution is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in File No. 160960, and is
incorporated herein by reference. The Board of Supervisors adopts these findings as its own.
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(b) In Resolution No. 19741, the Planning Commission also adopted findings that the
actions contemplated in this ordinance are consistent, on balance, with the City's General
Plan and the eight priority policies of Planning Code Section 101.1. The Board of Supervisors
adopts these findings as its own.
(c) Pursuant to Planning Code Section 302, this Board finds that these Planning Code
amendments will serve the public necessity, convenience, and welfare for the reasons set
forth in Planning Commission Resolution No. 19741 and the Board of Supervisors
incorporates such reasons herein by reference.
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Section 2. Additional Findings.
(a) A significant number of people in San Francisco cannot obtain adequate or
appropriate shelter. According to the San Francisco biennial "Point-in-Time" homeless count
and survey taken in January 2015, there were 6,686 adults and 853 youth without a place to
live, constituting a total of 7,539 homeless people. Between the January 2013 homeless
count and survey and the January 2015 homeless count and survey, the number of homeless
people rose in seven of the 11 San Francisco supervisorial districts. A 10-year trend of
comparable Point-in-Time data (excluding the targeted youth count) identified a 7% increase
in the number of homeless people in San Francisco between 2005 and 2015.
(b) As San Francisco's homeless population ages, additional health services are
needed to address the homeless population's deteriorating health. According to the January
2015 homeless count and survey, 22% of the homeless were between the ages of 51 and 60,
up from 14% in 2013, and 8% were 61 or older, up from 3% in 2013.
( c) The inability to obtain adequate or appropriate shelter threatens the health and
safety of homeless people. Homelessness is an independent risk factor for a number of
illnesses through its association with exposure to harsh weather, high stress levels, sleep
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deprivation, general unsanitary surroundings, lack of access to hygiene facilities, and poor
nutrition. For example, sleep deprivation impairs cognitive processes and increases the risk
of heart disease, heart attack, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, stroke,
and diabetes.
(d) The City has partnered and collaborated with community-based nonprofit
organizations serving homeless populations to develop and implement new strategies to
shelter and identify housing for difficult-to-serve homeless populations, including residents of
encampments, people who have not accessed the traditional shelter system, the long-term
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homeless population, and Homeward Bound clients. Since 2015, the City has successfully
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piloted the Navigation Center model, a temporary Homeless Shelter model that minimizes
barriers to participation and seeks to connect clients to stable income, public benefits, and
permanent housing outside of the Navigation Center. This ordinance would facilitate the
expansion of the Navigation Center model and the successful transition of difficult-to-serve
homeless populations to services and permanent housing.
(e) According to Administrative Code Chapter 106, the City is required to open and
operate no fewer than six Navigation Centers by July 31, 2018 (within 24 months of the July
31, 2016 effective date of Ordinance No. 117-16), develop plans for the equitable distribution
of shelter and housing resources, and identify sustainable revenue sources for the
development of new permanent housing for homeless individuals.
(f) This ordinance would amend the Planning Code to allow temporary Homeless
Shelter uses in the Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR), the WSoMa Mixed Use-Office
(WMUO), and the Service/Arts/Light Industrial (SALi) zoning districts subject to conditional
use authorization.
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Section 3. Section 210.3 of the Planning Code is hereby amended by revising Table
1210.3, to read as follows:
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Table 210.3
ZONING CONTROL TABLE FOR PDR DISTRICTS
Zoning Category
§ References
PDR-1-B
PDR-1-D
PDR-1-G
PDR-2
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Homeless Shelter
§§ 102, 208
NF-C (181
NFC 081
NFC (181
NFC 081
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(181 In this District, Homeless Shelter uses are permitted only with Conditional Use
authorization and only if each such use (al would operate for no more than four years, and (b) would
be owned or leased by, operated by, and/or under the management or day-to-day control ofthe City
and County of San Francisco. If such a use is to be located within a building or structure, the building
or structure must be either (al preexisting, having been completed and previously occupied by a use
other than a Homeless Shelter, or (b) temporary. In this District, construction of a permanent structure
or building to be used as a Homeless Shelter is not permitted.
Section 4. Section 845 of the Planning Code is hereby amended by revising Table
845, including adding the portion entitled "Specific Provisions for WMUO Districts" at the end
of the table, to read as follows:
Table 845
WMUO - WSOMA MIXED USE-OFFICE DISTRICT ZONING CONTROL TABLE
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No.
Zoning Category
§ References
WSOMA Mixed Use-Office District
Controls
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845.23b
Homeless Shelters §§ 102, 890.88(d)
NFC#
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SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR WMUO DISTRICTS
Article Code Section
Other Code Section
Zoning Controls
§ 845.23b
§ 102
In this District, Homeless Shelter uses are permitted
§ 890.88(d)
onlv with Conditional Use authorization and only if
each such use (a) would operate for no more than four
years, and {Q) would be owned or leased by, operated
by, and/or under the management or day-to-day
control oft he City and County of San Francisco. If
such a use is to be located within a building or
structure, the building or structure must be either (a)
preexisting. having been completed and previously
occupied by a use other than a Homeless Shelter, or (Q)
temporary. In this District, construction of a
permanent structure or building to be used as a
Homeless Shelter is not permitted.
Section 5. Section 846 of the Planning Code is hereby amended by revising Table
846, including the table entitled "Specific Provisions for SALi Districts," to read as follows:
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Table 846
SALi - SERVICE/ARTS/LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT ZONING CONTROL TABLE
No.
Zoning Category
§ References
SALi District Controls
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844.23b
Homeless Shelters §§ 102, 890.88(d)
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846.23b
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SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR SALi DISTRICTS
Article Code
Other Code
Zoning Controls
Section
Section
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§ 846.23b
§102
In this District, Homeless Shelter uses are permitted only with
§ 890.88(d)
Conditional Use authorization and only if each such use (a) would
operate f'gr no more than f'gur years, and 0..2 would be owned or
leased by, operated by, and/or under the management or day-to-day
control of the City and County of San Francisco. If such a use is to
be located within a building or structure, the building or structure
must be either (a) preexisting, having been completed and
previously occupied by a use other than a Homeless Shelter, or (b)
temporary. In this District, construction of a permanent structure or
building to be used as a Homeless Shelter is not permitted
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Section 6. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word
of this ordinance, or any application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be
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invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or applications of the ordinance. The
Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, and word not declared invalid or
unconstitutional without regard to whether any other portion of this ordinance or application
thereof would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 7. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after
enactment. Enactment occurs when the Mayor signs the ordinance, the Mayor returns the
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ordinance unsigned or does not sign the ordinance within ten days of receiving it, or the Board
overrides the Mayor's veto of the ordinance.
Section 8. Scope of Ordinance. In enacting this ordinance, the Board of Supervisors
intends to amend only those words, phrases, paragraphs, subsections, sections, articles,
numbers, punctuation marks, charts, diagrams, or any other constituent parts of the Municipal
Code that are explicitly shown in this ordinance as additions, deletions, Board amendment
additions, and Board amendment deletions in accordance with the "Note" that appears under
the official title of the ordinance.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
DENNIS J. HERRERA, City Attorney
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City and County of San Francisco
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Ordinance
City Hall
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San Francisco, CA 94102-4689
File Number:
160960
Date Passed: October 25, 2016
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to allow temporary Homeless Shelters in the Production,
Distribution, and Repair, the WSoMa Mixed Use-Office, and the Service/Arts/Light Industrial zoning
districts, subject to conditional use authorization; affirming the Planning Commission's determination
under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of public convenience, necessity,
and welfare under Planning Code, Section 302; and making findings of consistency with the General
Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1.
October 03, 2016 Land Use and Transportation Committee - RECOMMENDED
October 18, 2016 Board of Supervisors - PASSED, ON FIRST READING
Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang,
Wiener and Yee
October 25, 2016 Board of Supervisors - FINALLY PASSED
Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang,
Wiener and Yee
File No. 160960
I hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance was FINALLY PASSED on
10/25/2016 by the Board of Supervisors of
the City and County of San Francisco.
Clerk of the Board
Date Approved
City and County of San Francisco
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Printed at 12:05 pm on 10126116
References
amendsSec. 210.3
amendsSec. 836
amendsSec. 837
amendsSec. 840
amendsSec. 841
amendsSec. 842
amendsSec. 843
amendsSec. 844
amendsSec. 845
amendsSec. 846
amendsSec. 847
amendsSec. 848
amendsSec. 890
amendsSec. 890.2
amendsSec. 890.4
amendsSec. 890.6
amendsSec. 890.7
amendsSec. 890.8
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