Repeal the SB79 Alternate Plan

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Repeal the SB79 Alternate Plan

Mayor Daniel Lurie and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

San Francisco is way behind on its housing targets, but instead of working to get more homes built for current and future San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors recently voted to ban new housing in parts of SOMA and the Mission—FOREVER.

Earlier this year, California cleared the way for new housing close to transit like BART and Muni Metro with SB79. As a safeguard for urban industrial areas and the jobs that go with them, cities are allowed to exclude industrial zones from this new law.

But the Board of Supervisors is playing fast and loose with the law, excluding state and federal land they have no authority to zone. They even banned new housing where housing already exists.

Tell the supervisors this is no time to be playing games with the city’s future.

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San Francisco YIMBY

San Francisco, CA

To: Mayor Daniel Lurie and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
From: [Your Name]

We, the undersigned, recognizing the ongoing housing affordability crisis in San Francisco and the importance of density and transit accessibility for new housing in the city, are dismayed by the May 8, 2026, passage and enactment of an Alternate Plan excluding parts of SOMA and the Mission from eligibility for streamlined approval of housing developments near transit enabled by SB79. Housing is good, actually, and the Board of Supervisors should encourage more instead of permanently banning it in the heart of the city. Moreover, this Alternate Plan fails to meet the state's criteria for such a plan as it is non-contiguous; composed of more than 50% parcels for which housing is currently a permitted use; includes state and federal land over which the city has no zoning authority; and does not cover the minimum 250 acres when those conditions are taken into account.

Repeal this misguided ordinance, and give San Francisco its best chance of meeting the housing needs of its current and future residents.