The California Department of Housing and Community Development, which had threatened to rescind its blessing of San Francisco's housing plan, has approved a new city ordinance designed to streamline the city's approval process for building new housing.
On October 25, the state housing agency. Known as the HCD, gave San Francisco a 30-day deadline to pass a "constraints reduction ordinance" proposed by Mayor London Breed.
The city missed the 30-day deadline, but was given an extension, which it met on December 5, when the Board of Supervisors adopted Breed's proposal, which exempts certain projects from the lengthy process of hearings before the city's Planning Commission.
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