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PASSEDBoard grants landmark status to 22 historic buildings across SF
The Board gave final approval to landmark designations for 22 properties spanning the Castro, Mission, Haight-Ashbury, Noe Valley, and Glen Park neighborhoods. Landmark status (a formal legal protection under the city's Planning Code) prevents demolition or significant alteration without city review. The batch includes homes, churches, a former brewery, and two historic fire stations.
This is one of the largest single-meeting batches of landmark designations in recent memory, permanently protecting dozens of Victorian-era homes, religious buildings, and civic structures — many in dense, development-pressured neighborhoods — from demolition or incompatible renovation.
All 22 designations passed unanimously, 11–0.
PASSEDHunters View public streets and infrastructure formally accepted by the city
The Board approved an ordinance formally accepting streets, sidewalks, and other public infrastructure built as part of Phase 2 of the Hunters View HOPE SF project — a large-scale redevelopment of a former public housing site in Bayview-Hunters Point. The ordinance also delegates authority to the Public Works Director to accept Phase 3 infrastructure when it is ready, without requiring another Board vote.
Hunters View is one of San Francisco's most significant public housing replacement projects. Formally accepting the streets and infrastructure into city ownership means the city now bears maintenance responsibility — a key milestone that enables residents to move into completed Phase 2 units and clears the path for Phase 3 construction.
Passed unanimously, 11–0; Phase 3 acceptance authority delegated to Public Works Director.
IN PROGRESSStreet tree rules overhauled: fees allowed in lieu of planting, ADUs exempted
The Board gave initial approval to a wide-ranging overhaul of the city's street tree rules. Developers would be allowed to pay a fee into the city's Adopt-A-Tree Fund instead of planting a required street tree, or provide alternative landscaping. Accessory dwelling units (small secondary homes added to existing properties) would be fully exempted from street tree requirements. The ordinance also eliminates the right to appeal hazardous tree removals by city departments to the Board of Appeals.
The 7–4 split signals real disagreement about whether fee payments are an adequate substitute for actual trees. Critics may argue the change weakens the urban tree canopy; supporters say it removes a barrier to housing production, particularly for accessory dwelling units. The fee-in-lieu amount is not specified in the minutes.
Passed on first reading (an initial approval vote; a second vote is still required to become law), 7–4. Supervisors Chan, Fielder, Sauter, and Walton voted no.
PASSEDBoard urges Kaiser Permanente to drop 'Terrible Three' therapist contract demands
The Board adopted a resolution calling on Kaiser Permanente to withdraw three contract proposals that, according to the resolution, would reduce behavioral health therapists' clinical autonomy, risk staff layoffs, increase outsourcing of mental health care, and expand the use of artificial intelligence therapy platforms in place of human clinicians.
The resolution reflects growing concern at City Hall about the use of AI in direct patient care and the erosion of mental health staffing at one of the region's largest health systems. While non-binding, it puts the Board formally on record during an active labor dispute affecting thousands of Northern California patients.
Adopted, 10–0 (Supervisor Melgar absent).
PASSEDFolsom Street condo conversion appeal resolved in owners' favor
The Board heard and then rejected an appeal of a Public Works decision that had approved a two-unit condominium conversion at 2722–2724 Folsom Street in the Mission District. By approving the Public Works decision and tabling the motions to disapprove, the Board cleared the way for the conversion to proceed.
Condominium conversions (the process of splitting a rental building into individually owned units) can reduce the rental housing supply. The unanimous vote to uphold the conversion suggests no supervisor found grounds to block it, though the minutes do not detail the specific objections raised by the appellant.
Public Works decision approved unanimously, 11–0; motions to disapprove tabled, 11–0.