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Neighborhoods United SF

Advocating for Community-Centered Housing Solutions

Upzoning Hearing

Supervisor Committee Hearing

Monday, June 16, 2025

#1 Attend Supervisor Land Use & Transportation Committee Hearing

Monday, June 16, 2025 at 1:30pm

City Hall, Room 250

watch online at SFGovTV.org

#2 Email Board of Supervisors Urging Changes to Upzoning Plan

San Francisco’s future is on the line.

On June 16, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Transportation Committee (LUT) will hold a hearing on the Mayor Lurie’s upzoning map—a developer-backed plan that would permanently reshape our neighborhoods with through extensive demolitions, massive height increases, no affordability guarantees, and no real community input.

This is the first time a Supervisor committee will formally hear from the public—a key moment to push back on the state's overreach, challenge outdated housing mandates, and demand meaningful affordability changes before the plan is fast-tracked.

Mayor Lurie's proposed map was drafted behind closed doors. It would lock in permanent changes to height and density laws that ignore what makes neighborhoods livable. It encourages speculation, drives out renters and small businesses, and gives developers a blank check to build luxury towers that serve investors, not residents. San Francisco’s workforce and the next generation need affordable homes, not assets for global capital.

What We Are Asking For

We are urging the Supervisors to ensure the following changes before the Upzoning Plan moves forward:

• Insist that Planning release the full feasibility, infrastructure, and affordable housing site analysis before any vote is scheduled
• Freeze upzoning in sensitive areas until tenant and small business protections, affordability mandates, and infrastructure plans are in place
• Mandate real protections for small businesses—including anti-displacement measures and construction mitigation
• Strengthen tenant safeguards against evictions, speculative buyouts, and demolition
• Cap allowable building heights to respect neighborhood scale and avoid investor-fueled overdevelopment
• Require deep affordability in all upzoned projects to meet RHNA mandated percentages, not just developer-friendly incentives
• Oppose density decontrol policies that remove limit on number of units per project and, when combined with the State Density Bonus, allow extreme height increases (for instance, 8-stories becomes 50-stories) with minimal affordability
• Insist Planning create a marketing campaign to educate all San Franciscans about these significant changes
• Advance alternative proposals that reflect true community input, prioritize deeply affordable housing, and preserve neighborhood scale and livability.
• Challenge the logic of blanket upzoning that lacks affordability guarantees and risks filling the city with disconnected, out-of-scale luxury towers.

There will be more hearings throughout the summer and fall. Your voice is important before these plans become finalized. We will keep you posted.

Together, we can stop this developer land grab. Let’s show up, speak out, and stand firm for our neighborhoods.

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ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS UNITED SF

Neighborhoods United SF (NUSF) has rapidly mobilized over 60 neighborhoods across San Francisco to resist extreme state-mandated, locally-implemented height and density increases.

NUSF champions community-led planning to protect vulnerable residents and small businesses from gentrification while ensuring the livability of San Francisco's neighborhoods.