Pro-housing Democrats won a victory Friday in San Francisco after state authorities declared the city had not met its housing permitting goals in 2023, triggering a law some city Democrats opposed that will expedite approval of new builds, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
San Francisco’s sluggish approval of new projects triggered SB 423, a California law that will allow many new housing builds to avoid undertaking extensive environmental reviews and allow development to proceed without approval from bureaucrats on the city’s planning commission.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, both Democrats, are supportive of the streamlining of housing approvals. However, the all-Democrat San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which will lose its ability to scrutinize some developments, has been more hostile toward SB 423, which Newsom…
