Commission Converts Stalled Mission District Project to 100% Affordable Housing

The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously unlocked a new path for a decade-old stalled development at Mission and 9th Street, readopting a Special Use District to allow the project to proceed as 100% affordable housing — a first-of-its-kind conversion that commissioners hope becomes a model for stranded market-rate entitlements citywide. The commission also received a sweeping climate adaptation blueprint for Bayview Hunters Point, one of the city's most vulnerable neighborhoods, and greenlit a new home in Presidio Heights over a neighbor's objections about construction near a National Historic Landmark.

• Mission & 9th Street project converts from market-rate to 100% affordable housing in unanimous 6-0 vote, with all units restricted to households at 80% AMI or below for at least 55 years

• Bayview Hunters Point gets sea level rise adaptation strategy after a two-year, $649,000 state-funded study identifies four measures to protect the neighborhood from up to 6.6 feet of projected sea level rise by 2100

• New three-story home approved at 125 Maple Street near the historic La Petite Trianon after commission rejects neighbor's discretionary review request, ruling geotechnical concerns belong at the building permit stage

• DBI-Planning Department merger Phase 1 takes effect, transferring Permit Center and IT staff to Planning, with code enforcement consolidation planned for late 2026-2027

• Commissioner Williams sounds alarm on cultural district bypass after a business was approved over-the-counter in the Calle 24 SUD without the cultural district organization being notified