{"id":25815,"date":"2023-04-05T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:36:28","slug":"s-f-supervisor-wants-to-cut-fees-for-office-to-housing-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/s-f-supervisor-wants-to-cut-fees-for-office-to-housing-conversions\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. supervisor wants to cut fees for office-to-housing conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>J.K. Dineen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 4, 2023 (SFChronicle.com)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The building at 988 Market St. is the site of the only proposal in San Francisco approved to convert an office building into housing.Roland Li\/The Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the latest in a series of policies aimed at encouraging San Francisco commercial property owners to convert vacant office buildings to housing, Supervisor Matt Dorsey on Tuesday will introduce a bill that would exempt such conversions from a slew of fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation would mean that office-to-residential converters would be exempt from paying fees on bicycle parking, child care, transit sustainability and public art. Taken together, the fees represent well under 10% of project costs \u201cbut could be the difference between feasible and not feasible,\u201d Dorsey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a small step, but it\u2019s part of an accumulation of small steps our city will be taking over the next few years,\u201d he said. \u201cI am committed to removing constraints and barriers that make building housing more difficult.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorsey\u2019s district, which encompasses the office-heavy districts of the South of Market and south Financial District, has been among the hardest hit<\/a> by the work-from-home sea change brought on by the pandemic. Retailers and restaurants have been forced to shutter as office workers have shunned the workplace. A recent Stanford University study concluded that the average downtown office worker spent $168 per week<\/a> near their workplaces prior to the pandemic and that the shift to working from home has represented a $1.2 billion annual blow to the downtown economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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