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1990 San Francisco Ordinance 121 Regulating the Demolition and Conversion of Hotels
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 1990
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Housing
This ordinance established the status of residential hotel units by regulating the demolition and conversion of residential hotel units to other uses. Its purpose is to minimize the adverse impact on the housing supply and on displaces low income, elderly, and disabled persons resulting...
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2020 San Francisco Ordinance 190972 Mandating All Electric Energy Sources In Future Capital Projects
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
This ordinance prohibits the installation of propane or natural gas-based plumbing or equipment when constructing or renovating municipal buildings. Instead, these buildings should shift to an all-electric system, meaning they use a permanent source of electricity as the source of...
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2013 San Francisco Ordinance 121017 Regulating Open Data Requirements
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2013
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Data & Technology
This ordinance amends a prior open data policy that empowered San Francisco's Committee on Information Technology to establish rules and standards applicable to all city departments regarding the release of data to the city's online data portal. This ordinance establishes the positions...
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2009 San Francisco Ordinance 202 Language Access
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2009
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Civil Rights
This ordinance requires City Departments to translate the following written materials into languages spoken by a substantial number of limited English speaking persons: applications to receive benefits or services; tests for which knowledge of written English is not required; materials...
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2019 San Francisco Ordinance 200-19 Banning City-Funded Travel to and Contracts Involving States with Restrictive Abortion Laws
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement, Health
This ordinance amendment prohibits the City from funding any travel to states that have banned abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. It also prohibits the city from making contracts with organizations headquartered in states that have enacted similarly restrictive abortion...
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2019 San Francisco Ordinance 180735 Protecting Single Family Tenants from Unaffordable Rent Increases
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Housing
This ordinance amendment prohibits landlords of single-family homes from circumventing existing eviction controls through rent increases. Exorbitantly increasing rent is a strategy employed by landlords to coerce into vacating their rental units. This ordinance also clarifies that...
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2020 San Francisco Ordinance 123-20 Prohibiting Revenue Collection from Incarcerated Individuals
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice
This ordinance prohibits the city from making contracts or agreements with jail facilities that allow it to generate revenue from the sale of goods and services to inmates. It also explains how the city has previously generated funding through heavily marked up prices on phone calls...
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2019 San Francisco Ordinance 79-19 Granting Non-profit Organizations First Right of Purchase to Preserve Affordable Housing
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Housing
This ordinance grants certain nonprofit organizations the right to make first offers on multi-family residential buildings, provided that the property is used to create or preserve rent-restricted affordable housing. This ordinance aims to incentivize sellers by reducing general transaction...
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1990 San Francisco Ordinance 332 Regulating the Termination of Affordable Housing Units
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 1990
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Housing
This ordinance gives tenants, tenants associations, the city, and nonprofit groups the right of first refusal when an owner proposes to sell, transfer or otherwise terminate affordable housing units that have been subsized by HUD. The ordinance creates a 'fair return price' formula...
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2020 San Francisco Ordinance 200213 Modifying Zoning Regulations to Incentivize Affordable Housing Developments
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Housing
This ordinance incentivizes the construction of 100% affordable and educator housing projects by permitting these developments to build above existing height limits and on more parcels of land around the city. This ordinance also provides other relevant zoning modifications, including...
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2011 San Francisco Ordinance 212 Prohibiting Abortion-Related Misinformation
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2011
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Health
This ordinance prohibits crisis pregnancy centers and other limited services pregnancy centers from creating or disseminating false or misleading information about the services they do or do not provide. This misleading information can come from both stated and omitted information....
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