A new bill authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney would prevent cities from stalling or killing the conversion of empty office space into housing in an effort to utilize the state's emptying downtowns.
Assembly Bill 1532 would categorize office conversion projects as"by right" developments, relaxing the permitting and review process for housing projects by preventing a city or county from requiring certain permits to convert a vacant office into housing.
According to the commercial real estate firm CBRE, some 27 percent of San Francisco's offices were vacant at the end of 2022. In addition to preventing local governments from stalling office conversions via the permitting and review process, AB 1352 would also make office conversion projects allowed in any area of a city regardless of local zoning laws.
AB 1352 would also create a grant program to partially subsidize office-to-housing conversion in an effort to further incentivize new projects.
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