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San Francisco Planning Code Art. 1.7 Compliance

San Francisco Planning Code · 2026-08 edition · updated 2026-09-23 · San Francisco

Cite as: San Francisco Planning Code Article 1.7 · Text as of 2026-09-23

Sec. 170. Applicability of Requirements.
Sec. 171. Compliance of Uses Required.
Sec. 172. Compliance of Structures, Open Spaces, and Off-Street Parking and Loading Required.
Sec. 173. Compliance of Lots Required.
Sec. 174. Compliance with Conditions, Stipulations and Special Restrictions Required.
Sec. 175. Approval of Permits or Development Applications.
Sec. 175.1. Effective Date of the Central SoMa Zoning Controls.
Sec. 175.5. Applicability of Western SoMa Controls to Pending Projects in the SALI District.
Sec. 175.6. Effective Date of the Eastern Neighborhoods Zoning Controls.
Sec. 175.9. Duration of Authorization in the Eastern Neighborhoods.
Sec. 176. Enforcement Against Violations.
Sec. 177. Legitimization of Certain Massage Establishments.
Sec. 178. Conditional Uses.
Sec. 179. Uses Located in Neighborhood Commercial Districts.
Sec. 179.1. Legitimization of Uses Located in the Eastern Neighborhoods.
Sec. 180. Nonconforming Uses, Noncomplying Structures and Substandard Lots of Record: General.
Sec. 181. Nonconforming Uses: Enlargements, Alterations and Reconstruction.
Sec. 182. Nonconforming Uses: Changes of Use.
Sec. 183. Nonconforming Uses: Discontinuance and Abandonment.
Sec. 183.1. Permitted, Non-Conforming, and Conditionally Permitted Uses: Temporary Uses.
Sec. 184. Short-Term Continuance of Certain Nonconforming Uses.
Sec. 185. Continuance of Other Nonconforming Uses.
Sec. 186. Exemption of Limited Commercial and Industrial Nonconforming Uses in RH, RM, RTO-1, RTO-M, and RED
Districts.
Sec. 186.1. Exemption of Nonconforming Uses in Neighborhood Commercial Districts.
Sec. 186.2. Exceptions for Pre-existing Structures in Neighborhood Commercial Districts From Certain Limitations on
Upper-Story Uses Imposed Under Article 7.
Sec. 187. Audit Properties; Amnesty Program.
Sec. 187.1. Automotive Service Stations, Electric Vehicle Charging Locations, and Gas Stations as Legal Nonconforming
Uses.
Sec. 187.2. Mechanical Car Wash Facilities on Nineteenth Avenue.
Sec. 187.3. Pre-Existing Awnings, Gates, and Signs; Amnesty.
Sec. 188. Noncomplying Structures: Enlargements, Alterations, and Reconstruction.
Sec. 188.1. Noncomplying Structure Status for Certain Pre-Existing Residential Structures in RH, RM, and RTO Districts.
Sec. 189. Substandard Lots of Record: Construction and Other Actions.
Sec. 190. Conversion of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries to Cannabis Retail Establishments.
Sec. 191. Authorization of Temporary Cannabis Retail Uses.
Sec. 192. Legitimization of Certain Land Uses at 3150 18th Street.
Sec. 193. Continuation of Longstanding Places of Entertainment.

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