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San Francisco Planning Code § 249.61 17TH and Rhode Island Street Grocery Store Special Use Subdistrict

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

Cite as: San Francisco Planning Code § 249.61 · Text as of 2026-09-23

In order to facilitate the development of a neighborhood grocery store at 17th and Rhode Island Street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, in an area that does not have a proliferation of off-sale Type 20 or Type 21 liquor establishments and previously was zoned M-1 (which permitted liquor stores as a principal permitted use), there shall be a 17th and Rhode Island Street Grocery Store Special Use Subdistrict, applicable to the NC-3 zoned block bounded by 17th Street, Rhode Island Street, Mariposa Street and Kansas Street (Assessor's Block 3978, Lot 1). The following provisions shall apply within the Special Use Subdistrict:

(a) One off-sale Type 20 and Type 21 liquor store, as defined by Section 102 of this Code, is permitted as a conditional use on the first or second story, provided that it is operated as an integral element of a grocery store of not less than 30,000 gross square feet.

(b) Nighttime Entertainment, as defined by Section 102 of this Code, shall not be permitted. (Added by Ord. 140-11, File No. 110482, App. 7/5/2011, Eff. 8/4/2011; amended by Ord. 22-15, File No. 141253, App. 2/20/2015, Eff. 3/22/2015)

AMENDMENT HISTORY

Formerly codified as Sec. 781.10; see that section for prior legislative history. Section renumbered; Ord. 140-11, Eff. 8/4/2011. Divisions (a) and (b) amended; Ord. 22-15, Eff. 3/22/2015.

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