Unanimously supported by San Francisco’s Planning Commission back in May, San Francisco’s full Board of Supervisors is now slated to hear and potentially vote on the passage of the City’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan on July 17.

Keep in mind that one of the items upon which the Board will be voting is a CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) based appeal of the potential environmental impacts of the plan and the City’s plan to mitigate said impacts.

But if the Board follows Planning’s lead and votes (twice) to reject the appeal and adopt the Central SoMa Plan, it would then head to the Mayor for a signature. And if signed, the plan – which could pave the way for an additional 8,300 units of housing and enough office space for an additional 39,000 workers to rise in the area roughly bounded by Folsom, Second, Townsend and Sixth Streets, as newly amended and massed at full build-out around the 725 Harrison Street project above – would go into effect after 30 days, assuming no legal challenges are filed.