DoorDash, the food delivery giant, will now face barriers in being able to test out its delivery drones in San Francisco’s Mission District after the city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed legislation Tuesday requiring prior approval for outdoor laboratory operations in the area.
Supervisor Jackie Fielder said she sponsored the legislation in part to limit DoorDash’s ability to “do what they want, when they want,” particularly regarding its testing of drones at its 1960 Folsom St. office and warehouse in the city’s Production, Distribution, and Repair District.
The PDR District is an area including parts of the Mission, Dogpatch, and Potrero Hill neighborhoods that is zoned to prevent large-scale housing or office developments from popping up in the area. It was zoned in 2009 as a way to help preserve socioeconomic diversity and working-class jobs in the area.
Fielder’s legislation will set up an obstacle for technology and artificial intelligence companies in the PDR District that want to do research and development outdoors, including the flying of drones.
The ordinance will establish temporary restrictions against any laboratory research and development operations conducted outside an enclosed structure in the city’s PDR district, excluding biochemistry, chemistry, and environmental science research.
The Teamsters Local 665 union was one of several local organizations in support of the restrictions.
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