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Mike Chen

Commissioner, Seat 7, San Francisco Planning Commission

Raised family zoning and upzoning at three meetings.

6 of 9transcribed meetings with their voice identified
1 of 1present at roll calls through Jul 30, 2026, from the clerk

Next Planning Commission meeting: Thu, Nov 5, 12:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

One clip, newest first

  • Mike Chen · Commissioner · Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026 · 3:28:19

    “I mean, I think this is quite a fascinating project because I think when the family zoning plan came about, I think there was some question, I think, from housing advocates about whether I think there were some questions about whether the family zoning plan was so restrictive that developers would just choose to keep using the state density bonus.”

Issues Chen raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Chen’s other bodies

Present at 1 of 1 roll calls at the Planning Commission, roll call through Jul 30, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Jul 30, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 24 of the 31 meetings we hold, through Jul 30, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • Planning Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 36% and 66% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
What they talk about

Development and land use took the largest share of Chen’s speech with a checked topic: 60%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Planning Commission (clerk’s agenda times). 38 of 46 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Development and land use60%
Neighborhoods Chen named

3 places Chen named in meetings

Lines where Chen named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

San Francisco
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • Mission 1 time
  • South of Market 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Chen was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Chen’s voice

Six, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Chen’s first remark.

  1. Oct 8, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use2.1 min1:39:54
  2. Oct 1, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use10.9 min1:07:37
  3. Sep 24, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use5.1 min34:22
  4. Sep 10, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use3.6 min1:03:53
  5. Sep 3, 2026Planning CommissionHistoric preservation · Development and land use19.9 min1:15:40
  6. Jul 30, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use4.4 min6:41
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

We identified Chen’s voice at six meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Chen was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Mike Chen’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Chen said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Chen or of San Francisco alone.