S.F., Cal., Planning Code art. 2, 202.2(c)(2) (current through Oct. 5, 2017)

Promote and protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare. 1.01; donation of fresh food 202.2(c)(2)

Compost (§ 202.2(c )(2)(A))

To protect the character and stability of residential, commercial and industrial areas within the City. 1.01.

This Planning Code is adopted to promote and protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare, and for the following more particularly specified purposes; (1) To guide, control and regulate future growth and development in accordance with the General Plan ..., (2) To protect the character and stability of residential, commercial and industrial areas within the City, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas, (3) To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property, and to secure safety from fire and other dangers, (4) To prevent overcrowding the land and undue congestion of population, (5) To regulate the location of buildings and the use of buildings and land adjacent to streets and thoroughfares, in such manner as to obviate the danger to public safety caused by undue interference with existing or prospective traffic movements on such streets and thoroughfares. § 1.01

§ 102

Fines and criminal penalties (including imprisonment) are specified (see §176) , and could potentially be applied to agriculture that exceeds the bounds allowed under the ordinance, but the choice to conduct neighborhood agriculture is voluntary.