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Board of Appeals upholds variance allowing 5-unit project at 1000 Broadway in Russian Hill
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Appeals denied an appeal from a nearby homeowner and upheld a zoning administrator’s variance that allows removal of a rear yard setback and construction of three buildings with subterranean parking at 1000 Broadway.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Sept. 24 denied an appeal of a variance for 1000 Broadway, allowing a developer to proceed with a proposal to build three buildings and subterranean parking that together would create five dwelling units on a consolidated corner lot in the Russian Hill historic district.
The board’s decision upholds the July 25 variance granted to Russian Hill Lending LLC. President John Trezvina said he found the zoning administrator’s findings “clear” and that he had not heard anything in the appellant’s arguments “to really disturb those findings.” The motion to deny the appeal passed 4 to 0.
The appellant, Jonathan Reid, urged the board to preserve a 15-foot minimum rear yard setback and argued the proposed development is out of scale for the historic RH2 neighborhood. “My only simple request is for the board to deny the variance as is and reasonably enforce a 15 foot minimum rear yard setback for the Arizona developer in line with our expectations of…
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