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Board upholds planning department's general plan evaluation for proposed Dogpatch biotech lab after heated CEQA appeal
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 24 to uphold the Planning Department's general plan evaluation for a proposed 70,650-square-foot laboratory at 700 Indiana Street, rejecting neighborhood appeals that alleged inadequate CEQA review of air quality, shadows and hazardous materials.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Sept. 24 voted to uphold the Planning Department's determination that a proposed three-story laboratory building at 700 Indiana Street is eligible for a general plan evaluation (GPE) under CEQA, rejecting an appeal by neighborhood groups who argued the department had not conducted sufficient environmental review.
The project would demolish an existing one-story commercial building on the site and construct approximately 70,650 gross square feet of laboratory space in the Central Waterfront plan area of the Eastern Neighborhoods. Planning staff concluded the project is consistent with the development density analyzed in the Eastern Neighborhoods EIR and that the GPE process was appropriate because no new or "peculiar" environmental impacts would result beyond those examined in the earlier program EIR.
Appellants, represented at the hearing by…
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