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Board reverses planning department on Green Street project, sends case back for fuller environmental review
Summary
After testimony from neighbors and experts that a proposed excavation threatened the adjacent historic Ernest Coxhead house, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Nov. 10 to overturn the Planning Department's final mitigated negative declaration for 2417 Green Street and sent the project back for further environmental review.
The Board of Supervisors on Nov. 10 voted unanimously to reverse the Planning Department’s determination that a proposed remodel and rear addition at 2417 Green Street would not require an environmental impact report (EIR), directing the department to prepare findings and pursue additional environmental review.
The action follows months of neighborhood debate over a three‑story addition and partial excavation next door to a landmarked Ernest Coxhead house at 2421 Green Street. Appellant Philip Kaufman and his attorney Richard Drury told the board the proposed project could threaten the hilltop house’s fragile brick foundation and historic light well and said the Planning Department’s mitigated negative declaration relied on a single, deferred mitigation approach that would be inadequate.
“We have presented expert evidence from four prominent experts who concluded that the proposed project presents an existential…
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