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Board affirms planning department’s categorical exemption for 53 State Street after lengthy Corona Heights appeal
Summary
After a multi-hour hearing with neighbors and the planning department, the Board of Supervisors affirmed the Planning Department’s categorical CEQA exemption for a two-unit redevelopment at 53 State Street, concluding the project did not present unusual circumstances requiring further environmental review.
The Board of Supervisors voted to uphold the Planning Department’s categorical exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a proposed demolition and replacement project at 53 State Street in the Corona Heights area, rejecting an appeal from neighborhood residents.
Hector Martinez, a resident and the lead appellant, argued the demolition and construction of a new 4-story, two-unit building would be out of scale with the neighborhood, reduce private open space and tree canopy, and — together with several nearby projects — produce cumulative impacts that the Eastern Neighborhoods environmental analysis did not address. “The oversized developments like this one in our neighborhood are walling…
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