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Board upholds planning department, affirms mitigated negative declaration for Commonwealth Club project after lengthy hearing
Summary
After a multi-hour public hearing with hundreds of pages of testimony on historic significance, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to affirm the Planning Department's final mitigated negative declaration for the Commonwealth Club's proposed renovation and addition at 110 The Embarcadero / 115 Stewart Street.
The Board of Supervisors heard more than two hours of public testimony on Jan. 27 before voting unanimously to uphold the Planning Department's Final Mitigated Negative Declaration (FMND) for a proposed renovation and single-story vertical addition at 110 The Embarcadero / 115 Stewart Street, the site long associated in local history with the 1934 longshore strike.
Appellants led by David Osgood of the Rincon Point Neighbors Association argued the building's Embarcadero facade and the entire structure are historic resources tied to the events of the 1934 strike and that substantial evidence in the record supports preparation of an Environmental Impact Report. Osgood urged preservation…
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