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Board upholds appeal, sends Lennar project on South Van Ness back for fuller environmental review
Summary
After hours of testimony from residents, small-business advocates and the developer, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to uphold an appeal of a planning commission'issued community plan exemption for Lennar's proposed 1515 South Van Ness development and directed the Planning Department to undertake further environmental review.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-0 on Nov. 15 to uphold an appeal of the Planning Department's determination that the 1515 South Van Ness project qualified for a community plan exemption (CPE) under the Eastern Neighborhoods Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
The contested project, proposed by Lennar, would demolish a two-story industrial building and replace it with a mixed-use residential development in the Mission District; the sponsor and planning staff gave differing unit counts during the hearing and the record contains inconsistent figures (the Planning Department referenced "57 dwelling units" in its checklist while the sponsor later described 156 total homes and 25% on-site affordability). The applicant said the project would be 100% union construction and provide 25% on-site affordable housing to…
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