Bayview neighbors press Planning Commission after proposal to convert 4100 Third Street from group housing to social services

Friends of the Children, a nonprofit, asked the San Francisco Planning Commission to legalize social-service operations at 4100 Third Street by removing a prior group-housing designation and allowing the site to operate principally as a social-services facility.

Neighbors, small-business owners and community advocates from Bayview Hunters Point said the application did not reflect local conditions and that the project team failed to do robust community outreach before filing. Several speakers told the commission they had recently used the building, that people had lived upstairs within the last few years, and that converting the building away from housing would remove scarce affordable units along the Third Street commercial corridor.

Why it matters: The corridor is an identified cultural and small-business district for Bayview; speakers said continued conversion of storefronts and upstairs units to service or nonprofit uses has reduced…