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Historic preservation staff says Lake Merced West project would ‘substantially’ harm historic resource; commissioners split on alternatives
Summary
Planning staff told the commission the Lake Merced West draft EIR identifies a substantial, unavoidable impact to historic resources if the project were built as proposed; commissioners debated full preservation, partial preservation and the proposed project and urged stronger incorporation of Indigenous and local history in alternatives.
Planning staff told the Historic Preservation Commission on March 16 that the draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the Lake Merced West project concludes the proposed plan would cause a substantial adverse change to a historic resource — the former Pacific Rod and Gun Club site — and that the impact is project-level significant and unavoidable under CEQA.
Julie Moore, the department’s environmental review coordinator, said the 11-acre site includes four character-defining fields and four contributing buildings (clubhouse, caretaker’s house, rifle range and shell house) whose demolition would result…
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