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Staff says draft EIR finds proposed 18-story hotel would have significant, unavoidable impact on historic 447 Battery Street
Summary
Planning staff told the Historic Preservation Commission that the draft EIR for a proposed 200-foot hotel at 447 Battery Street finds demolition of most of the 1907 Jones Dierbach Coffee Company building would be a substantial adverse change to a historic resource, and identified mitigation measures and alternatives; commissioners submitted comments but took no formal action.
Planning Department staff told the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on Nov. 4 that the draft environmental impact report for a proposed hotel at 447 Battery Street identifies the existing 1907 Jones Dierbach Coffee Company building as a historical resource and that the project would cause a "substantial adverse change" to that resource.
"The draft EIR concluded that the proposed project would result in a substantial adverse change to the significance of the individual historic resource at 447 Battery Street," planning staff said during the department's presentation. Staff said the finding is "significant and unavoidable" under the California Environmental…
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