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Planning staff recommends re-designating 175 Golden Gate (St. Boniface School) as a Category 3 contributory building
Summary
Planning Department staff told the Historic Preservation Commission that 175 Golden Gate Avenue (St. Boniface School) meets criteria for individual importance and architectural integrity and recommended the Commission forward a designation change to the Board of Supervisors; the Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval.
San Francisco — Planning Department staff recommended that the Historic Preservation Commission recommend to the Board of Supervisors that 175 Golden Gate Avenue, historically St. Boniface School, be re-designated as a Category 3 contributory building and rezoned to allow eligibility for transferable development rights.
Shannon Ferguson of the Planning Department told the commission the property, constructed in 1908, is a strong example of Romanesque Revival architecture and forms part of a three-building complex with the adjacent church and rectory. The department’s change-of-designation report, prepared by Page & Turnbull and attached to the case record, concluded the building ‘‘is individually important’’ and ‘‘the architectural design of the building is very good,’’ Ferguson said.
Ferguson said the proposed rezoning from RC-4 (residential commercial, high density) to C-3-G (Commercial Downtown General) would provide eligibility to sell transferable development rights. No members of the public spoke on the item.
Commissioner comments were brief. Commissioner Parman (mover) and a second were recorded; on a roll-call vote the commission approved the staff recommendation unanimously, 7–0, forwarding the change of designation to the Board of Supervisors for final action.
The planning staff report cites Section 11.106 of the Planning Code as the authority for re-designation when new factual information supports eligibility. The Commission’s recommendation is advisory to the Board of Supervisors; final designation rests with that Board.
