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Historic Preservation Commission to submit comments on 5M draft EIR after finding preservation analysis incomplete
Summary
Planning staff presented the draft EIR for the 5M project in SoMa, which would demolish six buildings and study up to 1.8 million sq ft; commissioners said the preservation alternative lacked adequate drawings and urged a written commission comment letter and fuller analysis in the responses-to-comments document.
Planning Department staff told the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on Nov. 5 that the draft Environmental Impact Report for the 5M project covers roughly a 4-acre site near Fifth and Mission streets and studies two build-out schemes — an office scheme and a residential scheme — totaling as much as about 1,800,000 square feet.
"The project would result in retention and rehabilitation of the Chronicle Building at 901 to 933 Mission Street and the Dempster Building at 447–449 Minna," Planning Department EIR coordinator Michael Jacinto said, and he added that the EIR found the 430 Natoma Street building eligible for listing on the California Register and identified its demolition as a significant, unavoidable impact. "Once the site…
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