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Historic-preservation panel backs full-preservation alternative for 1500 Mission draft EIR
Summary
The Historic Preservation Commission reviewed the draft EIR for 1500 Mission Street and recommended the full‑preservation alternative, arguing it would avoid a significant and unavoidable impact to the building found eligible for the California Register of Historical Places. Commissioners urged the Planning Department to incorporate that preference in comment letters to the Planning Commission.
The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on Dec. 7 reviewed the draft environmental impact report for the 1500 Mission Street project and signaled support for the full‑preservation alternative, which staff concluded would avoid significant historic‑resource impacts.
Planning Department EIR coordinator Chelsea Fordham told the commission the project would demolish the 1997 retail building at 1580 Mission and remove roughly 90 percent of the 1925 warehouse at 1500 Mission, a structure staff determined eligible for listing in the California Register of Historical Places for its Streamline Moderne industrial architecture. The draft EIR found that the proposed project would cause a substantial adverse change to the…
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