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Historic Trinity Saint Peter’s Church approved for seismic retrofit after commission backs sponsor design
Summary
The Historic Preservation Commission approved a Certificate of Appropriateness for seismic, accessibility and exterior repairs at Trinity Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in the Western Addition, voting to approve the sponsor’s design without the staff condition to close a courtyard door.
The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on a unanimous vote approved a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) for Trinity Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church at 1668 Bush Street, allowing proposed seismic upgrades, masonry repairs, accessibility improvements and two reversible egress doors to move forward.
Planning Department staff presented a staff report recommending approval with conditions that would favor an alternate narthex design that reuses the historic double doors to minimize visible exterior alteration. Staff’s recommended approach would reduce the apparent change to the landmark’s north entrance, limit visible infill around the opening and explore placing shear walls on the interior where possible.
The sponsor, Architectural Resources Group (ARG), represented by Lacey Bubnash, urged the commission to approve…
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