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Historic Preservation Commission urges Planning Commission to reassess massing and preservation alternatives for Showplace Square project
Summary
The Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to send a comment letter on the draft EIR for 901 Sixteenth/1200 Seventeenth (Showplace Square/Potrero Hill), saying the project could impact an eligible brick office historic resource and asking that the Planning Commission re-examine scale, massing and preservation-inspired alternatives including the metal-shed reuse concept.
The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on Sept. 16 recommended that the Planning Commission re-examine the draft environmental impact report for a proposed mixed‑use project at 901 Sixteenth Street and 1200 Seventeenth Street, saying the development as presented may adversely affect a brick office building the city has identified as an eligible historic resource.
Planning Department staff (Chris Thomas and Gretchen Hilliard) told the commission the draft EIR concludes that the brick office building on the site can be retained and rehabilitated, and that the project would therefore have no project‑specific or cumulative impacts on historic resources under the Secretary of the Interior’s rehabilitation standards. The draft EIR analyzed three alternatives: no project, reduced density and a “metal‑shed reuse”…
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