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Commission hears draft EIR for Housing Element 2022 update as hundreds of public comments call for equitable alternatives
Summary
Planning staff presented the programmatic draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Housing Element 2022 update, which projects up to 150,000 new units by 2050 and identifies significant and unavoidable impacts; public commenters urged the commission to study alternatives that prioritize affordable housing and analyze displacement and gentrification effects.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on June 9 took public comment on the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Housing Element 2022 update, a programmatic CEQA document that evaluates the environmental effects of citywide housing-growth policies through 2050.
Planning staff described the EIR’s scope and baseline. Liz White, a senior planner on the EIR team, explained that the EIR compares a 2050 environmental baseline (approximately 102,000 new units projected by 2050 under the existing 2014 housing element and pipeline projects) to a proposed action that would accommodate roughly 150,000 new units citywide by 2050. White said the draft EIR takes a programmatic approach because the timing, locations and designs of future implementing projects are not yet defined. She summarized the EIR’s findings that implementation could have significant and unavoidable impacts in areas including utilities and service systems, wind, noise (from simultaneous construction),…
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