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Planning Commission certifies final EIR for Southern Skyline Ridge Trail despite unavoidable biological and safety impacts
Summary
The Planning Commission certified the final environmental impact report for the SFPUC Southern Skyline Ridge Trail extension, finding significant and unavoidable impacts to biological resources and transportation hazards and requiring a Statement of Overriding Considerations before project approval.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on April 29 certified the final environmental impact report (EIR) for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission(SFPUC) Southern Skyline Boulevard Ridge Trail extension, a multi-agency effort to add public trail access through the Peninsula watershed.
Planning staff environmental coordinator Tim Johnston told commissioners the projectan approximately 6-mile trail with supporting parking and restroom facilities and a half-mile universal-access loopwould "result in significant and unavoidable impacts related to biological resources and to transportation hazard," citing the risk of spreading plant pathogens that cause sudden oak death and the potential for hazardous crossings of State Route 92 where…
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