Planning Commission approves Gutenberg PUD after intensive neighborhood debate and conditions on landscaping and permeability

The San Francisco Planning Commission voted unanimously March 11 to approve a planned unit development at 0 Gutenberg Street, which would create 19 dwelling units (four duplexes and eleven townhomes) on an approximately 36,406‑square‑foot lot, after extensive public testimony both for and against the project and detailed questioning by commissioners.

Sponsor Jaish Patel and land‑use attorney Brett Gladstone summarized the project and stressed substantial neighborhood outreach over three years. Gladstone said the project was reduced from an original 23‑unit design after concerns from neighbors; the sponsor will pay an affordable housing in‑lieu fee (noted in the staff presentation as $1,400,000) to the city’s housing fund. “For that reason, and to make the project pencil out, a fee not on on-site housing is being paid…