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Commission approves reverting Potrero site to 40-foot height after gardeners warn of shadowing threat
Summary
Planning staff recommended—and the commission approved—changing the height and bulk designation at 1493 Potrero Avenue to 40 feet (rather than 55), following public testimony from community gardeners who said a higher limit would cast winter shadow across Pedro del Sol garden and threaten an adjoining artist colony.
The Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve staff’s recommendation to set the height and bulk designation for 1493 Potrero Avenue at 40 feet, rejecting a proposed 55-foot designation after neighbors described the risk to a long-standing community garden and adjacent artist colony.
Aaron Starr of Planning Department staff said the property had been rezoned in the Eastern Neighborhoods process and that a prior…
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