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Planning Commission approves 100% affordable 2070 Folsom project after deliberations on flooding and stormwater
Summary
After public comment raising flooding and sewer-overflow concerns, the Commission voted unanimously to not take discretionary review and to approve a proposed 127-unit, 100% affordable project at 2070 Folsom, with staff conditions addressing stormwater controls and SFPUC coordination.
The Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a proposed 127-unit mixed-use project at 2060/2070 Folsom Street designed as 100% affordable housing, after a discretionary-review hearing with both opposition and supporters weighing in.
Margaret Miyazaki, the project's discretionary-review requester, opposed the permit on safety grounds, saying the site is in a known localized flooding and sewage-overflow area and urging more study of soils, stormwater and seismic risk. Paul McCarthy and other residents described episodic, forceful localized flooding in the block between 14th and 18th streets and…
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