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Planning Commission Opens Public Review of Pier 70 Draft EIR; Neighbors Raise Historic, Transit and Recreation Concerns
Summary
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on the Pier 70 Draft Environmental Impact Report, where project sponsors described a 28-acre mixed-use plan with 30% below‑market units and 9 acres of parks. Speakers and commissioners pressed staff on transportation, park impacts and historic-resource mitigation; no final approvals were taken.
The San Francisco Planning Commission opened a public hearing Feb. 9 on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Pier 70 Mixed Use District, a decades-long waterfront redevelopment led by Forest City and the Port of San Francisco.
Planning staff said the DEIR identifies project-specific and cumulative significant, unavoidable impacts in transportation and circulation (notably transit and loading), increases in ambient noise and air-quality effects tied to criteria pollutants; staff said other impacts — including archaeology, historic architectural resources and hazards — could be mitigated to less‑than‑significant levels with the proposed measures and revisions.
Kelly Pretzer of Forest City summarized the proposal: an approximately 28‑acre special use…
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