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Board of Appeals upholds permits for 66 Mountain Spring Ave, denies neighbors' appeals 3-0

San Francisco Board of Appeals · June 2, 2021
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Summary

After hours of testimony from multiple neighbors and the project team, the San Francisco Board of Appeals denied appeals challenging demolition and site permits for 66 Mountain Spring Ave, finding the project met code and the Residential Design Guidelines as applied by Planning and the Planning Commission.

The San Francisco Board of Appeals on May 19 denied consolidated appeals of a demolition permit and a site permit for 66 Mountain Spring Avenue, voting 3-0 that the permits were properly issued.

Neighbors and appellants described long-standing concerns about scale and neighborhood character, saying the proposed replacement would be far larger than typical North-Side Mountain Spring houses and calling for specific changes recommended by the Residential Design Advisory Team (RDAT) including a 3-foot top-floor east setback and reduced street-level massing. "The mass of the project is out of scale with adjacent homes," said appellants' counsel, pointing to the RDAT matrix that recommended further massing reduction.

Project counsel John…

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