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Board of Appeals allows MidPen to remove 10 street trees for Shirley Chisholm Village with conditions
Summary
After negotiations with the Bureau of Urban Forestry, the Board of Appeals approved MidPen Housing’s revised request to remove 10 street trees for the Shirley Chisholm Village project, contingent on 36‑inch box replacements, new soil, protective cages and a minimum three‑year irrigation program.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on a 4–0 vote approved a revised MidPen Housing request to remove 10 street trees at the Shirley Chisholm Village development, reversing part of a Public Works Bureau of Urban Forestry order while imposing preservation and replacement conditions. President Darrell Honda announced the board’s action after hearing a negotiated settlement between the developer and Urban Forestry.
Lauren Fury, an associate project manager with MidPen, told the board the housing project will provide 135 units of affordable educator housing and has revised its tree request after outreach and meetings with the bureau. “We reduced the number…
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