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Board of Appeals denies MEDA request to take jurisdiction over 1801 Mission Street
Summary
The Board denied a request from the Mission Economic Development Agency to take jurisdiction over a permit for 1801 Mission Street, finding the city had followed notice procedures and that the high standard for jurisdictional relief was not met.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Dec. 6 denied a jurisdiction request from the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) seeking to have the board exercise jurisdiction over a building permit (201310038419) for 1801 Mission Street.
MEDA representative Peter Papadopoulos argued that community members were unable to track the permit in the city’s systems and were therefore prevented from filing timely discretionary-review requests, citing confusion in online project-tracking tools and linked records. He framed the request in the context of displacement and the cumulative number of market-rate units proposed nearby.
Counsel for the permit holder, William Fleischacker (Pelosi Law Group), and Planning Department representative Scott Sanchez responded that the permit application and neighborhood notifications followed standard procedures (application submitted in 2013; neighborhood notification in mid-2016), that environmental review and notifications had taken place, and that MEDA’s request did not meet the extraordinary standard required to overturn notice rules. Planning confirmed no discretionary-review requests had been filed during the notification period and noted that any linkage in a mapping vendor’s interface to a separate project (1863 Mission) was not evidence that the city failed to notify.
After deliberation, the board voted to deny MEDA’s request for jurisdiction, concluding the record did not show the city created an inability for community members to file a timely appeal.
