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Planning staff urges joint amendment to downtown park shadow limits after Transit Center District adoption
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Planning staff recommended revising a 1989 memo that set absolute cumulative shadow budgets for downtown parks, arguing the newly adopted Transit Center District Plan and Transbay Tower require holistic reallocation and qualitative criteria; commissioners asked for more data, Rec & Park participation and a joint hearing two weeks away.
Planning Department staff told the San Francisco Planning Commission on Thursday that the recently adopted Transit Center District Plan and the proposed Transbay Tower require a coordinated update to how the city measures and permits new shadows on Recreation and Park Department properties.
Joshua Switsky, senior planning staff, framed the issue as two linked steps: first, the Planning Commission and Recreation and Park Commission should jointly consider amending the joint 1989 memo that set absolute cumulative limits (ACLs) on new shadows for 14 downtown parks; second, individual projects would continue to be reviewed for whether any new shadow is “adverse” to park use. The department recommended raising some ACLs for seven parks affected by the plan and adopting qualitative criteria tied to how the plan’s EIR modeled shadow profiles.
Switsky highlighted the…
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