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Board orders more detailed plans and conditions, continues SPARC expansion appeal to July 26
Summary
After extensive public comment and debate over whether a 103-square-foot expansion of SPARC at 473 Haight Street constitutes a "significant intensification," the Board of Appeals continued appeal 17-039 to July 26, 2017 and directed the project sponsor and Planning Department to submit conditions addressing public retail access, monitoring, and related business-plan details.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on May 24, 2017 continued appeal 17-039, a challenge to an alteration permit for SPARC (a medical cannabis dispensary) at 473 Haight Street, to July 26 so the project sponsor and Planning Department can craft clearer conditions and revised plans to address public access and monitoring of the retail and dispensary spaces.
Steve Williams, counsel for the appellant Lower Haight Advocates for Responsible Use of Marijuana, told the board the city is wrongly reading the planning rules as limited to a purely numeric threshold. "The city is completely ignoring the word 'intensification' as it appears in the statute," Williams argued, urging that factors such as increased patrons, traffic, noise and equipment can trigger a conditional-use public hearing even without a large square-foot increase.
Tom Tunney, counsel for SPARC, said the alteration permit authorizes a…
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