Planning commission certifies final EIR and approves entitlements for 350 Mission Street, 6-1

The San Francisco Planning Commission on Feb. 16 certified the final environmental impact report for the proposed 350 Mission Street project and approved the package of entitlements needed for the project to proceed, voting 6 to 1 on the CEQA certification and subsequently approving allocation and variance requests.

Brent Bollinger of the planning department's environmental analysis section told commissioners that the final EIR finds the project would generate project-specific significant and unavoidable impacts (notably transportation and construction air-quality effects) and that the commission would need to adopt a statement of overriding considerations under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) should it choose to approve the project. Bollinger also read into the record a non-substantive checklist error in the EIR appendix and said the error does not change the report's conclusions.

Kevin Guy of planning staff summarized the entitlements before the commission: certification of the final EIR (case 2006.1524E), allocation of the requested office square footage under the annual office development limitation program,…