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Planning staff, preservationists clash over Fairmont Towers EIR alternatives and scope
Summary
Planning staff summarized procedural options for additional CEQA analysis of the Fairmont Towers EIR; preservation groups and labor urged new alternatives and reuse analysis while staff said additions trigger recirculation only in limited circumstances. Commissioners debated whether a continuance left the EIR certified or open for further alternatives.
The San Francisco Planning Department provided an informational memo explaining how additional alternatives and corrections to the Fairmont Towers final environmental impact report (EIR) would be handled under CEQA. Bill Wico, a planning department environmental review staffer, told the commission the memo aimed to clarify which kinds of additional work would require recirculation of the draft EIR and which would be handled as comment-and-response edits. "If the questions are asking for further investigation in relation to a potential CEQA impact ... that could affect your conclusions in terms of CEQA findings," Wico said, summarizing the…
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