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Board of Appeals upholds Planning Commission allocation for Kilroy’s 350 Mission tower after challenge over deferred impact fees
Summary
The Board of Appeals denied Sue Hester’s appeal of a planning commission decision to grant an additional 80,000 sq ft (six stories) for a 350 Mission Street office tower, finding the commission’s findings and CEQA determinations adequate. The board noted Kilroy has agreed to pay the addition’s impact fees early and that fee-deferral rules govern timing of payment.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Nov. 13 denied an appeal by attorney Sue Hester seeking to overturn the Planning Commission’s approval to add six stories — about 80,000 square feet — to a 24‑story office tower under construction at 350 Mission Street. The board voted 4–0 to uphold the Planning Commission motion and associated CEQA findings.
Hester, who said she drafted the city’s 1986 office-allocation amendment and invoked Prop M protections, argued the developer’s use of a fee‑deferral program shifts the burden for affordable housing, transit, and childcare mitigation onto the city and the affordable‑housing sector. “When the building opens, there’s no housing, there’s no transit,”…
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